When the director has the coughing fit, is it on purpose to highlight that he has been chain smoking, also an evil satanic thing to do? Or is it actually an accidental mishap that they just left in there with all the other ones?
It was genius either way.
"I kick arse for the Lord!"
It most likely was intentional hypocritical humor. I doubt if they would actually otherwise include useless footage of Brad Grinter smoking. It's a bad movie, but it's not so bad where they include such footage on accident. I would hope they would know better!
shareUm, I know a fake cough when I see one. And I also know a smoker's cough.
Unintentional......unless Mr. Narrator was the best actor in world, which I find to be a tad doubtful.
I think the cough was real, and probably unplanned, but as another poster has already pointed out they could have chosen to cut it, so I think it's definitely left in to show how hypocritical most of what the narrator has been saying about drug consumption is. That's just one of the many bizarre moments in this film that separate it from the pack (flock? herd? gaggle?) of other turkeys.
I just watched this for the third time and I feel like my head is going to explode!
I had not suggested that the narrator's coughs were fake. They just happened to catch Grinter coughing, and they may have thought is was some sort of comic relief.
The thing about the catalysts really speaks to me now that I think about it. Grinter is what he described.
He changed my life by producing this film.
I AM THE ENDING MAN
has to be intentional
shareGrinter's sudden uncontrollable coughing fit was a definite sidesplitting highlight of this often hilariously horrendous camp schlock gem.
Nobody does W.C. Fields singing "Mama Told Me Not to Come" better than Paul Frees.
The whole movie is intentional, just like an explosive bowel movement.
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Funniest scene ever!!! :-))
Triple Irons-"I could have easily have beaten you, if I had three swords"
i don't think it was intentional at all, you could see him trying to hold it back for a second to no avail. i'm guessing they left it in cause they didn't have the time or money to redo it...just like all the other bloopers that made the final cut. it's my favorite part of the movie anyway.
shareIt was totally intentional. The director revealed a droll angle in his final scene: Here he is condemning drug abuse in his philosophizing, all the while abusing nicotine (which is a drug).
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