Burn After Reading - What Did We Learn?
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2009
- My favorite scene from Burn After Reading.
What did we learn Palmer?
I dunno sir.
I don't fucking know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.
Yes sir.
But I'm fucked if I know what we did.
Yessir, it's uh, hard to say..... 
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"I guess we learned not to do it again, but i'll be fucked if i know what we did" has been my most commonly used line in work meetings since 2008
I'll need to use this line today during a regulatory review meeting. Bob; I don't understand why these guys keep asking the same questions but in different ways. My response; "yes sir, not sure why they keep doing this. I guess we will have to learn not do whatever they are saying we did wrong. But I'll be fucked if I know what we did".
There was a uh... slight.... *snag*.
I say this to myself each day after talking with my girlfriend…
Agreed! It’s become a meme amongst my friends.
Legend :)
The look of utter disappointment from Simmons when he's told Cox isn't dead is hilarious.
He was shot.
Good.
He's not dead.
Fuck.
He's in a coma.
Will he wake up?
They don't think he'll make it.
(Gears turning on what to do if he does wake up)
"He shot Cox"
good 😐
"Sir he's in a coma"
😒
That was how sick of Cox they were
This is his best scene in anything, ever
He had the "Just when I thought I had some good news" head roll too
The entire movie is just an ellaborated setup for these 2
Well, it's full of other gems, like the face Brad Pitt makes when he's discovered in the closet...
You said it. I can watch the scenes with these two over and over again.
And it would be worth it, even if the rest of the movie was mediocre (which it's not).
Simmons' couple of scenes made this movie.
@@tomash9116 A good Samaritan face?
I love how the whole time, this guy thinks he's gonna get ripped apart. Yet everything is just " oh , okay" or " oh good"
😄😄😄😄😄
Well, think about it. He got assigned to watch over a guy who was leaking info (turns out low level), a government worker who shot a guy with no ID, and the guy who leaked info just killed a guy on the street. Everybody he was supposed to keep an eye on thought they were far more important then they actually were, and he didn't know what to make of it. It was just a complete mess of a situation under his watch, and thankfully his boss recognized how much of a chaotic shitshow this all was, and how out of control it would have been for anybody.
@@Supperdude9 "What an absolute clusterfuck..."
@@Supperdude9 Simmons' character being disappointed with Cox not being dead supports that. Cox being dead at least wouldve made the cluster truck a bit easier to deal with
@@twentylush Right - disappointed that Cox was "only" in a coma. "If he wakes up guess we'll worry about it then" gets me every time.
All in a day's work.
These two represent my last two brain cells figuring out wtf is going on
I would like but it’s at 666 & don’t wanna fuck it up lol
@@coppersky Ty, you’re a good man
😆😆😆😆😆
Its simple really, if cox stayed on his job being demoted instead of ranting, none of this would have happened
And by 2023 nothing is clearer yet
The thing that's brutally soul crushing is that this isn't the only file that comes across the directors desk in a day or a week. This is 15 minutes out of a day, what other face melting dumpster fires roll across this man's desk in a week? He's just unfazed, I bet he has a favourite brand of scotch at home he drinks silently while staring at a wall.
i figured the exact same thing. hes a CIA bigshot. there's coups to arrange, assassinations, surveillance, people of interest, hundreds of issues at the brink of catastrophe and tons of analysis to be done and then this shit keeps popping back on his desk, some lady, a treasury guy, a gym manager, an angry analyst, and people keep dying or acting crazy. Sigh
@@igormorais4192 Worse, it's rarely stuff that crazy. More it's stuff like "Yeah, our guy in Iran stopped calling in."
"Is he dead?" "No, sir." "Is he a turncoat?" "We don't think so, sir." "Why'd he stop calling in?" "We don't know, sir."
Someguy Dan I think you got the point of the movie. Well Done
@@NormAppleton it may be, but it's just the reality of what man does. This is a mockumentary/documentary of what really happens in that office, these people still go home to wives and children and manage to sleep. It's just crazy that a human can just adapt to this and carry on like it's nothing.
