James Cagney - White Heat
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2009
- James Cagney, in this famous scene, bursts out when he comes to know that his mother has died. Also note that this was an improvised take by Cagney of which the director and the extras in the scene were not aware. Hence their reaction is genuine.
Read all about the scene from here:
www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/j...
Cagney didn't tell anybody how he would play this scene. Those looks of shock are genuine. Greatest performance he ever gave.
This was a great cinematic moment. Cagney is legendary.
The misery in his wounded wails
Is scary palpable.
My grandfather was a great friend of Cagney's...there's a famous story with this scene...NOBODY on the set knew how Cagney was going to act in this scene...this was spontaneous, and the atmosphere he created will forever be cemented in this scene...amazing acting and as you can see the actor's were stunned!
Fantastic, I first watched this film aged about 9 or 10 and I’m still watching it 50 years later , ❤️
Cagney deserved the academy award for this scene
Wow! James was an awesome guy!
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Man oh man! WOW Cagney was one brilliant actor. I just saw this complete movie for the first time. Tooooo good. This cat could act.
Script fantastic.
One of the greatest scenes in film history. And he improvised this? Unworldly talented.
No kidding...I hadn't seen that in 30 years...makes my skin crawl...
Absolutely astonishing scene from Cagney`s best film. The scene where he gives the guy locked in the trunk of the car 'some air' when he empties his gun through the outside of the trunk ( while he eats a chicken leg) ain`t too shabby either.
Muito ruim, prefiro Nicolas Cage 🤣@@brianpalmer4643
The death of one's mother can crush even the hardest man.
@Willie Gordon alcoholic
Not me. My mother didn't give a shit about me.
@@tacticalsweater5119 😢😭
@@tacticalsweater5119 sorry to hear that.
If you watch the movie, his character was overly close to his mother
He should have gotten an Oscar for this movie
My favorite actor. His intense grief still affects me.
My favorite also
James Cagney is such an amazing actor!
Orson Wells said that James Cagney was the BEST actor in Hollywood
@@andrewearland9939 and now; I am👽☺️🌏❤️🤴🏿
He was the best. There will never be another Cagney!
@@andrewearland9939 👋 Orson Wells didn't say James Cagney was the best actors in that era. Orson said that Cagney was ( ONE ) of the best 🌟 actors of all time in that era Take Care September 6,2022
He was one of the greatest actors ever , his movies should be shown again.
This is a classic. Sean Penn tried to imitate him in Mystic River, but as good an actor as Penn is, he can't touch Cagney for uncontrollable pain and rage.
Mystic River still is a great film. Penn did a great job gut yes he's no Cagney
Very accurate comparison!!
That was one of the best 60 seconds of acting in movie history. Even today thats awesome acting but back then!? Unheard of...
Back then? I would argue that the quality of acting "back then" was far better than today. They were much deeper and more well-rounded, plus most of them were already stage trained and had done Shakespeare and other important works. Also, they worked far more hours until the union limited their time to twelve hour days, and many were under contract to a single studio and committed to x amount of films/TV per year, which was a brutal schedule for not nearly as much pay as today's pampered stars. Cagney by this time would be an exception, but they all earned every penny they made. There was much abuse by the producers and directors as well; many women were treated very poorly and that is why the feminist agenda took such hold in Hollyweird. It's little wonder, but it's gone too far these days as female actors are far more likely to score all the amenities right out of the gate that the old school and much more talented performers didn't have.
Additionally their education level was much better and they were more inclined to know classic literature as well as theater and music.
Most of today's actors tend to go back to school after the first one to ten one-dimensional films come out, then they wind up not working the mainstream for the most part because they're too good. Most of the best actors/actresses today are barely heard of anyway....
***** many of our modern day "celebrities" & that's exactly what they are because they are certainly not actors & could take a lesson from those legends.
Sapphire586 Today, it's all about money.
These were great actors back then. James, Bogart,Betty,Joan they were actors and actress back then
You might be able to make that *_back then_* comparison when it comes to improvements in film technology, or in other advances involving science, cars, planes and medicine etc... But you sure as heck can't say acting back then was worse than it is today. Give me a break. A great actor is always a great actor regardless of the era. And these days we definitely have a shortage of great acting. And it's not necessarily because we don't have talented actors with great potential --- it's just that the material they are given and the films they are asked to star in are mostly vacuous and empty spectacles with only one sole purpose --- to make money. Not too many great parts, or room for great writing when special effects and action are the true stars.
