That’s the characteristic which I think most defined him as an actor. He simply did what the material needed, without the need to make himself the focus. And he was both hilarious and understated at once.
ARFY: "That's the kind of humor in the face of adversity that keeps America strong. i like you, Yossarian!" Bless you, Charles Grodin--NOBODY could have done the role of Arfy so well!
I've been using that line since 1970 whenever someone says something silly! Grodin was a dolt, but he was a great straight man. His role in this & "Midnight Run" were awesome!
The funniest thing about this movie is that it's so close to reality that it makes your head hurt and it makes you laugh at the same time it's the best movie ever made. It has to be.
@@yossarian00 I don't think I ever saw this Movie or Clooney's Verson of CAtch-22. I did read the book when I was in High School back in the 20th Century. It was one of my Favorite Books back then. I read Something Happenned also by Heller a couple of years later and I didn't like it that much.. I never read another Heller book after that, mcuh maybe I should. Good as Gold sounds pretty good and i think Joe Heller wrote some memoirs as well. I did read a lof Vonnegut back in the 1970's and 1980's, but I have n't read any Vonnegut in a few years.
Balls to wall filmmaking! Everyone in this film really went for it! I can understand how this would irk some people, but I think this is one of the great films ever made.
@@TwiGuy4 Normal although some were made out of nylon. Escape kits included maps of enemy territory made out of silk - unlike paper, they did not make a rustling noise if touched and were more likely to go unnoticed if the enemy searched a shot-down aviator's clothing.
You realize that thousands of American soldiers in World War II went AWOL in Paris and formed gangs taking over warehouses and selling military supplies illegally, earning millions for themselves? This movie and Kelly's Heroes were not pure fantasy.
@@reedhamkalariya6976Chaplin Taplin or Major Major Major, people put into situations (like Yousarian) who DON"T want to be there but are trying their best.
Chaplain R.O.Shipman is underrated af as a character, probably because his story (at least the book version of it) is one of the saddest ones in the book
Always liked Alan Arkin; would watch anything he was in. Remember him first in 'The Russians are Coming..' way back in the '60's (on UK tv). Saddened today to learn of his death. God speed Mr. Arkin.
I read the book several years back and want to do so again. I watched the movie over the weekend. I had not seen it in MANY MANY years and not as an adult. While it is a comedy of sorts (black comedy), it really is about Yossarian processing the death of Snowden which is slowly revealed throughout the movie. He is suffering from extreme PTSD from all that he has witnessed, but Snowden hit him the hardest. In my view, it has similarities to Holden Caulfield going nuts after the suicide of his boarding school roommate - which is not apparent until you see it through the eyes of the teacher who tries to counsel him. In fact, most lesson plans focus on teen angst and acting out without addressing this truly traumatic event.
I was told my my 3 uncles who served for 3 years overseas in ww11 that if your receive an order you do not agree with you are entitled to ask for that order to be in writing, no officer will do this, after all it might be a war crime investigation.
Watch The Russians are Coming! Arkin speaks perfect Russian through the film. The irony in that film is Brian Keith is the Police Chief and speaks no Russian at all- Brian Keith was very fluent in Russian.
The book is a quick read and funny in places. But Yossarian just can't grasp the concept of profit. He doesn't understand what the war was all about. He really paints some of us in a negative light. Ask anyone who was there who survived, Yossarian was always a little off.
A simple and yet very clever film! Yossarian is the only sane man in the entire USAF. Aardvark is perhaps the nuttiest - perfect material to command a bomber on daylight raids! I love this film.
at this time it was not the AF. It was the Army Air Corps, and my granddad reminds me of that each time we speak of our respective service times. (He was in the Air Corps for 3 years during WW2 and I was in the Air Force for 4 years 2012-2016)
Alan Arkin is one of my favorite comedic actors. I just relate to him so much. He says Where’s my Parachute? Then immediately, we got to turn back now! No Parachute! I’m not doing this without a parachute 🪂! What? Are you crazy? I’m not crazy! You’re Crazy! This is my kind of humor. He reacts to every insane situation he gets placed in. Alan Arkin always makes me laugh!