@@igormorais4192 why is it called treasury guy? I thought pfarrer was us marshall.
The detail I love is where Simmons asks about the cost of the procedures, and rather than listen to another long-winded explanation, he just realizes he doesn't care, waves his hand before Rasche even gets to the dollar amount, and says "pay it."
His time is worth more than the surgery
I love how the key word that triggers the Director's impatience is 'several'. He clearly wanted a short answer, lol.
Makes you wonder how much inane Bullshit intelligence agencies deal with on a daily basis. Statistically this makes a lot of sense. We like to think that all they deal with is massive national security issues (which they do) but there are 1000 idiots to every 1 intelligent belligerent actor.
I replayed that bit a number of times killed me lol
See, I loved the whole, "We have no extradition with Venezuela" bit. Palmer's looking at it from the operative standpoint, trying to find some reason why the subject's making a movement, what the subject's purpose is for going where they're going... what they're likely doing, who they're likely meeting, etc. Meanwhile, the department head's looking at it from "the simplest answer" perspective... as in, sometimes it's just that fuckin' easy.
All this so Linda could get her surgery. She's completely reinventing herself.
After everything, I say it's high time
I bet the surgery gets botched and Linda will end up looking uglier than before as karmic payback for trying to commit blackmail and treason.
"... and it's a beautiful day..."
not just linda...but 2 other "old" women got "freedom"...for several ruined man's lifes...that is what its all about
Cheers
"I have a drinking problem? You're a Mormon. Next to you, everyone has a drinking problem." Love this film!
"Never let a mormon determine your buzz level. They don't understand fucked up the way we do. They're guessing and they're shitty guessers."- Ron 'Tater Salad' White.
I read somewhere that the original line they intended to use was “Next to you, the Pope has a drinking problem.” but I guess they thought better of that one lol
Way to fuck up the line…
Mormons have other problems.
@@ajohnson153 I agree, they have no clue. Just like I have no clue how fucked up they are.
I love that the entire movie is one long set-up for this punchline of a scene. Just brilliant.
"We have her.?!...To do what with?" What a perfect line and even more perfect delivery. Simmons is pure magic in this scene.
Probably a lot easier to deliver lines well that actually are this well written.
Everything here is carefully written. This is not spiderman
@@blur5725 Most Spider-Man movies are better written than this. This movie is a collections of scenes they liked but couldn't fit into a cohesive script.
@@alphanerd7221 please don’t talk about things you don’t understand
@@blur5725 You are mad at me for knowing more about writing that you. Try to express yourself in a more literate fashion if you want to try to condescend at people smarter than you.
It's so hard to describe why JK Simmons works so well in this scene. He just feels like has that job not because he enjoys it, but because there's absolutely nobody else smart enough to do it, and he'd rather be anywhere else.
“How much?”
“There were several procedures all...”
“Pay it.”
'For fuck sake, put him on the next flight to Venezuela' The single funniest line in cinema.
I laughed so hard at that, lol.
as a Venezuelan myself, I now demand a spin-off movie of Clooney's character living in Venezuela. no plot no villains, just him being paranoid about everything lol
Yep make him Chavez’s problem.
@@matthewriley7826 Chavez has been dead for 8 years tho
@@hdawglion718 movie was released in 2008 bub
The way he delivers "They're pretty sure he has no...uh...brain function." is so perfect
Pretty sure the guy had no brain function before he got shot either
Tragically underrated comedy. JK Simmons summation is as good a satire of bureaucratic ambition as there is, and what John Malkovich does with the f-word in this film is inspired.
May I ask how you consider Simmons' character a satire of bureaucratic ambition? I understand that he's deeply enmeshed in a stolid bureaucracy, but aside from being in a position of relative power in said bureaucracy I'm not sure I see how the character embodies ambition, satirically or otherwise.
