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'Christ Sake someone get a doctor!'

posted 12 years ago by QueenTessa
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I wanted to punch that punk ass bitch in the face. UGH!

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[–] suednim1960 12 years ago

Nonsense. He was grandstanding. He wanted the courtroom to think "oh, look, how compassionate he is. He's a good guy after all."

[–] Artdoag2 12 years ago

Well it went to show that Jason Robard's character was still professional in every instance. He was a guy who grew up successful and dominant and wealthy, had nerves of steel - after all he was the head of his law firm. Nevertheless, he was bigoted and once it was known that Andrew had HIV-AIDS, he panicked and conducted a ruse to fire him.

Even though his alpha-male, cold, holier-than-thou persona was why he was so successful, JR nevertheless wasn't an evil man and he woulndt have wanted to see his former associate down and injured. I thought it was a brilliant scene. Jason Robards was spectacular in this film.

[–] rosarypliers 12 years ago

I agree, the actor did an excellent job. The exclamation in the witness stand proved that Andrew was right when he explained why he admired Wheeler. He was a professional.

[–] coolbrett 12 years ago

yeah. I thought it was great they included that scene, cos I instantly knew he only said it to sound nice. Perfect for that character.

No expectations, no disappointments.

[–] gribfritz2 11 years ago

The amazing part is not one shred of evidence in the movie proved that they knew he had AIDS and fired him for that. Not one. Basically, one guy's word against several. Yet the bigshot rich lawyers are all imagined with horns and tails by the viewer. AND they lose 5mil. Anyway, even if I didn't like someone, I would not want them to die and would call for a doctor. I think you're all brainwashed into seeing everything and everyone in the world as black and white. Shades of gray do exist.

[–] temps_perdu 10 years ago

All 50 of them ;)

[–] averagejoeman2013 10 years ago

Agreed. Great post!

"We may never be able to marry. But with help, at least we can someday pretend to." Harvey Milk

[–] jgroub 9 years ago

That is incorrect. There is the evidence that Andy gives about having the four visible lesions on his face at the time he is fired.

Plus, there is a doctrine in law, which would have been well-explained to the jury, called falsus in uno. That means that if someone is lying about one thing, then they jury is free to assume that they are lying about everything.

When the jurors went to deliberate, they specifically discussed this - that the firm gave Andy their most important case. You don't give your most important case as a test to a loser. You give your most important case to the best lawyer you've got. The jurors know that. So they know that the firm is lying their asses off when they say that Andy got fired because he was incompetent. And the only other evidence presented in the case is that Andy was fired because the lesions led them to understand that he had full-blown AIDS.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.