This is why The Producers is one of the most brilliant comedies ever written. Make a scheme to made a musical as offensive as possible so that it bombs and run off with the money, but it accidently becomes a parody as a result of the content.
In the original source material, there was a beatnik onstage as Hitler being the beatnik he is, and it tickled everyone's funny bone. The onstage version and the movie from which this footage originated, a director demonstrating exaggerated homosexuality goes onstage being the exaggerated gay man HE is and THAT tickled everyone's funny bone.
For me, it's "Look out, here comes the Master Race!" The juxtaposition of being so casual and cheerful, and all the brutal violence that actually took place just tickles me
That was the review that Peter Sellers did back in 1967 about the original movie. Fun fact: Mel Brooks originally offered the part that went to Gene Wilder, but Sellers turned it down. Sellers later regret that decision.
Yes. Rumor has it that he intercepted a communique about the plot to kill him but since it was edited by his deputy to read "The night of the long dicks," he actually stayed and greatly anticipated the event.
@@thealvabro1852 it is about as provocative as a Family Guy sketch. I think that if you kept it in the same style, it could work out quite well. The ending would just be making references to the "downfall meme" era. Obviously you would have to tread lightly around the Holocaust but the rest of the musical would be a great way to make fun of the shoddy theatricality and idiocy of authoritarianism.
From what I know, the movie is about some guys who made a play, but for some reason they messed up something to do with money or something, so they decided to do everything to ruin the play. What I’m trying to say is I don’t think they were expecting this, that is, I don’t think they bought tickets for this, rather they were expecting a completely different show.
Nevermind i looked it up. What happened is they are trying to fail the musical because by overselling shares, they can get more money by making people think it failed
During the war Mel Brooks used to set up PA systems to broadcast American music, etc., over the lines to the Germans... as an American Jew. Guts AND a great sense of humor!
If anything it was better to do it then than now, I saw a news article a few years back saying it was racist to have nazi flags on display when they were making a film
Also a smart one in that he got Nathan Lane and Mathew Broderick to reprise their roles from the broadway show. Something that is very rarely done for film adaptations.
Yes. The difference being in the original Mel Brooks film, the two numbers of the actual show were the only musical performances in it. The Broadway production, and this film based on the production, was a musical in its entirety. A musical about a musical.
@@mitchellpak2795 It´s one of my favourite movies and still I hate that it´s a musical. No friends would watch it with me, and I get a little cringe about the other songs in the movie. I would loved it more if it was a regular movie without songs on it, and then the masterpiece of this scene
That's Mel Brooks for you. The best way to fight against hatred and bigotry, be it racism like in Blazing Saddles or the Nazis here is to mock the ever-living shit out of the entire concept.
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This entire number is so unjustifiably well done on every account. The arrangement, the music, the choreography… everything about it makes me so angry that I can’t help but feel overjoyed
The layers of meaning in this is just ... it's a gift that keeps on giving. When they make Hitler talk about how politics as being showbusiness. It recalls the pageantry of the Nazis, e.g. their Hugo Boss designed uniforms, public show of force, Hitler's outrageous speeches, etc. while at the same time highlighting the false premise behind the spectacle.
@@mrttripz3236 Taika is also Jewish as was Mel Brooks and most people involved with the producers, so your argument is hard to make for this movie especially since we don't have anything to which compare.
@@cammy649 It may have been a romcom, but it was hella heavy at some moments. We certainly do need more movies like JoJo and the Producers to keep making fun of the nazis.
Surprised they let it be a thing there since just about anything related to him or his party is censored. Even the wolfenstein series which is devoted to nothing except killing nazis got censored cuz of it
I remember years ago, this was uploaded in its entirety and received a lot of backlash from people who had never seen the film and honestly believed this scene was fully intended to pay homage to Hitler. Even if you've never seen the film before and are watching this out of context, you'd think the producer of the play saying 'Lets get out of here before they kill us' with a smile on his face would have made it obvious this play was meant to offend the audience watching it.
Well, it isn't intended to be satire in the story of the film, it's just the interpretation of the audience. So it's kind of funny that real audiences would do the exact opposite.
What's interesting the original film was met with a similar reaction upon realise Mel Brooks got so many calls from rabbis some he actually knew to complain about the film and the original screenplay was turned down by so many studious until one head of a studio saw what Mel was doing and his original intention and thought it was hilarious. It wasn't until some praises like Peter Sellers who bought a two page ad praising the film that people started to go and see it and those who have started to get the message that Mel Brooks was trying to deliver. Similar thing happened to Blazing Saddles studio execs only knew Mel Brooks was making a western and when they saw the film they wanted it gone but Mel convinced them to have a test screening that went amazingly well and so the execs put it into theatres.
@@Snozzberry_Slush Well, Mel went on to win an Oscar and create a Tony award winning Musical. This happened with Jojo Rabbit. They criticized it in the small manner as The Producers without realizing Taika is a Jew who was using comedy to mock Nazis as demonizing them would just mean Nazis are good. Lindsay Ellis did a whole piece on The Producers. Today's Nazis like gangsta and demonic roles like American History X and Schindler's List but hate films where they're mocked like The Producers and Jojo Rabbit.
The funny thing is... if the playwright actually HAD played Hitler, Max and Leo's play would have worked perfectly, because the guy playing Hitler would have been completely sincere and it certainly would have come through in the performance.
I've been wondering about that. Roger is the director and would had to have pretty much played the role as he directed it. Otherwise the rest of the cast would not have known what was going on. Franz, being nuts, probably didn't understand what he was doing while performing during rehearsals but watching from the audience, with the rest of the audience laughing, realized that the audience was perceiving the show as a satire and that Hitler was being mocked, not celebrated. There's also the fact that the full name of the play was "Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolph and Eva at Berchtesgaden". The song "Heil Myself" with the line "I'm the German Ethel Merman Dontcha Know" was either written by Franz or would have been performed by him during rehearsals. The mistake that Max and Leo made was hiring Roger de Bris to direct and encouraging him to 'gay it up'. To borrow, and mangle, a phrase from Shakespeare, they were hoist by their own petard. Even if Franz had gone on, the result would have been the same. We just would not have had the pleasure of watching Gary Beach ham it up to the rafters.