@@xandercorp6175 From my personal experience with bureaucrats, I can tell you his clear preference for making a problem disappear rather than solving it is spot on.
@@xandercorp6175 I agree with you, I can't see how it's to do with ambition. The comedy comes more from the absurdity of the whole situation, and how Simmons' character just want to tidy things up, not knowing what the fuck is going on, or caring particularly. A hilarious antidote to the usual portrayals of intelligence agencies in movies.
@@CrazyHorseInvincible Agreed, but what has that to do with ambition? The connection to bureaucrats is solid, but I'm not seeing a connection to ambition.
@@xandercorp6175 In the context of the original comment, "ambition as there is" refers to the limits of their ambition. The words "as there is" implies that something is lacking. That's what this scene highlights, that they aspire to very little beyond making their jobs easier.
"He shot the analyst, he shot Cox"
"Good, great..............is he dead?"
I laughed my ass off in the theater at this exchange. What an ending.
I don't understand how it's possible to think up, write, and produce such an outstanding movie. But it seems easy for the Cohen brothers.
Have you read a newspaper lately?
@@hugh-johnfleming289 In fact I have. Thanks for asking. But this goes way beyond adapting quirky real life events. This goes to the overall sense of story construction and tone, the settings, the characters and dialogue, and all kinds of ingredients that have little to do with the actual events themselves.
They let their actors do most of their work for them
@@tchoupitoulos this is very true and easy to miss. You don’t realize when you’re watching it that this is just cutting between two medium shots with no camera movement. It’s like the audience point of view is just right at the edge of the desk, and the whole scene is carried by the actors. There are no wides, two shots or over the shoulder shots at all. It feels like a play.
@David Bowman While I hate to defend DC, I have to admonish you to never place an ounce of trust in anything that comes out of Hollywood. Nothing and nobody gets portrayed accurately there.
One of the funniest comedies I have seen where everyone plays a serious role. No gags, no clowning around, no jokes, but it's just one of those movies that hits the right way.
well, the whole film is a gag...LOL
except maybe the mental anguish Cox endures....
I dunno man, The Invention is a pretty amazing visual joke.
This movie is wall to wall jokes.
If you think about it, that's the case with all of the Coen brothers' movies: Everybody is pretty serious in their own way, and yet even the tragic scenes are wildly funny. I mean, Donny's ashes... the wood chipper...
another example proving that any movie with a scene featuring JK Simmons is worth watching for that reason alone.
“There were several procedures, all together they…”
“Pay it”
What is scary is how probably accurate this type of conversation is within the bureaucracy of government.
What's really scary?
How often it happens.
And yet, shit gets done. Crazy, eh?
expect for the part where they bother to wonder what they've learned
Oh boy you have no idea.
It makes more sense to me that this type of stuff is going on rather than shadowy government agencies planning new world orders.
@@Handlethis81637 Yep. It's nothing sinister at all. It's just guys in desk jobs trying to find a path through all the chaos that happens on a daily basis. In government, every job is a "Friday job".
David Rasche just nailing the nervous assitant telling the boss obtuse news role!!
This is exactly what learning about history feels like. Everything is just random stuff that happens to happen, very often each individual's actions don't have the intended effect at all, nobody knows what's going on, it's all a mess
I love how Linda gets her surgeries after everything 😂
Surprise happy ending.
Exactly. The Russians are the only smart ones in this movie and Linda is the only one who benefited from it all. This movie is brilliance through a depiction of ginormous idiocy. "You are in league with the morons". Pretty much the entire movie in a nutshell.
Paid for by the government, no less.
These two are basically me trying to make sense of my existence on this planet.
Well, report back to me when it makes sense.
I could literally watch a 2 hour movie about these 2 trying to figure out what the he'll happened.
His disappointment when he hears that Cox isn't dead but in a coma kills me everytime...
This is the most confusing, weird ass funniest black comedy I’ve ever seen. The scene where Brad Pitt jumps out of the closet and gets shot still makes me laugh!
