“You Can't Handle the Truth!” Scene - A Few Good Men (1992) Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson 

還是以前沒有華麗特效的電影 觸動人心🥺

Good acting too. Would be the best script. But if you have a shitey delivery it's useless.

Makes me eyes burn, we don't do that. That's a army thing saluting indoors like he does. Marines only salute on duty when reporting and wearing a cover. Never without it, ever. If he did want to look like a Marine, he would come to the position of attention, Caffey being a officer in the navy that are trained to work with and support Marines, he is a new officer after all. Would acknowledge this gesture of respect, he would then tell him to dismiss. A informal handshake might be offered by Caffey, as per protocol.

Probably best line in any movie that decade

And it turns out, he could handle the truth.

Probably????? it is!!!!

One of the best lines from any movie

Probably????!!!

Which shows how little we should put stock in such glorified circle jerks

Only because it was the same year that Gone With The Wind came out.

@@dclipper8052bro what?

​@@dclipper8052 Nah, it wasn't going to beat Bikini Beach Race. That movie was too good.

you got that right it's a down right travesty. great performance

haha

Ya, exactly what Tom Cruise said in the movie.

Thank you Captain Obvious!

One could say his pride was his hurbis

@@ebbyc1817 Tragic, but nevertheless true.

These Marines should not been kick out because the orders came from a Senior Commission Officer. Now they should have been reduced in rank & fines but gotten a dishonored discharge.

@@josephmelton5302 True.

No other actor alive could've played Jessup.

He did that speech in one take!

Gene Hackman would've been my second choice

@nicksterj I don't know about Jon Voight or Tommy Lee Jones, Harris played a Marine General in The Rock, But I his name, his last name was Thompson (he played in hunt for red October and die hard 2) he could have played Jessup as well as Hackman

@nicksterj I don't either, so Nicholson or Hackman is still the best choices I guess

Demi Moore is such a superb actress. The exchange of looks between her and Cruise tells a whole story in three seconds. Such great acting!

Colonel was a fanatical crazy little bast...rd that was impossible to think about

That wouldn’t happen like that because his anger took over him

They actually talked about this in a movie.

- Colonel Jessep, did you order the code red?! - maybe Credits roll.... Col. Nathan Jessep will return...

@@tommos1 his selfishness and anger took over him

He also would have gotten away with murder

Like a typical Marine officer his ego supersedes his common sense.

​@@yomamashouse85082024 army are only doing it for the money and 3 meals a day. There are no wars right now. It's so sad everyone calls them hero

It goes even further back than that. When Kaffee asked "When Lieutenant Kendrick spoke to the platoon and ordered them not to touch Santiago, any chance they ignored him?", the answer which would have gotten Jessup off the hook would have been "Yeah, those two guys over there ignored Kendrick and disobeyed a direct order." But Jessup's ego wouldn't allow him to claim that something happened on his base which wasn't explicitly ordered by him.

If some ahole tries to remake this IM GONNA ORDER A CODE RED!

Hard disagree. I for one think this scene would be vastly improved with some unfoldable CGI helmets and some uncanny valley CGI face replacement on 2 random characters.

@@Fbiguy Maybe we have the courtroom in zero gravity?

@@phild8095 I think also in order to make these incredible monologues less boring for the modern audience, we need to intesperse them with quips. "You can't handle the truth!" "That's not what your wife said last night!"

Agreed

Spot on. I need him as a villain again like Collateral

Only Tom Cruise could drive Jack Nicholson CRAZY!!❤😂❤😂❤😂

They should do another movie set in the present with this cast again. Just need the right story and script. Would love to see Cruise and Pollack and Bacon work together again

@@tylerbarclay629 Do you agree that Tom Cruise is more famous than Tobin Bell?

@@Mike-g6m7o lol yeah I’d say so

It could've been worse.

@@ChrisTownsend98 No, it couldn't have been. A dishonorable discharge is the equivalent of a death sentence. In those days not even MacDonalds would hire someone with a dishonorable discharge from the military.

To be fair, Jessup did it to himself. He opened his big mouth and admitted the one thing that proved his guilt beyond the shadow of a doubt.

@@sodasaintcommentaries4054 That's literally what randy was describing, yes.

That's a good thing though, I think people would mistakenly think that's a bad thing from your post, although you may not have intended it that way

​@sodasaintcommentaries4054 But what made the scene such a great character study is that EVERYONE knows that admitting he ordered the code red would sink Jessup...... EXCEPT JESSUP. After the fact, he can't believe he's being charged with a crime. He gave an order, and that's the end of it. Everything else, the cover-up, the trial is all BS to him. Kaffee cottoned onto this and was able to put Jessup in a place where he just wants to say and do what he wants, by ordering him to sit down, by treating him with no redirect, by making him feel stupid by repeating previous testimony, like a child. By then, Jessup's had enough of the crap. He just wants to say what happened and go back to being the boss. Brilliant.

Bullshit

Correct. One understood but the other did not. Yes you follow orders, but you are not obligated to follow unlawful orders.

Got that right

Ya it was. Stop thinking so much, go eat some ice cream.

@@BNatoAk sort of, they don't really say why it was wrong to follow the order, particularly in a career where following orders are expected. He just says "we were supposed to protect Santiago and leaves it at that..as a veteran I understood what they did was wrong from that view point, but some civilians may not understand that we don't follow all orders blindly. Everyone though understands that what they did was wrong.

I would ask all of you brave super-heroes what would you do if you were to follow this order? Hmmm? How many of you would refuse to execute? Well, come on, none of you? I would follow the order, MY LIFE is more important than HONOR. I don't give Damn about honor!

Do you agree that Tom Cruise is more famous than Tobin Bell?

Yes I was as stiff as a broom handle watching this video.

Burocracy, plain and simple.

Because it had some stiff competition that year. Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven ended up winning that year. Both were great films that just happened to come out the same year.

"the 'witness' is EXCUSED!!!" whoa, BURRRN!

"This witness will address this court as judge, or your honor. I believe I've earned it".😂😂😂😂😂😂

Semper 😘

"piss in your dead skull"

@@jeromerizzo423 "I'm quite certain I've earned it. Take your seat, Colonel."

NO! Jack yes.

Both are frfr gotta give these men their flowers 🌺

Jessup is a Vietnam vet, he genuinely does believe there is a threat from communist Cuba. However for Jessup it is less of a genuine concern for the wellbeing of US citizens and more of a justification for him to be unduly harsh & exploitative with his subordinates without facing consequences.

Also this was the early 90s, the cold war was still very fresh in movie age goers minds.​@Fbiguy

It's actually great how real-life made Jessup's claims of being the protector of America even less sense when claiming the Cubans will kill them all, like how he claims them taking potshots at officers, when in reality they would do no such thing as even why would they invite that kind of trouble?

His tie is still there, it's just tucked under his left collar. But you're right, it wasn't like that just a cut-scened second ago.

..And I Must Add.. Demi Moore... Absolutely Gorgeous.. Nuff Said 💘💘

It's there, look to the right of the shirt button, there's 2 more layers of khaki next to the jacket lapel.