+Hulk2k6 Haha, I still piss myself laughing now, I work in a call center and when people are dicks I wait a while and prank them in a south african accent :D
Blake Hutchison It's funny you should say that as a lot of Afrikaners going for parts on Aussie TV wind up having to get diction lessons to lose their Afrikaans accents. Dean Geyer who was on Neighbours a few years back did so.
When I was about 5 years old I saw this movie for the first time and I had no idea that what this guy said was a little offensive. After I finished watching it me and my dad went to the shops and when we were waiting in the line there was a black person in front of us, I tugged on my dads shirt and said to my dad as I pointed at the black man 'Hey dad look, but you're black'. My dad was so embarrassed. My dad apologized for me, the black guy said it was okay and laughed it off cause he new where I got it from and plus I was only 5.
I stay in South Africa. In 1989 I was in Germany. An American guy asked me if I knew about the movie 'Lethal Weapon 2'. I hadn't. He said that the film makers couldn't think of a hostile country, other than South Africa, and said that he doubts that it would be shown here for that reason. When returning here, I mentioned that to a guy who said that it would be because South Africans can laugh at ourselves. (A lot of South African humour is based on that.) When I watched it at the bioscope (cinema, movie theater) the people were laughing a lot, including when that term 'smart kaffer' was mentioned. The film was considered a popular action comedy.
So weird. For years I remembered this scene with Riggs standing there, and the guy saying.. "But sir, your blek." RIggs - "He is" Leo - "You are" Murtaugh -"I am."
It is said that the South African accent (the actual South African accent) sounds hard and flat. But, actually there is more than one South African accent.
because of Apartheid which was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained.
The South Africans in this movie are SUPPOSED to be speaking Afrikaans, which is a variant of Dutch (which is a West Germanic language along with German and English). The difference between Afrikaans and Dutch is kinda like the difference between Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Mexico. They are mutually intelligable to a degree but there are some differences. That said, the actors attempts at speaking Afrikaans is WAY WAY WAY off. I had someone I know who speaks Dutch listen to the "Afrikaans" from this movie and they were like "what is this?"
+Akaihiryuu77 Not too surprising. Not too many Afrikaaner actors in the '80s were willing to play the part of a corrupt embassy official who is part of a pro-apartheid murder/drug ring.
+Turnabout Well, I was eventually able to have someone I know that speaks Dutch watch the whole movie, and the "Afrikaans" scenes actually are actually mostly proper Dutch, but very very heavily American accented to the point that it was difficult to understand.
Apartheid did originate partially from Nazi Germany anyway. (There are South African films about it, like ‘The Fourth Reich’ and an episode of the series ‘Shoreline’. There's also the book 'The land God made in anger' by John Gordon Davis.) It was also from the Netherlands policy of pillarization. The dividing line in Europe between Catholics and Protestants ran through the Netherlands, thus separate schools, etc.
Dutch and Afrikaans would sound guttural anyway, like with the 'g'. A German incidentally said that it sounds like a fishbone being pulled out the throat. :-)
I don't know, I've been working with a guy from SA for 3 years now and first we gave him all the jokes from this movie and second, his accent is not that far from the fake one in this scene! :)
@happihowie I think he's actually supposed to be South African. Their accent sounds almost Australian. Now, as far as why he said, "I don't think you really want to go to South Africa," it's because of South Africa's apartheid at the time. It was kinda like segregation, but worse.
Mel Gibson had an Australian accent after growing up there with his family in 1960s even though he was born in New York and moved out of Australia in 1980s to start making movies in United States in 1984.
@1488slav Yep, I'm from SA and I can attest that the actor does not sound Afrikaans - he sounds like an Englishman or an Australian trying to do the Afrikaans accent (he doesn't do it very well and it ends up being this weird amalgamation between the two).
I know I may sound dumb asking this question but why did the dutchman not allow danny glover's character go to south africa? There is so much that I don't know and so much that I'll never know.
@Truegeeza Yeah, it is so. But the trouble was that white South Africa had regularly institutionalized Apartheid and was even proud of that. Luckily such a system could not hold itself indefinetly - and hope it never does anywhere else in the world.
Yeah man, I can't believe you haven't changed the description yet. Did you miss the point of this scene, or who the bad guys were, when you watched the film? They are racist South Africans in the era of apartheid.