I just love that was originally made as an entire musical by a Jewish man to mock the Nazis but real life producers and execs watching thought this was a celebration of them instead so Mel had to put it inside The Producers so dumb audiences could more clearly tell it was a comedy and many people still take it seriously and get offended
seriousdudeserious This is only true to a point - he had a very good understanding of gallows humor. You should read his statements on Blazing Saddles and lynching. He did not believe that absolutely everything is on the table.
@seriousdudeserious Lindsay Ellis did an excellent video on this exact topic a few years back (th-cam.com/video/62cPPSyoQkE/w-d-xo.html), and she cites her sources in the information section.
Ngl, the smiles on the faces of the actors at the end makes me so happy. To be applauded and cheered on for your work, especially work that doesn’t seem like it would pan out like this would feel fantastic.
In the Finnish translation it's even funnier imo, it was roughly "don't be a stupid meatball, even you can become a nazi". I crack up to that every time
When they sang, "Hitler is happy and gay," they sure meant it. This must have been before they rebooted Doctor Who. I never recognized Barrowman the first time I saw this.
Fun fact: The original movie is the reason why Mel Brook's movies all have the same naming convention in Sweden. Spaceballs is Springtime for Space, Blazing Saddles is Springtime for the Sheriff, etc. Of course, The Producers was named after this song - Springtime for Hitler.
@@kostozy3467 Really? Is that a common thing for American schools to do musical numbers? Wish we had that in Germany as well... Also, a school having the courage to show something like this is very very brave 😂
This is the perfect parody of a musical that intends to be played straight but is interpreted as being a parody by the audience. The staging, choreography and writing is better than some real musicals, and it exhibits so many tropes so perfectly, you could see this being a real musical. The tap dancers turning and tapping to gunfire is so well done, and then the jump into making swastikas to the beat makes me laugh every time.
I remember seeing the musical before the movie was made, and it was a real nostalgia trip hearing the opening notes to the original 'Springtime'. "Yes! They're doing the original song! I only thought they were gonna do something SIMILAR to it, but no. They're doing the real deal. I wonder if they're gonna do...? No... They can't do THAT... they could only do that through cinematography, they can't do that in live theater..." And then 6:50 happened; they somehow did a visual trick that could've ONLY been pulled off with the use of a movie camera... and they did it WITHOUT the movie camera. Just beautiful...
Wait, your the sad pathetic wimp who gets their panties in a knot every time Lisa Simpson speaks. Your comments on that pirating website are always so lame XD
My mother watched JoJo and was a bit mad that they would mock such a serious thing so I showed her this to prove they've been taking the piss on WWII for decades.
I can totally see what Benjamin meant when he said that fascism is an aestheticization of politics, the nazi imagery really looks made for stage performance.
I love how the mood and reactions of the audience changes throughout the number. When the curtains lift to reveal the goosesteppers, to me, the applause then is the funniest part of the scene. They went from indignity and revulsion to acceptance and adulation in less than 5 minutes.
It’s almost like a cult-Trump 2.0 the way Hitler says, “meeeeeee” and everyone in the audience is suddenly on board with the paradigm. Disgustingly ridiculous but entertainingly transparent if you know the actual intentions of the Nazis while they are presenting a pristine portrait of themselves.
I always wanted to know how Will Ferrell would have sung that in his fake German accent. Check out his Inquisition song in History of the World Part I - it’s darker... and still funny but I think it’s only cuz of the passage of time...
Both versions are brilliant. The remake didn’t quite hold together, but many of the musical scenes and performances were great. “I’m the German Ethel Merman, don’t you know?”
Way back in high school history class during the WWII unit, my history teacher, who also happened to be the theater director, made sure to show this during a lesson. Nearly a decade later and this is still one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a comedy.
I love both the old and new versions of The Producers, but I really liked the original version better. Nonetheless, both films were absolutely hilarious, especially in part due to this very funny song.
Something a lot of people in the comments are missing, about people getting up to leave during the show, is that this is not an ordinary audience. They are reviewers, so they did not buy the tickets, they were given them, they never decided "springtime for Hitler? I want to go see that!" :)
The goosebumps everywhere on my body when the curtain falls and the soldiers are goose stepping and Hitler is grasping the wall and singing ‘goose steeeep!’. I love this so much.
Among all the things Nazis ruined, I'll always be pissed that they had the most badass uniforms of all time and now we can't even use them because it's an icon of their ideology. Hardly the worst thing about them, but it's still a shame
REALLY?!? You're disturbed because they ruined basic black uniforms for EVERYONE in the word!? That's what angers you?! The more than six million people who was extinguished in the Final Solution went right past you!?
In all seriousness, this was an absolute show of perfect talent and skill From the choreography, to the precise intonation. This entire section of the movie was great.
The plan was perfect. They hired the worst director to produce the worst screenplay with the worst cast. Except... They hired John Barrowman to sing the showstopping number.
@@SallyImpossible @Soviet Bear No, it's from the earlier productions of the 2001 musical, which this movie is based on. Basically, instead of the lyrics in 5:28-5:41, Stalin, Churchill, and FDR challenge Hitler to dance off that ends with Hitler kicking (or in FDR's case, pushing) them off the stage. Look up "The Producers - Original Broadway Cast - Chicago Tryouts 2001 - Springtime For Hitler".
Seriously, how could anyone dislike the wonderfully maniacal humour of Mel Brooks? I do like the remake but I still have a sentimental soft spot for the original 1960s movie with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.
