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

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????!!!

No other actor alive could've played Jessup.

He did that speech in one take!

Gene Hackman would've been my second choice

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

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?

@@Julia25120 lol yeah I’d say so

Ya, exactly what Tom Cruise said in the movie.

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

It could've been worse.

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

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

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

He also would have gotten away with murder

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

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

Semper 😘

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.

I seen the film "Hoffa".... Nicholson was good in it especially the congressional scene between him and Bobby Kennedy......👍

Save life? What does he think he did? He killed/made kill a fellow soldier... if he wanted to get rid of him, why just not send him in battle in the first row and what has to happen, happens? Then he could have said "😭 The lad was an example of US finest men and defended his country whatever the price to pay. He will be remembered!". Defending one's country hardly means killing their own people, most of all if not in danger. And worst of all, he dragged these other two young soldiers. This is insane!

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.

You no truth handler youa

Dist thou engage in the ordering of the maneuver within the camp known as "Code Crimson?!" Wast thine order not "Code Crimson?!"

I’m sure his jaw is insured for millions lol

Uhhh okay sounds good buddy

Doesn't change anything. That was a different tack by the defense, that Santiago's death was an accident. Jessup's confession proves nothing one way or another in that regard, it only changes the responsibility for the assault. If Jessup ordered the Code Red, maybe his orders led to the rag being poisoned, or the use of an accidentally poisoned rag.

That was actually addressed. At the end of that scene Sam tells Jo "Don't worry about the doctor, his trial starts Monday."

@@Gunleaver You're wrong.

@@TK-593 Missed that. Thanks.

@@francus7227 Just because he's going to trial doesn't mean he doesn't have a good defense or that his diagnosis was maliciously wrong.

Pretty sure it's Sorkin trying to insinuate anti-Semitic motives where he can find a way to sneak it in. The more normal reaction would be to say it to Galloway, the lawyer most hostile to Jessup and blatantly the least capable combatant in the room, having not yet trained for GI Jane.

@@Gunleaver You are over reaching. No offence.

@@Gunleaver I agree with that. Plus I have read it was Sorkin.

@@mcbean1234 Then why did you alter your comment to include the antisemitism?

In other words, he has at least one redeeming quality.

And Kiefer Sutherland

Not as much as being convicted of murder would have done.

Absolute B.S. There's plenty of avenues in life that could care less. Most of them.... you could just never tell them you enlisted and it would be as if you hadn't.

Now they can actually live productive lives

@@jdorffer That's what I said. RU-vid blocking, again.

agreed, Its on one's DD-214's if they have served. Try getting a job, home mortgage, or getting accepted in school or a professional academic program. That will affect them.,