James Cagney hands down the greatest actor that ever was and that's an understatement...
What is so amazing about this scene was that no one in that place was told what Cagney was going to do.He told the director just to have someone there to catch him at the end of the table.Did the scene in one take.Brilliant.
Brilliant and disturbing centrepiece from "White Heat". The entire film orbits around this segment, and not too many actors with the capacity to make it work like James Cagney. He was a total professional. Would have been interesting to see how Brando would have played the same scene.
Brando called Cagney the best actor of his generation. He was right, with honorable mentions to Spencer Tracy & Charles Laughton...
No one back then, or even today, could have played this scene like Cagney did.White Heat was more then just another gangster movie.
Intense stuff. Cagney was brilliant in this scene, his grief is palpable. Still one of the 20th centuries best actors.
Wow, what a realistic and heartbreaking scene. This takes me back to when I was 7 years old and staying overnight with my uncle and grandma, and the cops came to the door late that Saturday night and told us my mom was dead. I had a similar reaction. She was a domestic violence victim.
Sorry that happened to you 🫂
God bless 🙏
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One of the Best Scenes and Acting in a Movie.
Anyone who would say this is bad acting has no concept of film history or good acting, and my eyes are wide open
2pac sure like it
@C Mahoney He's not making a personal remark. He's saying that if one thinks this is bad acting, then one's opinion is based on ignorance of the craft. And he is correct. And ignorance is curable.
It’s bad acting
B c it’s overacting
@@paulsolon6229 you know nowt about movie acting if you think that's bad🙄, I suggest you go and watch your Orlando bloom "classics" also, if you've actually seen the film, you would understand his reaction to the news in context of the troubled character he played, enjoy your modern classics, sheesh!!
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James Cagney's best role. The howls and screams he used in this scene were from when his father would go on a drinking binge and become borderline psychotic, young James would here those noises all night long. None of the actors in this mess hall scene knew he was going to do this, Cagney was supposed to just shout and rant. Instead he went on a rampage across the set for 2 minutes so Walsh had all the footage he needed. Just heartbreaking to watch.
Now THAT is acting. Cagney did a wonderful job here. I still watch it from time to time. He should have gotten an Oscar just for that scene alone, if not for his role in White Heat the movie.
"Mr. Cagney, what is the secret to acting?"
"Hit your mark, look the other guy in the eye ... and tell the truth."
James Cagney was my favourite actor of all he was on top of the world ✊✊🏻
Something about him that just transfixes me. Especially when he plays a gangster. How he can look so cheerful and deadly evil all at once? Where did he come up with that? His grin as he looks at you, then his cold hard demeanor the next. Its mesmerizing. Just a magnificent actor. I don't know where he got it.
One of my favorite little bits in this incredible movie is when Virginia Mayo, playing Cagney's mol, is about to kiss him goodbye, but before doing so, spits out a huge wad of chewing gum. Priceless.
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Hey, Verna was some 'classy' dame.
The look on Edmond O'Brien's face was priceless!
Obrien another great actor
O'Brien's reaction to Cagney in that scene was sheer perfection.
WONDERFUL ACTING....WONDERFUL PERSON HE WAS...!!
Classic💯🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟📡😔😏
I'm sorry I watched this scene. That's exactly the same way I felt when I lost my mom! There's no pain like that!
I lost my father and I felt his pain
@@sheiladavis6523 Sheila I do have children, but they are grown. I understand what you're talking about completely. Also, I want you to know that I also once had a friend, and her name was Sheila. She was murdered when she was 8 months pregnant. The guy who she was married to was found with her and her baby's blood splattered all over him. He claimed that it was because he found her like that, and the blood was from him embracing her body. But, that was proved to be a lie. A blood expert came in and proved that there is no way for a person to get splattered blood by embracing a dead body. But, yet, the guy got out of it! That was horrible for me because I knew Sheila from the time I was 2 years old. She was a sister to me, and I considered her to be my best friend. That happened in 1980. If you're interested, you can look it up. It happened in Merrillville, Indiana at the Sullivan's Garden Center. Her so-called husband was Brit Sullivan. Her married name was Sheila Sullivan. I've seen a lot and I have lived through a lot, so yes I do understand, and I am very very sorry for your loss.
