PHILADELPHIA (1993) | "What Is This Case About" 

No, we don't.

In real life denzel would've been told to shut up

Literally what I was thinking. "Nope, absolutely not" involuntarily blurted out from my mouth at the sight of the judge having a side-bar to only one party.

The courtroom belongs to that judge, so Mr. Miller's explanation was the judges to allow or squash.The judge also knew that all present were baffled by Miller's seeming attack on the witness.

never say never

The judge has before him an objection to Attorney Miller’s question. To help him rule on the objection, it is reasonable that he might ask the lawyer to explain the relevance of his question to the case. (That was not a “side-bar”, and it was not off the record, since it was a question posed openly, in open court, with the jury present.) Miller then actually offers a rational explanation of why his question was pertinent, in light of the witness Jamey Collin’s previous answer - which had been in the form of a rhetorical question, asking why Becket’s illness with AIDS might have motivated malicious actions by the firm’s partners, since a number of lawyers at the firm had been seriously ill in the past, without attracting any malevolent conduct as a reaction to their illness. And as Miller explains to the judge (Charles Napier, long a splendid member of the director Jonathan Demme’s regular ensemble), the purpose of his question was to show that Collins’s answer had been misleading - because what motivated the partners’ conduct was not that Beckett had a disease, but that he had the •gay• disease. His question redirected the focus of the examination back to, as he said, what the case was really all about, from the diversion that Collins’s answer had been straying toward. Of course, the judge grants defense counsel’s objection, but it is clear that his subtext is, “Okay, you’ve made the point you were wanting to make, so I won’t require the witness to say whether he’s gay or not, because that wouldn’t illuminate the matter any further for the jury."

@@ColumbiaB also see: it’s a Hollywood movie.

'Facepalm' that's where I know him from. I just couldn't place it.

"Is he gonna have a stupid party every time he passes a grade?" -Eric Gordon

“Sorry doesn’t put the triscuit crackers in my stomach now does it Carl ?”

Lol

You never watched the Sopranos?

Andrew Beckett was fired for incompetence.

'Funniest' line?

Wtf

@@brendanbloomberg3283 s.m.d

@@nikolauswolff5791YOU DEAD 💀 THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE SAYING 🤦🏼‍♀️😬

No different to how it was in earlier times. Even now people are still made to feel ashamed.

Of course he is. He had two choices. Out himself, or perjure himself.

It can, and has happened in real life. Some attornies run the table in trials. Joe Miller's shock and awe moment wasn't unprecedented.

😄😄😄😄😄

Yeah, I always wonder just how hidden the "normalize audio" setting (or something to that effect) is in their editor. If there isn't one, they should choose another editor.

There's multiple movie clip channels all with this same outro and I shit myself at the end of every clip.

I like it, too, but actually, I think that -- given the angle when he winks -- he's actually winking at the jury. It'd be improper but a way of saying, "Sure, let's pretend this wassan accident. Uh huh."

Love me some time hanks.

Denzel was cheated that year. Tommy Lee Jones who won that year is the same character in all his movies

Its actually a terrible speech and bad presentation of law.

Everybody deserves an Oscar!

@@lauralarrabee7870 Denzel wasn't nominated for best supporting actor you goofball

@@MellowFellowOfYellow that doesn’t mean he wasn’t cheated. There are tons of people who give great performances and aren’t nominated for squat. Another example is Tom Cruise Born on the 4th of July performance. Great performance but no award recognition. These award shows are no indication of true talent. The award show is just a fancy dinner and opportunity to network

Booty snatcher....lol 😂

Yes, you can. Goes to relevance.

Objection

@@UnleashthePhury I see what you did there .. ;)

but it's fun.

Yes you can. It breaks up the momentum of the other side. It's a common tactic.

You'd look pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no teeth!

And as a fellow gay as Whitford's character is, what better way to prevent the partners from ever questioning his private life than to destroy Andrew Beckett.

You should watch him on "west wing".

He was also in “Presumed Innocent” with Harrison Ford in 1990 where he was apart of The defense team, for Rusty Sabich.

"So Cool" Mike in Adventures in Babysitting.

@@randyt700 The scene with Leo where he says "I won't permit it." is powerful.

I was like, Aw hell. Commander Lawrence is that you? I know that accent anywhere lol

...not with the jury still in the room.

Not would a judge allow a witness to offer her opinion on the matter, as the female witness did earlier.

Fact check; True.

There's a lot of things that a judge would not have allowed in reality. I know. But hey, this is the movies and you have to allow for that.

@@andrewvelonis5940 really? I thought this was a documentary.

I'm pretty sure they're just different homosexual slurs. Ones that where used in the past but not in today's time anymore.

Good lawyers are basically actors, well litigators at least.

Except for the small matter of actually understanding the rule of law. Is a great Hollywood lawyer only.

@@chriswesterfield2042 there’s a lot of people who understand the law that don’t make good lawyers. No one’s saying Denzel is qualified to be a lawyer, but he has those types of intangibles that he WOULD have made a good lawyer had he practiced law

Sgt. Pembry

Cinematic pacing. Some things we just don’t need to see

I would’ve right there with ya 💙

I hear ya. He threw out that question without warning, "Are you a homosexual" intending to get him to show his prejudice and bigotry, which he did, by his reaction and the way he answered.

And sure enough the virtuous assumes the feelings of those that don't act as themselves. As if being un-forclempt proves most "guys" (sexist language) in high school do not understand the gravity of this scene. I laughed too because "Rump Roaster" Is funny AF on so many levels!

...Yeah I can see that. I'd be using that exact line of questioning for days back in school if I heard it then. Amongst friends or random people.

@@Okidata29 Stop being a weeb

He was the cop who got his face bit off by Anthony Hopkins in silence of the lambs.

Charles Napier Also Bob in The Blues Brothers. "The gig pays $200, and you fellas drank $300 worth of beer"

Sorry, Bob was someone else. Charles Napier was Tuck McElroy "Lead singer and driver of the Winnebago "

@@Maria.9094 No, that was a different guy. Lecter beat the guy with the baton. Then he was eviscerated.

he is the cobra kai sensei

Anyone?

Yeah never heard that one before hahahah

Booty Snatcher was the one that got me💀

No.

Mmmmm

Judges can allow what they want to in their courtroom. The judge asked for an explanation while knowing that Miller had stunned everyone present.

@@topgrain not this, ever. I’m an attorney.

@@dgvolkable I really don't care IF you are an attorney. Miller created an unusual situation by the unorthodox questioning of his own witness, and the judge decided to handle it in a way that established clarification. A judge has complete power over their courtroom. He asked Miller to make some sense of the question he asked his own witness, and Miller responded. Seconds earlier, Miller did not respond when the witness answered one of Millers questions by asking a question. He was fair game at that point.

Ok snowflake.

@@jasonfuller2734 proved my point.

"Woke" as in the things that, if that aren't dealt with in a constructive manner, will make the United States a place not worth defending.

Lol

I've yet to be cancelled or feel threatened. When do you encounter that?