Theme: Humor in film -- what makes me laugh:
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| Kid humor. |
So this post focuses on kids in films saying funny things to adults.
In Uncle Buck (1989) I get a kick out of Miles (Macaulay Culkin) telling his uncle (John Candy)...
MILES
You have much more hair
in your nose than my dad.
BUCK
How nice of you to notice.
MILES
I'm a kid, that's my job.
And I love it when little Maggie (Amber Scott) scolds Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) in Hook (1991)...
MAGGIE
You need a mother very, very badly!
When Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) wakes up in a different life and finds himself as a husband and father (The Family Man, 2000), it's precocious Annie (Makenzie Vega) who suspects an alien replaced her dad, but helps him anyway.
ANNIE
Do you like kids?
JACK
On a case-by-case basis.
ANNIE
Do you know how to make chocolate milk?
JACK
I think I could figure it out.
ANNIE
Promise you won't kidnap me and my
brother and plant stuff in our brains?
JACK
Sure.
ANNIE
Welcome to earth.
Have you heard a child say something funny? Please share!
I love that bit from Uncle Buck!
ReplyDelete"The Kid" with Bruce Willis is a wonderful film where a grown man, think age 40, is visited by his younger self, about age 8. Rusty, the 8 year old, says to his older self, "So, I'm forty, I'm not married, I don't fly jets, and I don't have a dog? I grow up to be a loser." There's a lot more snappy dialogue in this film, which is one of my favorite comedies.
ReplyDelete@Janet ... That is a fun bit, huh! The film has a lot of catchy dialogue.
ReplyDelete@Sue ... I love The Kid! The verbal exchanges between Russ and Rusty were funny (and enlightening). I also loved Lily Tomlin's character, Janet. She had some great lines.
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