I get the feeling this kid actually looks up to Napoleon, and Napoleon knows it. So he has to devise something new every day to maintain the kid's admiration.
@@Alan-lb8ef That is possible. The kid had the weirdest look on his face too. Like if some weirdo knocked my door and asked what I was going to do today every single day I probably would flip out eventually.
As silly as the show is, it was the most accurate portrayal of highschool in a movie. Most kids were petty and clichish. All the girls looked regular not a bunch of supermodels. The prom was very underwhelming.
@@sethtate2079So very accurate. My house even looked like the outside of that one, and their furniture looked just like what we had. With that flower-printed sofa -- exact match.
This scene totally set the tone for this movie in a second. I mean it's just such a fuckin weird and funny scene. So odd and random, it's perfect. I don't think I will ever forget it
Agreed. When I first loaded this up on DVD and watched it with my wife, she was like, "Whaaaaa?" and I was on the couch, laughing my butt off. Yes, it definitely set the tone for the movie. LOL
Not really 🤣 the kid is used to all the dumb shit Napoleon does in the back of the bus. That’s why he asked him what he was going to do that day.. and I think Napoleon tried to do cool like things infront of him everyday 🤣
I commented this before somewhere else but holy shit I couldn’t agree more. I just put laughing every time a new song comes on due to how corny the music is. It fits the movie so perfectly, it’s definitely one of the most under appreciated aspects of the entire movie.
I noticed everyone saying they love how authentic this movie feels and how it captures everyday life, and I remember listening to the director's commentary on this and they pulled a lot of these scenes from their real life growing up. It's so good
I remember the first time I ever saw this movie, in theaters, I was like,"dude am I on a different planet? How is this a movie". Still laugh so hard at this movie. Pure Genius
My mom thought it was the dumbest crap she's ever seen, and my dad and I teared up at the end and clapped. The film definitely appeals to a certain kind of person lmao
Can I just say, this movie is so odd yet so entertaining. I think a lot of people already said it, but it just shows how entertaining every day Life can be if we just look for the simple things.
@Scott I am laughing at your humorous comments, but I have to say that for myself, I had a hard time concentrating on driving with my 5 kids in the car .....I don't know how a bus driver can operate his/her vehicle safely with 30- 40 kids behind them..... 🤣
When I was in 5th grade, around the time the movie came out, my friends and I actually attempted this on the school bus. Instead of an action figure, it was either a cheap stuffed animal from the dollar store or something we found on the ground. At least one of us had to watch out for other school buses. We had to stop because we used multicolored yarn instead of fishing line which the driver saw in his mirrors. We got a verbal warning, but it was fun while it lasted
I hear that kid is an actual real-life resident of Preston, Idaho, this movie’s setting and filming location. As well as the guy who plays Napoleon’s neighbor, Lyle.
His name is Todd Philips...after the movie he became a bigshot around town, he let it go to his head, has like 12 kids, all with different mothers, I met him last year at the local Sonic where he hangs out
Haha, I love the authenticity in this movie in presenting the average school experience (especially in a small/rural town), not fantastic, not hell on Earth, it just is.
My daughter was home from college on summer break. I took her to see this movie when it first hit the theater. I knew within 2 minutes this was going to be an awesome movie.
I have like my own backstory for this kid lmao. Like, he starts his first day of high school and pays no attention to the napoleon. But then as the week progresses, he starts to notice napoleon doing some weird thing every morning and just eventually gets to the point where he just stares and asks what he's gonna do every morning. It's probably the highlight of his whole morning. Absolutely hilarious.
there’s something so fucking brilliant about this movie. I think it was their ability to bring to film, a nerd that we ALL knew of growing up, and the nerd thats in all of us as well. Like, throwing that action figure out of the bus toed to a string is..... idk, i dont know what it is that im getting, but i get it. And also the snowboot insert shoes. Like, thats so something a nerd woukd do, and something my inner nerd would wear. Or not so much my inner nerd... more something id wear as a dopey little kid cuz i thought it was cool in some weird, imaginative way. Hahah this is genius
It achieves what all the pretentious art films try to achieve...effortlessly. To get nerdy about it, I think the sound design (and not just the soundtrack) is what shoots it to the moon. Expect a Criterion edition.
