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Unintentionally funny scene

posted 11 years ago by Piston_Smash
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Watched this film again last night after an interval of twenty-odd years. I had to laugh out loud at a number of scenes. One particularly funny scene was when Mickey Rourke, as Stanley White, drags a body from a burning car. The body's quite clearly a dummy but the funny part was when Rourke's face is revealed, having been inside the burning car, and it is completely covered in soot! Rourke looked like one of those cartoon characters who is passed a bomb and stares at it uncomprehendingly until the thing blows up leaving the character's face completely black. I'm not entirely sure this comic effect was Cimino's intention...

[–] booyahboy_uk 11 years ago

I also chuckled at that scene, because the car hit a wall and immediately exploded.

If there is a god, then how come there is a Simon Cowell?

[–] jdkraus 11 years ago

Same here. I found that whole scene with the car hysterical.

[–] asgard-5 11 years ago

I always crack up at an exchange between him and John Lone...
JL: Cigarette?
MR: No!

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[–] mmartg 11 years ago

LOL! I thought that I was the only one who thought the whole scene with the car was comedy gold. The car blowing up after hitting the wall had me in stitches. What was wrong with the Foley artists in the 80s? The gun fire and the explosions sounded like something out of the G.I. Joe cartoons back then.

"I wouldn't, I'm no ding-a-ling" -Kentucky Fried Movie

[–] vortexrider 10 years ago

Yes that was hilarious , as well as the weightless dummy. Don't forget the unexplainably powerful explosion the instant the car hit the wall. It is a bad bad movie trying to be something it can never pull off.

Big Trouble In Little China is way better.

[–] naples-884-346409 8 years ago

This is the only scene in the movie that doesn't work for me, too.

The weightless dummy & the sudden car explosion destroy the realism,

that was carefully set up by Cimino.

But it's only 30 seconds, so it doesn't damage the whole movie.