Great thread, great movie!
Among many previously mentioned parts and qualities, really enjoyed when the prosecutor is making the point about his business acumen re: the botched investment, when she says something like, "your honors, for the record, the Casio corporation is one of the largest timepiece manufactures in the Universe", and the white haired judge extends his wrist to display his own watch (almost the same move as flipping the bird) with a deadpan look in his eyes, drily saying, "I know who they are."
Then she follows up with, "and for the record, your honors, his original investment of ten thousand dollars would be worth 37.2 million today", his substitute defender says "Wow!", and the prosecutor chuckles.
Oh, and his defender being stuck at the "inner circle of thought"! "I don't understand..."
"I like to watch" Chauncey Gardiner, 'Being There'
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ItsEnricoPalazzo
17 years ago
For example I use 48% of my brain. Do you know how much you use?
Hmm, I don't know. 47?
and the Welcome Kiwanis dead sign is pretty funny
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Gofannon467
17 years ago
To me, Rip Torn makes this movie! Pretty much everything Bob Diamond says is hilarious. Some of my faves:
"Glad you could make it, Leonard."
"I hope, Ms. Foster, you realize that it's awfully hard to be a brilliant public speaker when you're lying dead in the snow!"
Diamond: "Maybe Ms. Foster is the type of person who likes to hit first and ask questions later, but we're not all that way."
Foster: "I resent that!"
Diamond: (under his breath) "Ha!"
And for a non-Diamond scene, I love it when the "All Nude" guy tells how he died and the sushi chef busts out laughing....and that look Daniel gives him. Classic!!
But I've gone on long enough. In the words of Bob Diamond:
"Psst! Wrap it up."
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