Clue (1985) Movie Reaction! // One of the funniest films I have ever seen!
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2021
- My first time watching Clue. I literally didn't stop laughing during this, wasn't expecting such great comedy from this film!
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“We’re things really that shitty that you couldn’t just come out as homosexual?”
Me:*laughs in gay* oh honey ...
Well, in the UK, you could be sent to prison just for same-gender sex until 1967. If you worked for the US State Department, depending on which executive order or law you were looking at, LGBT employees weren’t protected from being fired until anywhere from 1995 to 2015. During the Cold War, being a gay federal employee left you open to being blackmailed by the Soviets to pressure you to become a spy. That’s why Mr. Green specified he kept quiet for security reasons.
@@kathyastrom1315 Oh Im well aware. Russia had a whole taskforce that would exploit homosexuals in positions of relative power and blackmailed them into giving them state secrets during the cold war.
Yeah, in the US, especially in military or government positions, being known as homosexual was a career ender, up until about the mid-'80s or so. Ostensibly because it was a 'security risk' as mentioned -- the person could be blackmailed to reveal vital information, to protect their secret. Never acknowledged as a circular argument, that there would be no reason to blackmail anyone for a lifestyle that was accepted.
Yep, yep. Research the "lavender scare". There are some great documentaries about it.
Remember in the US in the 50s black people were sitting at the back of the bus and using different toilets, yes the 50s was horrendous
When they originally released this in the theaters, they secretly released three different versions, each with only one of the different endings. So the solution to the mystery was different depending on which version your local theater was given. They combined the three endings for the home video release.
I know (at least every time I've seen it anyway) when they show this on TV they randomize the endings as well. idk if this is everywhere all the time, but for me anyway.
It wasn't secret. Part of the presentation was yo go to the different theaters and see
On my DVD, you can select it to play either way. You can watch the Home Video version which shows all 3 endings, or you can play it Theatrical where it will randomly close only one ending for you (shortens it a bit, but has a real feel for how it was in theaters).
Another note, I believe when it was in theaters, some theaters disclosed which endings whey were showing, while others kept it a secret.
It wasn’t secretly done. The three endings was advertised
I was able to see Ending B and C only. I never got to see A; so Scarlet and Peacock were the only two I knew of, until VHS release.
Tim Curry is a legend, any film with him automatically gains 1 star on its rating
He single handedly saved Home Alone 2.
"I know this was set in the 50's, were things really that shitty that you couldn't come out?"
Oh baby....look up The Lavender Scare.
"Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn" is an homage to "Gone With The Wind".
The reason that the movie has multiple endings is because the murderer changes every time you play the board game. So in a way, you're encouraged to choose your own ending.
"I Know this was set in the 50's, were things really that shi**y that you couldn't come out"............. things were pretty much like that when this film was made in the 80s especially in the military, never mind the 50s.
I believe there are still states that don’t provide legal protection for LGBTQ+ workers. Regardless, there remain many US voters who don’t support such protections for much of anyone as evidenced by the last four years.
Yeah, like the AIDS epidemic.
"Good thing the 50s are over."
Oh dear. Who's going to tell him?
@@brahamwardrober6774
very misinformed statement
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@@yankeerepairs Would you care to elaborate? I’m genuinely curious.
Yvette the maid has made a strong case for bringing back French Maid's in a large fashion
I was Yvette in our high school play.
I auditioned for Miss Scarlet,
then everyone said I had to be Yvette because I had the huge cleavage for it 😂
but I did get a custom made maid costume identical to the movie version ☺
I was working at a movie theater when this came out. They released the 3 different endings/versions ('A', and 'B', and 'C') to different theaters [it seemed random]; the movie-ads in the newspapers simply showed a letter and didn't explain what it meant, so that at first people didn't know what was going on. People would talk over the movie with a friend (who'd seen it elsewhere), and get confused! After the word got out, you could plan-out which version to see, but there was no word on what the 'correct'/'official' version was, so people who wanted to make sure they'd seen the 'right' one had to see all three!
At the theater, we had to deal with complaints about that. (I didn't mind because, as an employee, I could go around and see them *all* for free!)
If you're a fan of murder-mysteries/detective-stories, you should check out "Murder By Death" ... another _very funny_ movie! And there's "Knives Out", that came out a year or two ago; another *seriously funny* murder-mystery!
*Enjoy!*
Murder by Death is excellent, particularly for those familiar with some of the great detectives from books and film.
And neither of you mentioned Murder By Death was shot in the same house?! Shame!
I always love the moment when Wadsworth is stunned that the cop was okay with everything, and my favorite lines in the movie.
"This is America!"
"I see!"
"It's a free country! Don't you know that?"
