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CalvinValjean — 15 years ago(October 21, 2010 01:10 PM)

I enjoyed this movie a lot, but there's one thing I have to nitpick about.
Towards the end, John Cleese is waiting impatiently for Ken to stutter out the name of the hotel the others have gone to, and the scene just goes on and on. Two issues with this:

  1. The entire time I watched this I kept thinking "Just write it down! Just ask him to write it down!" I can't believe it honestly takes John Cleese's character close to two full minutes of screen time before it finally dawns on him to ask Ken to just write down the name of the hotel. That would have been the first thing to occur to me as soon as I found out the guy stuttered.
  2. In the very next scene, we see Ken taking John Cleese to the hotel on his motorcycle. So he didn't even need to waste time telling him the name of the hotel! Ken could have just gestured "follow me" without even speaking and taken him there immediately.
    Thus the whole scene is really pointless.
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As an Englishman it would have been rude for Cleese to ask him to write it down. Far more polite to be patient.

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But the list of things you point out is what makes it so funny.

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Three words:
Rule of Funny
The Falcon flies

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Yes, it is absurd, practically Pythonesque!!!!
What were 2 members of MPFC thinking when they did that?

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Relaxed, sat on your sofa watching the film, it's easy to say "Why didn't they do this? It's so obvious!", but think in the context of the film: both were frantic, didn't know one another, Ken had just been tortured. The scene was entirely consistent with the characters and the pacing.

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But it was so funny!
The first time I watched the movie, I laughed hysterically at this scene. The two of them together create perfect comedy.
I think they included it because it offered a great situation set up for laughter.

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