By the end of the 1970s, Mel Brooks was a world -wide Starwar noticed about his funny comedy classics. He has already won an Academy Award for writing "Producers" and announced the "Young Frankenstein" and "lightened saddle" in the same year. (By the way, those films were also nominated for Oscars.) After that, he moved to the ambitious 1976 film "Silent Film", "Real Silent Film", before working on "High Anxiety", a surgically indicated cheat of Alfred Hitchcock's work. Both films have earned over $ 30 million in box office against a $ 4 million budget. Brooks rode high.

While Brooks was rolling into dough as a Hollywood hotspot, an upward Missula art student, Montana turned heads to the American Film Institute with his funny, surreal and nightmare films and sculptures. He has already made several significant shorts, and graduated with a grant, hoping to make his first feature film. For several years, this ambitious young director worked on his first film, working at an incredibly slow pace and designed an epic surrealist nightmare. The finished film finally came out in 1977. The film was "Erasserhead", and the director was David Lynch.

Someone would be under pressure to find two directors different from Mel Brooks and David Lynch-Frank Capra and George Butgeerit, maybe? - But the two were closer than some could understand. Brooks, while a comedian, was also a fondicist of surrealism and horror, and he was interested in forming a special production company specifically to serve as an executive producer of not comedy projects.

It was 1979, and Brooks - through the usual Hollywood channels - happened on the script for "The Man of Elephants", a film inspired by the life of Josephoseph Merik. Brooks were looking forward to producing it. Not only that, when Brooks saw a special display of "Erasserhead", he was so impressed that he immediately wanted Lynch to direct "the man of elephants".

How I paper Realized in the work where he interviewed those involved in making the film for his 40th anniversary in 2020, Brooks was handed over to the "Elephant Man" script by his "high anxiety" assistant, Athonatan Sanger. Brooks loved the script, but he understood that he couldn't put his name on a project that was supposed to be such a heart attack. Josephoseph Merik - Renamated in Johnon in the script - lived a sad life after being hit by tumors and skin conditions that caused the head and face to become too big and harsh. He spent many years in the circus, abused by cruel bosses who assumed he could not speak or think. Merik was rescued by a traveling doctor who found that he was intelligent, articulated and very gentle. Brooks feel that putting "Mel Brooks presentations" over the "elephant man" will be wrong for the audience. Instead, he and Sanger were formed by Brooksfilms, a company that sounded legitimate. Brooks thought that he could, in a way, in secret produce "the man of elephants".

Talking to The Guardian In 2008 As Brooks recalls:

"It was a wonderful film in black and white, but I still couldn't believe this was the director of the project I worked on called" The Man of Elephants ", on which the babysitter I shared with one of the writers slipped as a benefit. But Stewart was convinced, so I met David. He only met David. He met David. I did not expect him to be so ethesisy, but I was pretty impressed.

Oh, to dine with Lynch at Bob's big boyfriend.

A contract was concluded, and Lynch signed. Although the "elephant man" was structured as a traditional Hollywood biopic, Lynch turned it into a more dream. It became a triumph over death and carried the same black and white, steam aesthetics with Eraserhead. UN Hurt, Sports Greater Cranial Prosthetics, was played by Johnon Merik, while Anthony Hopkins showed Frederick Treves, the doctor who saved him. Johnon Gilgood, as well as Ann Bankaroft, Brooks' wife also appeared.

Namely, Brooks' real name does not appear as an executive producer of Lynch's film. But Brooks clearly knew what he was doing as a producer, because the "elephant man" was a hit. Made over $ 26 million at the box office with a budget of $ 5 million and became one of Oscar's annual pets, collected a total of eight nominations for the Academy Award (including those for the best picture, best director, best actor and best scenario). However, tragically, she won zero, losing films like "ordinary people", "Tess" and "Ponnell Taurus".

However, the film cemented David Lynch as a Hollywood electricity player, which was really very unlikely. The director was then tapped to help a great science fiction film clearly that it aims to move it to the sphere of summer blockbusters. Many fans of "Starwalks War" know that Lynch was offered a chance to direct "Starwells War: Episode VI -" Returning to EDI ", a gig that round. Instead he did His own adaptation of Frank Herbert's "Duna", A movie that was collected on a cult fanbase, but who lynched him personally. After that, Lynch began directing more personal films and TV shows such as Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. The rest is history.

Meanwhile, Brooks have continued to produce very significant - and especially dark - hits with Brooksfilms. The comedian supported horror films like Freddie Francis "" Doctor and Devils "," Flying David Cronenberg "and Chris Wallace's films" The Fly II "and" The Vagrant ". Brooks is one of the funniest people in history (and he still kicks at 99), but he also had a few wonderful unusual flavors, happy to multiply bizarre cult films, dreaming prestige paintings and horror. Brooks will always be deeply loved for many decades of comedy, but without him, we may not have David Lynch, all we love.