Daily Dialogue — February 21, 2014

FREDDY: “As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed I resolved therefore to make the creature of a giant stature.” Of course. That would simplify everything.
INGA: In other words, his veins, his feet, his hands, his organs would all have to be increased in size.
FREDDY: Exactly.
INGA: He would have an enormous shwanstucker.
FREDDY: …that goes without saying.
INGA: Woof!
IGOR: He’s gonna be very popular.

— Young Frankenstein (1974), screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is surgery. Today’s suggestion by blueneumann.

Trivia: In 1974 rock band Aerosmith took a break from a long night of recording to see this film. Steven Tyler wrote the band’s hit “Walk This Way” the morning after seeing the movie, inspired by Marty Feldman’s first scene, the “walk this way . . . this way” scene.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by blueneumann: “When Inga thinks contemplates the meaning of what’s being discussed, her mind goes straight to the gutter. It’s surprising because it comes out of left field, and more so since the scene takes place in the sophisticated environment of the dining room.

Young Frankenstein is one of those undisputed classic comedies, and a wonderful tribute to classic horror, but the whole movie centers around a surgery: why everyone thinks it’s impossible, why one doctor believed it could, how he performed the operation, and the results of that operation on himself, the patient, and the world.”

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