Remember when The Artist won Best Picture? The Artist is a comedy about the silent film era, and the move to “talkies,” and was filmed like it was one of those movies.
Silent Movie did it first, and Brooks went even further in terms of replicating 1920s films. Of course, he also did the same goofy stuff he is synonymous with, which undercuts the verisimilitude.
Silent Movie is about a director in the 1970s who wants to make a silent movie. He’s parodying the film industry around him, and it’s not always subtle. Brooks plays “Mel Funn,” Marty Feldman plays “Marty Eggs,” and so on. Brooks’ wife Anne Bancroft cameos as herself, and Burt Reynolds is great as Burt Reynolds, in a shower scene, no less.
And Marcel Marceau has a speaking role, a classic Mel Brooks joke.
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