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Hey everyone, welcome to today's Five Minute Leader from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Today I want to talk about the idea of fighting for something, and the importance of fighting for something, and what that can reveal about you or somebody on your team.
The story actually comes from Gene Wilder and from Mel Brooks. There was a recent story that I was reading, and it was about Mel Brooks. He was being interviewed, and he shared this really interesting story where he said, “You know, I've worked with Gene Wilder on a bunch of stuff, and we don't really argue about things. But there was one motion picture and one particular scene where we got in a huge fight.”
It was around one of my favorite movies, Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder really wanted to have a scene where the monster would get up on stage and sing and dance the song “Puttin' on the Ritz”—very famous song, I'm sure you've heard of it. Mel Brooks didn’t want it in the movie. He thought it was stupid. He thought it was not aligned with the tone, the themes.
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