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* TakeThat: The company "Engulf and Devour" is a jab at Gulf+Western, a conglomerate which at the time owned ParamountPictures. (Unsurprisingly, Paramount ''didn't'' do ''Silent Movie''.)
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* TakeThat: The company "Engulf and Devour" is a jab at Gulf+Western, a conglomerate which at the time owned ParamountPictures.Creator/{{Paramount}}. (Unsurprisingly, Paramount ''didn't'' do ''Silent Movie''.)
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** "[[Film/BenHur Truly he is the king of the winos!]]"
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* 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]].
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* PunnyName: Dom [=DeLouise=]'s character is named "Dom Bell" ("dumbell").
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* TitleDrop: All over the place. After all, it is about [[Creator/MelBrooks Mel Broo..]] I mean, [[TheDanza Mel Funn,]] trying to make a silent movie.
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* TitleDrop: All over the place. After all, it is about [[Creator/MelBrooks Mel Broo..]] I mean, [[TheDanza Mel Funn,]] trying to make a silent movie.
* ToiletHumor: While riding a carousel, Vilma's horse takes a crap. [[FridgeBrilliance It poops out toy wooden blocks.]]
* ToiletHumor: While riding a carousel, Vilma's horse takes a crap. [[FridgeBrilliance It poops out toy wooden blocks.]]
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* SquashedFlat: The [[ChekhovsGun steamroller]] outside Burt Reynolds' house runs over the TotemPoleTrench, but the middle guy had already escaped. This causes the driver to faint.
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--> '''Mel Funn:''' You need to get a wallet.
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* ClownCar: In the hospital Marty is swept away by about 20 doctors and nurse getting off a small elevator.
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* ClownCar: In the hospital Marty is swept away by about 20 60 doctors and nurse getting off a small elevator.
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* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Eggs and Bell are clearly part of Funn's ProductionPosse, but since the actual filming of the movie is never shown, they are never depicted doing their jobs, whatever they are.
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* MacGuffin: The movie. The whole film is about the pre-production and first screening of the titular SilentMovie, but at no point is any actual scene from the movie shown, either in shooting or in screening, so the only thing the audience ever learns about the movie is that it's silent.
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* MacGuffin: The movie. The whole film is about the pre-production and first screening of the titular SilentMovie, but at no point is any actual scene from the movie shown, either in shooting or in screening, so the only thing the audience ever learns about the movie is that it's silent. Unless one believes that the reason the film claims to be a true story is because we're watching a movie about the making of the very movie we're watching.
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* PinPullingTeeth: Mel uses this on a can of Coke during the Coke Machine Mortar section of the finale. The soda can actually functions like a grenade instead of just spraying soda all over Mel's face.
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* OffTheChart: The line tracking Big Picture's profits has dropped off the chart and onto the couch below. This is why they were in danger of a hostile takeover from Engulf & Devour.
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''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.
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''Silent Movie'' is a 1976 {{Comedy}} 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.
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* TheAlcoholic: Mel was a brilliant filmmaker until his drinking problem caused his career to crash and burn. Now sobered up, he's trying to pitch his silent movie idea to get back in the business again. At one point in the film he falls OffTheWagon.
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* 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.
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* JumpingOnAGrenade: Mr Engulf's right hand man jumps on an unexploded can of Coca-Cola to protect his boss.
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* MacGuffin: The movie. The whole film is about the pre-production and first screening of the titular SilentMovie, but at no point is any actual scene from the movie shown, either in shooting or in screening, so the only thing the audience ever learns about the movie is that it's silent.
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* ShowerScene: Mel and his friends first attempt to recruit Burt Reynolds for the film by sneaking into his house, walking in on him while he's showering, and helping him lather up. This unsurprisingly causes Burt to freak out.
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* GiganticGulp: Mel Funn at one point drinks from a bottle of wine almost as big as he is.
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* GiganticGulp: Mel Funn at one point drinks from a bottle of wine whiskey almost as big as he is.
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* TakeThat The company "Engulf and Devour" is a jab at Gulf+Western, a conglomerate which at the time owned ParamountPictures. (Unsurprisingly, Paramount ''didn't'' do ''Silent Movie''.)
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* TakeThat TakeThat: The company "Engulf and Devour" is a jab at Gulf+Western, a conglomerate which at the time owned ParamountPictures. (Unsurprisingly, Paramount ''didn't'' do ''Silent Movie''.)
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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Banner headlines whenever Funn signs an actor for his movie.
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* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Banner headlines whenever Funn signs an actor for his movie. With secondary headlines over the newspaper saleman getting hit with the paper bundles... again.
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* GroinAttack: When Dom Bell tries to stop the soda can from exiting out either side of the vending machine.
--> "It ''is'' the real thing!"
--> "It ''is'' the real thing!"
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''Silent Movie'' is a 1976 {{Comedy}} directed by Creator/MelBrooks. Advertised as "the first [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin silent film]] in [[Film/ModernTimes forty years", 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.
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** Anne Bancroft stars as herself, but doesn't seem to comment on how much Mel Funn looks like her husband.
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* WheelChairAntics: Mel and his boys are pursuing PaulNewman through a hospital Newman's in. All chairs are motorized, but only Newman actually needs his.
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* [[ClownCar Clown Elevator]]: In the hospital Marty is swept away by about 20 doctors and nurse getting off a small elevator.
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** Although we later see the bottles he drinks from, which contain dozens of gallons and must weigh hundreds of pounds, so he might just have AddictionPowered super-strength.
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* TakeThat The company "Engulf and Devour" is a jab at Gulf+Western, a conglomerate which at the time owned ParamountPictures.
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* TakeThat The company "Engulf and Devour" is a jab at Gulf+Western, a conglomerate which at the time owned ParamountPictures. (Unsurprisingly, Paramount ''didn't'' do ''Silent Movie''.)
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* 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 [[EverbodySmokes realistic set dressing for a hospital set in the 1970's]].
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* 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 [[EverbodySmokes [[EverybodySmokes realistic set dressing for a hospital set in the 1970's]].
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* SilenceIsGolden: Of course. The first major SilentFilm release since ''Film/ModernTimes'' in 1936, and the last until ''TheArtist'' in 2011.
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* SilentMovie: Not only is it named that, it (almost) is one.
* SilentMovie: Not only is it named that, it (almost) is one.
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Unrelated to ''Film/ScaryMovie'' or the Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg "Movie Movies", although the naming convention is broadly similar.
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Unrelated to ''Film/ScaryMovie'' or the Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg "Movie Movies", although the naming convention is broadly similar.
similar. For the medium this film tips its hat to, see Main/SilentMovie.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Over the phone, Mel Funn pitches his silent movie to Marcel Marceau and asks if he'll be in it. Marceau gives an emphatic ''"Non!"'' and immediately hangs up. The others ask Funn what Marceau said, and Funn replies, "I don't speak French."
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May or may not be just an elaborate and clever setup to [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the funniest verbal joke involving a famous French mime ever]].
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