Lol I never noticed that ‘hitler’ keeps smiling and flirting with the main Nazi everytime they dance together…. Which is a heck of a sentence I’ll tell you what
Tickets are pricey. Apparently Broadway is the number 1 tourist activity in NYC. Has been for decades. They are back open now after the global pandemic lockdowns.
I feel like if Max and Leo didn't want their musical to succeed, they shouldn't have made the choreography so good. Tony voters love good choreo. Uma Thurman's legs are to die for.
Having someone save Hitler from an assassin completely by freak accident and then abandon the plot point as irrelevent c plot just as quickly as it happened in a story titled "Let's Kill Hitler" really does sound like something Mel Brooks would have done.
I was just watching that scene the other day! Matt Smith really sells it with the tone of his voice. And hearing Rory tell Hitler to shut up will never stop being funny!
Oh boy, this one was fantastic. The costumes, the characters, the songs, the set pieces, all of them wonderful. Makes me wonder what’s going to happen next. Maybe we can get a sequel, maybe Summertime for Osama bin Laden?
@@TSis76 Seriously? You support Hitler and Osama bin Laden?! So, you admit Trump is a Nazi. Otherwise, there would be no reason to be insulted. If the shoe fits....
Mel Brooks. Can't argue with his work. WW2 vet on the ground in Germany. Jewish. I love the stories of "PC" people trying to argue with him. Living Legend.
Hence why I've abandoned my beloved UK. Its a lost cause, problem is Australia's pretty bad at moment to stop i guess gotta go to a republican state maybe?
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I had a weird dream about this being the german entry for Eurovision.
Omg it's 1am and I shouldn't be laughing but I can't stop laughing XD
It would be far better than whatever ended up there the last years ^^
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this made my day
Too bad they dont really have a sense of humor like that.
Omg
The whole movie was just an excuse to make this song.
👍
True x,D
If there's a song worth making a movie around, this is up there at the top though. Mel Brooks really is a comic genius - a real one of a kind.
NO REGRETS!
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This is why The Producers is one of the most brilliant comedies ever written. Make a scheme to made a musical as offensive as possible so that it bombs and run off with the money, but it accidently becomes a parody as a result of the content.
In the original source material, there was a beatnik onstage as Hitler being the beatnik he is, and it tickled everyone's funny bone. The onstage version and the movie from which this footage originated, a director demonstrating exaggerated homosexuality goes onstage being the exaggerated gay man HE is and THAT tickled everyone's funny bone.
Honestly like most of Fox News as far as I’m concerned
“Where did we go right?l” 😂
Best TL;DR
I love watching it at face value
"Watch out Europe were going on tour"
That line made me crack
*France starts sweating*
Holland: Well I’m sure we’re safe. After all, why on Earth would the Germans invade us?
For me, it's "Look out, here comes the Master Race!" The juxtaposition of being so casual and cheerful, and all the brutal violence that actually took place just tickles me
We're opening at the Sabat Theatre in Warsaw
Great Britain: Wait. That's illegal.
As the fictional reviews of the fictional play said. "it was outrageous, offensive, and insulting, and I enjoyed every minute."
My review of the Postal Series, except Postal III, which can still fuck right off.
@@Morningstar91939 same
That was the review that Peter Sellers did back in 1967 about the original movie. Fun fact: Mel Brooks originally offered the part that went to Gene Wilder, but Sellers turned it down. Sellers later regret that decision.
@@gabrielcoronado6395 just like Sir Patrick Stewart declined the role of Jafar in Aladdin and later regretted it.
@@Morningstar91939 Jonathan Freeman was in the Producers film, he was a ticket taker.
Making a swastika with your body has to be the al-time funniest dance move they could have thought of for this.
And weirdly enough is based on something on a nazi propaganda video
They Nazis really did this during some of their celebrations. People dancing and marching in the shape of a swastika.
@@deniseb.4656 comedy is an enemy of facism, when you point out who stupid their antics are people will be more critical about it
That’s a Busby Berkeley-style number. Supremely inventive.
By an odd circumstance of history, I was the 666th "like" on thos comment.
Damm the fbi are gonna think im nazi for watching this to many times
Dead Blue your not the only one
Incognito
Run bitch, ruuun!
We'll all be on a watchlist.
Wow same
"Deutschland is happy and gay"
*Ernst Rohm liked that*
Yes. Rumor has it that he intercepted a communique about the plot to kill him but since it was edited by his deputy to read "The night of the long dicks," he actually stayed and greatly anticipated the event.
😂😂😂
@@travis5125 😂😂😂😂😂 I actually laughed a bit too much
Some say his signature move was Heiling both arms and bending at the waist to a 90 degree angle and shouting “Sieg!” Repeatedly.
*Frederick the Great liked that*
I’ll never understand why they keep adapting The Producers instead of making Springtime for Hitler a full scale musical.
I can think of a few reasons why that wouldn't end well lmao
@@thealvabro1852 it is about as provocative as a Family Guy sketch. I think that if you kept it in the same style, it could work out quite well. The ending would just be making references to the "downfall meme" era. Obviously you would have to tread lightly around the Holocaust but the rest of the musical would be a great way to make fun of the shoddy theatricality and idiocy of authoritarianism.
This song is way more of a banger than many full musicals can muster. It would be almost impossible for a full scale musical to live up to it.
I've always wondered if Mel Brooks ever wrote the whole musical, any of the history of the world part one previews for part 2 as well.
Only Mel Brooks is allowed to make it
“don’t be stupid, be a smartie, come and join the nazi party”
that line gets me everytime
Mel Brooks later repeated that line in the Hitler Rap.
Well, that's Mel Brooks doing the voice over.
schtoopitt.