Among all the qualities of this film, i'm sure that Alan Arkin acting is one of the most underrated interpretion of the screen. Nichols chose him over Dustin Hoffman !!
@@HoldenNY22 Better !!?; there's no room left even for such a genius as Hoffman ; Arkin directed a film called Little murders i want to see really bad, Jean Renoir said great things upon it.
It took me over 4 years to read Joseph Heller's classic book - not because it was difficult to read, or I am a slow reader. But because it was so brilliant, I wanted to savour every single word. In fact, I would only read one page a day as I wanted it to last as long as possible. I remember that at first, I would read it on the bus to work every morning - but I had to stop doing that as I would burst out loud with laughter. [fellow passengers probably thought I was an escaped lunatic]. So instead, I would just sit there silently caressing my pillar-box red copy but never opening it until I was in bed at night. I even took it on holidays with me - and tragically left it in the hotel one time so had to buy a new copy of the book. Indeed, I actually ended buying three new copies of the book as I lost another copy and lent a third copy to a friend, who never returned it. But I wasn't deterred and was determined to read this most iconic book. And so it was. But after eventually finishing 'Catch 22' I felt empty and at a lose end. So, I went to my local bookstore to see what other Joseph Heller books they had. There I found Heller's 'Something Happened' - which was equally brilliant and laugh-out-loud hilarious. I absolutely love Joseph Heller - and Catch 22 [and Something Happened for that matter] are two of my all-time favourite books. Catch 22 is an excellent film - but it can never capture the sheer comical genius of Heller's book.
You were not wrong. I gave up on episode 4. The series is so bad and completely missed the tone of the book. Although the film captured 1/4 the book it got all the important bits and the tone is absolutely spot one. The film is a masterpiece of book adaptation.
There's another hilarious moment in this scene. The main character sees smoke and yells "Fire!", but it's the other guy smoking. The way he screams is realistically funny,amazing acting.
The thing was - that buy on Cotton Milo got - didn't turn out that well - and he couldn't sell it. I guess the reason the Cotton was so cheap - was because the guys who had it couldn't sell it - but - they sold it to Milo. So Milo in wanting to find a way to unload all that Cotton he can't sell and is trying to get Yossarian to eat Chocolate Cotton ... One thing about WWII - was that there was a tremendous amount of stuff that was stolen by guys like Milo - and the Character Don Rickles plays in _Kelly's Heroes_ . Naples was really bad. .
Martin Balsam. He played admiral Kimmel in "Tora Tora Tora! (1970)" and the shrink in the original Twilight Zone series episode "The Time Element (1958)."
They're not funny! I've just seen the stage play of Catch 22 and I feel like I've been placed in a war zone. The humor is a necessary means of survival. Between all the laughs is death and disappearance. I don't mean to get heavy but the madness only exists to blackout the horror of loss and uncertainty.
Did anyone like the Hulu remake? I really didn’t like it. It followed the book more closely in some ways, but i feel like it completely changed the tone of both the book and the original film. It was more melodramatic than absurd. I didn’t finish it. Once I got to the plane crash while the were swimming, and it played it as a tragic scene rather than a comic one, I couldn’t keep going.
Balsam and Voigt are terribly miscast. Cathcart's supposed to be handsome and preening, while Voigt's too handsome for Milo. Arkin's perfect for Yossarian, though.
+Vassiliki Dimou +Christopher Zimny I Thought They Were All Perfect Casts, Balsam WAS A Great Actor, And I Actually Envisioned Him In The Role Of Cathcart Before I Saw The Film, Same Thing With Voight
Where's My Parachute? - Catch-22 (3/10) Movie CLIP (1970) HD 1540pm 22.5.24 where is you rparachute? dunno... make sure you pack it yourself, eh? good luck!!! yeah... i, too, enjoyed alan arkin and his desire for the lady in the white frock - which is testament to the lack in most peoples' lives... though most men can relate to that kindda lacking... we can all dream, uh?
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Bless Alan Arkin, who gave us so many wonderful performances, without the ego.
That’s the characteristic which I think most defined him as an actor. He simply did what the material needed, without the need to make himself the focus. And he was both hilarious and understated at once.
