Crimes and Misdemeanors: clip 2

[billthestinker]

Alda did not have to act, he really is an ass

[Mathiasda]

"What is the guy so upset about? You'd think nobody was ever compared to Mussolini before."

[curak76]

The movie defiantly bends

[tmdpc]

Amazing scene. Incredible movie. Outstanding post.

Thank you!

[presleyj1]

I wish I could make a film about my old boss, intergecting Mussolini footage.

[danning1]

Was your boss a pompous ass? Sounds like it.

[presleyj1]

A bitch actually. And Mussolini is too kind. I say Hitler would be more approperiete/

[truthseeker1972]

Alan Alda sounds almost exactly like Howard Stern when he used to yell his staff on the air.

[captain07234]

Wasn't Alda's character based on the creator of the M*A*S*H* TV series who Allen and Alda worked with and couldn't stand?

[YoknapatawphaKid]

From what I've read, the character is based on Alda himself! Originally, Alda was set to have a very small part in "Crimes...," but Allen wanted to experiment with the character and perhaps give it more face time, so he asked Alda to improvise a character for him. Riffing on his old persona of a multi-Grammy winning actor and TV star, Alda's creation was so well received that Allen used it!

[kolst8406]

Was that Larry Gelbart? I thought they got along with each other.

[brcx300]

"I was lurking around the corner" LMAO

[djl4007]

this movie is brilliant brilliant...

[Antichrist4Life]

LOL! Amazing! I love Woody. That's one of his funniest scenes. Where'd he get that: "If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it isn't"?

[almadora]

comedy gold! "if it bends...!"

[ChevalierAguila]

My favorite part of the movie.

[corrupt200]

If it bends, it is funny. If it breaks, it isn't.

[randall2020]

I have the DVD, but I would like to see the scene at the family dinner where the atheist sister and the rabbi brother argue about god on youtube.

[proffromgview]

Unfortunately, that scene is written unevenly, with the brother getting lesser lines, less RATIONAL lines.  Woody's biases come out in that scene. I agree that that is a good scene, but it had FAR better potential

[randall2020]

I suppose it is very difficult to write rational lines for a point of view that is entirely irrational. Probably it did have more potential. But I liked the intervention of the other brother. He was the one that used "mumbo-jumbo" I think.

The scene with Judah talking about the murder with his criminal brother is also a good one.

[autoamerican79]

the comparison between Mussolini and Lester (Alan Alda) was the best i've ever seen, i've never laughed so much in my life!!

i've gotta see that movie, i'm a huge fan of both Alan Alda and Woody Allen!!

[olivemike81]

Great scene. I have to say Mussolini really looks like an idiot when he does that whole gesture thing at the end. No wonder the Italians did so poorly in WW2.

[artytoons]

The Mussolini comparison did it for me. "Il Duce!"

[kondurperu3]

This movie is great!

[michaej]

"deaden the sensibilities of a great democracy!" Loved that line!

[hrtonslv]

I remember seeing the horse say the "If it bends..." line for the first time and I think that was the hardest I had ever laughed at any scene in a movie.

[anblanco333]

ha ha, woody is truly a genious

[steveconn]

The best.

[weikko79]

This is certainly one of the funniest scenes in the film.

[chema81]

It's so good... I can't stop laughing! Really nice.

[Bachelorno3]

oh man, that is classic!

[OrangeCones]

This is one of my favorite scenes from "C&M." Thank you!