Me too. 3 years on & my eyes filled up watching this, it rips your guts out & changes you inside.
@@justinneill5003 True. Sorry for your loss.
He damn sure loved his mother.
As pac would say! Oh shit he shot his mom back lol
...in the Freudian sense, though...
My mom means the world to me so I could see how someone could totally loose it. I remember seeing this in the 70's as a kid, great acting by Cagney.
Undeniably 0ne of the best actors of his time, So powerful!!
This scene almost brings the breakdown in me.. having lost loved ones back to back in ways I would have never imagined and yet I still haven't broke down yet.. hopefully that never happens.
I was touched by this scene. no matter how ruthless he was I still felt pity on him.
Arguably the finest actor ever and White heat the greatest (believable) gangster movie of all time. Cagney often improvised whilst filming and those moments are sheer brilliance.
Cagney's as good as it gets here.
MAN THIS MOVIE IS FUCKIN AWESOME!
Jimmy Cagney is fucking awesome!
Superb acting from Cagney, this scene sticks in my memory, the sheer raw emotion displayed is incredible.
Thanks.
In this instance, Sigmund Freud, was not kidding , with his momma theories! Even more unforgettable scene , than the justly famous flaming finale.
What a great movie, the best gangster film I've ever seen. I think that Jimmy Cagney was the best actor of the classic era; many directors, actors and actresses adored (and still adore) him like Orson Welles, Clint Eastwood, Michael J. Fox, Michael Keaton, Gene Hackman, Leonardo Di Caprio, Martin Scorsese, Raoul Walsh, Doris Day, etc.
Brando & Kubrick loved him also. Jorge...
Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick, perhaps the two greatest American directors of all time categorically stated that they believed Cagney was the finest actor the world had ever seen. What more needs to be said?
One Of The Greatest Actors Of All Time This Movie Is A Classic!
"Now that was Acting".
A powerful scene, respect where we came from our mothers.
That's one way to avoid paying the bill in a restaurant....
+Dennis Middlebrooks You ARE funny mate...:=))))
that's really funny
Remarkably lacking in humor wasn`t it.
the best way is to pass out....
@Jaysun B Ever hear of "fiction? Nobody's mother actually died!
Wow. Just wow.
Why is Cody so upset? All I said was: "Pass the BREAD"!
PackerBronco :)
Chinese whispers.
This is when they used to know how to make movies. That pause at 0:40, when the hardened convict doesn't know how to break it to Cagney's character, another hardened convict, that his mother is dead, and then finally just tells him, just makes this scene work. It's all acting. There's no CGI or elaborate choreographed martial arts fight scenes, or anything else, and it is powerful. It really hits you when you watch it. ;-)
Best actor of all time. “Yes”. I do absolutely agree with Orson Welles…”he IS the best actor to have ever been in front of a camera”…
"I told you to keep away from that radio.If that batteries dead,it'll have company".
Wow. That was unlike anything I have ever seen before...so compelling.
"Ask him how my mother is?" So Gangsta
Poor Cagney is acting like a very young child having a tearful fit!
Anyone else notice Jim Thorpe?
All You Can Say Is Cagney Cagney Cagney, One Of The Greatest Performances In Movie History ❤🙏😮
the golden era of movies, of acting. modern era, special affects cover the absolute vacuum of talented acting.
Mr Cagney you were a magnificent movie actor.
Oscar winning scene if there ever was one.
One of the most amazing things about this scene is the fact that one of the inmates in the "message line" is the great Jim Thorpe!
If ypu watched the whole movie, ypu would see why he played it that way. Watch him playing George M. Cohen in Yankee Doodle Dandy. His dance sequences are amazing. Then it may have been a movie about Lon Chaney. He conorted his body in ways that would not seem humanly possible. Nobody and i mean nobody comes close to him. Plus he stayed married for over 60 years to the same woman. He was a stand- up guy. Wish i had known him.
Cagney did play Lon Chaney in the movie Man Of A Thousand Faces in 1957!