I loved him as the Police Chief in "So I married a hatchet murder"... Arkin is the best at dry humor.
Rest in Peace Alan Arkin.. Class act actor.
ARFY: "That's the kind of humor in the face of adversity that keeps America strong. i like you, Yossarian!" Bless you, Charles Grodin--NOBODY could have done the role of Arfy so well!
best line ever...!
I've been using that line since 1970 whenever someone says something silly!
Grodin was a dolt, but he was a great straight man. His role in this & "Midnight Run" were awesome!
True, Grodin was PERFECT as Arfy.
You must be one hell of an actor to say that line without laughing.
@@NormAppleton and yet r we gonna ignore the fact that he’s a sadistic murderous rapist tho…!?
The funniest thing about this movie is that it's so close to reality that it makes your head hurt and it makes you laugh at the same time it's the best movie ever made. It has to be.
Book is even better
SO NÒW YOU KNOW , THUS THE NAME. IT IS A PARADOX.
The best movie ever made. Rest in peace Alan Arkin.
@@chennellproductions6538 R.I.P. Yossarian.
@@yossarian00 I don't think I ever saw this Movie or Clooney's Verson of CAtch-22. I did read the book when I was in High School back in the 20th Century. It was one of my Favorite Books back then. I read Something Happenned also by Heller a couple of years later and I didn't like it that much.. I never read another Heller book after that, mcuh maybe I should. Good as Gold sounds pretty good and i think Joe Heller wrote some memoirs as well. I did read a lof Vonnegut back in the 1970's and 1980's, but I have n't read any Vonnegut in a few years.
Balls to wall filmmaking! Everyone in this film really went for it! I can understand how this would irk some people, but I think this is one of the great films ever made.
How in the world did you get so much silk?
Where the hell’s my parachute?!
better question, why are they making parachutes out of silk? actually thats normal for this kind of military
@@TwiGuy4 Normal although some were made out of nylon. Escape kits included maps of enemy territory made out of silk - unlike paper, they did not make a rustling noise if touched and were more likely to go unnoticed if the enemy searched a shot-down aviator's clothing.
😅
This is really an underrated movie.
I actually forgot just how great this movie is. It's a masterpiece of work
Caryn James
Caryn James definitely.✌
New mini series soon will come from Hulu
@@ggsay1687 that's the reason I'm here
Nobody could convey anxiety like Arkin.
maybe he's the definition of anxiety?
“Looks like they’ve seen us coming! :D”
*”THEY’VE SEEN US?!? OH GOD, THEY’VE SEEN US!!!”*
The duality of man under fire right here.
Catch 22 is no doub't the funniest war comedy ever by a long way Alan Arkin is so funny and a great cast backs him up.
The original MASH came out the same year.
Also a masterpiece.
RIP Charles Grodin. He was terrifc as Arfy
The irony is that John Yossarian is the only one sane in that laughing house.
Milo is one of the greatest novel characters ever. Wonderful caricature of capitalism.
he was always a bit over the top.
You realize that thousands of American soldiers in World War II went AWOL in Paris and formed gangs taking over warehouses and selling military supplies illegally, earning millions for themselves? This movie and Kelly's Heroes were not pure fantasy.
Yeah
Angela's Dad was just playing himself
You know nothing ... it was exactly the same in socialism, I've been thru that
You know nothing ... it was exactly the same in socialism, I've been thru that
For years I have been saying that Alan Arkin and Charles Grodin are two of my favourite actors. Most people say "who?"
Dry humor is one of the hardest forms of comedy, and they both were masters at it.
"It's all for the good of the Syndicate, Yossarian..!"
I hated Aarfy in the book, but in the movie I absolutely loved his dangerous nonchalance
Aarfy is so fucking irritating.
Best character for me is Milo.
@@marciocouto3543 for me its Orr.
@@reedhamkalariya6976Chaplin Taplin or Major Major Major, people put into situations (like Yousarian) who DON"T want to be there but are trying their best.
Chaplain R.O.Shipman is underrated af as a character, probably because his story (at least the book version of it) is one of the saddest ones in the book
The pilot is actually one of the greatest singers ever!
