What are the best moments that are all-out comedy, with probably no seriousness, even below the surface? One of the best is when Robert Loggia is doing a Jolsen imitation in blackface, and Moses Gunn (who is black), instead of getting mad, just gives a very weary look.
shareCutshaw knocks Major Groper over when he opens the door, puts his foot on him and says, "I claim this swamp for Poland." What a great non-sequitor.
shareI need to see this again (I taped ot off of cable about 15 years ago and watched it many, many times) but the "funny" that has always stayed with me is when Cutshaw tells Kane "I know there's a devil; the son-of-a-bitch keeps making commercials!".
So, so true...
Skragg -
I'd have to say that Robert Loggia's Al Jolson scene is probably the funniest thing that I've seen in any movie. Sometimes I put the DVD in the player just to watch that track.
That the persons problem (he cant walk through walls) may be because of "The properties of the hammer" he is using to bash the wall.
But the funniest line ever, and one me and my brother have been using since we watched it together, I first saw it on channel 4 in the UK in the 80's, I then bought it on Betamax cheap as the format was dying (still have it, and the DVD) and we watched it together, the best line, and its so easy to use in real life is
"Its easy to dig up a tree, and then anyone with money can fill in the hole"
For me the funniest person is the angry Mr. Groper. And the funniest moment in the film is Groper trying to take command of the nutty troops in the courtyard.
"Come to attention!" Demands Mr. Groper.
"Not unless you say 'Simon says' first!" Is the responce from somebody in the group.
Groper replies: "Boys.... - Don't you think you're being a little bit silly?"
- Pause, conversation -
"Oh Gentlemen?"....says Groper with anger building in his voice....followed by a huge roar.... "Simon says. Shut your fu*king mouths."
He then turns and salutes towards Kane and says: "Sir, I present the group."
"Hail Ceasar!" Is the chant from the group!!!
- "Listen I know my rights, I wanna see my urologist." Says one of the group members standing in line, holding the salute.
A few seconds later, in the backround, you can hear the sound of somebody urinating.
"Jesus Christ!" - Says Groper as he rolls his eyes towards heaven!
BRILLIANT :-)
Robert Loggia flying passed the screen with the jet pack.
-Cops, people, people from Nashville.
My favorite silly scene is the one with Robert Loggia and the jet pack-- it's kind of a David Lynch tableau.
shareI like the poker game dialogue:
-Ok, 7 card
-Anything wild?
-Deuces, threes, fives, sevens, nines and jacks.
-You are a very sick man.
-(dealer has shuffled cards and cutting the pack many times)
-Are you finished? (cutting the deck?)
-Most people only cut them once!
-13 is my lucky number.
-Jacks are better come on.
-Kings are better!
-No, jacks are better!
-I am dealing, I call it.
-Did I not hear something about wild cards at the out set?
-Yes.
-Would you repeat them?
-Deuces, threes, fives, sevens, nines and jacks.
-Would you like to add a one-eyed king?
-Deal, please.
-This is the way we play in my country.
-How many cards are wild?
-Why are you giving me your cards?
Absolute quality!
Sonny Black: How can John Wayne die?
Lefty: *beep*' Indians got him.
'It's a suicide pill--with a mild laxative side effect...'
'Cutshaw, sit down'
(crunch)
'I think the end of the world just came for that bag of Fritos I had in my pocket...'
so many good lines...
'We all dream of being a child again - even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all...'
For me, it has to be when Col Kane pics up the phone and Maj Groper is on the line taking a lewd phone call and he tells him, "Maj Groper, get off the phone". There are SO many hystericaly funny moments like that throughout the film.
shareI never really connected those two things - Groper and those women, and Groper and the phone - but you're right.
There's also the running joke about the movie quotes. In that early scene, Cutshaw says to Kane in that high voice "Help me - for god's sake, help me!"
Fell says very casually "Peter Lorre in Casablanca."