@@idontknow164 it is my understanding that most English versions of this show use a recording of Mel Brooks for that line
Every time
"Well I never, talk about bad taste."
Lady you and everyone else bought tickets to a musical called "Spring Time For Hitler" What did you expect?
Well she's being a dick about it
maybe they had season cards.
Exactly!!!
From what I know, the movie is about some guys who made a play, but for some reason they messed up something to do with money or something, so they decided to do everything to ruin the play. What I’m trying to say is I don’t think they were expecting this, that is, I don’t think they bought tickets for this, rather they were expecting a completely different show.
Nevermind i looked it up. What happened is they are trying to fail the musical because by overselling shares, they can get more money by making people think it failed
It was brave of Mel to produce such a musical film less than 25 years after the end of the horror, and the success confirmed it
Mel is a genius and a national treasure.
During the war Mel Brooks used to set up PA systems to broadcast American music, etc., over the lines to the Germans... as an American Jew. Guts AND a great sense of humor!
If anything it was better to do it then than now, I saw a news article a few years back saying it was racist to have nazi flags on display when they were making a film
Also a smart one in that he got Nathan Lane and Mathew Broderick to reprise their roles from the broadway show. Something that is very rarely done for film adaptations.
@@michaelnally2841 It helps that those two were are already famous actors, it's a no brainer. Unless this came out before they got famous.
So, this is a movie, based on a musical, based on a movie, about a musical.
Yes.
The difference being in the original Mel Brooks film, the two numbers of the actual show were the only musical performances in it. The Broadway production, and this film based on the production, was a musical in its entirety. A musical about a musical.
@@waterdamnaged This is getting out of hand.
Affirmative
@@waterdamnaged moo6 iza 'mame'?
@@waterdamnaged well a musical based on a musical gag at the end of a gag movie lol
One thing that's not funny about this scene is the choreography - it's seriously well done.
Mondo No wonder Susan Stroman got both Tony’s for Direction and Choreography
That’s what made it all come today.
The swastika scene, and the frogmarching afterwards is breathtaking, better done here than the original film or any stage performance
Mel Brooks is a parody genius but you have to understand his humor. My wife and I saw The Producers on Broadway and she hated it.
@@mitchellpak2795 It´s one of my favourite movies and still I hate that it´s a musical. No friends would watch it with me, and I get a little cringe about the other songs in the movie. I would loved it more if it was a regular movie without songs on it, and then the masterpiece of this scene
Hitler would have hated this. Which is why this is the very best way to remember him - as a fabulously camp man.
What an exceptional piece of art.
That's Mel Brooks for you. The best way to fight against hatred and bigotry, be it racism like in Blazing Saddles or the Nazis here is to mock the ever-living shit out of the entire concept.
Camp…?
@segevstormlord3713 No offense, but this comment feels like it's from 2013
@@justaghostinthesea FAscinatingly, the comment to which I was replying (with the comment you said sounded like it came from 2013) is no longer there. Since mine makes little sense wihtout the one to which it was replying, I am deleting it.
@@NotFckingBenA particular aesthetic or style characterized by being deliberately exaggerated, theatrical, ironic, and often kitschy/over-the-top.
nobody:
the audience: “they had us in the first half not gonna lie”
Nicolas d'Avout damn bro you mad
Nicolas d'Avout lol shut the fuck up🤡
Nicolas d'Avout actually who gave you permission to tell him to stop parroting
@Nicolas d'Avout
Mad?
It would be more funny without the nobody part
Gary Beach _nailed_ this scene so hard as the ultra-camp, gay Hitler. Holy shit, that opening limp-wrist pose...
I see what you've done there
The limp wrist nazi salute is what got me 😭😭
it might be springtime for hitler, but im gona bring autumn on dem cheeks!
Brilliant
Love it
This entire number is so unjustifiably well done on every account. The arrangement, the music, the choreography… everything about it makes me so angry that I can’t help but feel overjoyed
I'm showing this in my history presentation... wish me luck
Willson Schmidt good luck
did it go well?
Nailed it and got an A
@@wilsonschmidt1623 wtf
nice
Oh, so *this* is Oktoberfest
Jä vat fun
Märzfest 😉
Ja, magst du nicht Würst und Bier, und Hilter?
Flamenwerfer
*German words here*
The layers of meaning in this is just ... it's a gift that keeps on giving. When they make Hitler talk about how politics as being showbusiness. It recalls the pageantry of the Nazis, e.g. their Hugo Boss designed uniforms, public show of force, Hitler's outrageous speeches, etc. while at the same time highlighting the false premise behind the spectacle.
“They couldn’t make something like this today”
Ok but Jojo Rabbit tho
I think Jojo rabbit has the benefit of being produced by the Jewish Sacha Baron Cohen. So nobody has any excuse to complain that it's "offensive"
@@mrttripz3236 Taika is also Jewish as was Mel Brooks and most people involved with the producers, so your argument is hard to make for this movie especially since we don't have anything to which compare.
Doesn’t South Park do stuff like this with Hitler?
I mean jojo rabbit was kind of a romcom in a sense anywayd
@@cammy649 It may have been a romcom, but it was hella heavy at some moments. We certainly do need more movies like JoJo and the Producers to keep making fun of the nazis.
They bought tickets to a show called "Springtime for Hitler", and are offended by the song about Hitler in it?
w a c k
They probably didn’t expect it to be so nazi positive
Well, they are americans
I mean for real though. People are way too easily offended!
The sad thing is that's far more accurate today than it was way back when the original 1967 film premiered.
I could watch this clip a thousand times and never get sick of it. It is the height of satire. A million times better than the original.
Better than what original?
