Just saw King Kong and was amazed at Adrien Brody breaking through a wall of police officers with the police reacting with a lame “hey! you can’t go in there!” line. I’ve seen this is movies and tv shows many times. Somebody (usually the main character) breaks into an off-limit area with a person of authority giving an oral protest but without actually trying to interfere too much.
Any good examples of this?
“Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain.”
One of my favorites, which I say every time I’m waiting getting on an airplane was the scene from** Dumb and Dumber.**
Lloyd is trying to return a briefcase to a woman and runs up to the gate and the still open door to the jetway.
Airline Agent: Hey, you can’t go down there!
Lloyd : It’s okay! I’m the limo driver!
Lloyd continues running, and the agent just looks out the window to see the end of the jetway, which has no plane at the end of it. Lloyd runs out the end and falls 10 feet to the ground.
When he gets home, he meets his roomate, also comeing home from work:
Harry: Hi Lloyd!
Lloyd: Hi Harry!
Harry: How was your day?
Lloyd: Not bad. Fell off a jet way again.
In “Any Which Way You Can,” Clint Eastwood barges his way into an all-women’s boarding house to find ex-girlfriend Sondra Locke. He’s repeatedly told, “You’re not allowed in here.” At long last, he answers, “I guess that must be true- you’re the third person to tell me that.”
In the generally awful movie “Lifeforce,” London is being overrun by vampires, and the British army has the city sealed off, preventing anyone from entering or exiting. A British cop has to enter the city. A soldier tells him, “You don’t want to go in there.” The cop drives in anyway, snapping, “I know I don’t want to go in there.”
I’m thinking of any number of cookie-cutter cop show plots where they barge into some outraged executive’s office while he is in a meeting to arrest him. The ineffectual secretary usually utters the line in question.
Early in Goldfinger, Bond is picking the lock to Goldfinger’s hotel room.
MAID: That’s Mr. Goldfinger’s suite!
BOND: [not pausing in picking the lock] Yes . . . Yes, you are sweet. [gets the door open, calmly walks in]
And she doesn’t call security. Even by 1964 standards, it’s astonishingly sexist to expect us to believe the woman could be sidetracked so easily by Bond’s flattery.
A contrary example – from Titan A.E.:
[our heroes are trying to rescue Akima, whose escape-capsule was picked up by slavers; account from memory, not verbatim]
PREED (followed by Cale, Corso and Stith in fake slave-robes): Pardon me, I know it’s not usual procedure, but I’m a Generikon slave merchant and I’d like to have a little look at your new merchandise.
GUARD: You’re lying! Generikon merchants always threaten me before they ask for favors! And that one doesn’t walk like a slave – his bearing’s too erect! Probably ex-military! And that one’s robes are made out of bedspreads!
PREED: Just out of curiosity, did we have a plan B?
[Stith roars, leaps, beats guard unconscious; company proceeds]
PREED: [looking back] Hmm! An intelligent guard! Didn’t see that one coming!
“MAS*H” episode “The Moon is Not Blue”:
Bannister: Hey! You can’t go in there!
Hawkeye: Say that again. Louder.
Bannister: Hey! You can’t go in there!
Hawkeye: Perfect! Now you won’t get in trouble.
The ineffectual secretary bit is in Spielberg’s latest, Munich. You’d think security as the Israeli consulate would be a little tougher.
Hey, he converts Pussy Galore from being the lesbian henchman of Auric Goldfinger to a hetro-lust puppy and government informant. Surely he can take care of a hotel maid.
And he’s not picking the lock; actually grabs the maid and uses her passkey. Since he ends up with a dead girl in his room–covered in gold paint–with no reprecussions (other than a couple of cutting comments by M), we can safely assume that some cleaner has taken care of the whole business. Being an elite agent in Her Majesty’s Secret Service, like being an American Express member, doth have it’s privileges.
Stranger
This was done on Family Guy
Peter tries to zip past a secretary into some bigwig’s office when she admonishes him with “You can’t go in there!”
With a try-and-stop-me attitude, Peter yanks open the door and runs flat into a brick wall.
The secretary then replies something like “I said, you CAN’T go in there! There <pointing to Peter’s left> is the door to his office!”
In Holy Grail, when Launcelot storms Swamp Castle tower, the guard just has time to say “You’re not to enter th—” before being pierced by Launcelot’s sword. It’s so quick, and during a scene in which viewers are usually ROFL, so it’s usually overlooked, but I thought it was cool that the guard finally got it right what he was supposed to do. For all the good it did, of course.
In Buckaroo Banzai, the Secretary of Defense storms into a restricted area in the Yoyodyne plant. A security guard protests that the area is off-limits and the Secretary responds “Yeah? Not to me!” We can tell it’s a secure area because painted on the door are the words NOBUDY CUMZ IN HERE and SEKRIT.
In Return From Witch Mountain Tony, accompanied by the evil Letha Wedge and her cronies, invades a nuclear power plant under mind control. When ineffectually challenged by a guard, Tony levitates him out of the way and strands him in mid-air. When his sister Tia and her friends discover the guard, Tia brings him down but when he tells them they can’t enter she strands him in mid-air again.