One of the funniest scenes in movie history. It's a shame you cut out the riot after Pesci says "You are. He is." "FREE SOUTH AFRICA YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH"
Did anyone else notice that the judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial happened to be blek? She was. She was blek. She was, I am, you are. Blek. Poor Oscar was found guilcup, as opposed to being not guilcup. And he did not have diplomatic immunity. And his judge was Blek. She's blek.
no, she tells riggs that her LAST NAME is Dutch..... she is South African. Calling a South African Dutch is probably like calling a American British....
i don't think he is supposed to be Dutch (Netherlands), but South African (which WAS colonized by the Dutch). They have a very different Dutch accent there.
jesus christ... do you not know a fucking dutch boer accent when you hear it? Its one of the most distinct english speaking accents on the planet. lrn2linguistics
"The person who spoke had a "strange" accent that did not sound British or even German, but a guttural one."... you mean South African? Hence the reason he is in the South African Embassy.
This must have taken several takes as everyone was probably pissing themselves laughing.
+Hulk2k6 Haha, I still piss myself laughing now, I work in a call center and when people are dicks I wait a while and prank them in a south african accent :D
+silverflish Oim from seth efrica and oiy hoit bleks.
I love when Joe Pesci looks at him and says "You are".
Its my favourite line in the whole scene
Kinda matter of factly you know.
Like it's a realization they are all genuinely trying to get him to see..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That was hilarious
…..” he is…” 💯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funniest scene. I remember watching it as kids and we couldn't stop doing the accent "b-b-but you're Bleck" lol
My grown a$$ dad did the same. Never seen my dad laugh so much, ever 😂
One of my favorite sequels ever. This scene is so funny.
Just watched it recently on VHS, never thought VHS HI-fi can stack up against DOlby digital DVDs
I love it one of the best and funniest scenes
Diplometik immunitee has just been revoked.
I'm from South Africa, and I have to say - Joe Pesci does a better impersonation of the accent than the guy who's playing a South African.
It kind of sounds like they cast an Australian and hoped nobody would notice. Which most people who saw the movie probably didn't.
Blake Hutchison It's funny you should say that as a lot of Afrikaners going for parts on Aussie TV wind up having to get diction lessons to lose their Afrikaans accents. Dean Geyer who was on Neighbours a few years back did so.
Blake Hutchison The actor in question is actually British :D
My dentist (here in the U.S.) is from South Africa. He's gotten used to being kidded about "Diplomatic immunity" in a pretend South African accent.
TopGunSGA h
I love how he looks like he's trying to break it to him gently, like he's telling him he's got cancer or something.
Oh shit. 😂
you are.....he is
But...but...but...but...you're BLEK!
I love how Murtaugh looks at Leo for confirmation
"You are... He is."
When I was about 5 years old I saw this movie for the first time and I had no idea that what this guy said was a little offensive. After I finished watching it me and my dad went to the shops and when we were waiting in the line there was a black person in front of us, I tugged on my dads shirt and said to my dad as I pointed at the black man 'Hey dad look, but you're black'. My dad was so embarrassed. My dad apologized for me, the black guy said it was okay and laughed it off cause he new where I got it from and plus I was only 5.
Kids say the darndest things, huh? :)
I'm disappointed your dad didn't say "You are." then turn to you and say "He is".
Well his dad isn't a bigot, sooo
SeasonedGamer ikr ?
ALL STARS irresponsible parents brainwashing children into violence... smh
"well, you are"... best delivery ever.
That laughter from them at the end was definitely genuine 😂
Pesci is one of the best actors of his generation. So versatile.
Either way, he's goin'...
I stay in South Africa. In 1989 I was in Germany. An American guy asked me if I knew about the movie 'Lethal Weapon 2'. I hadn't. He said that the film makers couldn't think of a hostile country, other than South Africa, and said that he doubts that it would be shown here for that reason. When returning here, I mentioned that to a guy who said that it would be because South Africans can laugh at ourselves. (A lot of South African humour is based on that.) When I watched it at the bioscope (cinema, movie theater) the people were laughing a lot, including when that term 'smart kaffer' was mentioned. The film was considered a popular action comedy.
Fun fact The "because your blek" guy did the voice of Major Zero in MgS snake eater
Pat Gogan “THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMNED FIDDLE!”
No way!!!
I’ll be dammed. He is
@@SHADOWACTUAL that's Kaz Miller not Major Zero. Good quote though
Oh fuck you're right!!!!
The moment the friend ship between these three was born
I can't help but laugh everytime I see that car scene.
" Alfonce, Alfonce!!! "
Haha
So weird. For years I remembered this scene with Riggs standing there, and the guy saying.. "But sir, your blek."
RIggs - "He is"
Leo - "You are"
Murtaugh -"I am."
memory plays tricks
Those head movements are the seller
That would have been icing on the cake
Mandela effect
Nice set-up to provoke things and get Riggs into the embassy anyway! 🤣👌
1:16 Joe Pesci joking with "but, but, but, you are blek" hahahahahah 😂
He was very good in the South African accent, they sound like this. "because you are bleck"....lol
This still has me in stitches!