@@peterpiper7441yeah like what? The earlier nearly identical version that Mel Brooks also directed? 😭
@@peterpiper7441 this is a remake noob
I remember watching the musical in germany a few years ago and the whole theater died laughing everytime hitler showed up
Now you got 88 likes
Surprised they let it be a thing there since just about anything related to him or his party is censored. Even the wolfenstein series which is devoted to nothing except killing nazis got censored cuz of it
@@tacocat4252 i learned that showing nazi symbols is allowed in film, theatre, museums and academic studies
@@anode9973 just not video games
@@RossTheNinja apparently that ban has been lifted sometime ago now, 4 years ago in fact. According to multiple news outlets
I remember years ago, this was uploaded in its entirety and received a lot of backlash from people who had never seen the film and honestly believed this scene was fully intended to pay homage to Hitler. Even if you've never seen the film before and are watching this out of context, you'd think the producer of the play saying 'Lets get out of here before they kill us' with a smile on his face would have made it obvious this play was meant to offend the audience watching it.
even if not, this play clearly glorifies the Nazis as a absurdism, its clearly a joke. people just overly sensitive.
That’s the internet for you
Well, it isn't intended to be satire in the story of the film, it's just the interpretation of the audience. So it's kind of funny that real audiences would do the exact opposite.
What's interesting the original film was met with a similar reaction upon realise Mel Brooks got so many calls from rabbis some he actually knew to complain about the film and the original screenplay was turned down by so many studious until one head of a studio saw what Mel was doing and his original intention and thought it was hilarious. It wasn't until some praises like Peter Sellers who bought a two page ad praising the film that people started to go and see it and those who have started to get the message that Mel Brooks was trying to deliver. Similar thing happened to Blazing Saddles studio execs only knew Mel Brooks was making a western and when they saw the film they wanted it gone but Mel convinced them to have a test screening that went amazingly well and so the execs put it into theatres.
@@Snozzberry_Slush Well, Mel went on to win an Oscar and create a Tony award winning Musical. This happened with Jojo Rabbit. They criticized it in the small manner as The Producers without realizing Taika is a Jew who was using comedy to mock Nazis as demonizing them would just mean Nazis are good. Lindsay Ellis did a whole piece on The Producers. Today's Nazis like gangsta and demonic roles like American History X and Schindler's List but hate films where they're mocked like The Producers and Jojo Rabbit.
The funny thing is... if the playwright actually HAD played Hitler, Max and Leo's play would have worked perfectly, because the guy playing Hitler would have been completely sincere and it certainly would have come through in the performance.
I've been wondering about that. Roger is the director and would had to have pretty much played the role as he directed it. Otherwise the rest of the cast would not have known what was going on. Franz, being nuts, probably didn't understand what he was doing while performing during rehearsals but watching from the audience, with the rest of the audience laughing, realized that the audience was perceiving the show as a satire and that Hitler was being mocked, not celebrated. There's also the fact that the full name of the play was "Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolph and Eva at Berchtesgaden". The song "Heil Myself" with the line "I'm the German Ethel Merman Dontcha Know" was either written by Franz or would have been performed by him during rehearsals. The mistake that Max and Leo made was hiring Roger de Bris to direct and encouraging him to 'gay it up'. To borrow, and mangle, a phrase from Shakespeare, they were hoist by their own petard. Even if Franz had gone on, the result would have been the same. We just would not have had the pleasure of watching Gary Beach ham it up to the rafters.
This is THE ONLY THING I wish I could watch for the first time again . nothing can recreate that feeling seeing of that spotlight hit Hitler.
literally!
I was dying
the close up shot of him saying "Heil.... my self" is one of the best things about it
I loved seeing his diamond-studded insignia; even the HD versions of this don't quite show that detail
My exact thought 😂
So this is what Draco Malfoy went on to achieve
Caroline Lansdown Training for Broadway, Malfoy?
Became a nazi " pure bloods"
He was on The Flash TV show for awhile.
What? Read another damn book.
Or this is what captain Jack Harkness from Dr who does in his spare time
I just love that was originally made as an entire musical by a Jewish man to mock the Nazis but real life producers and execs watching thought this was a celebration of them instead so Mel had to put it inside The Producers so dumb audiences could more clearly tell it was a comedy and many people still take it seriously and get offended
I never thought Simba and Timon would produce a Hitler musical but here we are.
Pumba: let me in,let me in!!!!!
I couldn't predict that Marcellus's wife would become a German bird from Sweden but hey...whooda thunk it?
Don’t forget that Hercules is the common law assistant to the director
@@ElleCee62978 Now you say that...Disney may have had something more to do with it than we think....
@@pizzaparker133 Pumba was actually in a deleted scene.
I hate myself for unironically liking the song. Especially Hitler's part.
Why TF would you hate yourself? It has good text, music, singer's
seriousdudeserious This is only true to a point - he had a very good understanding of gallows humor. You should read his statements on Blazing Saddles and lynching. He did not believe that absolutely everything is on the table.
@seriousdudeserious Lindsay Ellis did an excellent video on this exact topic a few years back (th-cam.com/video/62cPPSyoQkE/w-d-xo.html), and she cites her sources in the information section.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not, but the entire song is a mockery of the Nazis.
@@TheGamingVillas I know, it was a joke
Ngl, the smiles on the faces of the actors at the end makes me so happy. To be applauded and cheered on for your work, especially work that doesn’t seem like it would pan out like this would feel fantastic.
"Don't be stupid be a smarty come and join the Nazi Party"😂😂😂
I was born in Duesseldorf, that is why they call me Rolph 🤪
Mel Brooks had to make a cameo somewhere!
In the Finnish translation it's even funnier imo, it was roughly "don't be a stupid meatball, even you can become a nazi". I crack up to that every time
Il join
Rolf is with a a F
As a german i spend every second enjoying and equally cringing my way through this.
Honestly half way through this I was just thinking what the hell do Germans think about us making shit like this? 😂😂 it’s got to feel very weird.