I remember watching this for the 1st time. What an opening. Sets the tone completely for the rest of the movie. Random af. One of my all time favourite films .
@Alvin Mortys Need he say why? It's just an opinion. I loved the movie too. It was funny in its own way. Though, a slow-moving film, it was very well written and executed. Back in middle school, classmates would quote the hell out of this movie.
The acting and everything just feels like a wonderfully made skit created by a bunch of students for a final project. I can't stop laughing at every scene. The shot, the dialogues and the way they deliver, it just feels so homey and raw, It's brilliant.
I love this movie. I remember being a kid and doing the exact same thing with my action figures. Tying ropes and string to it and dragging it down the dirt road! Lol thank you Bill Hader for giving us Napoleon Dynamite!
What can be seen here is a very tasteful reference to the post-modern themes of the French New Wave cinema movement, wound with neo-expressionist magical realism set in a Midwest American setting John Steinbeck would applaud. The way the figure drags behind the school bus is an obvious yet subtle commentary of the proletariat being dragged behind the narcissistic bourgeois. The school bus represents the road education, a valuable privilege not everyone in society can achieve, along with other advantages. "What are you going to do today Napoleon? WHATEVER I WANT," says the bourgois Napoleon, named after the powerful emperor of France. Napoleon Dynamite is a cinematic masterpiece, comparable to the works of the great French masters, perhaps even Jodorowsky, Tarakovsky, or Eisenstein. Next week class we will be covering Space Jam and its themes of post-revolution Mexico and Shark Tale and its commentary of Thatcher-era Britain and it's satire of the Falklands War, COME PREPARED.
I love how this movie was made by two brothers who originally made the plot of a movie for a school project and one of the brothers decided to send the script to a director and the person loved it they said it’s one of the favorite movies they made
Years ago when this came out on BluRay, my buddy came over and begged me to watch it. As the closing credits started, I just turned to my buddy and said “WTF did I just watch?” He laughed and left the movie on my entertainment center when he went home. A week, or so later, out of sheer boredom, I watched it again and came away with a little different perspective than I did the first time. Every time afterwards, I started to accept the absurdity of the movie and finally understood the message the producers were trying to convey. Now, it’s a classic and one of my favorite movies of all time. Whenever it’s on TV, the remote gets dropped and the popcorn goes into the microwave… it’s just that simple.
This movie has been and will always be relatable after 20 years this year. I was a year old when this came out. It's a movie that every person can relate to! Go find your Tots!
i went to school with a dude who was the spitting image and personality as Napoleon Dynamite. no word of a lie. probably part of the reason I think this movie is such a classic.
I think most people don't understand that when Napoleon threw his action figure out the window, he thought it looked like it was flying throw the air behind the bus... but the string was too long and it was pathetically dragging along the ground
I love the way Napoleon only has to walk to the end of the garden path to get the bus. In the UK you could be walking any distance from 100 yards to half a mile to get the bus if you live in the suburbs. Further if you live in the countryside.
Note to future self. Kids who sit in the back of the bus are social misfits ... (Continues to throw he-man attached to string out the window) for the adrenaline rush of the risk of being caught by the bus driver. That's some devious shit right there.
I get the feeling this kid actually looks up to Napoleon, and Napoleon knows it. So he has to devise something new every day to maintain the kid's admiration.
Wow I never looked at it this way but this is canon for me now
Great theory. Like he knows the kid gets a kick outta the weird random crap he does so he cant disappoint.
hahahaha this is the best theory ever @@rjzavala87
Yeah, @MG, I got the same sense. Like Napoleon's a hero to those elementary school kids.
SWEET
I love that the kid just asked Napoleon an innocent question and he flipped out.
Ikr lol
I mean if the kid asked him that everyday or more and stared at him like that, which seems possible, it's maybe a normal reaction?
@@Alan-lb8ef That is possible. The kid had the weirdest look on his face too. Like if some weirdo knocked my door and asked what I was going to do today every single day I probably would flip out eventually.
Probably noticed he wasn’t gay and ugly the way popular kids make you feel at that stage of life😆
That's the point.... Gosh
The best part of this movie is just how close the the oddity of simple life it captures.
As silly as the show is, it was the most accurate portrayal of highschool in a movie. Most kids were petty and clichish. All the girls looked regular not a bunch of supermodels. The prom was very underwhelming.
