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10 FUNNIEST Bergman moments. Any more?


Even in Bergman's starkest films, there are hilarious moments. Here are 10. Can you think of others? (I'm making a compilation film).

1. WILD STRAWBERRIES. Engineer argues with wife about her cancer vs his Catholicism. She smacks him in the face (with eyeglasses) at least 10 times, HARD.
2. CRIES AND WHISPERS. After mutilating herself with broken glass, Ingrid Thulin paints a smile with her blood on her face to arouse her boring husband.
3. SILENCE. A boy wanders into a roomful of midgets, who put a dress on him. He doesn't resist because he actually ENJOYS wearing it.
4. TO JOY. Aspiring young musician Stig Olin finally gets his one-in-a-lifetime big chance at a Mendelssohn violin solo. He blows it, BIG TIME. (Liv Ullmann murders Chopin Prelude in AUTUMN SONATA, to the delight of Ingrid Bergman.)
5. DREAMS. In a hotel room, Eva Dahlbeck is humilated by the wife of her secret lover. When the wife leaves, the lover returns to Eva. Eva is thrilled. He only came back to retrieve his lost hat.
6. SHIP TO INDIA. Holgen Lowenadler is blind, and asks a cop if a window is nearby. Cop dutifully obliges him. Holgen dives out of window head first.
7. SERPENT'S EGG. Carradine visits den of whores. Male whore warns Carradine that one of the female whores has "fangs in her cu@t. A man can DIE in THERE!"
8. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE. Liv Ullman cries on the phone telling a friend about her husband's extramarital affair and departure. The friend says she (and other friends) knew about it. Liv slams down the phone in anger: "SOME FRIENDS...SOME FRIENDS!".
9. PASSION. Liv Ullmann is in a toolshed praying for Erik Hell, who committed suicide. Von Sydow sees this and scolds her: "Goddamn lousy acting!"
10. PERSONA. Bibi Andersson's torture of Liv Ullman actually begins in the hospital, where she forces Liv to listen to soap operas on the radio.

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In The seventh seal when the death cut the tree...

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I enjoy the way Bergman uses humor also, but I can't think of anything specific right now.



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FINALLY,somebody else points it out!when i saw the "slut" at the end i was initially startled,and then grew to find it very funny,and maybe even apt in an unintended way...

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While Elis compulsively takes photograph after photograph of an uneasy Andreas, Elis offers him a whiskey.

Elis says, "...or, is this too early?". Andreas replies, "not today".

But, this dark film is filled with so many examples of characteristic Bergman humor.

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Another funny bit occurred at the end of Passion of Anna.

As Andreas gets enraged at Anna, and to vent his rage, he frantically splits chunks of wood on a tree stump using an axe. The first images of the chopping are tight close-ups of Andreas' face and of the axe head striking the larger pieces of wood.

Finally, a surprising medium shot shows a VERY HUGE pile of smaller split wood around that stump. It would have taken Andreas at least half an hour to create that much wood debris, but Andreas had been shown chopping for only a few seconds.

Bergman played a visual joke on his actor and on his audience.

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Hour of the wolf when Max Von Sydow slaps the therapist :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoFSUQQMaXo&list=UUR-ecsCdKKK2MGhqgf0M_tA&index=23
Also the scene someone mentioned from Seventh seal, cutting of the tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs1RNLLiHu4&index=17&list=UUR-ecsCdKKK2MGhqgf0M_tA

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