Duck Soup Movie Review & Film Summary (1. My father loved the Marx Brothers above all other comedians or. The first movie he ever took me to was "A. Day at the Races." All I remember about that experience was the fact of my. But there was something else, too, that I understood only. The sound of his voice as he described the brothers.

He used the. tone that people employ when they are talking about how someone got away with. I have heard, and used, in discussing such subjects as. Some Like It Hot," "The Producers," "Blazing. Saddles," "Airplane!," Monty Python, Andy Kaufman, Saturday. Night Live, "South Park," Howard Stern, "There's Something About.

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Mary" and "Being John Malkovich" - - and even movies that are. Pulp Fiction." There is a kind of. How much more anarchic the Marx Brothers must. They were among the.

Marx Brothers inspired, but not. Yiddish comedy that nurtured them. Advertisement. Movies. Jewish style of humor into the dominant note of American.

Although they were not taken as seriously, they were as surrealist as. Dali, as shocking as Stravinsky, as verbally outrageous as Gertrude Stein, as. Kafka. Because they worked the genres of slapstick and screwball. As an absurdist essay on politics and. British critic Patrick Mc. Cray, " `Duck Soup' can. Beckett and Ionesco."The.

Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices. Duck Soup" (1. 93.

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It. represents a turning point in their movie work; it was their last film for. Paramount, and the last in which all of the scenes directly involved the. When it was a box office disappointment, they moved over to MGM. Irving Thalberg ordered their plots to find room for.

Marx. before they demanded the mediocre (Buster Keaton's sound comedies for MGM. A. Night at the Opera" (1. MGM film, contains some of their. I fast- forward over the sappy interludes. Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. In "Duck Soup" there are no. I can skip; the movie is funny from beginning to end.

To. describe the plot would be an exercise in futility, since a Marx Brothers movie. Very briefly, "Duck Soup" stars Groucho as. Rufus T. Firefly, who becomes dictator of Fredonia under the sponsorship of the.

Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont, the brothers' tireless and irreplaceable. Neighboring Sylvania and its Ambassador Trintino (Louis Calhern) have. Trintino hires Harpo and Chico as spies. This. flimsy premise provides a clothesline for one inspired sequence after another. Groucho's puns and sneaky double entendres. But. it also supports a couple of wordless physical sequences that probably have.

Advertisement. One. Chico and Harpo and the straight man Edgar. Kennedy (who started with Mack Sennett and Chaplin). Chico, as a spy. inexplicably adopts the cover of a peanut vendor, and Harpo is a passerby. Kennedy has the lemonade cart next to Chico's peanut cart, and the brothers. The. other sequence is one of the gems of the first century of film. Harpo disguises. himself as Groucho, and for reasons much too complicated to explain, sneaks.

Duck Soup Script taken from a transcript of the screenplay and/or the Marx Brothers movie.

Mrs. Teasdale's, tries to break into a safe and shatters a mirror. Groucho. himself comes downstairs to investigate. Harpo is standing inside the frame of.

Groucho's. reflection. This leads to a sustained pantomime involving flawless timing, as. Groucho tries to catch the reflection in an error, and Harpo matches every. Finally, in a perfect escalation of zaniness, Chico blunders into the. Groucho. It. is impossible to discuss Groucho's dialogue without quoting it, and pointless.

Groucho's delivery is essential to the effect. He played an. utterly irreverent character whose speech was at the mercy of puns, insults and. Rufus T. Firefly tantalizes Mrs. Teasdale with visions of marriage and then confesses.

All I can offer you is a Rufus over your head"). Many gifted comedy. S. J. Perelman, labored over the Marx Brothers movie scripts.

Groucho's own speaking style. In. 1. 97. 2 I was able to spend some time with Groucho, for a profile for Esquire. He. was then 8. 1, and still unmistakably occupying the persona he had made famous. Who he was in private remains a mystery to me; in public he was always. His first words to me could have been said in more or less the same.

Rufus T. Firefly: "Esquire isn't my favorite magazine, you know. Interviews are really murder.

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Could. you try? I'd appreciate it. You don't do any dental work, do you? I have to go. to the dentist before I go to France."Advertisement. In. two sessions separated by a couple of weeks, I heard him talk for hours at a. I. began to think of him as a soloist, and speech as his instrument. Like a good musician. Groucho. as a comedian would have been impossible in the silent era, just as Chaplin and.

Keaton adapted only uncertainly to sound. And yet in appearance the three. Zeppo seemed superfluous) were like caricatures from the. Harpo of course was always silent anyway. Chico had the Italian.

Pinocchio hat. And Groucho was such an. His look was so bizarre it wasn't makeup so much as a. Duck Soup" when. we have to ask ourselves which one is the real Groucho. Dated. as "Duck Soup" inevitably is in some respects, it has moments that. Groucho calls for help during the closing.

There is. an odd moment when Harpo shows Groucho a doghouse tattooed on his stomach, and. The brothers broke the. Note. Why the title? The critic Tim Dirks explains: "It is claimed that Groucho. Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but. After one taste, you'll duck soup the rest of. Two Groucho Marx interviews are available on Roger.

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