@@sethtate2079
Except for how the stereotypical jock guy looked like he was in his 30s lmao
@@TheAurelianProject lmao yeah
@@sethtate2079So very accurate. My house even looked like the outside of that one, and their furniture looked just like what we had. With that flower-printed sofa -- exact match.
Ikr
This scene totally set the tone for this movie in a second. I mean it's just such a fuckin weird and funny scene. So odd and random, it's perfect. I don't think I will ever forget it
Agreed. When I first loaded this up on DVD and watched it with my wife, she was like, "Whaaaaa?" and I was on the couch, laughing my butt off. Yes, it definitely set the tone for the movie. LOL
The whole movie makes no sense 😂
It shouldn't be this good, but it is!
lollllll
You're as fucking weird as he is
That kid had some guts to ask grumpy Napoleon.
watch for dem bow skills
Omg yes😂😂😂
Hes gettIng all them well lovely ladies lining
Not really 🤣 the kid is used to all the dumb shit Napoleon does in the back of the bus. That’s why he asked him what he was going to do that day.. and I think Napoleon tried to do cool like things infront of him everyday 🤣
Yeah what a friggin idiot
"What are you gonna do today, Napoleon?"
"WHAT I FEEL LIKE I WANNA DO GAAAHSH!"
That scene kills me everytime
Yes, we all heard what he said.
GOSH
GOSH.
What did he mean by that
Sally reed Whatever he felt like he meant by that, GOSH
The score in this film is literal perfection - how it kicks off as he walks onto the bus hahah
I commented this before somewhere else but holy shit I couldn’t agree more. I just put laughing every time a new song comes on due to how corny the music is. It fits the movie so perfectly, it’s definitely one of the most under appreciated aspects of the entire movie.
Money Mark?
It’s amazing what synthesizers can do! 😁 🎹
THIS MOVIE JUST REMINDS ME OF HOW SIMPLE I CAN LIVE MY LIFE AND STILL BE HAPPY.
I can die in Peace now.
Same here man. In the word of Napoleon we can do "whatever I wanna do. GOSH!"
me33333
die in Preston, more like it
@@marshmallowbudgie speaking of Preston, another settlement needs your help!
Did you die?
A friend of mine grew up in Idaho. She said this movie is practically a documentary.
Sees bus, sighs
Yeah... that's me.
joe boyter feel that
That was me in middle school. Then once I entered high school, I walked because it was right across the street from me lmao
@@CourtneyLachiver nobody cares
@@rossfrank2630 Except trolls with throwaway accounts and nothing better to do than snipe at random people in RUclips comments apparently.
The akward music makes it even funnier
Lmfao it really does
I always thought this was set in the late 70s/80s because of the music
@@redpikmin017 Late 80's for sure . The 70's wouldn't look this way.
@@rbr4115 the early 2000's was basically just the 80's 2.0.
@@Brainwave101 No way. The early 2000's is when hip hop and r&b took off and took over everyone.
I love watching random clips of Napoleon dynamite on RUclips
Same here
I do, I watched one just now about him on the bus.
Me too
Same also tobey Spider-Man
The entire movie is basically random clips that stand on their own.
Napoleon Dynamite is 100% in the same universe as Breaking Bad
Pedro's cousins= Breaking Bad Brothers
Yea Kip is clearly just a younger version of Tuco and the ponytail girl is obviously Walter White
How?
So is the Walking Dead frfr. I would kill to see Nappy do a walk-on.
Wrong
I noticed everyone saying they love how authentic this movie feels and how it captures everyday life, and I remember listening to the director's commentary on this and they pulled a lot of these scenes from their real life growing up.
It's so good
yes, the whole movie is so relatable. even now twenty years later and me being 20 years older !
That kid is so authentic. He does so well it's as if they got a kid who's not an actor and he somehow nailed it perfectly.
I think he is just a local kid that looked good for the part.
Yea he’s really got that ‘wtf’ look down pat
I remember the first time I ever saw this movie, in theaters, I was like,"dude am I on a different planet? How is this a movie". Still laugh so hard at this movie. Pure Genius
My mom thought it was the dumbest crap she's ever seen, and my dad and I teared up at the end and clapped. The film definitely appeals to a certain kind of person lmao
lol this guy is something else..but he is good..and he is responsible for Pedro's success during his campaign
He's actually a liar and a narcissist as well as has issues with maturity.