Junk - don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join Mel Brooks' party!! 🎉
(All are welcome)!!
im british but this is exactly how i felt
My husband is German, and he had never seen this film, but brought a smile to his face how outrageous this was… hats off to Mel Brooks:-)
Look out here comes the "master race" damn germans were dumb people. Great satire song.
Lesson: If you want your musical to flop, don't cast John Barrowman as the lead tenor.
Everybody gansta till Ze Furhrer goes “💁♀️💅🏻”
@Wilhelm Der Kaiser hitler was gay
slayy queen
That little wink Barrowman gives at the third 'Heil Hitler' slays me every frickin' time 😂😂😂😂
He looks so happy when he sings “Winter for Poland and France.” 😂
When they sang, "Hitler is happy and gay," they sure meant it. This must have been before they rebooted Doctor Who. I never recognized Barrowman the first time I saw this.
FUCK YEEEESSSSSS
It’s the deadpan smile after for me
Fun fact: The original movie is the reason why Mel Brook's movies all have the same naming convention in Sweden. Spaceballs is Springtime for Space, Blazing Saddles is Springtime for the Sheriff, etc. Of course, The Producers was named after this song - Springtime for Hitler.
As Mel Brooks said
"I want to make a million dollars taking the piss out of Hitler".
$100M later. Mission accomplished.
So this is what Jack Harkness was doing in the 60s...
The real reason why the Doctor disabled his Vortex Manipulator.
@@Beerbottles123 "Dammit, Jack. Just cause we fixed things during the Blitz doesn't mean you had to rub it in."
Something tells me the sexy brownshirts aren't exactly historically accurate.
waterdamnaged what are you talking about they are very accurate.
Warren Peace
Was that before or after the admittance of tall leggy blondes, jumping around in short booty-shorts, into their ranks?
Eva Braun comes to mind :D
Actually its a little known fact but the SA also doubled as a personal cabaret dancers for Hitler. They'd put on a show for him at least once a week.
Pimskin _
Was the title of the show "The Purge: Night of Long Knives"? :D
anyone who says you can never joke about anything anymore really needs to watch this and check themselves
Why was the audience so shocked? It's called "Springtime for Hitler". What were they expecting?
Gabriel Bryant Guess we will never know
Gabriel Bryant First of all... why the hell someone will go to a show called Springtime for Hitler? Xd
Eduardo Zamarron Let me guess to point and laugh at Max once again
Watch the movie lmao
They were wondering what the heil it could be about
This is essentially what would happen if I were put in charge of making a school play...………………...
R. Kidd they did this play at my school
@@kostozy3467 Really? Is that a common thing for American schools to do musical numbers? Wish we had that in Germany as well... Also, a school having the courage to show something like this is very very brave 😂
You would probably get an "A" as well. There is no taboo on mocking Nazi's.
@@nxt_tim Yeah musical plays are common in American schools. This specific play, not so much.
@@OnettBoyXD Lmao. Yeah, I can see why this play might not be as popular. 😄
This is the perfect parody of a musical that intends to be played straight but is interpreted as being a parody by the audience. The staging, choreography and writing is better than some real musicals, and it exhibits so many tropes so perfectly, you could see this being a real musical.
The tap dancers turning and tapping to gunfire is so well done, and then the jump into making swastikas to the beat makes me laugh every time.
Like modern politics - a production intending to be played straight but seen as a parody by the audience.
I remember seeing the musical before the movie was made, and it was a real nostalgia trip hearing the opening notes to the original 'Springtime'. "Yes! They're doing the original song! I only thought they were gonna do something SIMILAR to it, but no. They're doing the real deal. I wonder if they're gonna do...? No... They can't do THAT... they could only do that through cinematography, they can't do that in live theater..." And then 6:50 happened; they somehow did a visual trick that could've ONLY been pulled off with the use of a movie camera... and they did it WITHOUT the movie camera. Just beautiful...
Holy shit! Never expected you to be here?
Mirrors... a fine invention. If I'm seeing correctly it's what they did in the film as well.
Lucky you got to see it on broadway
Bobsheaux what are you doing here?!I love your reviews and didn’t expect to see you in something like this.
Wait, your the sad pathetic wimp who gets their panties in a knot every time Lisa Simpson speaks. Your comments on that pirating website are always so lame XD
I like to think that this is what inspired "Jojo Rabbit" 😄
I really wanted them to include it in Jojo rabbit as a homage. Would have been hilarious
My mother watched JoJo and was a bit mad that they would mock such a serious thing so I showed her this to prove they've been taking the piss on WWII for decades.
@@MrVic-qu9qh it’s to make fun of the idiotic things the Nazi’s stood for.
@@official_commanderhale965 Exactly
Sadly the guy who made Jojo rabbid is against freedom of expression. Very ironic if you think about the fact that his movie almost wasnt made
I can totally see what Benjamin meant when he said that fascism is an aestheticization of politics, the nazi imagery really looks made for stage performance.
Have you seen any clips from _Triumph of the Will,_ Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film? Or other footage of Nazi rallies? Such a show.
Me: Trying not to piss myself with laughter.
Roger: [appears as ultra-gay Hitler]
Me: Excuse me, have to step out...
that was funny Bogmire42
Gets me every time.
Deutschland is happy and gaaayyy!
I want this to be real so badly. The final number with the stage mirror is the best piece of staging I've ever seen
It's how they staged it when the show was on broadway. I remember seeing it done live and that bit was one of the coolest parts of the set layout.
Apparently that's also done in A Chorus Line
These dancers are incredible though. That tapping was tight as hell and that girl at the end with the spins- whoa.
I love how the mood and reactions of the audience changes throughout the number. When the curtains lift to reveal the goosesteppers, to me, the applause then is the funniest part of the scene.
They went from indignity and revulsion to acceptance and adulation in less than 5 minutes.