God, whenever I heard someone say South Africa now I just shout out: "South Efrika? But youuuuuu're blek!", people think I'm crazy.
I do the same thing! I can’t utter south Africa without pronouncing it’s”south efrika”!
I would give you a High 5 if I heard you say that.
yea i dont think its because of the line
most people would think about it and snicker... not shout....
r/woosh in t-10
i always think of this scene its very funny
Fun fact: The You're Bleck Guy is the same actor that voiced Major Zero in the Metal Gear series.
Prob my favorite lethal weapon scene
I love the Sewth Efrican accent.
It is said that the South African accent (the actual South African accent) sounds hard and flat. But, actually there is more than one South African accent.
lol! still funny 25 years on
33 years on and it's still funny.
This part, and in part 4 when theyre at the dentist with Uncle Benny are the funniest scenes
"It's FRIED RICE, you PLICK!"
because of Apartheid which was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained.
ty context guy
funny story i told a friend of mine that elon musk was African American and he said......"but he's white". that man hasn't seen lethal weapon 2
The South Africans in this movie are SUPPOSED to be speaking Afrikaans, which is a variant of Dutch (which is a West Germanic language along with German and English). The difference between Afrikaans and Dutch is kinda like the difference between Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Mexico. They are mutually intelligable to a degree but there are some differences. That said, the actors attempts at speaking Afrikaans is WAY WAY WAY off. I had someone I know who speaks Dutch listen to the "Afrikaans" from this movie and they were like "what is this?"
+Akaihiryuu77 Not too surprising. Not too many Afrikaaner actors in the '80s were willing to play the part of a corrupt embassy official who is part of a pro-apartheid murder/drug ring.
+Turnabout Well, I was eventually able to have someone I know that speaks Dutch watch the whole movie, and the "Afrikaans" scenes actually are actually mostly proper Dutch, but very very heavily American accented to the point that it was difficult to understand.
+Akaihiryuu77 Makes sense. Though the actor in this particular scene, Jim Piddock, is an Englishman.
@@Turnabout Corrupt embassy official? That dude seemed to be genuinely concerned about "Alphonse's" safety.
@@M0butu "Listen to your friend.. he knows what he is talking about" 🤣🤣🤣
Apartheid did originate partially from Nazi Germany anyway. (There are South African films about it, like ‘The Fourth Reich’ and an episode of the series ‘Shoreline’. There's also the book 'The land God made in anger' by John Gordon Davis.) It was also from the Netherlands policy of pillarization. The dividing line in Europe between Catholics and Protestants ran through the Netherlands, thus separate schools, etc.
Keep yourself telling that. I bet it was Nazi Germany that invented slavery?
Nope, on both accounts! Slavery was around long before, even in ancient times!
The movie I mentioned is on my channel.
classic scene!
Mel Gibson after they start laughing, "No shit, Sherlock." Hilarious!
lmfao.. i always laughed at this scene, especially the first time ever watching this awesome film :D
Dutch and Afrikaans would sound guttural anyway, like with the 'g'.
A German incidentally said that it sounds like a fishbone being pulled out the throat. :-)
I don't know, I've been working with a guy from SA for 3 years now and first we gave him all the jokes from this movie and second, his accent is not that far from the fake one in this scene! :)
Does he have "Diplomatic Immunity!"
@@gonzaleo if he does it’s just been revoked!
I played spitting image 'Never met a nice south African' to a workmate from Capetown -wasn't amused to say the least! 🤣
Fun fact: Did you know that the embassy guy voices Zero in MGS3?
Has had an interesting career
He may be blek but at least he isn't a fookin prawn.
@happihowie I think he's actually supposed to be South African. Their accent sounds almost Australian. Now, as far as why he said, "I don't think you really want to go to South Africa," it's because of South Africa's apartheid at the time. It was kinda like segregation, but worse.
I like how mels is laughing at the same accent he has
Mel Gibson had an Australian accent after growing up there with his family in 1960s even though he was born in New York and moved out of Australia in 1980s to start making movies in United States in 1984.
It's tough to watch clips like this and trying not to laugh with this stupid chest-cold I have, but that crap was hilarious toward the end, there.
Hey man hows your chest cold. Been 5 years hope its gone
@82pot
District 9 was a great film. Looking forward to part two!
"He is... You are..." lol
@1488slav Yep, I'm from SA and I can attest that the actor does not sound Afrikaans - he sounds like an Englishman or an Australian trying to do the Afrikaans accent (he doesn't do it very well and it ends up being this weird amalgamation between the two).