Bill L Shut up Bill.
Bill L dude your name is bill you were set up for failure to begin with
@@MSN-Byakko julie, anyone from TX is a loser and that's you
@@MSN-Byakko what's your problem with the name bill it's the name of a billionare
The music gets me every time. There’s like no actual melody just a basic beat and random key notes. Perfectly resembles this movie lmao.
Can I just say, this movie is so odd yet so entertaining. I think a lot of people already said it, but it just shows how entertaining every day Life can be if we just look for the simple things.
Oh Napoleon! Just go make yourself some danged quesadiLLLLahs!
🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣
We all have idiosyncrasies that entertain and puzzle ....
“Can i just say what has been said 10,000 times already?”
The funniest part is that he is acting like he is trying to be a bad boy, when in fact the bus driver would not care either way what he does.
@Scott
I am laughing at your humorous comments, but I have to say that for myself, I had a hard time concentrating on driving with my 5 kids in the car .....I don't know how a bus driver can operate his/her vehicle safely with 30- 40 kids behind them.....
🤣
The kids on my bus used to throw stuff at the parked cars of kids they didn't like. One kid threw a combination lock at a car.
When I was in 5th grade, around the time the movie came out, my friends and I actually attempted this on the school bus. Instead of an action figure, it was either a cheap stuffed animal from the dollar store or something we found on the ground. At least one of us had to watch out for other school buses. We had to stop because we used multicolored yarn instead of fishing line which the driver saw in his mirrors. We got a verbal warning, but it was fun while it lasted
No
That's not an action figure GOSH!!! It's a stretch Armstrong doll!
@@Kiwitakimago that wasn't stretch arm stron.
johnny bravo I know, just making a joke!
Lmao
the completely straight deadpan look on the kids face is everything 😂
I hear that kid is an actual real-life resident of Preston, Idaho, this movie’s setting and filming location. As well as the guy who plays Napoleon’s neighbor, Lyle.
My brother moved to preston recently and he said all the stuff is still their
His name is Todd Philips...after the movie he became a bigshot around town, he let it go to his head, has like 12 kids, all with different mothers, I met him last year at the local Sonic where he hangs out
@@paulflaubert7355 not true. His name is jamen gunnell.
@@mauserwaffen982 yes, his FIRST name was indeed Jamu , but he changed it, look it up
@@paulflaubert7355 damn a small ass role in a cult comedy gets a man 12 kids. I need to get into acting 😂
The awkwardness in the movie is the best
Haha, I love the authenticity in this movie in presenting the average school experience (especially in a small/rural town), not fantastic, not hell on Earth, it just is.
Napoleon Dynamite is funny as heck. Every school in the U.S. had a Napoleon in the 90's😂
Nah.
Yah.
Jah.
Rape.
This was released in 2004.
This film is pretty much the depiction of life in the middle of nowhere.
It's even more relatable if you grew up around Mormons.
My daughter was home from college on summer break. I took her to see this movie when it first hit the theater. I knew within 2 minutes this was going to be an awesome movie.
Isn’t like the first 10 minutes just the opening credits
I have like my own backstory for this kid lmao. Like, he starts his first day of high school and pays no attention to the napoleon. But then as the week progresses, he starts to notice napoleon doing some weird thing every morning and just eventually gets to the point where he just stares and asks what he's gonna do every morning. It's probably the highlight of his whole morning. Absolutely hilarious.
That keyboard music needs to be my ringtone
I found it on Zedge and made it my brother's ringtone...lol
i was a senior in college when this came out but I felt it described by highschool life pretty well. no doubt it was going to be a cult classic.
The background music is brilliant; goes so well with his character.
Probably one of the best intros to the best Hollywood movie this movie had good vibes the whole time
The music sounds like some old cheesy 70's porn flick at 0:24 😂
leisure suit larry
Gus on the Bus
@@KandiKlover Gus Bus
I always think this movie was taken place in the 70s or 80s
I never understood why he’s on a bus with jr high kids lol
All the high school kids drive or walk or ride with their friends. Unless you’re nerdy. That’s how it worked in my high school
Small town usually has just one school, one school consists even from Kinder-garden kids to high school kids.
