I just watched What's Up Do? last night for the first time in many, many years.
My favorite scene is definitely the courtroom scene. The performances and dialogue is so funny!
What is your favorite scene or bit?
I haven't seen this movie in YEARS, but it's one of my favorites. It must've come out on TV quite soon, because I know I saw it in '73 before I moved from Berkely....
Anyhow.....without having seen it in 20+ years, I'll have to say that the scene that stayed with me since the first time I saw it was in the courtroom, when Barbara lifts up the blanket and says "Hi, Daddy,". Maybe not the funniest, but to me the most memorable.
Reading many of these postings caused me to re-watch this comic masterpiece a few days ago and all I can say is "everyone is correct". I personally cannot think of a single favorite scene. They're all great. Also it's truly nice , for a change, to view an entire board with nothing unpleasant offered and yes, I too have on occasion been guilty of such postings.
I have also been guilty of being so presumptuous as to improve on one of the great lady's scenes, to wit, in the scene where she descends the stairs singing "Falling in Love Again", ala Marlene Dietrich, I have, in my mind, seen her loosing her balance, stumbling and grabbing for a doweling in my imagined stair railing. Never happened.
Only two things are actually knowable:
It is now and you are here. All else is merely a belief.
Our favorite part is the dinner scene, where Judy is charming Mr. Larabee. We often quote, "I'm telling you, Bannister, this girl of yours is fun: F-U-N." And the one we have quoted many, many times is when Judy tells Howard to meet her under the table and says, "Oh my goodness, there goes my napkin." Later, Larabee sticks his head under the table, too, and says, "Say, you two just can't keep away from each other, can you?"
We also love Eunice, and agree that Ms. Kahn just about stole the movie. The part where she's in bed reading "The Sensuous Woman", and is horrified, always cracks me up. And when she is dragged from the banquet room, and her heels are making black marks on the floor - hilarious!
My sister's favorite moment is one many people have mentioned: the trashcans spinning around the corner. She laughs so hard EVERY TIME that she almost loses her breath.
Eminently quotable.
And just about every line is a gem, a GEM!
Even throwaways, like when Judy causes a stuffed animal avalanche and shifts to the passive voice to decribe the problem: "OhHHHH look what happened!"
ha ha ha ha!
I watched it for the first time in about 5 years last night and picked up on something which had me in stitches.
Has anyone else noticed that the Chinese procession is playing "La Cucaracha"? That whole scene usually has me in stitches but last night I was hopeless!
If there's ever been anything like a convertible going off a dock --into the bay--at a high rate of speed in film history I haven't seen it?
Don't know how dangerous that was but ... there were probably some risk? A uniquely funny scene.
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One of my top 3 fave movies of all time...
The courtroom has been mentioned countless times but no one has said the best line from the judge.....
Look what you made me do,, YOU MADE ME SMASH MY LIFESAVERS!! It kills me every time:)
You can not pick one scene or joke from such an amazing movie. However, I love the courtroom scene. There are several lines that have become repeated lines in our family.
"Is that clear?" "No, but its consistent."
"what's the blue pill for?" "I don't know, their afraid to tell me."
"They tried to molest me." "That's... unbelievable."
"Why are your rocks in the bathroom?" "I don't know. I wish I knew, but I don't"
Many people have mentioned the courtroom scene, and deservedly so, but one line that I don't think has been mentioned was when everyone was talking at once and Judge Maxwell bangs his gavel repeatedly calling for order, and at one point, utters something like "I'm going to get to the bottom of this mess if it takes the rest of my life! Which may end at any moment!"
I'm LOL just typing that
I would have to say the courtroom scene. the judge is just sublime: "this is my courtroom - it may not look like much to you, but it's all I've got."
shareI would have to say the courtroom scene. the judge is just sublime: "this is my courtroom - it may not look like much to you, but it's all I've got."
sharemy favourite scene is where they are having the conversation under the table, and the head waiter asks the waiter "What kind of wine are you serving at table 1?" makes me chuckle :)
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