I get the feeling this kid actually looks up to Napoleon, and Napoleon knows it. So he has to devise something new every day to maintain the kid's admiration.
@@Alan-lb8ef That is possible. The kid had the weirdest look on his face too. Like if some weirdo knocked my door and asked what I was going to do today every single day I probably would flip out eventually.
This scene totally set the tone for this movie in a second. I mean it's just such a fuckin weird and funny scene. So odd and random, it's perfect. I don't think I will ever forget it
Agreed. When I first loaded this up on DVD and watched it with my wife, she was like, "Whaaaaa?" and I was on the couch, laughing my butt off. Yes, it definitely set the tone for the movie. LOL
Not really 🤣 the kid is used to all the dumb shit Napoleon does in the back of the bus. That’s why he asked him what he was going to do that day.. and I think Napoleon tried to do cool like things infront of him everyday 🤣
As silly as the show is, it was the most accurate portrayal of highschool in a movie. Most kids were petty and clichish. All the girls looked regular not a bunch of supermodels. The prom was very underwhelming.
@@sethtate2079So very accurate. My house even looked like the outside of that one, and their furniture looked just like what we had. With that flower-printed sofa -- exact match.
I commented this before somewhere else but holy shit I couldn’t agree more. I just put laughing every time a new song comes on due to how corny the music is. It fits the movie so perfectly, it’s definitely one of the most under appreciated aspects of the entire movie.
I remember the first time I ever saw this movie, in theaters, I was like,"dude am I on a different planet? How is this a movie". Still laugh so hard at this movie. Pure Genius
My mom thought it was the dumbest crap she's ever seen, and my dad and I teared up at the end and clapped. The film definitely appeals to a certain kind of person lmao
@@Unknown-account3 I am laughing at your humorous comments, but I have to say that for myself, I had a hard time concentrating on driving with my 5 kids in the car .....I don't know how a bus driver can operate his/her vehicle safely with 30- 40 kids behind them..... 🤣
I noticed everyone saying they love how authentic this movie feels and how it captures everyday life, and I remember listening to the director's commentary on this and they pulled a lot of these scenes from their real life growing up. It's so good
Can I just say, this movie is so odd yet so entertaining. I think a lot of people already said it, but it just shows how entertaining every day Life can be if we just look for the simple things.
When I was in 5th grade, around the time the movie came out, my friends and I actually attempted this on the school bus. Instead of an action figure, it was either a cheap stuffed animal from the dollar store or something we found on the ground. At least one of us had to watch out for other school buses. We had to stop because we used multicolored yarn instead of fishing line which the driver saw in his mirrors. We got a verbal warning, but it was fun while it lasted
I hear that kid is an actual real-life resident of Preston, Idaho, this movie’s setting and filming location. As well as the guy who plays Napoleon’s neighbor, Lyle.
His name is Todd Philips...after the movie he became a bigshot around town, he let it go to his head, has like 12 kids, all with different mothers, I met him last year at the local Sonic where he hangs out
I have like my own backstory for this kid lmao. Like, he starts his first day of high school and pays no attention to the napoleon. But then as the week progresses, he starts to notice napoleon doing some weird thing every morning and just eventually gets to the point where he just stares and asks what he's gonna do every morning. It's probably the highlight of his whole morning. Absolutely hilarious.
Haha, I love the authenticity in this movie in presenting the average school experience (especially in a small/rural town), not fantastic, not hell on Earth, it just is.
My daughter was home from college on summer break. I took her to see this movie when it first hit the theater. I knew within 2 minutes this was going to be an awesome movie.
there’s something so fucking brilliant about this movie. I think it was their ability to bring to film, a nerd that we ALL knew of growing up, and the nerd thats in all of us as well. Like, throwing that action figure out of the bus toed to a string is..... idk, i dont know what it is that im getting, but i get it. And also the snowboot insert shoes. Like, thats so something a nerd woukd do, and something my inner nerd would wear. Or not so much my inner nerd... more something id wear as a dopey little kid cuz i thought it was cool in some weird, imaginative way. Hahah this is genius
It achieves what all the pretentious art films try to achieve...effortlessly. To get nerdy about it, I think the sound design (and not just the soundtrack) is what shoots it to the moon. Expect a Criterion edition.