When I was In middle school i have to ride the bus with high schoolers
@@coyotecodey1160 dumbest shit i've ever heard
@trishdadish82
Speaking of which, I think that the entire movie was filmed in Idaho. :P
The part where he throws the action figure outta the window will always be comedy gold
there’s something so fucking brilliant about this movie. I think it was their ability to bring to film, a nerd that we ALL knew of growing up, and the nerd thats in all of us as well. Like, throwing that action figure out of the bus toed to a string is..... idk, i dont know what it is that im getting, but i get it. And also the snowboot insert shoes. Like, thats so something a nerd woukd do, and something my inner nerd would wear. Or not so much my inner nerd... more something id wear as a dopey little kid cuz i thought it was cool in some weird, imaginative way. Hahah this is genius
L
It achieves what all the pretentious art films try to achieve...effortlessly. To get nerdy about it, I think the sound design (and not just the soundtrack) is what shoots it to the moon. Expect a Criterion edition.
I remember watching this for the 1st time. What an opening. Sets the tone completely for the rest of the movie. Random af. One of my all time favourite films .
He flips out, but it's such an awkward flip-out. You can smell the social anxiety. It's brilliant.
This is my favorite movie! I’m glad to be able to go to the Town of Preston Idaho a few times!
This is such an awesome movie!
@Alvin Mortys Need he say why? It's just an opinion. I loved the movie too. It was funny in its own way. Though, a slow-moving film, it was very well written and executed. Back in middle school, classmates would quote the hell out of this movie.
@Cuervo Mocker then , why tf are you even here ? 😂
This entire movie is such a mood.
The acting and everything just feels like a wonderfully made skit created by a bunch of students for a final project. I can't stop laughing at every scene. The shot, the dialogues and the way they deliver, it just feels so homey and raw, It's brilliant.
I love this movie. I remember being a kid and doing the exact same thing with my action figures. Tying ropes and string to it and dragging it down the dirt road! Lol thank you Bill Hader for giving us Napoleon Dynamite!
bill hader
Actually, this movie was directed by Jared Hess.
everything in this movie is perfect.
Jon Heder’s performance in this film was quite spot on. He nailed all scenes as Napoleon Dynamite. His career had such promise after this movie.
Napoleon is the cool kid in my universe
Finally something worth my time on RUclips
How fast the boy moves out of napoleons way almost kills me 😂😂
20 years later. One of the funniest movies ever. Everytime I watch it, it gets funnier and funnier.
What can be seen here is a very tasteful reference to the post-modern themes of the French New Wave cinema movement, wound with neo-expressionist magical realism set in a Midwest American setting John Steinbeck would applaud. The way the figure drags behind the school bus is an obvious yet subtle commentary of the proletariat being dragged behind the narcissistic bourgeois. The school bus represents the road education, a valuable privilege not everyone in society can achieve, along with other advantages. "What are you going to do today Napoleon? WHATEVER I WANT," says the bourgois Napoleon, named after the powerful emperor of France. Napoleon Dynamite is a cinematic masterpiece, comparable to the works of the great French masters, perhaps even Jodorowsky, Tarakovsky, or Eisenstein. Next week class we will be covering Space Jam and its themes of post-revolution Mexico and Shark Tale and its commentary of Thatcher-era Britain and it's satire of the Falklands War, COME PREPARED.
Well done! : D
Indubitably...
Graham McKemy 😅
didnt read. not funny
Holy shit! Lol
When your kid sees his role model sitting next to him
I love his snow boots on his outfit. Always makes me chuckle
“What are you gonna do today, Napoleon?”
“Whatever I feel like I wanna do, GOSH!!!”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
this movie is a masterpiece
This simple quirky movie is a masterpiece ! acting is amazing by all the actors .
It’s funny because most of these kids would be in their 20s now.
Jetdot37 Most of the actors in this film weren't even kids lol. The guy who played Napoleon was in his mid or late 20s at the time
Master Knife the ones on the bus.
@Michael Mcneany Poor Tina, always having to endure Napoleon's verbal abuse.
