How is this movie funny????
I ve seen this movie a couple of times on tv and I dont find any comedy
its darn right dramatic
Overall the movie wasnt funny but alot of the scenes were hilarious.My brother and I would rewind several scenes in this movie over and over again falling on the floor laughing and saying the scenes back and forth to one another.I guess you have to have a certain sense of humor and real life experiences to understand the humor in this movie.OOOOOOOH RAHHHHHH !!!!!!!!A classic for sure! Has everything a classic movie should have.
I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me
It's a drama that hits too many people somewhere.
The older kids were such "vets" of a tough life. They displayed quirky coping senses of humor.
I was breathless during the "I'm pregnant" scene on the front porch - I would've given much back then to meet a girl like that!
She was playing with fire (the man could be dangerous), but did it so well!
Had to love it when Ben was talking about the couple at the dance and said of the girl "I'm in love" and she replies something like "have you told him?"
The Ben character (representing author Pat Conroy) was great - deadpan delivery of such lines as " This here is Rin Tin Tin, star of...", "Tremendous booger in your nose, my dear...(when dipping his sister at the dance)"
I agree with the previous two posters. This movie contains some fine dramatic performances, with some low key humor as relief to the over dominating Santini character. My favorite is the arm punching contest Robert Duval (who thinks he'll win) has with his housekeeper, Arrabella Smalls, Toomer's mother.
shareI agree that this movie is definitely a drama, but like another poster said, there are funny moments to lighten the darkness.
favorite fun moments:
1) the "floor show" when he says, "chow down on me, hogs!"
2) the scene where Maryanne says, "I was so worried about the big game, I woke up in a cold sweat, with a fever and 3 diff types of cancer & a touch of rabies."
3) by itself, the "this is great" 18th birthday scene is funny.
4) Maryanne's "dad, why do you love me more than your other children?/am I a Meechum, can girls be *real* Meechums?"
5) the occasional funny cmts from Bull- my dad had a similar sense of humor, and because of my own childhood experiences, it always makes me laugh.
Life like, which is never all serious or all funny, this movie has both, a "slice of life" as they say.