History Film / SilentMovie

** The text dialogue shown on-screen doesn't always match what the actor is mouthing. Most notably, after Marty gets attacked by a woman outside a maternity hospital for making a sleazy comment to her, he gets back in the car with Mel and Dom, and Mel can clearly be seen mouthing "You sick son of a bitch!" The intertitle changes this to "You bad boy!"
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Ha ha! Ashtrays INSIDE by the elevators IN A HOSPITAL! That's funny! Actually, what's funny is that ''wasn't a joke'' - it was standard [[EverybodySmokes realistic set dressing for a hospital set in the 1970's]].

* {{Corpsing}}: Creator/LizaMinnelli legitimately cracked up when Mel, Dom and Marty fell over in their suits of armour and it was left in the film.

--> "It ''is'' the real thing!"

* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: For a gag--"This was a true story."

* SuddenlyVoiced: The only time Marcel Marceau has ever spoken on film. Supposedly, Mel Brooks asked him to say "NO!", but Marceau insisted on saying "NON!" because, well, he ''is'' French.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Vilma buys time for Mel and his friends to recover the stolen movie by doing her sexy dance routine in front of the people who had come for the screening.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After being driven off the wagon, Brooks is actually able to lift Marty Feldman into the air when the latter tries to stop him.

* CastingGag:
** The only spoken word of dialogue in the entire movie comes from Creator/MarcelMarceau, the world's most famous ''mime''.

* FunWithSubtitles: The DVD has separate audio tracks for English, French and Spanish, and subtitles.
--> [No Audible Dialog]
--> [No Audible Dialog Continues]
** Also, the text dialogue shown on-screen doesn't always match what the actor is mouthing.

* JumpingOnAGrenade: Mr Engulf's right hand man jumps on an unexploded can of Coca-Cola to protect his boss.

* ASimplePlan / ZanyScheme: Parodied; the absurd strategies Mel and his friends use to contact the stars and get them to play in the movie always work. When they use a straight approach, it always fails.
** Though it appears that Burt Reynolds at least only agrees to do the film so they'll stop bugging him.

-->''*The chief immediately slips, falls under his desk, and is propelled by his chair into an object on the other side of the room*''

!!This Film Provides Examples Of:

* AdamWesting: Most of the celebrities portray over the top versions of themselves. Creator/BurtReynolds is a complete narcissist who has a mirror he stares at in the shower and winks at. Creator/PaulNewman is ready to race against anyone despite being in a wheelchair.

** Also, the text dialogue shown on-screen doesn't always match what the actor is mouthing. See GettingCrapPastTheRadar for just one example of this.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Let's just say that if this movie was made today, it would probably not get away with a PG rating, especially since PG-13 is now a rating.
** When a title card says "You bad boy", Mel Brooks is obviously saying "You son of a bitch".

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* HelloNurse: Creator/BernadettePeters. Yummy.

** The only spoken word of dialogue in the entire movie comes from a ''mime'', Creator/MarcelMarceau.

* SilentMovie: Not only is it named that, it (almost) is one.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted; not only do the various celebrities in the movie cameo [[AsHimself as themselves]], but they are portrayed in a caustically self-parodying way; Burt Reynolds in particular is presented has an immense {{Narcissist}}, who stops before mirrors to strike poses and has a ''giant billboard with his name and photo on his house''.

* CastingGag: The only spoken word of dialogue in the entire movie comes from a ''mime'', Creator/MarcelMarceau.
* CelebrityParadox: The movie theater has a poster for ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'', starring Marty Feldman.

* ChekhovsGun: A faulty Coca-Cola vending machine which is later used as an improvised grenade launcher.

* PunnyName: Dom [=DeLouise=]'s character is named "Dom Bell" ("dumbell").

* AdamWesting: Most of the celebrities portray over the top versions of themselves. Burt Reynolds is a complete narcissist who has a mirror he stares at in the shower and winks at. Paul Newman is ready to race against anyone despite being in a wheelchair.

* SilenceIsGolden: Of course. The first major SilentMovie release since ''Film/ModernTimes'' in 1936, and the last until ''TheArtist'' in 2011.

''Silent Movie'' is a 1976 comedy directed by Creator/MelBrooks. Advertised as "the first [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin silent film]] in [[Film/ModernTimes forty years]]", its AllStarCast includes Brooks himself, Creator/DomDeLuise, Creator/MartyFeldman, Creator/SidCaesar, Creator/AnneBancroft, Creator/LizaMinnelli, Creator/BurtReynolds, Creator/JamesCaan, Creator/MarcelMarceau and Creator/PaulNewman.

* WheelChairAntics: Mel and his boys are pursuing PaulNewman through a hospital Newman's in. All chairs are motorized, but only Newman actually needs his.

* OverlyPreparedGag: The ''entire film'' may or may not have been a huge set up to have [[spoiler: Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime, give the only line of spoken dialogue in an otherwise dialogue-free film]].