There were three boys, and after a long time this girl - ""a child of my old age"" I always called her.He is existentially lost.Through a rainy taxicab windshield, we see he rainy, slick streets, an allegorical underworld vision composed of hustlers and derelicts, and a foreshadowing of the future tone of the film.All of Brooks"" best films were anarchic comedies that skewered their source material while still maintaining a basic reverence:The Producers (1967)- Brooks"" first hit and cinematic debut - about show business, musicals, and Broadway culture, including an incisive critique of Hitler and the NazisBlazing Saddles (1974)- released just before YF, a westerns spoof with stereotypical characters: a saloon seductress, a washed-up gunslinger, corrupt government land speculators, and a black sheriff - and much moreSilent Movie (1976)- a spoof of Hollywood and silent films, with Brooks portraying Mel Funn - a down and out film director who attempted to pitch his new script and recruit celebrity stars to participateHigh Anxiety (1977)- a parody of Hitchcock""s suspense-thrillers (e." Silhouetted figures were vaguely seen canoodling through the door.Cash-hungry, desperate, bankrupt, wild-eyed, hustling, has-been Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) was entertaining and romancing a rich, love-starved little old lady for her money.Some considered the Christopher Nolan superhero trilogy tragically cursed, after actor Heath Ledger (portraying he Joker in the second filmThe Dark Knight (2008)) died of an accidental drug overdose just before the film premiered.