Duck Soup
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 3:27 AMNo Comment
I’d never seen a Marx Brothers movie before, and a lot of it has not aged well; it’s informed so much by vaudeville, and it’s just kind of not how we think as a culture anymore. But just when I was about to get fed up, Harpo would just randomly whip out the giant scissors and cut off a guy’s coattails, or cut a hot dog in half, and then there’s the “Send help!” scene where the editor cuts to this sped-up elephant stampede, followed by leaping dolphins…as creaky as the word gags are, the sight gags are so out there that they work. (1/6/06)
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