I'm 26 and i was 11 when this came out so yeah they about my age haha
@Michael Mcneany she was 19 when the film was being made
I love how this movie was made by two brothers who originally made the plot of a movie for a school project and one of the brothers decided to send the script to a director and the person loved it they said it’s one of the favorite movies they made
In this scene we can see how cool and badass Napoleon's life was hes so cool.
Years ago when this came out on BluRay, my buddy came over and begged me to watch it. As the closing credits started, I just turned to my buddy and said “WTF did I just watch?”
He laughed and left the movie on my entertainment center when he went home. A week, or so later, out of sheer boredom, I watched it again and came away with a little different perspective than I did the first time. Every time afterwards, I started to accept the absurdity of the movie and finally understood the message the producers were trying to convey.
Now, it’s a classic and one of my favorite movies of all time. Whenever it’s on TV, the remote gets dropped and the popcorn goes into the microwave… it’s just that simple.
Did you ever suck that friend off? Lick his rod?
We used do that from the back rumble seat of the station wagon on the way to the Penn State games.
I'd kill for this kinda simplicity in the world again.
This is just perfection.
the only movie I can think of that cracks you up without even having to need dialogue at parts
That double check before he throws the figurine out the window lmao
This movie has been and will always be relatable after 20 years this year. I was a year old when this came out. It's a movie that every person can relate to! Go find your Tots!
My mom and I quote this to each other all the time
Fun Fact: That was Jon Heder's personal action figure he had
All-time moment in film history
i went to school with a dude who was the spitting image and personality as Napoleon Dynamite. no word of a lie. probably part of the reason I think this movie is such a classic.
I think most people don't understand that when Napoleon threw his action figure out the window, he thought it looked like it was flying throw the air behind the bus... but the string was too long and it was pathetically dragging along the ground
The music in this scene cracks me up every time
Everyone at my middle school was obsessed with this movie and we all were putting action figures out the window XD
there are no words to describe the genius of this movie
I've watched this movie forty times on Prime Video
Your ark should have landed by now.
Oh man, thanks. I’ve been a Prime member but never checked out Prime video
i like how he swallows (gulps) as he's about to break the rules.
this film is filled with nuances
The music is brilliant
My goto answer when any one asks me for my plans: Whatever I feel like I wanna do, goooosh!
0:39 Kid: What are you gonna do today Napoleon?
Napoleon: WHAT EVER I FEEL LIKE DOING IT GOSH!!!
Kid: (In his head) :)
I would want nothing more than to be friends with Napoleon.
I just love the boy's reactions through out the whole scene!
Soooo much nostalgia. This ultimately became my favorite movie when I was like six lmao
My daughter was a college student when this movie was released. I took her to see it in the theater the first week it came out.
the way he quickly throws out the wrestling figure out the window had me wheezing the first time I saw it
i used to do that in my mom's car
Your mom goes to college!
Heretic you still alive bro?
I like being Diligent and Eccentric with a Soft, Smooth Voice 💜💜
this scene had me cracking up laughing, I love this movie so much
I love the way Napoleon only has to walk to the end of the garden path to get the bus. In the UK you could be walking any distance from 100 yards to half a mile to get the bus if you live in the suburbs. Further if you live in the countryside.
Note to future self. Kids who sit in the back of the bus are social misfits ... (Continues to throw he-man attached to string out the window) for the adrenaline rush of the risk of being caught by the bus driver. That's some devious shit right there.
Ahh in the UK it’s generally the popular kids who sit at the back and misfits at the front. It’s different in the USA I’m guessing
He’s out to prove that he’s got nothing to prove
Who knew a movie about average life would become a cult classic
why not, Seinfeld did! 😂
I saw this movie in the theater 3 times. It blew my mind.
I was that kid who use to sit there in class drawing random shit in my notebook.
I used to draw skulls with eyes hanging out and snakes and stuff.
When I first saw this, I thought Napoleon was a teenager in elementary school, but later in the movie, I saw him in a high school
0:01 a legend is seen for the first time
I think the reason this movie is so funny is because everybody knew someone like Napoleon growing up.
Whatever i feel like i wanna do GOSH ! 🤣🤣🤣
GAASCH!
*I swear, this movie is an enigma*
This makes me want a sweet Trapper Keeper.
Ha! I was just thinking about that.
The way he sighs when the bus is pulling up exactly hits how I feel sometimes Monday morning.