A Few Good Men: You Have to Ask Me Nicely (Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson Scene) 

Hes a great actor because he an arsehole in life

According to show-biz lore, Jack Nicholson was paid $500,000 a day for a 10-day shooting schedule. I know that's a lot of money, but I have to say that Jack earned every dollar.

He stole every scene he was in, intimidating as hell.

There are some heavy hitters in that scene, all the way around.

Are they all scientologists?

The 5 grams of cocaine makes his spine shiver too

Hmm cause there is nothing to get chills from. See Nicholsons character is very obvious and easy do anticipate. He is the prototype of a military man, a general who is very patriotic, who has his own way, a rather medieval way, of protecting a country and running his unit and doing his job. He believes only in his world and whenever someone from the outside disrupts that world, he changes his tune and behaves like a predator. He defends his world and his mindset and thus he tries to be indimitading. And if you know all that, you can easily handle such a person cause you know pretty much that he is blowing hot air. The navy folks are an investigative authority, they can demand whatever they need and the general has no say in it but has to comply, end of story. So jessup can play tough all day, at the end of the day, he is powerless. So, nothing, but really nothing about hive gives me chills haha. My im slightly arrogant but If I knew that on paper, I have authority, he could try to do all tricks he has, I'd ignore them.

@@adennis200 I know you said he’s “a prototype of a military man” then called him a general.. he’s playing a colonel.

Because its not that great for that to happen anyone of us, hence why it doesn't 😅

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My bad

Respectfully, sir, why do you think that is so? I have always believed that Marines are taught to respect themselves and others. Thank you for your service and for considering my question.

And do you know what MARINE stands for? My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment. They wouldn't exist were it not for the navy!

LmO​@@TheAquaMammal

@@TheAquaMammalWell I was in the Army we have own airline It’s called the Air Force

It should also be pointed out that when Kaffe asks Kendrick if he can call him John, Kendrick replies, “No, you may not”. Lt. Kendrick is a second lieutenant and Kaffe is. Lt. Junior Grade, which means Kaffe outranks Kendrick. The movie makes it seem like Kendrick is superior in rank to Kaffe, but that is not true. Also, there is no such charge as “Conduct unbecoming of a United States Marine”. There is a “Conduct unbecoming an officer” charge which I believe Captain Ross mentions to Kaffe.

Damn straight.

IMHO, you are correct!

Jack always does a flawless performance

Yep! He was still carrying that "Wait until they get a load of me" around! Dude is Bad To The Bone!

Kaffee was riding the wave of Joanne's courage. Her chutzpuh enabled him to ever so briefly step into his. For me it came down to, not a few good men, but one amazing woman who saw Kaffee's greatness and made demands on it. I wish to become like her who draws the best out of people (minus the constant insults). LOL

​@@MyishaJBif you haven't gotten a blowj0b from a senior officer, you're just letting the best in life pass you by

Good one, Columbo move. 😂

Completely disagree with this. What you’re seeing here is a killer, a marine, a leader… who’s just tired of this whole process. He doesn’t respect cruise, his character, and looks at him like as a weak, beta desk jockey. The way in which Cruise’s character just dismissively, disrespectfully says he “needs” the file is the last straw. Nicholsons explosion of anger is a reminder to Cruise of who the real man is. Who the alpha is. It has nothing to do with being caught off guard. It has to do with a fucking navy lawyer coming at a decorated US Marine. Hence the comment about the uniform and the Harvard mouth. End of story Cruise didn’t catch him off guard. He has already told him he’d get access to the file earlier in the convo. This is simply the straw that broke the camels back. He had been respectful to Cruise to this point, and cruise broke the civility first. The “your goddam right I did” /“you can’t handle the truth) later in the movie confirm this. Grew up with a Marine infantry LT as a dad. I can confirm he loved the accuracy with which Nicholson portrayed old school Marines

@@illgiveyathetick you got that right. It wasn't a Columbo move at all. Kaffee had just involuntarily triggered Jessup with his attitude. This led to that brief moment of humiliation, but also exposed Jessup's fatal flaw: his pride.

Everyone towers over Cruise. He's only 5'8"

What does itimitading mean?

I've always figured that ppl who were on the set during the filming of the final courtroom scene feel blessed to have witnessed it

@@Lewis9700 not sure he's 5'8. I think he's more like 5'6. 5'8 is actually the average height for men.

@@michael-4k4000 yeah, I’m 5’8 and I’m usually eye level with most men even if they are an inch or two taller, normally.

Did u had superior ranked women when u served?

@@words007 Two of my experiences: I was deployed to Africa and assigned to the US embassy in one of the countries there, my boss was a navy 0-5, I was an E-7. On the base, The enlisted leader was a female marine Command Sergeant Major (CSM). The marines at the embassy were selling tickets to the marine corps ball, and my navy 0-5 boss came to me and said they were not selling the tickets the right way, they need to do more to sell them. I said Sir, they have been doing this every year; “No, they need to sell more of those tickets” was his response. Well after he spoke to the marines at the embassy regarding their efforts, they put in a call to the CSM. When we returned to the base later that day, she was waiting for us…..She cornered us in the hallway of a building and said: “You both need to leave my marines alone”. I was already at parade rest, but I was surprised when my navy boss stammered “ Yes CSM, we won’t bother them again”. (We? I don’t recall trying to tell the marines anything, I’m army). Anyway, I will never forget what he said to me afterwards-“There are days in the military when you outrank people, and other days when the same people outrank you” Next experience-Years later I was on temporary duty at Ft McCoy and I was assigned a hummvee along with a drip pan. I went somewhere one day and drove off leaving the drip pan there. Someone found the drip pan and returned it to supply; the female supply sergeant told me to come to supply to get it back. My rank was E-8, she was an E-5. When I arrived at supply, she said, “MSG, drop and do pushups before you get your drip pan”. There are days in the military when you outrank people, and other days when they outrank you. I did the pushups, collected my drip pan and went about my business.

yes sir...and it also happens in the corporate world as well. Like you, ive seen this as well.

