Gene Wilder in one of Young Frankenstein’s iconic scenes. 5 Stars from me!
When I was starting out in business, trying to bust through the ‘ice’ so to speak was tough and it was a total restart for my life.
I was ready to give up my old life, create something brand new and become something more powerful that what I was ever historically.
The *small problem* I had was that running out of money, being temporarily homeless and a few rough years didn’t take away my hunger for success; but it drastically impacted my self-esteem.
As I rebuilt from the ashes and started my new awesome life; I had my a few characters that totally inspired me. One was the awesome Gene Wilder who died today. He was just fantastic and I so loved him in Willy Wonka and all that. However, one of my favourite film of my childhood was him in ‘Young Frankenstein’.
It was filmed in Black & White when colour was around it’s basically a spoof of Frankenstein with Gene doing his crazy, serious and compelling thing. It’s funny as heck and what I got from that was some of his classic scenes.
** Warning Spoiler Alert **
One favourite scene was him being caught with a dead body by a cop. He presented everything was fine and just carried on as normal and the cop didn’t notice. You had him saying the crazy ‘it’s alive’. You even have him doing his ‘hmmmmmnnnn’ in the final amusing love scene.
Basically he was cool, collected, survived crazy situations and was funny has heck. As I rebuilt my life, he was part of the inspiration in the back of my subconscious mind (no doubt implanted during my childhood).
My advice and thinking? Nothing wrong at all with picking cool people and channelling them. I used to do that all the time then as things passed – I then started to evolve my own natural style.
So yes, part of me is very ‘Gene Wilder’ and it’s awesome. Part of my humour; I even at times make the ‘hmmmmmmmm’ type of noise and even say ‘it’s alive’ in funny situations that warrant such an approach. I want to acknowledge such a genius, RIP to him and inspire you to get great heroes and don’t hesitate to channel them.
It can be very funny, create a new dynamic and help you unlock your own style of charisma, speechcraft and success.
Love your work, thank you Gene Wilder and appreciate you taking the time to read this.
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I agree, Gene Wilder was an amazing and inspirational person. My three favourite comedic actors of all time are: Gene Wilder; Dick Van Dyk and the legendary Jerry Lewis. You can also through Mickey Rooney into the mix. Thank you for bringing light to such an incredible human being. Vale Gene Wilder.
OMG Jerry Lewis! I haven’t heard that name in a long day.
You bring me back to childhood memories of watching “The Disorderly Orderly” with my father on the couch and laughing my guts you.
You so rock 🙂