I don't think you understood that scene 😁
@@jeperstone I don't think you understood my comment. I'm certain I don't understand yours.
@@jesusnthedaisychain1¹❤e2
It’s almost like a cult-Trump 2.0 the way Hitler says, “meeeeeee” and everyone in the audience is suddenly on board with the paradigm. Disgustingly ridiculous but entertainingly transparent if you know the actual intentions of the Nazis while they are presenting a pristine portrait of themselves.
And all it took was Gay Hitler
i hate getting this song stuck in my head cause everyone’s gonna think i’m a nazi 😂
I accidentally muttered a few words while humming this *in school* .
Nothing clesrly nazi related, thank god
this song is terrible out of context
Springtime and Haben sie gehort das deutsche band are two of my fave lol
@@vogelmeister6809 The song is terrible, out of context, or terribly out of context? 🤔
Because none of what you said is true.
👍
Who let Kanye write a musical script
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 best comment ever
Every time the way he does "I'm the German Ethel Merman doncha know" I die lol
I couldn't REALLY listen to that line, because if I did, I'd have fallen out of MY chair and HURT myself, laughing.
Ditto
I always wanted to know how Will Ferrell would have sung that in his fake German accent.
Check out his Inquisition song in History of the World Part I - it’s darker... and still funny but I think it’s only cuz of the passage of time...
honestly, i have a trial exam on Thursday and part of it is on Nazi Germany and this is all my brain cells have
Good luck
@@ligmaballs2070 i ended up going decently so yay
mel brookes is a genius for ripping the camp shit out of the nazis
As Mel Brooks said
"I want to make a million dollars taking the piss out of Hitler".
$100M later. Mission accomplished.
The jingle bells when he sings “Winter for Poland and France” gets me every time 😂😂
R.I.P. Gary Beach you absolute legend. At least we will always have stuff like this to keep your fabulous memory alive.
My God he is/was soooooooo great. I can't get enough of this. :)
Both versions are brilliant. The remake didn’t quite hold together, but many of the musical scenes and performances were great.
“I’m the German Ethel Merman, don’t you know?”
One of the greatest films ever. Laughed like a madwoman when it was new and sill laughing decades later.
Sorry, but not even close to the original with Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder
@@sgtjeff56 That's what I was going to say. There's a reason this remake flopped.
What is a madwomen? XD
@@sgtjeff56 I said I laughed WHEN IT WAS NEW. Saw the original, but this is very funny too.
Winter for Poland and France! I love his face when he sings that. Also, so glad the captions are so perfect.
I'm glad someone else caught that the turn and the face are so perfectly timed!
Nothing screams “We Won.” better than this.
Way back in high school history class during the WWII unit, my history teacher, who also happened to be the theater director, made sure to show this during a lesson. Nearly a decade later and this is still one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a comedy.
Yo, please reply to me!
Your high school history teacher has good taste
finally the full thing!
If only it was in HD and was louder.
DerpyGamer0013, don’t wish for too much, or I’ll dial nein nein nein.
@@zacharywilson9596 das ist gut
@@zacharywilson9596 oh mein gott
I love both the old and new versions of The Producers, but I really liked the original version better. Nonetheless, both films were absolutely hilarious, especially in part due to this very funny song.
John Barrowman and Uma Thurman. John has a fantastic voice.
beawild Wait,Who is John Barrowman playing as?
@@lt_darkseekerantique3911 blonde ss officer
Dark archer is in this? Wow. I know he can sing...
Homer Thompson I’m pretty sure he’s got a strong history in stage acting, including musicals.
@@lt_darkseekerantique3911 capt jack hartness in dr who
Something a lot of people in the comments are missing, about people getting up to leave during the show, is that this is not an ordinary audience.
They are reviewers, so they did not buy the tickets, they were given them, they never decided "springtime for Hitler? I want to go see that!" :)
The goosebumps everywhere on my body when the curtain falls and the soldiers are goose stepping and Hitler is grasping the wall and singing ‘goose steeeep!’. I love this so much.
Just imagine if "Springtime for Hitler" was an actual production.
I t was an actual play that people bought tickets to see!
@@petergant8767 no shit!
Not gonna lie, I'd pay to see it. Even if I didn't know it was a comedy before hand I would go see it just because the title would make me curious.
I mean there was the Broadway play
@@petergant8767 the producers was made into a musical.
Among all the things Nazis ruined, I'll always be pissed that they had the most badass uniforms of all time and now we can't even use them because it's an icon of their ideology. Hardly the worst thing about them, but it's still a shame
My friend, have you seen Soviet uniforms?
@@dantecaputo2629OUR uniforms
Chilean military fashion was inspired by the Nazis. Take a look at the uniforms of the Chilean army to this day they are very similar.
REALLY?!? You're disturbed because they ruined basic black uniforms for EVERYONE in the word!? That's what angers you?! The more than six million people who was extinguished in the Final Solution went right past you!?
@@petergant8767 You obviously missed the point.
I’d pay every dime to see a show like this
In all seriousness, this was an absolute show of perfect talent and skill
From the choreography, to the precise intonation. This entire section of the movie was great.
Might be a Springtime in Germany, but a winter in Russia >:)
It's always winter in russia
In Soviet Russia, snow shovels you.
General Winter
That's okay.. The Russians made sure Germany got what was coming to them.
Yeah, but after Springtime, just came the Fall to Berlin.
The fucking swastika pose dance at 2:40 lmao. Whoever came up with this scenes choreography is a genius
The plan was perfect. They hired the worst director to produce the worst screenplay with the worst cast.
Except...
They hired John Barrowman to sing the showstopping number.
Where did we go right?
…ach mein Gott, no wonder I was so entranced by his charisma.
I wish they kept the part with Stalin, FDR, and Churchill
*T H E R E S M O R E ?*
@@catchamp1880 maybe talking about the original Producers with Gene Wilder.
