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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Pinky (Harpo Marx) pretends to be Firefly's (Groucho Marx) reflection, matching his every move - until Chicolini (Chico Marx) ruins the effect.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
In this 1933 Marx Brothers film, the mythical country of Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), Freedonia's principal benefactress, will lend the country 20 million dollars if the president withdraws and places the government in the hands of the "fearless, progressive" Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx). At his inauguration, Firefly shows up late, insults everyone in sight, and sings a song about how he intends to abuse his power. Naturally, the crowd cheers wildly. Meanwhile, Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of neighboring Sylvania schemes to oust Firefly and take over Freedonia himself. To gather enough evidence to discredit Firefly, he sends his most trusted spies, Chicolini (Chico Marx) and Pinky (Harpo Marx). Five minutes after they show up in Freedonia, both spies become important members of Firefly's cabinet, though Chicolini keeps his day job as a peanut vendor. Firefly eventually declares war on Sylvania, an absurd farrago with Firefly changing uniforms from scene to scene, Chicolini going to the other side because the food is better, and Pinky parading around the battlefield with a sandwich board reading "Join the army and see the navy."
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TM & © Universal (1933)
Cast: Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx
Director: Leo McCarey
Producer: Herman J. Mankiewicz
Screenwriters: Bert Kalmar, Nat Perrin, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman
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@lightninbugz 12 лет назад

I laugh out loud every time I see this, especially when Groucho spins and Harpo just throws his hands out knowing Groucho can't see while spinning. Often imitated, never duplicated.

@thebathuman 4 года назад

I absolutely love that moment - cracks me up every time too :D

@HaldaneSmith 3 года назад

1:32

@pollyburk4648 3 года назад

Lucy did it well

@neonh161 2 года назад

Geniuses..

@groovytrev Год назад

That bit always makes me laugh. Genius🤣

@raydarable 4 года назад

I love how quiet this scene is. You never see this much dead air in a modern film.

@mayoite160 3 года назад

apparently it's because the crew couldn't stop laughing during the shoot

@Leprutz 2 года назад

Dead air? What is that?

@raydarable 2 года назад

@@Leprutz Dead air is just silence. Normally modern films have at least some form of background sounds so that the scene isn't completely quiet.

@Leprutz 2 года назад

@@raydarable ah ok.... but silent movies always were accompanied with music usually. To avoid the dead air and also accentuate the scenes.

@raydarable 2 года назад

@@Leprutz True, but early sound films would occasionally be silent to heighten the emotion, something I never see in modern films.

@MoonLiteNite 2 года назад

@1:34 that fake spin made me die of laughter as a kid, and 20 years later, i still love that one little bit the best lol

@tobyhunt2127 3 года назад

I like how Harpo seems to get progressively worse at it as time goes on.

@vitoraee 3 года назад

Yes! You can tell he is about to crack it up in laughing.

@adonaiyah2196 3 года назад

Worse at what

@tobyhunt2127 3 года назад

@@adonaiyah2196 At pretending to be a mirror.

@BigSocksProds Год назад

😭😂

@rotcod2886 Год назад

I'm convinced that every instance where Harpo's timing/mirroring is off, it is done with complete intention. It's for OUR purpose. They were so good and I'm sure this was so well rehearsed that if they wanted it to be more precise, then that's exactly what would have made it on film. The imperfections make it funnier. They knew this and did it that way. Pure genius.

@robinhood3926 Год назад

How the hell do you know that ? People like you always make me laugh. They simply arent perfect thats all

@rotcod2886 Год назад

@@robinhood3926 Oh. Okay. I didn't realize that only you are allowed to have beliefs. I guess you're always right and all these people you laugh at are wrong. You must be very popular.

@totallybored5526 Год назад

They rehearsed it for months on stage in front of live audiences to figure out the timing

@rotcod2886 Год назад

@@totallybored5526 I'm sure. They were professionals. Geniuses.

