The Story Archive

The Producers

Mel Brooks · 1967 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A failing Broadway producer who lives off elderly investors works out with his neurotic accountant that a show certain to close on its first night would let them keep everything they raise. They hunt down the worst script in New York, a musical written by an unrepentant former Nazi, and hire the worst director available. Brooks took an original screenplay Oscar with a joke about Hitler nobody expected to reach cinemas.

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Attributes

Genre
ComedySatire
Theme
Ambition & HubrisWealth & GreedArt & CreationAppearance vs Reality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
TricksterEverymanAnti-Hero
Plot structure
Ironic ReversalRise and FallComic Resolution
Symbol / motif
The StageThe Book / ManuscriptThe Mask
Conflict
vs Personvs Society
Mode / tone
ComicSatiricalAbsurdist
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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