Simon begs to differ
Poor Yossarian! In this scene his panic and desperation are on overload, in contrast to Aarfy Ardvarks easy indifference.
Daylight raid over enemy territory through heavy flak. No parachute?....don't worry about it!
This is one of the first signs that "crazy" Yossarian is actually dangerously sane and Aarfy is not right in the head.
Always liked Alan Arkin; would watch anything he was in. Remember him first in 'The Russians are Coming..' way back in the '60's (on UK tv). Saddened today to learn of his death. God speed Mr. Arkin.
I read the book several years back and want to do so again. I watched the movie over the weekend. I had not seen it in MANY MANY years and not as an adult. While it is a comedy of sorts (black comedy), it really is about Yossarian processing the death of Snowden which is slowly revealed throughout the movie. He is suffering from extreme PTSD from all that he has witnessed, but Snowden hit him the hardest. In my view, it has similarities to Holden Caulfield going nuts after the suicide of his boarding school roommate - which is not apparent until you see it through the eyes of the teacher who tries to counsel him. In fact, most lesson plans focus on teen angst and acting out without addressing this truly traumatic event.
I was told my my 3 uncles who served for 3 years overseas in ww11 that if your receive an order you do not agree with you are entitled to ask for that order to be in writing, no officer will do this, after all it might be a war crime investigation.
That happened in “Paths of Glory”.
After eight yrs in the army including one tour in Nam, I have to say that this movie isn't nearly as crazy as you might think.
RIP Buck Henry!
I've never seen Arkin so young lol. I gotta watch this film and read the book too of course.
Watch The Russians are Coming! Arkin speaks perfect Russian through the film. The irony in that film is Brian Keith is the Police Chief and speaks no Russian at all- Brian Keith was very fluent in Russian.
The book is a quick read and funny in places. But Yossarian just can't grasp the concept of profit. He doesn't understand what the war was all about. He really paints some of us in a negative light. Ask anyone who was there who survived, Yossarian was always a little off.
A simple and yet very clever film! Yossarian is the only sane man in the entire USAF. Aardvark is perhaps the nuttiest - perfect material to command a bomber on daylight raids! I love this film.
at this time it was not the AF. It was the Army Air Corps, and my granddad reminds me of that each time we speak of our respective service times. (He was in the Air Corps for 3 years during WW2 and I was in the Air Force for 4 years 2012-2016)
USAAF
@@TN-jb4jk After 1944?
Milo Minderbinder and Martin Balsam are a riot together!
I know a few soldiers in today's Army that would pull a "stunt" like that.
Rest in peace Mr Alan Arkin.
R.I.P indeed. One of the best.
I typed Catch 22 to have a look back at Yossarian and came across your message.
In memory of ... good memories.
R.I.P Charles!
Any flak you may encounter will be purely deterrent in nature.
Alan Arkin is one of my favorite comedic actors. I just relate to him so much.
He says Where’s my Parachute? Then immediately, we got to turn back now! No Parachute! I’m not doing this without a parachute 🪂! What? Are you crazy? I’m not crazy! You’re Crazy!
This is my kind of humor. He reacts to every insane situation he gets placed in. Alan Arkin always makes me laugh!
Among all the qualities of this film, i'm sure that Alan Arkin acting is one of the most underrated interpretion of the screen. Nichols chose him over Dustin Hoffman !!
I didn't knopw that. I think Dustin Hoffman would have made a Great Yosarian. Possibly better than Alan Arkin.
@@HoldenNY22 Better !!?; there's no room left even for such a genius as Hoffman ; Arkin directed a film called Little murders i want to see really bad, Jean Renoir said great things upon it.
The B-25 is my all-time favorite aircraft... the radial engine predecessor of the Warthog!
R.I.P., Alan Arkin, from a former _"Coastal Guardian."_
The theme of this movie is in the title phrase, which means being in an Impossible situation.
How can ya just not love Charles Grodin.
....and if ROBERT DN would have seen that BEFORE doin MIDNIGHT RUN, he would have known CHARLES is NOT afraid to FLY!