@Me97202 6 месяцев назад

It’s Groucho in this scene. Not Harpo.

@HaFannyHa 10 лет назад

I never tire of seeing this. A masterclass of pure comic beauty. Not one sound - none needed. Class!

@mayoite160 5 лет назад

apparently that's because the crew was laughing hysterically

@gkroll8467 5 лет назад

this is the funniest marx bros movie why 2 reasons no music number, that are serious and no romance angle

@marceletti 5 лет назад

Just a genius

@DelusionalInsider 4 года назад

Was it...really that? Why are you bullshiting? Lmao..wasnt even funny to the point of calling it a masterpiece🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@tremorsfan 4 года назад

There is one musical number: Fredonia’s Going to War

@viggosimonsen 2 года назад

Also love how Grouchy thinks he has fooled his mirror image with the white vs black hat - and then Harpo points the finger back at him when he puts on a white hat - clearly a bit carried away by his triumph. This is a masterly crafted gimmick.

@TheRagingNerd 8 лет назад

I like how Groucho wasn't sure until Chico shows up at the end!

@bigdawggkev 8 лет назад

When they have that greasepaint on and look just like Groucho, that's how you know they all looked alike

@animegx45 3 года назад

Okay, they got me when the second white hat showed up. Well played, 1933.

@rudeartist 11 месяцев назад

This has to be the single greatest piece of physical comedy of all time!

@calvinnay814 Год назад

i had forgotten that Harpo drops his hat and Groucho reaches across to hand it back to him and neither miss a beat....genius!

@kevtb874 5 лет назад

Such a brilliant scene. The more you think about it the more absurd and surreal it gets. Like, why does he spend so long trying to trick his own reflection? If he thinks something is up he can just reach in any time.

@fishcutter395 5 лет назад

He even does that when he and Harpo circle around each other with the hats

@DrLipkin 3 года назад

@@fishcutter395 Yes, but Groucho doesn't smile until he sees that Harpo's hat is different than his! Even after walking through the mirror, Groucho wasn't sure! Because it's funnier that way.

@cteixeirax 3 года назад

Groucho knows that it isn't his reflection very quickly, if not from the very beginning. The Groucho character very often humours the Harpo/Chico characters, playing a sort of devil's advocate to egg them on, since he enjoys the chaos they produce. Sometimes this is done conspiratorially, in order to scam some third party. The Groucho character has a sense of humour. He is less annoyed that Harpo is trying to trick him, and more respectful of the sheer audacity of the attempt, and curious to test how far Harpo is willing to push it, to test how ludicrous the scenario might become. Around 0:55 , he is contemplating just what it might take in order to outsmart Harpo and get him to admit failure - but Harpo matches his ingenuity. At 1:35, Groucho finally seems to catch Harpo out, but Harpo still won't give in. At 1:55 Groucho steps through the mirror, making it completely clear that he is not being fooled at all. But since he doesn't call Harpo out, Harpo is forced to continue the pretense. By now it is the Groucho character who is making the Harpo character look ridiculous (or otherwise, if Harpo at this point still genuinely believes he is fooling Groucho, he is shown up as being gullible). At 2:20 , Groucho tries to catch Harpo out with the hat (which he noticed and smiled at as they circled around each other at 2:00). Harpo magically produces an identical hat, and starts to point and laugh. Now Groucho starts mimicking Harpo, and Harpo realises that the tables have turned. They take their hats off/bow to one another as a sign of mutual respect. Neither of them wants to be the first to give in and end the charade, they are committed to escalating the absurdity, as a point of honour. Chico comes in to finally break the tension, by giving Groucho an excuse to stop the routine. The comedy might be physical but it isn't slapstick, or Groucho just being stupid. It lies in the dramatic irony and is grounded in the characters.