The Director Raoul Walsh, James Cagney, and those who played the guards in this scene were the only ones who knew Cagney will "flip out". They wanted that real SURPRISE expression on the faces of the other actors seated at the tables eating. When Cagney climbs onto the table, until when he's carried out, it's is all one shot with several cameras working at different angles. James Cagney told the camera guys to "keep the cameras rolling no matter what happends." As one can see it was a brilliant plan that worked well. You can see that in their faces of total shock!
True. Cagney told the director to put the two biggest guys at the end of the table. "Why?" "Because I'm going to fall on them." True story.
Edmund O'Brien was really in shock
God bless my mother
White Heat a terrific film, his next movie 'Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye' was a good picture as well.
A portrayal of a sociopath (not a psychopath) with an Oedipal Complex. Frightening! James Cagney, Marlon Brando, and Humphrey Bogart...I'd be hard pressed to ever see actors like them again....
heartbreaking / heart rending performance. Cagney was something else and a real class act from what I've ascertained...
Simply the best actor ever and this scene is etched on my memory from watching as a child - classic Cagney ❤
A great actor, he put his whole body into acting!
that look on edmond o'brien's face is classic - he did not know that was coming
James Cagney is a very good actor and he can be funny as well I always enjoy his films 🎥
One of the best actors to come out of the US.
The extras are like “ this isn’t a scripted part of the scene, Cagney’s really cracked up!”
Cagney was great, as usual! Did anyone recognize Jim Thorpe as one of the convicts at the table?
Perfect acting🥰
He such a great actor 😊
You start from the bottom and work your way up. That's how you pull this performance off.
🎬Love it Mr.James Cagney he's so amazing to me 💫🎬💫📽💫🎥💫📽💫📽💫📽💫♥️
I saw this movie as a child it scared me so much. James Cagney was one of my favorite actors.
Everybody keeps talking about what a great fight scene this is---that it is--but to me this also one of the most cathartic scenes ever shown on screen by an actor.....Cagney as Cody Jarrett is fantastic--his grief is so profound that the only way he knows how to heal himself is roll on the table, moan and knock out 5 guards--what a genius way to work it out!!! Note that in the following scene he is completely 'well'---
One of my favorite movies of all time. Cagney is a legend beyond legends in acting. Amazing in everything he did. But White Heat is a cut above, even for him. Amazing movie. Amazing talent. And this film is now close to three quarters of a century old!!!
I forgot how painful this is...
Definitely one if not two of my Favorite Actors!! James Cagney was on a platform all his own!! You watch this movie and you couldn’t get this scene out of your head!! Classic Acting!!!!
Orson Welles said that Cagney is such a great actor. You can see for yourself in this film clip.
He actually called him the greatest actor to ever appear on screen
Explosive and Cagney's comeback!
Great scene, great actor. I like the way things quickly return to normal after the initial excitement. Just another day in Palookaville!
That's certainly a possible explanation. I don't know the truth about this scene any more than anyone else at this distance in time. But I would think that the director would have had to have detailed knowledge of Jimmy's planned moves in order to keep the camera's trained on him for the best shots, which is why I doubt an impromptu performance.
Those punches though!!
Right up there with Jack Lemmon's greenhouse scene from "Days of wine & Roses". You don't think the "consummate showman" could generate this sort of intenisity.
"Oh, did he mean HIS mother. I though he asked how MY mother was... oops.. my bad".
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bahahaha!
"Don't make me upset, you won't like me when I'm upset".
White heat, left block, right cross and WHAMMO! Three guards go down! Genius!
Jimmy, what a legend.
Bishop: "Poo Yaa!! Pow Poo Yaah!!
Great actor
I believe that one of the convicts in the line at the table is Jim Thorpe
True...
Damn now I gotta go watch that film NOW!
The greats are gone and we are stuck with their wannabe standins, who would never fill their shoes and if they did it would to drink out of it.
Cagney rules Baby! Never mess with his ma.
That is one emotional scene... whew...
Cagney is the greatest actor of all time him pacino henry fonda and cary grant and denzel too
There was never one like James Cagney..
one of the greatest performers of all time.
He was fantastic
when we saw this movie as kids, my little brother (9 years old then) was first shocked by the transformation, then he started to LOL at Cody Jarrett's (Cagney) freak out. From then on, we've always call these fits "Cody headaches".