Devastating take-down of both patriotism and lemonade salesmen.
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In Duck Soup wil een milionaire een zeer groot bedrag schenken aan een hertogdom-in-geldnood mits... Groucho daar dictator mag worden! En, zoals u zult zien, zorgt dat voor dolkomische verwikkelingen en eigenaardige scènes. Het loopt zelfs uit op oorlog met een buurland. De Marx Brothers zijn hier weer overduidelijk aanwezig met hun eigenzinnige humor.
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Devastating take-down of both patriotism and lemonade salesmen.
Harpo as a recurring character is absolutely confounding to me. He loves to cut stuff? And everybody just knew this in the 30s? Alright! Him honking on the phone is an all time great bit, I say. The final 30 minutes of this movie is beyond insane (complimentary– I will come back to the musical number once a month I’m certain) and I’m glad they got to make the war sequence before pacing was invented in the 1960s.
Has anyone ever sat down and calculated the jokes per minute in this frickin' thing? The joke density has to be high, somewhere around the level of seasons 4-6 Simpsons. I re-watched DUCK SOUP within the last year, and I was still laughing so much today that I felt light headed when the lights came up. The escalating scale of the jokes to that last reel of absolute convention shattering anarchy ... *faints
It follows Rufus T. Firefly, the eccentric leader of the bankrupt country of Freedonia, whose antics lead the nation toward war with the neighboring state of Sylvania.
Leo McCarey directed this 1933 release, a filmmaker recognized for his significant contributions to the screwball comedy genre.
It is widely regarded as a fundamental work of American cinema and one of the most influential comedies in history. Watch it on Mood.