Is it just me or does anyone get Goodfellas vibes when they're laughing in the car
“You are” 😂😂😂
He's blek! He's blek! This is a funny scene!
this is like a colonial accent of white south africans - very much like australian but different
most of the Afrikaner people have dutch surnames and many others have french since those were the two main groups to migrate to South Africa.
This scene is all Joe Pesci.
I know I may sound dumb asking this question but why did the dutchman not allow danny glover's character go to south africa? There is so much that I don't know and so much that I'll never know.
@Truegeeza
Yeah, it is so. But the trouble was that white South Africa had regularly institutionalized Apartheid and was even proud of that. Luckily such a system could not hold itself indefinetly - and hope it never does anywhere else in the world.
Yeah man, I can't believe you haven't changed the description yet. Did you miss the point of this scene, or who the bad guys were, when you watched the film? They are racist South Africans in the era of apartheid.
that guy with the "strange accent" has a south african accent, i know that thanks to district 9 :D
One of the funniest scenes in movie history. It's a shame you cut out the riot after Pesci says "You are. He is."
"FREE SOUTH AFRICA YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH"
-Because you´re bleck!-You are.....he is.
As soon as I saw the video of Charles Oakley getting physically thrown out of the Knicks game last week, I immediately thought of this scene.
Burst out laughing lmao
Did anyone else notice that the judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial happened to be blek? She was. She was blek. She was, I am, you are. Blek. Poor Oscar was found guilcup, as opposed to being not guilcup. And he did not have diplomatic immunity. And his judge was Blek. She's blek.
South African Donald Trump?
Guilcup haha python reference
Alphonse lol
@ashwshaw2000 tied for second i think would be the
"diplomatic immunity hahaha"
"just been revoked"
COVID- 2020 Still one of my faves..
Lol
You are. He is.
Australian? Please tell me you're joking and you're not actually that slow that you don't realise he's South African?
What was missing here potentially is to Murtaugh touch his face like Richar Pryor in "cant see hear evil" tapping his face agreeing yeah i am hahah
So funny how Martin laughs
What's the reason for speeding up the video so they sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks?
TheREALSisko you should not comment on Suid Afrika because you have no idea what you are talking about.
What was happening in South Africa for them to talk him out of going?
Apartheid
Sotirios Spanos Are you befok stupid
Google "Nelson Mandela"
I bet Mel Gibson could talk him out of going to South Africa. Or being a woman. Or a Jew. Or gay.
@cdeeb20 If you hate something do something about it instead of complaining over the internet...
no, she tells riggs that her LAST NAME is Dutch..... she is South African. Calling a South African Dutch is probably like calling a American British....
Gibson laughing but thinking " shit, I need to go to SA. If they got no Jews, it is a heaven"
@mrtrin To be fair, most Americans really have no idea what South Africans sound like.
So why does donald trump say black exactly like this guy?
you are...
he is...
Shit, I was waiting for the "...you dumb son of a bitch! You dumb son of a bitch" part.
OMG. They just cant capture these kinds of moments in movies anymore. Lol
LOL!! love Joe Pesci man
i don't think he is supposed to be Dutch (Netherlands), but South African (which WAS colonized by the Dutch). They have a very different Dutch accent there.
Gangsta
lmao @ Joe Pesci: ''....you are. He is.''
Free South Africa!!!
2016BMWi8
...you dumb son of a bitch!
That' comment is about 20 years late my friend
...with every 10 gallons!
The ANC now imposing on everyone what it once fought against. So, the sign is still relevant.
Hello?.. The Dutch settled South Africa.. I/we learned that in 7th grade..
if that guys accent was meant to be south african.......it stank !!!!
1:28 who is steering
only maby you should chanche the title in black not blek
its a great accent.forget the politics
Possibly the worst South African accent I've heard....
ITS FUNNY WEN GLOVER SAVES THE FREE LINE COS HES BLACK,
jesus christ... do you not know a fucking dutch boer accent when you hear it?
Its one of the most distinct english speaking accents on the planet.
lrn2linguistics
I know your frustration, as I speak 3 languages and am linguistically inclined...but many people are not !
thank god SA is the paradise it is today
i would have liked to watch the whole scene
British guy: “…Because you’re blek”
Danny Glover looks to Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci remorsefully: “You are…”
He's not British kry jou feitereg meneer
@@liampetersen4853 ????
@@SolidSnake0621 South African
ok ok ok ok...but..but. youre blek, youre blek
"The person who spoke had a "strange" accent that did not sound British or even German, but a guttural one."... you mean South African? Hence the reason he is in the South African Embassy.
@slimv29 It's called karma. Hate breeds hate.
that's trevor from "best in show"