This is sort of meta: Almost everyone knows of that scene, but very few have seen it, much less the actual movie.
He was just talkin’ about De Niro.
I’m guessing most people have seen Charlie Chaplin making the potatoes dance. I wonder how many have actaually watched The Gold Rush in its entirety.
I already mentioned this scene in post #51. After seeing your post, I doubled checked to see if I had misremembered. I have seen The Gold Rush and I remembered correctly. As I mentioned in post #51, they were dinner rolls, not potatoes.
As an aside, Chaplin stole that gag. Here’s Fatty Arbuckle doing it 8 years earlier. No doubt Fatty stole it too. (Chaplin did the gag much better, though. I’ll give him that.)
It’s one of my favorites, but I’m more familiar with pre-1960’s movies than current movies anyway. I suck at trivia these days. If Anne Hathaway or Hugh Grant are in the movie, I won’t know the title.
I think more people have seen Marlene Dietrich singing “Fawwing in wuv again” (or a parody of it) than have seen the movie.
If there were a contest scored on a ratio of people who have seen the scene / people who have seen the movie, I suspect this would win 1st place.
I saw that movie before that clip became big. My hope is that the popularity of that Hitler clip inspired a lot of people to check out Downfall. It is a great movie.
But why would I want to see a movie where Hitler rants about vuvuzelas?