my favourite line, how about you? - Bringing Down the House (2003) Discussion

[–] eternal_celestiality 21 years ago

When Howie gets his hair braided, he looks in the mirror at himself and says, "Holla' at ya' boy." LOL

When Peter was leaving his firm, he spots Ashley coming out of an office. He approaches her and says, "Ashley, who are you doing here?"

Funny movie.

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[–] butterfinger 21 years ago

yzarcmai, you are the first person--besides me and my family--who has noticed how racist this film is.

"I really do have love to give. I just dont know where to put it."

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[–] chocobobuk 21 years ago

My favourite line was wen Steve Martin saw Ashley and sed "Ashley, who r u doing here?", I also like the old lady "I do believe im completely stoned". They were great.

I don't c how this film is racist???

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[–] msultan 21 years ago

I thought this movie was pretty racist too. I'm not sure if racist is actually the word I'm looking for, but I would be insulted if I were Black. But I think that "that's the point," ultimately: line up people and pretend you're changing their minds (and the world). Eugene Levy was pathetic, I do think he was the worst. I don't like the way American bourgeoisie was made to interact with African American culture.

This being said, I liked two line: "I do believe I'm stoned" and "Ashley, who are you doing?"

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[–] Rocketmanfruitloop 21 years ago

Ashlee: Compliments of Tae-Bo 2hrs a day 5 days a week
Charlene: Compliments of the hood 24 hrs a day al my life!

"Some advice, okay? Just don't point your *beep*' finger at crazy people!"-Girl, Interrupted

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[–] Rocketmanfruitloop 21 years ago

Also this one:

Charlene Morton: Bitch! I will kick the bulimia outta yo' ass!
Ashley: Back off, Shaniquah!

"Some advice, okay? Just don't point your *beep*' finger at crazy people!"-Girl, Interrupted

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[–] camille_bailey 21 years ago

I have a lot of fav. lines from this movie, a lot of them has been used, but one that hasen't been used is when Peter was talking to charlene *sp* and he was like..my daugthers going places, and charlene looked out the window and was like "Shes going places alright", i thought that was pretty funny.

"You Can't Make A Person Love You, You Can Only Stalk Them And Hope For The Best".-CB-

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[–] Ruthmi0624 21 years ago

My favorite line is " you got me straight boo".

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[–] dbogosian 21 years ago

You got me straight trippen boo

And when Eugene Levy says to the old lady "you've got me all shaken up" or something to that effect to the old lady while driving to find Peter.

This movie is NOT racist/ Please get over yourselves, if anything its the OPPOSITE of racist, that uptight white people who have everything but are emotionally non-existant a singly career-driven, need to feel the beat and go with the flow and free their minds.

I'm sick of this ignorant everything is racist attitude that permeates anything thats Politically Incorrect.

You think Queen Latifah would be in a movie that was racist, c'mon give me a BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[–] travelbug89 19 years ago

Racism has been really blown out of proportion recently. People think anything where jokes about race are made is racist. But that's why its called a joke. Political Correctness is screwing over the USA

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[–] blu-dude 21 years ago

My favorite line was "The End".

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[–] dbogosian 21 years ago

Stop trolling this board dvddude 13 and go fight for a cause, besides your "I'm the final word on what's good and bad" cause.

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[–] Misa_Malone 13 years ago

LOL

God is real. Atheists don't exist

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[–] mix-3 21 years ago

The best one for me was pretty close to the end, when Howie was holding the gun straight, and Charlene was behind him and said "who's got the gun now", then turned Howie's hand to make it look "tougher" and said again, who's got the gun now. It was actually an easy thing to miss, but one that I really felt was close to perfection in its subtlety.

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[–] P-a-C 20 years ago

One of my favorites was near the end of the movie the lady comes out wiping her lips. Steve said "Who are you doing now?"

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[–] JosephLee411 20 years ago

I think it was on a deleted scene, or maybe not but at one point Charlene refers to Peter's neighbor Mrs. Kline and Mrs. Klan.

Anything Peter says to Ashley had me rolling.

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[–] honey51127 20 years ago

steve martin: so she bitch slapped him?

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[–] CHARLENEJEANLOUIS 20 years ago

When Steve's boss Tobias or something like that goes up to Charlene and he says "Listen....SISTER" in a mocking way. And then , "Why don't you take your little JUNGLE FEVER (While snapping his fingers in a mocking black person way) back to Sanderson before I call the cops?"

And when Steve says, "Maybe I should get security. No she could probably take 'em."
"I'm not humping my nanny." The way he says it.
Then he's all trying to explain. "Guys, we were moving a statue and we lost our footing and we fell!"