"I didn't know it was *that* free."
“Were things that bad in the fifties?”
YES!
in fact, homosexuality between two men was illegal in britain until 1967. How insane is that...
@@DrummerMiles It was illegal in some states in America until the 1980s . . .
Edit: until the 2000's. . . .
@@fong03 Actually it was illegal in 14 states until 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot prohibit sodomy between consenting adults (Lawrence v. Texas).
@@SeekingHisWill78 Yep. I somehow got Bowers and Lawrence flipped in my head. That'll teach me to comment before having my morning caffeine. lol
Yes. Look up the HUAC - House Unamerican Activities Committee - and Senator Joe McCarthy. The 50s were pretty paranoid.
The scene where Mrs. White goes "Flames...on the sides of my face" was completely unscripted, and everyone on set thought that was so much funnier than what was written, they decided to leave it in.
Madeline Kahn was a treasure
It’s one of my favourite scenes, and almost every favourite quote I have from this movie comes from Madeleine Kahn. She was brilliant in this.
Apparently, there was a fourth ending. I don't know if anyone has ever seen it on film. But they released a young adult book with pictures from the film. I borrowed a copy from a girl in middle school, and at the end they show some pictures from it, and also tell that ending. Something about Wadsworth/Mr. Boddy (Tim Curry) driving away, turns around and the vicious dog is in the backseat. It leaves you thinking the dog kills him.
I had heard about this. That it was storyboarded but never filmed. Never knew what it was so thank you!!!
@@EmpressVes i THINK it went past storyboard. I can't think of why they would just take pictures of it for children's book (I can't think of why they would put it IN a children's book, lol). Maybe they did film it, or parts, but never cleaned it up or took it to post.
Colonel Mustard hinted there was going to be a female killer when he mentioned Kipling at the dinner scene “The female of the species is more deadly than the male”.
Look up Alan Turing and see what the UK did to someone who helped break the Enigma Code in WW2 but was gay.
This is a brilliant film. So, so funny along with all the possible scenarios. I love this movie!! The actors are all amazing. Perfect fit with each character.
one of my all-time favorite movies. It's so good.
If you like Clue, you may also like Murder By Death. It was a similar movie with a combined all-star U.S./U.K. cast spoofing the old mystery characters such as Charlie Chan, The Thin Man, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, etc. Sir David Niven, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Nancy Walker and Peter Sellers were the top names in the cast.
The reason they did the 3 endings is because it is a play on the Murder Mystery "bad trope" where at the end of "not so good" novels, anyone could have done it but the author just picks one of the characters and says "he/she did it" without a concrete through line
There are so many actors in this movie that are superb, but being into punk, I was surprised to see the lead singer of the punk band Dead Kennedys, playing as Mr. Body!
When this movie came out in Theaters in 1985, they released the film with 3 different endings...the ones you saw. The ads in newspapers that told people where the movie was showing also told which ending you'd be seeing at what theater...ending A, B, or C. If you saw it in theaters, you got a different ending depending on which theater you went to.
Mr. Green's expressions during the policeman's search and conversation with Wadsworth were priceless.
I was a teenager in the '90s and you couldn't just "come out" then either. Things are SO much more tolerant now than even 20 years ago. Nothing's ever perfect, but we should appreciate how bad things have been for people in the past.
It's also, so amazing how true to the boardgame, the movie stayed, in so many details, rooms, secret passages, weapons, details .... As well, the movie being filmed in 'real time' - so the mystery unraveled in actual movie length ( +6:00 min )
Great cast, well done classic movie & your great reaction. 👍
Similarly, a lot of people forget or don't realize that the victim in Clue is named "Mr. Boddy."
Welcome to the Party! Clue is a timeless classic!
I love Clue so much
I was Yvette in our high school play. ☺
If you liked that there’s one from the late 70s called Murder By Death that you might enjoy
The only problem with that one is these youngsters knowing what fictional detectives the characters are based on.
Luv this movie with every aching bone in my BODY,and I would love to do a stage performance/filmed version of Clue some day
This is one of my favorite movies, watched it a gazillion times. Its always fun to see someone watch it for the first time & be surprised by the 3 endings. Glad you enjoyed it.
One of my favorite movies. The comedy is so subtle but it hits you hard.
this is such a fun movie. But your comment about the 50s and being gay. Sadly, at that time, many still felt that it was actually a form of insanity and they were locked up, chemically treated even sometimes had shock therapy. Thankfully times do change.
Sadly, homophobia is still around.
@@ThunderLizardsRule
As long as christianity exists, it will continue to be.
In the American version of the board game (known as a Clue instead of Cluedo), the victim is Mr. Boddy, so Americans knew that character would die.