@cteixeirax 3 года назад

After doffing their caps, Groucho even helps Harpo by picking the hat up. I think on some level Groucho really wanted Harpo to succeed, and maybe he is a little sad that Harpo didn't do an even better job of tricking him. It's a little sign of encouragement. And I think by picking the hat up Groucho is expressing his gratitude, he is grateful to the Harpo character (as we are) for bringing amusement into his life, grateful for his inventiveness, his intelligence, and to have met somebody as committed to a bit as he is himself. The mirror is almost symbolic, they are mirror images in more than one way in this scene (especially as, at first, Harpo is mirroring Groucho, while towards the end we have the "mirror image" of Groucho mirroring Harpo).

@Losrandir Год назад

Groucho sort of has the straight man role in many of these, but being Groucho, his so-called straight man is anything but, sort of accepting to play the part but still just iencouraging, ncreasing, and adding to the chaos instead of being a target or victim or such! Oh, he likes, enjoys and appreciates it alright!

@lenthisgoldstein9553 3 года назад

I love how the glass in the mirror shatters after Harpo falls to the floor!

@mikefoster6018 2 года назад

And vanishes immediately!

@captainfantastic9158 4 года назад

@1.36: When Groucho spins around and Harpo DOESN'T. That's the bit that gets me every time! 😂😂😂

@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 3 года назад

That’s another example of which one is Harpo because he did not spin around

@camilogarciaylasaari1857 7 лет назад

The moment where they switch places (twice!) is one of the best jokes in the history of comedy

@kurtrueckel1254 2 года назад

Top 5 movie scenes of all time. Don't even bother arguing with me because it IS the truth.

@Nebkheperure837 3 месяца назад

Lol. Correct actually.

@jjb1908 3 месяца назад

oh you know it buddy

@jeffcranford5403 5 лет назад

One of the most classic moments in movie history

@kristendunn9916 2 года назад

It just doesn't get any better than this.

@osagenative1791 Год назад

I like how the pieces of broken mirror are suddenly gone

@beapaul4453 3 месяца назад

Exactly

@volpeverde6441 Год назад

the swapping of places with the different hats.... and double reflection....he first pushes out of sight.... ....marx brothers messin' with the laws of physics.... still chuckled - and it's about the 400th time I've watched it....

@66kprdwd 11 лет назад

Amazing how they all looked so much like Groucho.

@premanadi 5 лет назад

Brothers!

@aspilurch 4 года назад

Apparently they all looked so much alike, back when they were performing on stage, whenever one of them would be sick, one of the others would dress in his costume and make-up and perform his part for him.

@justice_productions_ 4 года назад

aspilurch True Bro’s!

@MyLateralThawts 4 года назад

I forget which movie it was, but Groucho became sick at one point and Zeppo stepped in to fill in for him. I think it was a night scene and Groucho may again have been in his night shirt. Can anyone confirm and possibly link?

@johnnyfrederick01 4 года назад

There’s an episode of “I’ve Got a Secret where Harpo shows up. His secret? It’s really Chico

@adamspimbly4706 3 года назад

For me, 1:35 is the greatest joke of all time. It never fails to bring a smile to my face!

@JoePina0 3 года назад

I remember seeing this the first time I saw Duck Soup as a kid. This scene catapulted this movie into the league of great comedies like Modern Times, for me. I was always wondering, where is Chico, the obligatory third Marx. and he shows up at the end, dressed up as Groucho! Fantastic love story between brothers.

@MichellaneousMe 3 года назад

He even picks up his hat forgetting it’s supposed to be a reflection haha

@heidisierra9833 Год назад

I love reading recent comments about people's love for the Marx Brothers. I thought that I was the only person left who knew and remembered them lol.

@davidkastin4240 Год назад

Still funny @ 90 yrs old. Such an iconic movie.

@hasanificated Год назад

This is a masterpiece of the supreme level!

@rotcod2886 7 лет назад

So many subtle, genius moments in this.

@OAKIE9531 6 лет назад

one of the best movie sequences ever

@joshuawaldorf9559 Год назад

This is the very original mirror gag that every comedy movie and show would imitate from then on.

