“Hello handsome. You’re a good looking fellow, do you know that? People laugh at you, people hate you... but why do they hate you? Because... they are jealous.”
While in the cast of Blazing Saddles (1974), Gene Wilder wrote the screenplay for this film and asked Mel Brooks to direct it. The film was shot with the actual laboratory equipment used in the original Frankenstein (1931). Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman all had the same agent – making it possible to appear together and negotiate a better deal with the movie studio. The Blind Man’s parting line to the Monster, “I was gonna make espresso” was an ad lib by Gene Hackman during shooting. In 1974 while taking a break from a long night of recording, rock band Aerosmith saw the film. The next morning, Steven Tyler wrote the band’s big hit “Walk This Way”– inspired by the scene where Igor (Marty Feldman) says to Dr. Frankenstein as he leads him to the castle “...walk this way”.