That stupid smile of his right before!
It's a pitch black comedy about the randomness of death where average guys get murdered, shallow conniving liars get away scot-free, and government says fuck it. All wrapped up in the tones of a a paranoid spy thriller where absolutely nothing world-changing happens.
@@daeryxaqueryx summary .ITS movie without meaning without moral .just confusing movie and i love it.
Tom Cruise should have had that part
That's, a spoiler.
The utter absurdity of it just gets me every time
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'We pulled him off a flight to Venezuela'
'So what should we do with him?'
'Put him on the next flight to Venezuela'.
SOP for governmental agencies.
This is the first time I watched this scene since watching the video from Every frame a painting talking about the Coen brothers’ shot reverse shot techniques. This scene just demonstrates that so well. You don’t see the characters onscreen at the same time during the conversation, and the angle of the shots represents the viewpoint of the other speaker. When Rasches character sits down part way through, the camera angle changes on Simmons as both characters are now facing each other on the same level (watch from about 00:40 ). So subtle but that cinematography is such a key part of the scene.
Great catch! brilliant cinematography
Look at who was paying attention in class 😉👍🏻
JK Simmons is a fantastic character actor, and this might be his finest scene ever. I don't have to watch the whole movie again (seen it 3 times), I can just watch this and it cracks me up every time! 😂🤣
The whole movie is the joke and this scene is the punchline, shit is hilarious 😂
Let's not forget my man David Rasche, or as we know him, SLEDGE HAMMER!
Someone once told me that great actors throw you off. You think they're gonna say one thing, and what they actually end up saying is the opposite. Simmons' "Good.. great...is he dead?" is a perfect example of that.
@@murtazaalam8326 Absolutely, as well as the "we have no extradition with Venezuela"...[what should we do?]..."for f***s sake, put him on the next flight to Venezuela"
@@tlshd957 just reading this made me laugh out loud, I didn't even need to re-watch the scene. That said, I'm going to rewatch it now!
It’s funny how much Cox thought of himself and in the end he’s next to nobody to them.
The boss guy seems happy as long as ppl involved are dead or gone lol
As long as the ends are tied and he can safely ignore the situation, he’s happy to do just that.
No one wants to do the paperwork
Its a movie about how a woman got cosmetic surgery
for free
Cheap tile ceiling, fluorescent lights, plain drywall office, one Mahogany wall. lol
He is also highest head honcho of very high-budgeted organization of head honchos.
They nailed the look of government facilities.
What I love most about this is it shows just how arbitrary the results of complex situations can be, there is no neat allocation of right and wrong... like how whimsically she gets her surgeries back with the flick of a wrist
Walter Sobchak would end this with "Aww fuck it Dude. Let's go bowling."
One of the best comedic/truthful scenes in cinematic history alive!!!!
The whole movie's plot is absolutely in sync with it's title.
Summarized it's *"Somethin's fucked up, we might have a link to it, bury it. Yesterday."*
The entire gist of it all.
I absolutely love that her dream of receiving these cosmetic surgeries is realized mainly by the fact that he doesn’t actually give a shit about her and doesn’t care. LMAO
A perfect Coens ending. Embrace the mystery.
What mystery? They mistook a memoir for high level intel lol
nah I felt the ending was a let down. The abrupt conclusion felt rushed and lame. This scene is gold, but prior to, just a couple more scenes wrapping things up could have helped, and maybe some event for Tilda and the Gym Woman
@@whocares7368 Embrace the mystery...go watch “A Serious Man” to understand the connection
J.K. Simmons gets all the love for these scenes, and not without reason, but the actor playing Palmer (one David Rasche) is perfect as well. I think this is what people mean when they say a movie has good directing.
1:27 "they're pretty sure that he has no brain function"
Totally underrated line. It describes every character in this story and encapsulates what this movie is about -- utter stupidity.
JK's delivery throughout all his scenes in this film is just pure gold.