@@SallyImpossible @Soviet Bear No, it's from the earlier productions of the 2001 musical, which this movie is based on. Basically, instead of the lyrics in 5:28-5:41, Stalin, Churchill, and FDR challenge Hitler to dance off that ends with Hitler kicking (or in FDR's case, pushing) them off the stage. Look up "The Producers - Original Broadway Cast - Chicago Tryouts 2001 - Springtime For Hitler".
What hapened in that?
Wait, is there more!?
This is how Hitler thought other people viewed him
Seriously, how could anyone dislike the wonderfully maniacal humour of Mel Brooks? I do like the remake but I still have a sentimental soft spot for the original 1960s movie with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel.
Agreed.
This is also a great litmus test. Humorless totalitarians and puritans would never GET IT.
This is probably the most feminine portrayal of Hitler I have ever seen
keep it gay
Oh boy, go watch in google
Photos that hitler try to censor or ban
That's because you've never seen Hitler as he was meant to be seen: as a proud woman of color
You haven’t seen “Mein Waifu is the Fuhrer”
More like effeminate or flamboyant.
Lol I never noticed that ‘hitler’ keeps smiling and flirting with the main Nazi everytime they dance together…. Which is a heck of a sentence I’ll tell you what
Am i the only one would love to see an entire production of this on Broadway? Like the entire show!
Boy do i have news for you
Tickets are pricey. Apparently Broadway is the number 1 tourist activity in NYC. Has been for decades. They are back open now after the global pandemic lockdowns.
This is absolutely one of the funniest premises ever. I exploded in laughter the first time I saw this scene in the movie. Mel Brooks is a genius.
The Borat rodeo scene ... I laughed so hard I almost puked
As Mel Brooks said
"I want to make a million dollars taking the piss out of Hitler".
$100M later. Mission accomplished.
I feel like if Max and Leo didn't want their musical to succeed, they shouldn't have made the choreography so good. Tony voters love good choreo. Uma Thurman's legs are to die for.
One of the funniest, damn movies to ever exist. Thanks Mel, for this parody of Hitler and turning the tragedy into an absolutely, entertainment gem.
Okay but the tap dance from 2:35-3:14 is so satisfying and the choreography is so well done 😭
The bit with the swastika is pretty much one of the best cinematography shots to exist
Dr. Who: Tries to kill Hitler
Jack Harkness:
"Believe me, it was an accident."
Having someone save Hitler from an assassin completely by freak accident and then abandon the plot point as irrelevent c plot just as quickly as it happened in a story titled "Let's Kill Hitler" really does sound like something Mel Brooks would have done.
I was just watching that scene the other day! Matt Smith really sells it with the tone of his voice. And hearing Rory tell Hitler to shut up will never stop being funny!
Everyone thinks I'm a Nazi because I have this stuck in my head.
Omfg me too 😂
A fruity Hitler will never stop being funny to me.
Hitler died a virgin. If he ever had gotten some trim, he might not have been
so cranky.
As Mel Brooks said
"I want to make a million dollars taking the piss out of Hitler".
$100M later. Mission accomplished.
@@fireskycam9889 Its satire so half the population doesnt understand it anyway. So he spent 100mil to make hitler likeable.
Oh boy, this one was fantastic. The costumes, the characters, the songs, the set pieces, all of them wonderful. Makes me wonder what’s going to happen next. Maybe we can get a sequel, maybe Summertime for Osama bin Laden?
A commercial for Osam-O’s, perhaps?
Beiging Biden what's he hidin'? A tale of ice cream cones, Depends, and forgetfulness. And missing lap tops.
@@TSis76 Seriously? You support Hitler and Osama bin Laden?! So, you admit Trump is a Nazi. Otherwise, there would be no reason to be insulted. If the shoe fits....
"I hid in caves, in a thousand waves, of troops coming through!"
I remember watching this in my theater class in my sophomore year of high school and everyone in the class just burst into laughter
I have unhealthily been looping this for the past few days
Mel Brooks. Can't argue with his work. WW2 vet on the ground in Germany. Jewish. I love the stories of "PC" people trying to argue with him. Living Legend.
He’s PC in some ways, and that’s not necessarily bad. He’s outspoken about comedy that tries to exploit the Holocaust for laughs, for instance.
Yeah, PC people who won't let us make Jewish jokes like Mel Brooks are the worst
@@elimkwok938 Mel Brooks doesn't ever punch down in comedy. I think that's a reasonable idea.
@@jackrutledgegoembel5896 Punching down isn't funny, you see. It's just being a dick.
Mel Brooks is a truly original comic genius.
Im not ashamed on how many times I watched this
The grenade choreography is so clever and it gets me every time
UK courts: "Stop! You have violated the law! Pay your fine of £800, or serve a year in prison!"
Hence why I've abandoned my beloved UK. Its a lost cause, problem is Australia's pretty bad at moment to stop i guess gotta go to a republican state maybe?
@@geranball9678 just go to germany. I would be FUHERIOUS if you didnt.
@@Grenadier_Guardsman aye good one
No one like literally no one
Americans:
Accurate
Yes we make entertainmenting and money making things by màking fun of everyone even things thay shouldn't be made fun of
Pftt. What do you think Inglorious Basterds was?
it’s what we do best, over exaggerating something to make a good film or broadway tune.
We excell at black humor and satyre, that's like our trade mark 😂
Saw this movie in 2006 and this segment has been a chronic earworm for me ever since.
The guy that played Hitler should have got an Oscar.
That's the late, great Gary Beach.
He did such an amazing job, not just as ultra flamboyant Hitler but his character as a stage actor. I agree
@@Dang3rMouSe Germany (3. Reich 1933 - 1945) - Ihr könnt Euch 2018 köstlich amüsieren. 👁👃👁