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'That's rice'

posted 14 years ago by novastar_6
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Does anybody else laugh at that line? I don't know why but for some reason I think it's the delivery of it, that just makes it funny.

[–] ChuckHestonFan 14 years ago

I'm afraid I don't even remember that line in the movie. When is it being said?

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[–] novastar_6 14 years ago

When Thorn goes to ask about a bodyguard and his 'furniture', a black woman in a very short red robe is in the apartment instead, and as Thorn's talking to her he goes through some of the food in the kitchen and picks up a ziploc bag of rice and she tells him 'that's rice' and he says 'I know, I've seen it before'.

[–] ChuckHestonFan 14 years ago

Oh, now I remember it. Don't recall ever laughing at that line though.

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[–] sylvia67 14 years ago

she says it kinda snooty, like Thorn would be too dumb to know what rice is...

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[–] hogwouth 12 years ago

I remembered that line too.
In my opinion, we're meant to find that amusing because rice is such a cheap food in our world. Yet, she condescends to thorn by informing him it's rice, like he's too poor to have ever seen it.
She's acting like a snob over food that we'd leave to the pigs.

Well what use are MY brains if I'm tied up with a dumb clunk like you!

[–] tlm557 8 years ago

No... all real foods were luxury items, they had already made that clear earlier in the movie.

[–] rndgurl-971-654277 8 years ago

Martha acted like she wasn't really a possession, furniture, she says "I have been with him (Chuck Conners character) for 4 years." she considers herself a girlfriend, not furniture...

[–] chiluvr1228 8 years ago

I thought she was a guy in drag every time she appeared on screen.

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