This is almost genius level writing and acting.
Almost?
brilliant ending lol
I consider showing this scene to my class and let them reconstruct the movie from there, it's an amazing summary and I wish more movies would do that. Imagine these two talking about the events from Terminator 2.
-So about this big guy, T800...
-F*ck me, what else?
-He tried to dump himself in melted metal, so we stopped the chain and saved him.
-Jesus f*cking Christ, he just want to completely erase himself from this timeline!
-So?
-So dump him in this f*cking melted metal!
@@dmitriishatokhin😂😂😂
My first exposure to JK Simmons was his portrayal of Dr. Skoda in all 3 shows of the Law & Order franchise. All his performances in TV, movies and Broadway never disappoint.
My first awareness of him was as one of the two singers of the title song in the long-running 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. Also as a member of the all-star cast of the off-Broadway musical Birds of Paradise (I didn't see it, but the recording is wonderful).
0:27 Love the way Simmons has to close the folder and hold up his fingers just to illustrate how serious that mistake was.
You are right, and I really like how Simmons isn't getting mad or berating Palmer. Its almost like you can see him realizing "Jesus Christ this guy just square _does not know_ about current extradition treaties" then explaining it in as simple a sentence as he can manage.
I love how the main characters are living out some type of James Bond espionage storyline over documents that the Russians say are useless, all while the CIA is like "WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING?!?"
When you have to explain why you lost 3 legion in teutonic forest
The part that he tells him he’s in a coma and has the face of disappointment is hilarious 😆
Those Coen bros master every genre they touch, everything just so PERFECT. Of course being able to hire that level of ensemble cast is almost as important as the script and direction. Christ even the costumes and stylists just NAILED it.
If you think the Coen's never miss, take a look at their remake of the Ealing comedy, "The Ladykillers." It's a complete dud.
- He shot him.
- Good. Great!
😂😂😂
There’s no grand reason why terrible things happen. There’s no conspiracy, no secret cabal, no shadow war.
Sometimes people are just really really stupid.
Yeah, the real conspiracy is more about how people can believe that our gouvernements are competent enough to pull out huge and complicated plans
yes cattle, yes...relax, don't worry...don't think about things! it's all just a happy little accident hahaha!
The point of this whole story is that three men died, so that one women can get breast implants 😂.
Yup. What a Fucking mess.
they should really make a movie about Their Man, he surveilled Cox, saw him dump a body, fished it out of the river but couldn't ID it, took the initiative to try to save the gym manager and blew away a guy in a bathrobe holding a ax, probably has a lot of good stories
I"d pay to watch that one. Hahahaa!
This scene had me weeping with laughter for about half an hour after the film finished. So understated but just perfect!
Six years I decided to pursue a career in the (Canadian) Federal Government. This scene has legit been my life ever since.
Yes, everyone who works in government can sympathize :) That's why I always laugh at those idiots that think there are overarching conspiracies out to "get them". Hell, I'd be surprised if we managed to make the trains run on time for a change. Fortunately, there's always a few bright people in every department that manage to organize things well enough to get basic services out the door, and then sometimes they hire someone that actually improves matters. Like any large organization, basically.
@@StCreed Conspiracies are not from 67 IQ Chuds like you, answering phones, you mouth breather. Tyranny exists you reeeeeetard.
@@StCreed i like how some pleb who works in the gay man's choir agency department of some federal government thinks he's seen the most top secret government activity...lolololol
@@StCreed Mate, you're some boob in a bureaucracy that lubricates doorknobs at the DMV. You have no idea how power actually functions. You're like the level 1 freemason dentist who goes to masonic barbecues on the weekend and thinks he knows that they aren't up to anything.
This film is woefully underrated in the Coen library. It has a lot of things that make The Big Lebowski great. I might even say it's in the top 3 of their films.
David Rasche needs more work. He rules
I like to think what he learned here enabled him to change names and become leader of the future planning committee In the Loop.