I remember watching this for the 1st time. What an opening. Sets the tone completely for the rest of the movie. Random af. One of my all time favourite films .
This movie has been and will always be relatable after 20 years this year. I was a year old when this came out. It's a movie that every person can relate to! Go find your Tots!
@Alvin Mortys Need he say why? It's just an opinion. I loved the movie too. It was funny in its own way. Though, a slow-moving film, it was very well written and executed. Back in middle school, classmates would quote the hell out of this movie.
I think most people don't understand that when Napoleon threw his action figure out the window, he thought it looked like it was flying throw the air behind the bus... but the string was too long and it was pathetically dragging along the ground
I love this movie. I remember being a kid and doing the exact same thing with my action figures. Tying ropes and string to it and dragging it down the dirt road! Lol thank you Bill Hader for giving us Napoleon Dynamite!
The acting and everything just feels like a wonderfully made skit created by a bunch of students for a final project. I can't stop laughing at every scene. The shot, the dialogues and the way they deliver, it just feels so homey and raw, It's brilliant.
Years ago when this came out on BluRay, my buddy came over and begged me to watch it. As the closing credits started, I just turned to my buddy and said “WTF did I just watch?” He laughed and left the movie on my entertainment center when he went home. A week, or so later, out of sheer boredom, I watched it again and came away with a little different perspective than I did the first time. Every time afterwards, I started to accept the absurdity of the movie and finally understood the message the producers were trying to convey. Now, it’s a classic and one of my favorite movies of all time. Whenever it’s on TV, the remote gets dropped and the popcorn goes into the microwave… it’s just that simple.
i went to school with a dude who was the spitting image and personality as Napoleon Dynamite. no word of a lie. probably part of the reason I think this movie is such a classic.
I love how this movie was made by two brothers who originally made the plot of a movie for a school project and one of the brothers decided to send the script to a director and the person loved it they said it’s one of the favorite movies they made
Note to future self. Kids who sit in the back of the bus are social misfits ... (Continues to throw he-man attached to string out the window) for the adrenaline rush of the risk of being caught by the bus driver. That's some devious shit right there.
What can be seen here is a very tasteful reference to the post-modern themes of the French New Wave cinema movement, wound with neo-expressionist magical realism set in a Midwest American setting John Steinbeck would applaud. The way the figure drags behind the school bus is an obvious yet subtle commentary of the proletariat being dragged behind the narcissistic bourgeois. The school bus represents the road education, a valuable privilege not everyone in society can achieve, along with other advantages. "What are you going to do today Napoleon? WHATEVER I WANT," says the bourgois Napoleon, named after the powerful emperor of France. Napoleon Dynamite is a cinematic masterpiece, comparable to the works of the great French masters, perhaps even Jodorowsky, Tarakovsky, or Eisenstein. Next week class we will be covering Space Jam and its themes of post-revolution Mexico and Shark Tale and its commentary of Thatcher-era Britain and it's satire of the Falklands War, COME PREPARED.
People here are missing the point, the kid asked "What are you going to do *today* napoleon?" Then napoleon ends up tossing a toy with a string out the window, meaning that he must be often doing some random crazy stuff at the back of that bus.
I used to live in Salt Lake City and had absolutely no idea the town where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed was only about an hour and a half to 2 hours North from there. Would have definitely visited had i known 😂
I second that. I'm turning 33 and I still occasionally dream where I'm still riding the schoolbus, as an adult. They are not nightmares but they are very weird and uncomfortable. The fact that everyone on the bus is clearly younger than Napoleon adds an awkward tone to the scene. It illustrates the theme of isolation and how Napoleon struggles to one hundred percent connect to everybody (at least in the beginning).
I love the way Napoleon only has to walk to the end of the garden path to get the bus. In the UK you could be walking any distance from 100 yards to half a mile to get the bus if you live in the suburbs. Further if you live in the countryside.