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[–] deckcadet 20 years ago

i love everything Mrs. Klein said....
"Those.. latin people who were skulking about earlier....... Casing it?.....oh if one of them's on this block without a leaf blower..."
"Is everything ok? I thhought I heard NEGRO!"
"You look like a fag.."

and of course there was the part where Mrs. Arnez is there at the club and charlene had come in and he's all don't you love being our nanny charlene?
and she says:
"Yizzow....I thinks ah'll go down to de pool wit de chillun....come on chillun lets make fun of de white folks in heuh" all like she's some old slave maid in charge of de chillun in the 1840s or something.

And I'll always remember THE SONG...
"Momma....Is massa gonna sell us tomorrow?
YES....YES....YEES

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[–] Amethyst20 20 years ago

you all say it's racist, but no offense to black people, but black people talk about white people (take white chicks for example - white people are constantly being made fun of). It seems that society has accpeted black people calling whites, but if it's the other way round, then black people have a right mardy. i'm not racist, but it really does my head in.

and it's not as if charlene didn't call white people in this film...

"if i did, it's to wipe up the WHITE trash"

thisw film isn't racist. and if it was, dont you think queen latifah would have had something to say about it?

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[–] shootingSTARdncr 20 years ago

I do agree with you with the fact that black people get offended at black jokes and then do the same thing and talk about whites or any other race for that matter. As a black female, I get really upset whenever ANY race joke is made or something politically incorrect is said. Of course, I feel I'm a minority in that situation. (No pun intended.)

However, I feel that in the case of this board and all the talk of racism, it's mostly white who are saying that this film is racist to blacks. Am I mistaken? I know that all of my black friends who saw this movie thought it was absolutely hilarious. That of course is part of the contribution to the problem: Black people can make jokes about black people, but if someone outside of our race does, all hell breaks loose.

Has anyone on this board seen the musical Avenue Q? One of the lines in the song, Everyone's a Little Bit Racist states, "Ethnic jokes might be uncouth, but you laugh because they're based on truth." People tend to take this attitude whenever race jokes are made. I'm not saying it's right, but there really is no way to solve the problem. Everything is based on stereotypes, which generally are created because a majority of people have acted a specific way or done a specific thing.

By the way, everyone should go check out the Avenue Q lyrics. Here's a link to that entire song here: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/avenueq/everyonesalittlebitracist.htm

I feel like I'm going to get attacks because I posted the link to that song. So I'm going to explain this right now. The song is a SATIRE. Much like this entire movie is a SATIRE. The dictionary definition of a satire is a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

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[–] tintinkg 20 years ago

guys can you please help me?
for what reason did steve's wife come back so early from her vacation?
i couldnt get that part and its bugging me?

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[–] ruuuuudiii 20 years ago

What about Arnez's song?

Mama, is master gonna sell us tomorrow?
Yes, yes, yeeeeees
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That was ridiculous.

Anything said by Betty White or Eugene Levy.

Also, Queen Latifah was the first to sign up to do this movie, helped produce it and gave loads of advice along the way. Do you guys REALLY think she would let the movie be racist, especially after coming off Chicago? C'mon guys, get over it, you look like fags.

Joe Bless You!

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[–] lmoonracer22 16 years ago

ruuuuudiii! Yes Yes Yes!!! I caught it on tv yesterday , I have seen it a few times whatever BUT I never realized Arnez's song oh my so so insane & as she is singing it then she says everyone join in DAMM thats ROOTS words WOW!!!

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[–] tintinkg 20 years ago

guys can you please help me?
for what reason did steve's wife come back so early from her vacation?
i couldnt get that part and its bugging me?

come on guys

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[–] xmasinafrica031 20 years ago

My Favourite line is when Charlene first meets Peter and she's having the conversation with him, and especially when she says 'Somebody's plannin on gettin' some booty tonight' and she does the whole 'bum shake' thing. Or, when she is at Mrs Arness' house and she punches the gay colleauge of Peter's.
Also, they way she teaches Peter to have sex, and she's like 'Man, B*tches don't care nothing 'bout that s*it', or when she goes to Peters office and says 'Oh Peter. I absolutley love what you've done to this place, it's so bland, so sterile, so wonderful'.
She's awesome.

Queen Latifah is VERY talented. If she thought this movie was racist, I don't think she would've agreed to play the role of Charlene. Because they read the script before they actually agree to film.

IT'S NOT RACIST!!!

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[–] lilgrnmnstr-1 19 years ago

They never really said why she came back early but it is implied that she wasn't having a good time...didn't belong with that guy and wanted Peter back and that was probably the reason she came back early. At least I got that impression when she was with Ashley at the club and they saw Peter and Charlene there.

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[–] kimdragonchild 17 years ago

She told him: "There were bears. They were eating the campers"

A great line came from Howie: He, Charlene, Mrs. Arnez and the dog were in the car. When Mrs. Arnez called Charlne a "whore", Howie told her to "watch
it or you'll be gumming your bubble and squeak!"

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[–] angelofvic 17 years ago

And I'll always remember THE SONG...
"Momma....Is massa gonna sell us tomorrow?
YES....YES....YEES

God, that has to be the most hilarious part of the movie. Hysterical.

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