I know there is probably a simple answer to this, but when Fredrick is giving a lecture, he accidentally stabs himself in the thigh with a scalpel.
I doubt that Gene actually stabbed himself as that would have been very dangerous. Does anyone know how they filmed that stunt?
Next year, I'm having the Joker do my taxes.
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Maybe this was the very last scene filmed and he really punctured his leg with the scalpel just for laughs. Then went straight to hospital for stitches.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
Has anyone considered the possibility that he had something in his pant leg, ie padding?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQbX5YpcdE&feature=youtu.be
Don't be stupid, the obvious answer is that he had one of those brain clasp things placed on the back of his neck so he didn't feel it when he stabbed himself. Above all else, Mel Brooks was a stickler for realism. Even Peter Boyle died so he could play a corpse being brought back to life using the actual notes from the actual Dr. Frankenstein.
Either that of he had some padding under his pants. I could go either way.
I read somewhere on IMDb boards that he had padding in his leg. Maybe do a little research next time?
shareThis is such a funny thread.
Fits in perfectly with this film.
It's obvious that they put a pad under Gene Wilder's trousers.
Still, one of the greatest laughs in the film, for me. And it happened to me, in a way, which made it seem all the funnier, to me:
I used to assemble plastic models of tanks, so I had a collection of razor knives, known generally as 'Xactos,' after the most famous U.S. brand of hobby razor knives.
One evening, I was working on a model of an M-48 Patton tank (as I recall; certainly could have been a model of another tank), and I dropped my Xacto razor knife.
I automatically squeezed my thighs together, to catch the knife.
And boy, did I ever catch that knife.
- Lord, have mercy on a country boy