@premanadi 5 месяцев назад

it's actually in several earlier silent movies: The Marathon with Harold Lloyd, Seven Year's Bad Luck with Max Linder and The Floorwalker with Chaplin. And it was used in vaudeville a lot.

@filmsforallnations 3 года назад

Duck Soup was The Marx Brothers most overlooked and most underrated film, when The Marx Brothers were alive. Groucho Marx always felt that the two films that they made for Irving Thalberg (A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races) at MGM, were the best two films that The Marx Brothers ever made. Duck Soup contains one of The Marx Brothers most iconic moments. This scene is a real piece of cinematic history.

@ezekielbrockmann114 Год назад

Horse Feathers. Classic.

@daviderickson8699 10 месяцев назад

That's interesting to hear. In my lifetime (mid 50s), "Duck Soup" is the first title most people think of for Marx Brothers movies, probably with Night at the Opera the second. Anecdotally, it seems like everyone I know who is a fan, got their introduction via Duck Soup.

@filmsforallnations 10 месяцев назад

Go West was my favourite Marx Brother film. It was the only period film that made they made, and was set against the backdrop of the old wild west. Go West was set in 1870 and the train sequence at the end of the movie makes the film worth watching.

@DreamtOfSleep 9 месяцев назад

definitely disagree, duck soup was my first movie by the marx brothers and its their most watched movie on sites like letterboxd

@filmsforallnations 9 месяцев назад

Duck Soup is still one of the greatest comedy films ever made. Woody Allen is a massive Marx Brothers fan and their comedy inspired him.

@deweyaustin3756 Год назад

In an episode of I Love Lucy , Lucille Ball and Harpo Marx recreated this scene. They did it justice.

@NelsonWin Год назад

That Mirror gag is still alive for several decades.

@ianreissmann 3 года назад

The wrong/right hat is the peak of this fabulous routine.

@wadehansen3085 8 лет назад

its always a blast to see the source for the jokes still used from time to time in modern pop culture

@chap666ish 12 лет назад

80+ years old and it still made me laugh out loud

@tomsimpson5317 Год назад

Life was good when I watched this as a kid

@ITILII Год назад

Julius 🤣(Groucho) and Adolph (Harpo) Marx, who with their brothers, Leonard (Chico) and Herbert (Zeppo) greatest team of Comedic GENIUSES, EVER

@sdftrd 10 лет назад

Hands down one of the funniest scenes ever

@mikefoster6018 2 года назад

I saw this in the cinema today, and laughed so much. Pure surreal anarchy.

@tom- 5 лет назад

Thought I was laughing as hard as possible then they walk into each other’s mirror

@natebetzen 3 года назад

Easily my favorite moment

@hoorootv1 Год назад

They would have practised & rehearsed this scene for several days prior to filming, no doubt. Funniest thing I've seen all day, today. Never watched this before, they don't have shows like this on Australian tv

@hoorootv1 Год назад

The shatteting of the mirror sound is only just a sound effect added in post production editing

@brucknerian9664 3 года назад

Funniest scene ever in the history of comedy.

@Theywaswrong 2 года назад

If you need a good belly laugh, want to cheer someone up, you can't do better than this.

@LeafInTheStream Год назад

The spin is ingenious, but my favourite part is when they first walk out of each other's sight, smiling and nodding as if to say "OK, pretty good so far, but we'll just see how clever you really are". What I wouldn't give to time travel back to 1933 and see this in the company of a live audience!

@premanadi 5 месяцев назад

you still can - these films get shown in cinemas on occasion. Nothing like seeing them with a crowd of people.

@LeafInTheStream 5 месяцев назад

@@premanadi Something to keep in mind. Thanks, premanadi!

@sylviaplath8263 2 года назад

I lost it when the third one came out! Hahaha

@rotcod2886 2 года назад

How does it never get old?

@volpeverde6441 Год назад

because it is timeless and genius....

