[QUOTE=Vagus]
I suspected as much, but I didn’t want to seem like an Ignorant American.
And I didn’t notice the change in status, so next time I watch the movie, I’ll watch for that.
The novel was adapted to film and stage, with the latter having the title The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and, as stated, concentrating solely on the trial.
[in reference to Dumbrille not getting roughed up]
Because he expressed an arrogant smughness as he calmly walked forward, firing the pistol. Anyone who radiates such an arrogant casual attitude toward committing attempted murder deserves the Rodney King treatment, so far as I am concerned…
dougie_monty, you missed an obvious one from Monkey Business. Instead of
the real “huh?” moment is when the officer is telling the captain that there are four stowaways. The captain asks how he knows there are four of them and the officer replies, “They were singing ‘Sweet Adeline’.” You mean Harpo can sing but he can’t talk? Is it some kind of Mel Tillis-thing? Or does he just choose not to talk? Oh, the many questions this raises…
Perhaps the police didn’t think the same way you did?
As Joe Adamson points out, in Groucho, Harpo, Chico and sometimes Zeppo, the difference between the early Paramount movies and the later MGM movies is that in the former Harpo was above talking - talking was too pedestrian, earthbound, a form for such an exalted spirit - but in the latter Harpo couldn’t talk - it was a handicap that he had to overcome.
Just another way that, except for the magic that was A Night at the Opera, the later movies were slow continuous destruction of the brothers.
Culminating with the infamous “Love Happy” or as the author put it, “The film that noone invovled will actually admit to working on”
As shown later in the movie, he lip synchs to a record player. Ok, why he would bother to do that in a barrel, I don’t know.
Actually, I appreciate it–thanks!
It’s actually explained on the DVD
Back in post 25, I answered dougie_monty’s question about the fourth wall. It would be nice to hear this from him.
::Sigh::
If not that, then post 34, where I asked why Hitchcock turned the Book called Secret Agent into a film called Sabotage, while he turned a book called Ashenden in a movie called Secret Agent. Both were realised the same year, 1936, in England, so it can’t just be cultural diffrences.
Harpo Flits himself because he’s just knocked out the blonde he’s been chasing for the whole movie, and this is his chance to “sleep with her.”
IIRC, Because Martin was angry (and perhaps jealous!) that the boyfriend was boinking his daughter.
The Chief was not one of the voluntary patients. He was committed. The voluntary in-mates were all part of the “therapy” group, but the Chief and several other committed patients did not take part in these sessions. As Nurse Ratched points out, there are 14 men on the ward, only 7 (including McMurphy, but not the Chief) took part in the therapy sessions.
I always get flammed by some angry poster for mentioning this plot-hole, but I’ve never heard any one give a reasonable explanation for it:
In E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial*, our intrepid little alien gets left behind by about two seconds by his UFO. He stares forelornly at the ship rising into the air just about ten feet above him.
Later on in the movie, E.T. telekinetically carries himself, Eliot, a bicycle, and (later still) a whole bunch of kids on their bikes miles through the air, way above the ground.
So, when the UFO was departing in the first five minutes of the film, why didn’t E.T. just telekinetically float himself up to the ship???
Just a crazy idea (Kinda like my own explanation for Sssss), but perhaps he can only levitate non-living object, and at the time of the ship, he either could not find anything big enough to carry him, or he was… I forgot where the ending took place. Never mind.
Maybe he was in danger of getting fried by the anti-gravity field?
Sorry, Scott, I didn’t know you were waiting for an acknowledgment or I would have posted one. I apologize and I thank you for the answer.
As for Douglass Dumbrille in The Big Store, well, his unloveable moll was rewarded for her arrogance when she walked out of the scene with part of her skirt cut off. Served her right. It would have satisfied me about “Grover” to see him get clubbed with cops’ nightsticks, considering what I had seen him do.
Jealous, eh? A la Lolita? :eek:
You’re welcome…and now I’ve added “jollification” to my vocabulary. So it’s win/win .
But the Chief wasn’t committed – he was voluntary. They make a point of it earlier in the film, and McMurphy expresses surprise that the Chief stays there. That’s why it made syuch an impression on me (and on the Mad Writer, apparently)
Because it’s funny. Either that or Harpo will speak, but only when he can’t be seen. There is a scene in “Duck Soup” near the end, where the 4 are stuck in a house under siege and Groucho raidos for help. Then, someone shouts “Help in on the way”, sounding like it’s coming from the Closet Harpo was locked in earlier.