@@ArielS62 😆
See you in the next life Charles
Yossorian....My fav character...😂😂😂😂😂
This is what catch-22 series of 2019 missed. They made it kinda serious emotional when catch 22 is dark comedy.
Humorous parts of Catch-22 are occasionally so dark that you must decide to laugh at sheer absurdity of it.
Charles Grodin had so many great moments.
It took me over 4 years to read Joseph Heller's classic book - not because it was difficult to read, or I am a slow reader. But because it was so brilliant, I wanted to savour every single word. In fact, I would only read one page a day as I wanted it to last as long as possible.
I remember that at first, I would read it on the bus to work every morning - but I had to stop doing that as I would burst out loud with laughter. [fellow passengers probably thought I was an escaped lunatic]. So instead, I would just sit there silently caressing my pillar-box red copy but never opening it until I was in bed at night.
I even took it on holidays with me - and tragically left it in the hotel one time so had to buy a new copy of the book. Indeed, I actually ended buying three new copies of the book as I lost another copy and lent a third copy to a friend, who never returned it. But I wasn't deterred and was determined to read this most iconic book.
And so it was. But after eventually finishing 'Catch 22' I felt empty and at a lose end. So, I went to my local bookstore to see what other Joseph Heller books they had. There I found Heller's 'Something Happened' - which was equally brilliant and laugh-out-loud hilarious.
I absolutely love Joseph Heller - and Catch 22 [and Something Happened for that matter] are two of my all-time favourite books. Catch 22 is an excellent film - but it can never capture the sheer comical genius of Heller's book.
RIP Alan Arkin.
RIP Alan Arkin
FWIW: I was born in 1961. So many actors I grew up watching on TV and in movies, from back in the day, are gone now...😞
R.I.P Mr Arkin
I fear the new Catch-22 w/ Clooney is going to miss the genius of this movie and the book. I hope I'm proved wrong.
Dan Knows I wonder if it will be the same Clooney disaster like Solaris instead of the brilliant original film by Stanislaw Lem.
You were not wrong. I gave up on episode 4. The series is so bad and completely missed the tone of the book. Although the film captured 1/4 the book it got all the important bits and the tone is absolutely spot one. The film is a masterpiece of book adaptation.
@@AchtungEnglander They should have cast Henry Fonda, even if he was too old.
There's another hilarious moment in this scene. The main character sees smoke and yells "Fire!", but it's the other guy smoking. The way he screams is realistically funny,amazing acting.
Rest in Pace Alan Arkin
I don't say this very often but I loved the film far more than the novel.
Seriously underrated movie... there are moments that are classic. The nurses changing the IV bottles... LMAO!!!!
RIP Alan 😥😥
Charles Grodin what a ledgend
There are worse things than death, mainly a long uninspiring life. Wish we had more people who lived life rather than merely survive it.
So few get an opportunity to live life. We know Opportunity has habit of wearing overalls and smelling like work, but so do Scams and Failures.
Extraordinarily good movie.
I love this movie and book so much..
Banging on the window 😂😂😂
I think I look like Alan Arkin when he made this movie.
I have seen Catch 22 tote bags. The second printing displayed on them.
I had no idea the hulu show was a remake of an old Alan arkin movie. R.I.P. gonna have to watch this.
I have dim memories of finding this movie weird and entertaining, but being disappointed it wasn't as funny as MASH. I'll give it another try
This movie was amazing. I would recommend to read the book first and you will have a greater appreciation of the genius of this movie.
Movie is good fun, but novel is just so much better as it can instead of only showing.
Daneeka (KIA) had it real bad.
Rip mr arkin!!!!
A must read book.
Alan Arkin was smiling too much after 1:10. Maybe should have done a second take. Haha.
RIP Alan
LMFAO!🤣
Jman
And to everyone else not having a parachute is not a problem.
Important ingredients for success in the military flying biz include alcoholism, psychotic detachment, and Arfy’s can-do attitude.
R.I.P Alan Arkin
That’s Angelina Jolie’s dad
I would be like "Yea I dumped all those EGGS, could we fly by Milo on the way back, no particular reason just owe him a dozen eggs."
