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When the dead guy on the pre-recorded tape answers a live question!

posted 8 years ago by MrCottonsParrot
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I watched this movie with my friends when I was 18, and I must have been stupid, because I was arguing:
"How could he know what Brewster asked if he's on a pre-recorded tape, and he's now dead? It makes no sense!"

All my friends shouted in unison; "It's a JOKE!"

I still kept arguing...

Sad really. lol! 😀

I suppose to me that joke made it more like a farce or spoof, like Airplane, rather than a "straight" comedy, if that makes sense.

Anyway I now think it's one of the funniest jokes in the movie.

What's your favorite gag in the movie?

"Look at it this way; in a hundred years who's gonna care?"

[–] stevenackerman69 8 years ago

It's like in Superman 2 when Lex is listening to Lara (Superman's mother) and he asks a question at one point and she responds and then there she says later, "I wish you had not asked me that," when he didn't say anything. The point is both Rupert and Lara anticipated the question that the person was going to ask so they knew to give an answer.

[–] chambers112 8 years ago

Yep, it was a joke and it was funny.

When I was in high school the class was watching a film about history or English, don't really recall. There was this actor on the screen, dressed as Julius Caesar with the white robes and crown of leaves. He was talking on and on and then he sat down and turned away from the camera, lowered his head and started making this noise. It sounded like crying or laughing, it was hard to tell. All the students were puzzled and one girl spoke out, 'is he crying or laughing?' That's when the actor stopped making the noise, faced the camera and very solemnly answered, 'I'm crying.'
That was surprising and funny.