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23 May 2009

What is your favorite Marx Brothers scene? Been watching 'em all weekend![More:]In an attempt to avoid reality, I've been watching all their movies and documentaries this weekend. Love Harpo's appearance in "Person to Person" with Ed Murrow. Love the Tuttsi-Fruttsi scene. Think I like the "mirror" gag the best. Too many to decide.
I love it when Capo and Dido decide that the only way their Mater and Pater will take them to Aspen is to stage a bitter pas-de-deux with puppets in the gazebo for the servants.

The whole scene is meant to portray how innocent children are forced into a premature adulthood when faced with the duplicity and inchoate violence of divorce. It's also a stunning political indictment of the bourgoisie, especially when the servants start acting out the roles of the puppets themselves in mute irony on the manicured lawn.

Oh, also - when they all fall down the stairs in front of the General and lay there hitting each other with their hats - classic!
posted by Lipstick Thespian 23 May | 19:36
So many to choose from! Harpo answering the phone with squeeze-bulb horns is one of my favourites.
posted by TheophileEscargot 24 May | 02:08
Groucho and Chico going over a "contract" in Night at the Opera is a damn good one... "...you can't-a fool me! There ain't no sanity clause!"
posted by flapjax at midnite 24 May | 03:47
when they teamed up with Friedrich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto :p
posted by rollick 24 May | 11:21
Probably the one flapjax at midnite mentioned, but the stateroom food scene in Night at the Opera is pretty good too.
posted by grouse 24 May | 12:28
Crush The Castle || Whack a Kitty!

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