@GooglyMcDoubleface 7 лет назад

When my dad was alive he would crack up on this scene and the sanity clause contract.

@allison9090 6 лет назад

"There aint no Sanity Claus!"

@oldclassics1923 2 года назад

This is what talent is.

@somarriba333 4 года назад

I just watched this movie for the first time last week. I LOVED this part. I grew up watching Lucy and Harpo doing this bit but never saw this until last week. :D

@Redneck_Hero Год назад

One of my favorite scenes. I love The Marx Brothers

@johngulino2651 Год назад

Strictly visual comedic brilliance. 😂

@davestinson2323 Год назад

Best comedy sketch of all time

@carlpen850 4 года назад

This goes down as one of my all time favorite movie scenes... could you imagine being on the set when they shot this?

@jacktaliasteinberg9681 3 года назад

Apparently the crew was laughing so hard they had to film it without sound

@RonInbar 2 года назад

It's amazing how funny this scene is almost 90 years after it was made, while almost all the other comedies from that era (e.g. Chaplin) give you the impression that they were made for an audience with the sense of humor of a six year old.

@yaboimccoy8109 3 года назад

proof you can be hilarious while remaining silent

@envitech02 Год назад

Even today, so hilarious!!! RIP Groucho!!

@benhuether5474 3 года назад

Greatest and most important moment in comedy history!!!

@leej70 10 лет назад

Where did all the broken glass go?

@frankfarmer3853 9 лет назад

They sweeped it up.

@TheYopogo 9 лет назад

Alan Mann England?

@deer5319 9 лет назад

Alan Mann lol

@godfreyemmanuel3097 8 лет назад

+The Vicious Chicken of Bristol Too movie hell and plot holes.

@Stroheim333 8 лет назад

+The Vicious Chicken of Bristol Into Harpo's pockets.

@IainOElliott 10 лет назад

I first saw it in my twenties in a theatre in San Diego. It's a good thing it's silent, because this one fellow was laughing hysterically all through it.

@gmanley1 4 месяца назад

Does need music though.

@francescjoangarciaarnau866 Год назад

sincerely i think this is one of greatest escene of history

@madmen2347 4 года назад

This scene never gets old

@slightlygrouchy 11 лет назад

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. The director of Coconuts was laughing so hard during filming that they built a sound-proof glass box for him in which he stayed while the camera was rolling. This way his laughter wasn't recorded. One of the reasons that Sam Wood was hired to direct A Night at the Opera was that he had no sense of humour whatsoever and would thus cause no problems during the shoot.

@linkbiff1054 6 лет назад

Just admit it, you were so caught up in the moment you forgot which one was Groucho.

@acatooter1 6 лет назад

Last time I saw Duck Soup in a theater among an audience, was at a Classic Cinema in London in the late 1960's. Finally realized the expression 'to have the audience rolling in the aisles' was actually based on reality. Many in the audience lost all self control and fell out of their seats holding their sides to keep from 'splitting their guts' with hysterical, unstoppable laughter. Masters of the art and science of comedy.! What passes for comedy today seems merely ill-disguised, mean-spirited anger and iconoclastic rage with almost nothing to do with clever, enjoyable comedy and laughter.

@premanadi 5 лет назад

Watching these films with a large audience is the way they were meant to be seen, because the laughter is infectious. Sadly, most people now only see them alone, on a tiny screen. I try to go any time they are shown in a theater.

@dead9247 5 лет назад

They need to bring this back to cinemas.

@davidstevens7018 4 года назад

Master class indeed ! Still crying tears of laughter after all these years ;

@briancooper4959 Год назад

This scene is pure genius, and for being done in total silence, it's still one of the most laugh-out-loud routines I've ever seen. And the business with the hat. Hilarious. I'd have loved to see how an audience at that time, seeing this for the first time, reacted to it.

