Was the flag that funny?
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pouncemo — 13 years ago(February 19, 2013 03:04 PM)
Oddly, I saw this same discussion, about a loud, inappropriate laugh from Steve McQueen in "The Thomas Crown Affair". Same discussion.
I admit that I wondered if a subtle laugh or smirk would have been more effective. But we wouldn't be talking about it now if it had been subtle. It was jarring and obnoxious. Perfect. -
Zando777 — 13 years ago(February 20, 2013 07:43 AM)
The thought is still inconceivable and un-american, even with president beep temporarily in office. (The U.S. is far more globally dominant today than it was in 1968.)
The joke was more the fact that even if the U.S. still existed, no one else was ever likely to know the flag has been planted there. They were knocked off course, many light years from earth and their charted destination. -
ChuckHestonFan — 13 years ago(February 20, 2013 05:02 PM)
Actually, Heston does this laugh in almost every film he does. Omega Man, this one, etc.
That's quite an impressive exaggeration.
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moviemarathoneverynight — 12 years ago(June 25, 2013 10:09 AM)
it was so annoying that he had to mock landon..anyway, for me the flag was funny because it was so small and cute
haha that's the reason I laughed.. the other two were talking about something important while he was planting that flag in a very careful way..it was touching and funny at the same time.. ^_^ -
wears-alan — 12 years ago(June 25, 2013 10:44 AM)
I always thought Taylor was thinking "Here we are on an unknown planet some 2000 years from home with no chance of getting back and this fvcking idiot is planting a flag"!!!!
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saturnchick — 12 years ago(July 19, 2013 09:38 PM)
Yes, quite a maniacal laugh that felt totally overdone and out of place. I was sorry that they hadn't the forethought to give Heston a Professor Hinkle-esque mustache so he could twirl it.
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Kawada_Kira — 11 years ago(June 05, 2014 11:58 PM)
Because it was so stupid in so many ways, which have been elucidated on this thread. Here they were on another planet hundreds of light years away (or so they thought), 2,000 years after they had set off, and this guy was planting the flag of a country that was extremely unlikely to still exist, and even if it did still exist nobody would give a damn because (again, as far as they knew at the time) it was a small portion of some speck of a planet far off in the universe. Like, imagine if at this very moment, right now as you're reading this, three dudes are appearing on some faraway planet and one of them is planting a flag of the Roman Republic. Think about the absurdity of that for a second.
And in any case, regardless of whether the US would still exist or not, they were just three guys on some unknown planet so how absurd is it to still care about countries anyway? Showing up on another planet is a great opportunity to see how stupid patriotism is and scrap the whole concept of countries, an artificial division between human beings. What would be the point of perpetuating that concept on another planet?
I thought the laugh was hilarious and really perfectly expressed just how absurd planting that flag was, as was the sentiment behind it. I'd have laughed too, and exactly the way he did.
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xcom-22-211813 — 11 years ago(June 07, 2014 09:29 AM)
Because when little Tommy looks up in to the sky at night, he knows that somewhere, light-years from home, stands an American, with the courage and determination to raise the stars and stripes and bring freedom across the galaxy.
God Bless the United States of America
(f/22-A's fly overhead while national anthem plays)