Реферат: Mel Brooks As Jewish Comedian Essay Research

this scene he replied: Nothing can burst the balloon of pomposity and

dictatorial splendor better than comedy?.In a sense, my comedy is serious, and

I need a serious background to play against?. Poking fun at the Grand

Inquisitor, Torquemada, is a wonderful counterpart to the horrors he committed

(Friedman 236). This would make History of the World, Part I comparable to The

Producers in its satire of Hitler, and makes Blazing Saddles also comparable

through its satirical treatment of racism. If one still thought that Brooks made

History of the World, Part I with only good intentions, one should also consider

the treatment of Jews and Germans in the ending of the film. The promo for

History of the World, Part II includes scenes such as "Hitler on Ice,"

and "Jews in Space," in which Jews are in a space craft singing "

We’re Jews out in space. We’re zooming along protecting the Hebrew race?.When

Goyim attacks us, we’ll give em a slap. We’ll smack em right back in the

face." It definitely seems that History of the World, Part I is a

combination, (just as the others movies discussed are) of exploitation for easy

laughs and of exposing the evils of the tyrants who have tormented the Jews

throughout history. In To Be or Not To Be, Mel Brooks plays Fredrick Bronski,

the head actor in a Polish stage revue, around the time of the Nazi annexation

of Poland. His wife, Anna Bronski (Anna Bancroft) falls in love with an Air

Force lieutenant working in the Polish platoon of the RAF. The main focus of the

movie is how they make fun of, get around, outwit, and ultimately escape the

Nazis. This movie is actually a remake of an older film, but it still has a

distinctively Mel Brooks feel. The main target of Brooks’s satire is the head of

the Gestapo, Colonel Erhardt (Charles Durning) who is a babbling fool. For

example, when on the phone, he say’s "What? Why? Where When? When in doubt,

arrest them, arrest them, arrest them! Then shoot them and interrogate them.

[pause] Oh you are right, just shoot them." Soon after this, he is led to

believe that the shoot first policy led to the deaths of two useful figures and

after asking what idiot formed the policy, he got mad at Shultz, his assistant,