Good choice.
Mr Banks is fired from his bank after his son Michael caused a run on the bank by yelling for the bank to give him his money back. (He had a tuppence piece he wanted to give to the old bird lady, played by Jane Darwell in her last role.) Anyway, Mr Banks acts like that’s the best thing that could happen to him, and goes away dancing and singing and telling jokes. One of the jokes causes the president of the bank to die laughing (and levitating like Uncle Albert). Somehow this makes the president’s son decide all is forgiven, and he rehires Mr Banks as they fly kites together, and Mary Poppins flies away because the kids want to be with their dad.
Nigel Tufnel and Ian Faith both colorfully quit their jobs in “This Is Spinal Tap.”
However, I have not been able to watch that movie ever since the daughter of Tony Hendra, who played Faith, made very credible accusations that he molested her.
And created a Billion-Dollar ‘Entertainment’ Industry, the ‘Monster Truck’ thing.
Amazing.
I often wonder if Johnny Paycheck or DAC ever got/gets a cent off this. Well, Paycheck is long since dead, so I’ll guess ‘Not’.
Note that they aren’t rating the “Quitting A Job” scene. They are rating the movie as a whole.
What it means is that some editor has marked it as having a job quitting scene somewhere in the film. The list is every such marked film in order of popularity. And this is 7th on the list.
The search works fine.
Agreed, it’s probably Mary quitting her job when she is no longer needed.
That movie is really the story of two men, William Foster (Douglas) and Sergeant Prendergast (Robert Duvall). Prendergast is about to retire from the LAPD, is in fact on his last day when he begins tracking Foster.
After shooting Foster, Prendergast changes his mind and decides to stay on the job.
I came in here to mention The Blues Brothers. There is also an outtake on the DVD where Elwood quits his job at the glue factory. But that scene with Aretha has to be the best quitting your job scene in any movie.
Office Space. When you don’t have enough flair to satisfy management.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but doesn’t “Five Easy Pieces” start out with Jack Nicholson working on an oil drilling team, then he quits his job to… get a chicken salad sandwich or something…
I’m less sure of this quibble, but doesn’t Aretha and her two female customers/back-up singers do the cool song and dance to convince her husband not to leave for the band, but the husband just watches and at the end just takes his apron off and leaves with Jake & Elwood.
Judge Reinholt quits one of his lousy jobs (he’s fired from at least one other job) in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”
Yeah. Never got it. impossible to empathise with the leading character who acts in immoral and inexplicable ways…oh, yeah, that reminds me, Badlands kinda has the leading character quitting (or at least abandoning) his job.
But what I really meant to say was that Blade Runner more or less starts and ends with Deckard quitting his job.
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If we’re including getting fired, this is my favorite.
Quitting a job is certainly not the main theme of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but Judge Reinhold’s quitting after being laughed at while delivering fast food fish in a pirate’s outfit to those guys at IBM is pretty epic.
Is quitting a job the main theme of any movie? In most of these cases, it’s a plot device that drives other events.
Soooooooo … more flair then?
:rolleyes:
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Also not the main theme of the film, but Ringo’s walking out on the Beatles (at Paul’s grandfather’s urging) right before a big TV gig drives most of the events at the end of A Hard Day’s Night.