In the UK I think it's Dr. Black
@@FLQueerLiberal1982 Thanks! I've never heard that!
@@oliviarogers3559 I remember the little mystery puzzles they used to have with a short mystery. You put the jigzaw puzzle together, had a short story where the reveal was written on a page that required this special little magnifying glass it came with. That was the first time I came across Dr. Black as the victim. Although, several times in the US they tried to expand the list of characters with Madame Rose, or Miss Peach, a Sgt. Gray, and others. I really wish there was more modern Clue stuff out there to play. There is a great Clue game on the app store. But, it gets old.
@@oliviarogers3559 no. Never heard of it. But I don't even have anyone to play with. 😔
@@FLQueerLiberal1982
There's a forum game called "Mafia", whch is kinda/sorta like Clue. You may find it fun.
The board game is unofficially based upon the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap. It's different, and shant say more.
What’s always funny to me is that Mr. Green is the ACTUAL Clue/do answer. Who shot Mr. Boddy? Mr. Green, in the hall, with the revolver.
"Mr. Boddy" was the name of the victim in the US version of the board game as well (replacing Mr. Black). It wasn't an invention of this movie.
Gay History Lesson: Being gay was legitimate grounds for termination from any job in the US right up until the 80s. In government jobs being homosexual was considered a security risk for closeted men, as they were particularly susceptible to being black mailed in exchange for confidential, or secret information.
Mr. Boddy = Dr. Black
Mr. Body is the person who is murdered when you are PLAYING a game of clue. Most people aren't anal about the rules like I am but it's in the manual
He isn't called that in the UK version, which is why he didn't know that.
I love this movie so much I play it in my head at work every day.
I wish I were so blissfully unaware to not know you couldn't just come out in the '50s. In some places you can't just come out now even lol.
6:19 "that you can't just come out as homosexual?" You should go to some places in the 2020s!
I feel like it was released at the wrong time. It didn't do well in theaters, but these days anyone who watches it loves it. I've watched it many times and I've never not enjoyed it.
Mr Body is the victim in the board game in the US. In the UK it's Dr Black.
I was so heartbroken he was the criminal too. He was my favorite.
Classic. My favourite all-time movie. Everyone I know that's seen it loves it.
“This is ridiculous! If he was such a patriotic American, why didn’t he just hand us over to the authorities?”
“He decided to put his information to good use, and make a little money out of it. What could be more American than that?!”
Many possible endings, just like the board game
Is Mrs. White the killer EVERY time you play? No. You have to shuffle the cards, and you get a different outcome.
The first ending is the most logical, if you ask me.
This whole film is a spoof of murder mystery tropes. The murder mysteries it is spoofing are the ones where the audience is being given the same information as the characters trying to solve it. Hypothetically this means that the audience should be able to solve the mystery along with the characters. The problem is the writer has to keep everything vague enough before the end so the audience doesn't figure it out too soon. This leads to a series of clues and motivations that could be attached to any number of the suspects and in the end, it seems like the one solving the mystery just randomly picked a suspect and connected everything. This is why all three of the endings of this still work.
I remember they showed this on Comedy Central during October for Halloween. 😎
Omgosh you're SO fun to watch with :)
I guess the British have no clue...but Cluedo.
Great reaction!
Clue is probably the perfect comedy.
I know people mentioned that the 3 endings were shown in different theatres. I actually saw this in theatres a couple years ago (it included all 3 endings). The dvd/blu-ray allows you to randomize the ending. So you never know which one you'll get. I like viewing it that way.
It's so strange seeing Christopher Lloyd playing such a perverted character. I'm used to him being like Doc Brown.
Jim Ignatowski - was his 'best' role - TV show 'Taxi' 😆
The thing is the first two endings have factual errors and holes if you’re go back and watch it again. The third ending is the only one that adds up.
There was a deleted 4th ending where Tim Curry did it all, and got away, only to be attacked by the dog in the backseat of the car
So hey, what they did was that they released it to American theaters, but different theaters were given one of three different endings. You had to go see it three times to see how it REALLY ended.
you should watch murder by death , i love clue as much as i do that one, i think i was one of the few that saw clue at the cinema, lol , i loved it then and still do, i cannot remember which ending i watched , i only knew about the multiple ones when i bought the dvd, clue is what the americans call cludo
Have you watched Broadchurch? I can't remember if you've said.
I've seen the first 2 series, I thought it was alright but wasn't really my thing, I found it too depressing
@@Contrules Yeah, I can understand that. I was more invested in the Hardy/Miller relationship than the actual crimes, myself.