@terrylight2863 4 года назад

Groucho was probably the first guy to twerk on film

@nash6414 Год назад

1:26 ❤that dance step 😂😂😂

@tomservo5347 5 дней назад

I can never get enough of this. Hard to believe it's almost a century old.

@robadams5799 3 года назад

I like the crazy little dance he does.

@VandelayIndustries61 10 лет назад

Pinky's real genius here was getting rid of all that broken mirror glass before Firefly got up there.

@charlesbosselman 6 лет назад

Ronald Bittner

@brendanduffy2205 2 года назад

It's the shave and a haircut, two bits, that kills me.

@deprofundis6855 4 года назад

I have always thought this was one of the film highlights of the brilliant Marx Brothers when I first watched it in my childhood. I believe it has been done previously and afterwards but I doubt very much with such near-perfect timing or comic genius. Hail, Fredonia!

@vandangerousinc7001 5 лет назад

I love when Harpo takes his hat off a little too late.

@marcuswalters8093 4 года назад

Mate. I've just made an idiot of myself laughing out loud in the office. I don't know if this is the original for this joke, but it's definitely the best.

@tbone9744 Год назад

I remember seeing a reenactment of this scene on I Love Lucy. It was Harpo and Lucy. It was so funny.😂 The Marx Brothers were hilarious!

@johnmooney9403 2 года назад

Unsurpassed Comedy brilliance!

@tomfrankiewicz4030 Год назад

First time I saw that scene on TV I laughed the entire time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@LaPortaDellaLuce 2 года назад

If Chico and Harpo disguised like Groucho even in other movies, they would have looked like twins 😅

@annegreenwood906 4 года назад

Brilliant comic timing. The Marx brothers were way ahead of their time.

@briansimpson5664 6 месяцев назад

If you're not hysterically laughing by 1:35 there's something wrong with you. Best scene ever created in comedy history

@JPFilmsFX 4 года назад

2:28 when harpo drops the hat and groucho picks it up and hands it to him XD

@aaronTNGDS9 4 года назад

That scene alone was the piece de resistance of the entire hilarious skit.

@Pixel1962 7 лет назад

What a brilliant scene, 20 years ahead of its time...easily!

@premanadi 5 лет назад

It's actually based on an old vaudeville routine, which had already been done previously in a couple of silent films.

@Endershock1678 6 лет назад

Don't you hate it when you accidentally break a mirror and then somebody just like you copies your every move spot on to the point you can't tell if it's a mirror or not.

@zlol_ssbm 6 лет назад

I lost it when I saw the third one

@RingoandCarlin 8 месяцев назад

Happy 135th birthday to Harpo Marx and 90th anniversary to Duck Soup. And happy Thanksgiving.

@s4squatch1 4 года назад

Harpo's face after he fools everyone by putting the white hat on is hilarious. This one scene Makes everything Adam Sandler has done look like crap.

@Johnson59484 Год назад

It’s hard to imagine that with this humorous and civilized people in the west, the most savage event could occur

@tpowell453 8 лет назад

That crazy dance is all the rage nowadays. LOL

@zachesherman 4 года назад

I love how Blue Man Group silently picked this up as a gag. I just wish more people recognized it.

@ArthurCrane92 9 лет назад

1:32 Slays me every time.

@keikorono3079 9 лет назад

I will never get tired of laughing at that scene lol!

@arzlan9 9 лет назад

you are on the money haha

@woody2shoes64 2 месяца назад

This is my favorite part in the whole movie!

@Andrew-rabatinNet 5 месяцев назад

One of the great bits in movies.

@davidonufrak4825 5 лет назад

My favorite marx brothers moment. Funny funny funny.

@MyLateralThawts 8 лет назад

So we've got three Marx brothers in the same scene all doing Groucho. Oddly enough Zeppo also played Groucho once when his brother was too sick (flu I think) to film his scene that day. That according to an interview he did with Dick Cavett. Sorry, don't recall which movie. Can anybody help us out?

@OAKIE9531 6 лет назад

one of the best movies ever