The thing was - that buy on Cotton Milo got - didn't turn out that well - and he couldn't sell it. I guess the reason the Cotton was so cheap - was because the guys who had it couldn't sell it - but - they sold it to Milo.
So Milo in wanting to find a way to unload all that Cotton he can't sell and is trying to get Yossarian to eat Chocolate Cotton ...
One thing about WWII - was that there was a tremendous amount of stuff that was stolen by guys like Milo - and the Character Don Rickles plays in _Kelly's Heroes_ . Naples was really bad.
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that older guy looks like the guy who was in "all quiet on the western front" but credits say it otherwise...
You’re thinking of Ernest Borgnine
Martin Balsam.
He played admiral Kimmel in "Tora Tora Tora! (1970)" and
the shrink in the original Twilight Zone series episode "The Time Element (1958)."
Probably the greatest anti-war movie ever made😉
Great movie.
“They’ve seen us.”
These guys are so funny....
They're not funny! I've just seen the stage play of Catch 22 and I feel like I've been placed in a war zone. The humor is a necessary means of survival. Between all the laughs is death and disappearance. I don't mean to get heavy but the madness only exists to blackout the horror of loss and uncertainty.
Help The Bombadier
Did anyone like the Hulu remake? I really didn’t like it. It followed the book more closely in some ways, but i feel like it completely changed the tone of both the book and the original film. It was more melodramatic than absurd. I didn’t finish it. Once I got to the plane crash while the were swimming, and it played it as a tragic scene rather than a comic one, I couldn’t keep going.
Alan Arkin RIP
I wouldn’t have hesitated to turn around had I discovered I had no parachute.
You'd have checked your parachute before takeoff, it's just a plot device 😉
“LISTEN I WOULD KILL IF I WERENT THINKING OF MY DAM PARACHUTE!”
An awesome movie
Rumor I am spreading -the Coen brothers are going to remake this movie!
One of the funniest movies ever? Especially if you are a veteran.
Am I the only one who didn't realise Yossarian was Hooper from Jaws?!
IDK what this movie is but it looks hilarious!
Catch 22
stupid movie clips fade out on the best line "better get ready to dump those eggs"
I am sorry if I offended you.....I was only commenting on Alan Arkin's acting abilities.
Balsam and Voigt are terribly miscast. Cathcart's supposed to be handsome and preening, while Voigt's too handsome for Milo. Arkin's perfect for Yossarian, though.
I thought Voight was really good as Milo. Arkin's acting was terrible for like the first half of the film. Especially in this scene.
+Vassiliki Dimou +Christopher Zimny
I Thought They Were All Perfect Casts, Balsam WAS A Great Actor, And I Actually Envisioned Him In The Role Of Cathcart Before I Saw The Film, Same Thing With Voight
Bullshit. Arkin's was the best performance of the year in an impossible role to practically anyone.
@@Zimnyification You're crazy!
Arkin in this scene was awful
Funny movie!
A good movie?
I haven't watched it yet
Humorous as it's shown here, grift in the military was a tragic truth, especially when firearms went missing to be sold on the black market.
Of course it depends on military and moment.
I'm the bombardier, RIP.
RIP
alright...alright, which one of ya bastards stole my parachute?
Where's My Parachute? - Catch-22 (3/10) Movie CLIP (1970) HD 1540pm 22.5.24 where is you rparachute? dunno... make sure you pack it yourself, eh? good luck!!! yeah... i, too, enjoyed alan arkin and his desire for the lady in the white frock - which is testament to the lack in most peoples' lives... though most men can relate to that kindda lacking... we can all dream, uh?
話は逸れるが、ジェームス・ジョーンズが62年に発表した「シンレッドライン」の主人公って、前年に自殺したヘミングウェイに少し重なると思わないか？
60年には、日本では『麦と兵隊』の火野葦平が自殺してる。日米反共ファシズム安保が発行してすぐのことだ。カミュも、ちょっと前にアルジェで事故死したな。
This movie is so funny and cruel, it hurts. No one cares, nothing makes sense, I don’t want to die. Combat.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh
robert downey jr. looks a lot like him
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