The three different endings for different theaters was a dumb idea that killed the film for the release. It gave us more Tim Curry as Wadsworth though, and they should have just had all the endings in the theater. Anyway, it’s so cool that this film has gotten so much acclaim over the years. When I was a kid almost no one had seen, it took years to accumulate an audience.
it'a clue, people offer up theories until someone gets it right
You could still lose your job in certain areas.
In most states you could still lose your job up until last year (2020) when the Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that the word "sex" in Title VII also includes sexual orientation and gender identity in civil rights protections in employment. At the time of the ruling, only 21 states had enacted protections for LGBT workers.
@@SeekingHisWill78 Still doesn't stop the discrimination sadly.
@@SeekingHisWill78
^^ misinformed statement ^^
by seekinghiswill
@@yankeerepairs I'm curious what part of my statement you believe is misinformed. I will gladly correct it if I said something in error.
@@SeekingHisWill78
the whole { sex / orientation / gender / LGBTQ 'rights' } part of your statement-
Love Death in Paradise. Really any mystery that doesn't doesn't involve too much gore or suffering seen
You should listen to David Tennant's podcast with Ian McKellen, who talks about being gay before it was legal.
i didn't know that existed. im going to look it up, thanks :)
@@ElisaH_DarklyiShine There are two full seasons! DT is quite a good interviewer and chooses very interesting guests.
@@sallyatticum wait! it's his own podcast?! i just thought u meant they were both guest on a podcast. how did i not know about this?!
@@ElisaH_DarklyiShine I don't know! It's called "David Tennant does a Podcast with..." and he has had several guests from Doctor Who and Broadchurch, including Catherine Tate, Olivia Colman, and Jodie Whittaker, plus other co-stars like Michael Sheen, Krysten Ritter, Jennifer Garner, some political figures like Stacey Abrams and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and some comediennes, Tina Fey, Samantha Bee, icons like Judi Dench and George Takei.... and so many more...
Bubs, there’s still dozens of countries where being gay is illegal. And we’re getting called groomers on the streets, that’s a *recent* development
Yes, In the United States it was that bad in the '50s and '60s.
Worse.
"Were things really that bad in the 50s"
Yes. Being gay was illegal. You could be jailed, huge numbers of people had their careers destroyed. Many people committed suicide over blackmail claims. Seriously appalled you think otherwise.
kids today are not taught about history, they even want to ban learning about WWII because it's too upsetting, that's why they repeat the same mistakes and now we're living another Nazi age.
Well it was the 50s, you couldn't do alot of things!
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None of the 3 solutions is actually correct....
6:00 Yeah, it was bad in the 90’s too. Way worse in the 50’s.
Yep, the butler did it. And everyone else.
I think we can really pick our favourite ending as they were all shown at the cinema. We don't have to listen to the home video edition's opinion about which one actually happened. That could be lying too. 😀
yes, it was that shitty. if you came out, you could be publicly disgraced, even arrested.
the fact that you didn't include your reaction to mrs. white's "flames on the side of my face" monologue is a damn travesty. that is one of the funniest things to ever happen in a movie EVER, and she ad-libbed the whole thing. the expressions on the other actors' faces are completely genuine. come on.
and i see that plenty of other people have already pointed it out to you, but damn, that line about "were things really that bad in the 50s"? please wake up. that's actually really insulting.
I mean this video is the highlights of my reaction, not the highlights of the film, I did find that moment funny but didn't visibly react as much as other moments, so it didn't make the cut.
Also, I was born in the late 90s, I don't know everything about history, nor do I know the social politics of every foreign country. But I often hear USA referred to as "the land of the free" so I did assume they were a little more liberal (certainly more than my own country, which I'm well aware has treated LGBT people horrendously)
@@Contrules “land of the free” is only worth anything in america if you were assigned male at birth and self-identify as that gender, straight, and white.
This movie ruined me. Every single time I hear the phrase, "Too make a long story short..." I have to battle myself not to say, "too late!" Sometimes I win the battle, sometimes I lose.
You poor soul, thinking at the start that this mystery could have possibly been solved.
There are some tantalizing "clues" though. You had to be quick, but you could have recognized the motorist standing next to Colonel Mustard in a photo as the evidence is thrown into the fire. Also, Yvette's lines before she is murdered show she thought she was talking to someone else first (Miss Scarlett, her boss), when she is surprised who it actually is (Mrs. White, jealous wife). So, the final ending is the best as far as making sense. But, the multiple endings are a nice nod to the board game.
Also, the secret passages connect the same rooms in the board game.
There cars are the colors of their tokens. Yes things were that bad for gay people in the 1950's. There were multiple endinds only one was shown at a certain theather.
....people can lose their jobs now for coming out. Being set in the 50s doesnt really matter still.
^^ misinformed statement ^^