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Funny scenes you had to rewind

posted 14 years ago by musicstardust67
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I love the scene in which leona gets off the phone with her psychiatrist and she yells "LIARS, LIARS, LIARS!" while sobbing lmao

[–] cluvonj 14 years ago

I crack up when she is talking on the phone to that Evans character and after he tells all these 5 things for her to write down he says now read it back to me. She says "Read it back to you, are you insane, can't you tell I'm a very sick woman". It just cracks me up.

[–] bron-tay 12 years ago

How many times in this show is some helpful person trying to give her information only to be rewarded with "ARE YOU INSANE??!!! What does bridge have to do with it? I can't read it back to you! Why are you calling me and telling me these crazy things about my husband? Are you the Waldo Evans who's been trying to call my husband all week -- my husband whom I'm trying to find out about right now? Well get off the phone, I'm waiting for a call from my husband!"

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[–] cluvonj 12 years ago

haha yeah the dialogue is just so hysterical. I just listened to the radio show with Agnes Moorehead and there are some other lines different that also crack me up such as when she tells the Operator they are stupid and she calls the police on the phone an idiot. Also in the movie the operator tells Leona she can dial the number herself and she says "Dial it, i will do no such thing, I don't even know the number." Or something kind of like that.

[–] IFeedPigeons 12 years ago

My favorite = after hearing the intial call between the murderers, once they hang up, Leona actually shakes the phone receiver rather manically, as if that will help in any way in getting it back. I laugh every time.

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[–] cluvonj 12 years ago

So funny to read this comment because I just watched that scene and I laughed when she was shaking the phone but then I am laughing through most of the scenes when she is on the phone in the bed.

[–] heyteegs 11 years ago

I'm laughing just reading the thread.

[–] geoffzman04 10 years ago

That's good writing.

double entendre i.e. humorous in this case.

also, a good release for the audience who's on the edge of their seat.

Barbara was just amazing

[–] !!!deleted!!! (61489496) 10 years ago

The honeymoon scenes. They both look so awkward, pretending to be happy.

[–] movies789 9 years ago

The scene where Henry drives Leona in her car to the dead-end overlooking a housing development. In the right-hand drive foreign car, he's seated on the right; she's next to him, on a narrow bench seat, on his left. After some small talk, Leona reaches across Henry, ostensibly to toss a cigarette out his window. Henry grabs her by the shoulders, twists her farther to his right to face him, and leans over to kiss her. With no spare space for her legs to shift position, poor Leona's spine must have twisted like a corkscrew to complete the maneuver - unless she did a quick off-camera turn to her left, then leaned back across Henry's lap. With MY back, watching that scene made me scream a sympathetic "ouch!"