Best way of making "superiors" piss out is acting like a bitch. Yea, coronel, you're the best. Specially when you do that on a ironic "tone". You shouldn't be sad due this kind of thing. Military is all about it.

Including the obvious sexism of the military towards women as displayed clearly in this super sexist scene?

Say whaaaa? I could believe that!

He makes the whole movie

But then movie would end too soon 😐

so true....

The defense…not prosecution.

It was just good cop/bad cop.

Yup. He has way more expierence as a lawyer

@@maxstone9999 Kaffee was not a more experienced than Galloway. She'd been out of law school for many years; thus, the higher rank. He'd been out of law school only 9 months. He'd never been in a courtroom. She'd been in a courtroom, I think, twice. They had very different personalities. She was "in your face", which is why they moved her to Internal Affairs. Kaffee had a "I don't care" attitude, which he later realized is why he was assigned this job. This is the first scene where he takes the case seriously. She didn't trust him and she was blatant about that. Another reason why she was so aggressive here. She did not respect "lead council" yet. That question is a pivotal moment in their relationship.

True, but he also had a good point - up until then, I don't think Kaffee had called him "sir" even once.

It is a brilliant scene done wonderfully by Jack Nicholson. IMHO Jessup got rattled because there was no transfer order until that point ... but now that transfer order would have to be produced based on Kaffee's request. I think that rattled him ...

Yes, he and Jo where rather brusque with a superior officer. But that doesn’t allow him to besmirch the uniform of the US Navy. Which he seems to forget that the Marines are a branch of.

The transfer order DOES exist. He already had Markinson sign a phony one that morning, before this meeting. Markinson confesses this to Kaffee in a later scene.

Sorkin at his best.

One of the greatest ever. They don’t make em like this any more. I’ve watched this a hundred times

Villain?

A very corrupt and worthless individual.

Jessup wasn’t a bad guy

@@clearlycaribbeanreb2895 He gave an order that was directly responsible for the death of one of the men under his command then did all he could to cover it up. Furthermore, he acts and speaks like a misogynist and a homophobe. If he's not a bad guy, then what is?

@@clearlycaribbeanreb2895 well he wasn't a good guy either lol he was a jerk and a power hungry a hole, he was a bad guy

​@@SocialWorkProfessoru r such a wuss. Wouldnt want u serving and protecting my country

@@SocialWorkProfessoryou are. You’re the bad guy.

Yes he was. He certainly is a gifted actor.

I’m coming after you Danny Boy

Thank you. Finnaly someone gives cruise credit for acting his ass off in this movie

Totally agree with you

He is absolutely amazing. I never left his side, despite all the hate towards him.

It's weird because in real life he is quite a friendly and gregarious guy. He was always telling jokes and goofing around with the other actors on set. My buddy was a video assist guy working on the movie Hoffa in Chicago and he was carrying some lit torches for a scene and almost bumped into Jack Nicholson while holding them. Nicholson just smiled and said to him "Hey, be careful with those." and kept walking the other way.

DANNY BOY!

Who the hell would bother watching a cut version of this film? If it’s on tv on an edited channel I just pop in my hard copy!

I have at least 2.

I used to. Thank goodness he retired early into my career. We've all been happier and more productive ever since

Colonels are the gentleman of army junior officers are jerks like Jessop I don’t know about marines

He was gonna ask for a copy already, that was his frustration with Jo. He knew that if Jessup had ordered the code red there’s no way he’d admit it.

Makes you wonder how long he would have survived had he did get his DC promotion. I'd give it a year before he'd piss off enough people that the USMC was forced to transfer him to a do nothing assignment. His career was over whether he got through this incident or not.

No he wasn’t. He was pushing Jessup only to the point that he felt he could, which wasn’t far, e Pugh to let him lower his guard for that final request to confirm his suspicions. His frustration with Jo was him being afraid that pushing him to hard and getting him defensive would taint that strategy. Fortunately for him, it didn’t.

Its part of their job to be respectful to a senior officer.

@@kcdiazWTV True. Kaffee was being much too cute and flippant in the presence of a much superior officer.

Kaffee was an O-2 Lieutenant Junior Grade (First Lieutenant for Army, Air Force, and Marines) Jessups a 0-6 a Colonel. He out ranks him by 4 grades and is a Commanding Officer Jessup was basically saying look I know your a lawyer, but your an officer too, so show respect.

@@2410jrod At the same time, it was totally a power play on Jessup's part. That & when he directs sexual dialog toward Galloway. Both were to show "you are nothing to me."

You may not want those kinds of people as friends either. Col. Jessup is a psychopath / sociopath. That's the point of the movie.

@@VenturiLife yep, i have to agree with you on that.

It’s better to not have people like this character in your life at all. Neither friend nor enemy..

seems like that kind of officer that would run their men to hell but when it's messed up, washes his hands right away.

As I get older I more appreciate this performance. Incredible. Up there with Brando and all them. My favorite is the Shining though

​@@stevencoardvenice Jack is WAY more talented than Brando by far. He didn't even need a pretty face to be successful.