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''Silent Movie'' is a 1976 [[Comedy]] directed by [[Mel Brooks]]. Advertised as "the first [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|silent film]] in forty years", it stars [[All-Star Cast|Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau and Paul Newman]].
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Unrelated to ''[[Scary Movie]]'' or ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'', although the naming convention is broadly similar.
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* [[Aside Glance]]: Burt Reynolds does this when confronted by Funn, Bell, and Eggs in the old [[Totem Pole Trench]] guise.
* [[Big Eater]]: Dom. At one point he is seen eating a chocolate bar the size of a ''door''.
* [[Big No|Big "NON!"]]: The only spoken line of the film.
* [[Casting Gag]]: The [[Big No|only line of dialogue]] in the film is spoken by a ''mime''.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: A faulty Coca-Cola vending machine which is later used as an
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Marty. Unusual because he's also a [[Casanova Wannabe]].
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
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* [[Fun with Subtitles]]: The DVD has separate audio tracks for English, French and Spanish, and subtitles.
{{quote|[No Audible Dialog]
[No Audible Dialog Continues]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: 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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** "[[Ben-Hur|Truly he is the king of the winos!]]"
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: [[Bernadette Peters]]. Yummy.
* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: After being driven off the wagon, Brooks is actually able to lift Marty Feldman into the air when the latter tries to stop him.▼
* [[Idea Bulb]]
▲* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: After being driven off the wagon, Brooks is actually able to lift Marty Feldman into the air when the latter tries to stop him.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Funn, Eggs, and Bell are subjected to this twice by the same duo of women. That said, they were essentially dry humping each other in public the first time.
* [[Murphy's Bed]]: Various gags during the motel scene; the trope is also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by a sign at the motel itself.
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* [[Parody Name]]: Engulf & Devour is named for Gulf + Western, which had bought Paramount Pictures a decade prior.
* [[Running Gag]]: That poor newspaper vendor.
* [[Silence Is Golden]]: Of course. The first major [[Silent
* [[A Simple Plan]]
** Though it appears that Burt Reynolds at least only agrees to do the film so they'll stop bugging him.
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: When the Engulf & Devour
* [[Tempting Fate]]: The Studio Chief, when he initially rejects Funn's movie idea.
{{quote|'''Studio Chief''': Don't you know that slapstick is '''DEAD?!'''
''*The chief immediately slips, falls under his desk, and is propelled by his chair into an object on the other side of the room*''
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]], as not only do the characters
* [[Visual Pun]]: The prime source of most of the humor outside of pure [[Slapstick]]. Of note are the "they're gonna flip!" and sneak preview scenes.
* [[Wacky Racing]]: [[Refuge in Audacity|with electric wheelchairs, in a hospital.]]
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[[Category:Comedy Films]]
[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]
[[Category:Works by Mel Brooks]]
[[Category:Silent Movie]]
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▲[[Category:Mel Brooks]]
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