@@TheWPhilosopher ...before going to the private sector to work for Waystar Royco
He’s awesome as Karl in Succession.
"Good great, is he dead?"
"No"
"Ugh"
"Right now?"
"Right now."
Honestly always thought this movie was just okay, but the last 3 minutes is just top tier writing and filmmaking man
Its like the Glengarry Glen Ross of Government institutions, love it.
JK Simmons is great in this scene. He's typically great, I love watching him and have for years. But the comedic acting master class in this scene is by David Rasche, omg legend level funny. The places his face and pacing and beats go...top tier. Now I gotta watch the whole movie again. May have to pull out the Sledgehammer DVDs too...
It’s hard to say which is better: Simmons, Rasche or the script. May be my favorite Coen brothers scene.
Trust me, I know what I'm doing.
I hadn't realized that was the guy from Sledge Hammer! Talk about a blast from the past.
I haven't seen this movie, and I am thoroughly enjoying this without context.
Context literally doesn’t help. The two scenes featuring JK Simmons character are an outsiders perspective on this series of farcical blunders. Check out the movie. It’s hilarious!
This is a very funny movie! Great acting, hilarious plot, lots of satire- worth streaming
I could show you the final scene of every Coen Brothers movie without giving you any spoilers.
JK Simmons is like the king of all dads. The eye roll over the coma is what does it for me.
Karl??
Without question, J K Simmons stole every scene in this movie. Absolute comedy gold. What a national treasure.
"We have her? To do what with?"
lol
J.K Simmons always has a great blend of drama and comedy in his performances
What an absolute masterpiece of screen writing and actor interpretation... I could watch these two all day hahaha
Love this movie.
These two guys had the best scenes, and also introduced me to the term ‘clusterfuck’….. 😆
This film is honestly super clever. This film just does a great job of finding the humor out of the ridiculousness of the film. This is honestly becoming more brilliant the more I think about it.
These meetings are some of the funniest scenes ever put on film.
A cinematic masterpiece full of excellent acting, a great script and the best dialogue.
"More material?" in broken Russian - ROTFL
The mannerisms, the dynamics of the dialogue, the facial expressions of both of these guys in these 3 minutes is just great.
"he shot the analyst. He shot Cox" - "Good." - then the look on the underling's face!!!
One of the key movies of our era, as everything that has happened since its release makes abundantly clear.
"so the gym manager is dead"
"yes sir"
"and the body?"
"it's gone"
"that quite my tempo"
One of the greatest scenes ever shot, mother of god. It's a masterpiece.
My favourite scene in the whole movie. The absurdity of it all summed up so well. These played it out so well.
Underated movie
This entire movie is a cluster fuck of random coincidences and total dipshits doing crazy things, and it is one of the most well written and entertaining films I've ever watched.
Every character is played to a fucking tee and it all just works so well.
2:37 - The funniest line in the film!
The "brain function" line delivery was excellent
The way Sledgehammer’s face twitches every time he has to give more info is just gold
I would watch a series of just these two discussing real-world events like this.
“He’s in a coma” ...😒.........lmao
This scene is the true definition of confusion
Like their films or not.
The Coen brothers have a great style/feel to their films.
At least I think so - those that I have seen.
☮
One of the best movies ever! Great acting and awesome dialogues. That excellent entertainment!
I wish there were more movies like this.
These CIA headquarter scenes are the best in the whole movie :D
One of the funniest films ever. I loved all the cast ... shear brilliance. Brad Pitt as the gym bimbo was exquisite.
2:22 "Pay it." Lol J.K. Simmons is the 💣
I love how they seem to see this every day to the point of being annoyed so many people are involved having to clean it up
This scene is so hilarious , understated and hilariious
How fucking great is jk to watch
This script is, as per usual with the Coens, pure platinum and it’s silliness played to perfection by the stellar cast
I first saw only this clip, now after seeing the whole movi and watching this clip again it al just makes sense