TV alert: Cool Hand Luke

[User 1019]

On AMC now.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

If someone can get the famous Strother Martin quote correct, word for word, in the next 10 minutes -- WITHOUT A GOOGLE (honor system, please -- I'll buy him or her a beer. You know the quote I'm talking about: the one after the whipping.

Odds are you don't know it verbatim, though. No one ever gets it right, just like nobody can eat 50 eggs.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Well, without looking it up, isn't it, "What we have here, is a failure to communicate."?

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Close, but no.

 

[shockey]

"what we've got here is a failure to communicate."

also on e! right now: "rain man."

hoffman was great. but i'd argue cruise may have had the tougher role, playing of him. cruise at his best. 8) 8) 8)

 

[User 1019]

More like: "Whuaat weeee'veee goout heeeaaare .... is .... a faiylua ... to ... commmmunnicatte."

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

No to all of the above.

 

[shockey]

my bad.

"what we've got here is failure to communicate."

mrs. shockey corrected me on the no "a."

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Yep, and I think I owe you a beer. You just made it under the wire.

Or do I owe her?

 

[User 1019]

Only if you ****ed her on credit ... /afroman

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Side note: Paul Newman says "a failure to communicate" when he mimics the Captain just before the movie ends.

 

[sportschick]

What we got here is failure to communicate
Some men you just can't reach
So you get what we had here last week
Which is the way he wants it
Well, he gets it

(least I think that's how it goes)

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

From my so-called blog, where I have recently had fun obsessing far too much about misquoted movie lines:

The writers at "Saturday Night Live" got it right when they came up with one of my favorite sketches in the show's history. It came in the fifth season, on April 19, 1980. Strother Martin, who played the Captain in "Cool Hand Luke," was guest host of this SNL and played an angry taskmaster of a headmaster of a French language camp for children. Bill Murray and Gilda Radner played young campers, and when Murray's stubborn character (Luc?) refused to say "The cat is small" en francais, Strother Martin's character punished him in a cruel-hand, Cool Hand Luke sort of way.

Then, of course, came the punchline.

"What we've got here is failure to communicate ... bilingually."

 

[OTD]

From my so-called blog, where I have recently had fun obsessing far too much about misquoted movie lines:

The writers at "Saturday Night Live" got it right when they came up with one of my favorite sketches in the show's history. It came in the fifth season, on April 19, 1980. Strother Martin, who played the Captain in "Cool Hand Luke," was guest host of this SNL and played an angry taskmaster of a headmaster of a French language camp for children. Bill Murray and Gilda Radner played young campers, and when Murray's stubborn character (Luc?) refused to say "The cat is small" en francais, Strother Martin's character punished him in a cruel-hand, Cool Hand Luke sort of way.

Then, of course, came the punchline.

"What we've got here is failure to communicate ... bilingually."

Don't forget the part about when Murray escapes, they chase him with French poodles instead of hounds. Classic.

"When addressing guards, you shall not use the informal tu form. Anyone that doesn't use the vu form, gets a night in the box."

 

[shockey]

Yep, and I think I owe you a beer. You just made it under the wire.

Or do I owe her?

you owe her. but she's not an easy drunk.

 

[BYH]

Yep, and I think I owe you a beer. You just made it under the wire.

Or do I owe her?

you owe her. but she's not an easy drunk.

And Shockey would know. He had to take out a second loan during those NFL meetings just to convince her to go out on a date with him! <------------******* dickhead!!!

 

[joe]

"Callin' it your job don't make it right, boss."
Mellonhead cribbed it for "Rain on the Scarecrow," of course.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

I had to run for a few minutes but got back for the final hour or so of the movie.

Great cast.

Interesting to see a young Dennis Hopper in such an anonymous role. Newman, well, he's the man.

The girl washing the car scene is awesome. George Kennedy's pugilistic skills. Stroter Martin. You name it.

Of course Strother Martin's last film, I believe, was the second Cheech and Chong flick, when he looked up and told Chong, "Oh my god, I think he's the Anti-Christ ... If you don't straighten up we're gonna send you to military school, with that Finkelstein **** Kid."

I'm told there's a punk band in L.A. called the Finkelstein **** Kids.

 

[Ledbetter]

I had to stop and watch the egg scene. This is one of my dad's all-time favorite films.

 

[hondo]

Actually, my favorite Stother Martin line of the movie was when Luke reported to the camp and he looked as his record on the front porch of the house. Then he read Luke offense: "Cuttin' the haids awf pahkin metahs....We've nevuh had one of those those."