Philadelphia, Library Scene
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2010
- From the movie "Philadelphia" featuring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.Without question, the most dramatic scene ever put to film concerning the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
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Back when lawyers actually had to go to the library for case law research
Now it's freaking laptops and ipads
They still do.
Back when the supreme court actually cared about human rights
I love it!! 😆😆😆 well said 🤣🤣🤣
Camera from above zooms out.The closing shot in this scene almost mirrors the scene in "All the President's Men" when "Woodstein" were at the Capitol Library.
1993 movie. Amazing that this was almost 30 years ago. Tom and Denzel were young actors then. Now they are both considered top-tier veterans.
Two of the best of their generation.
they were A list back then lol
@@mkruger3852 denzel was still kind of new. hanks was already established.
Tom Hanks had just made A league of their own before this film. I guess that makes him big Time.
They were both rising stars at the time.
If anything, Washington being in a Glory (1989) was worthy of more distinction
@@josephthebobcat5085 A movie which also starred Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell.
Tom and Rosie later both appeared in "Sleepless in Seattle," although I don't think they shared any scenes.
Sometimes, it's so important to just have someone listen to you. With consideration... and respect.
Cruelty is the currency of the day. We live in a time where compassion for a stranger is seldom upheld as a quality to aspire too. Dostoyevsky said "“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” It makes it all the more important to defend and uphold the qualities of Compassion, Empathy, self-sacrifice and love.
Shut up.
@@edwelndiobel1567 ironic you prove my point thank you.
@@jaseboon6282 Thats not irony I was just kidding silly.
Who cares they should've made movies about how whites are never shown in the news discriminated against
Props to the foley person. That first bite of the sandwich sounds delicious.
I’ve thought this for years. Thank you, kindred spirit 😃
I think they messed it up… nothing that big could be so deliciously crunchy
@@michaelbee8263 I agree! But we're saying that it sounds _delicious_, not _accurate_ lol
Lol I thought I was the only one to think that. Making me hungry for sandwich now
@@michaelbee8263 that's our specialty in Philly--crunchy Italian bread and hard rolls
This scene is just priceless. Full of details. Denzen should have won the oscar too. Great movie.
Denzen Walshigton
@@TheYeti6000 wow...yet we treat people who don't want to get an experimental, poor performing vaccine like lepers.
@@jlambe19 …what?
crazy, it came out the same year as Tombstone and neither Denzel or Val were even nominated.
@@jlambe19 No, we treat you like the selfish morons that you are. Keep your anti-vax horseshit and your whining about persecution to yourself
Superbly acted. It simply doesn't get any better than this.
That moment where a black man sees the discrimination he receives everyday visited upon a whitie, and feels empathy for it.
What an awesome scene.
Whitie is a racist term
How terribly true. That's also why the hope for future resides with them🙏
So true indeed.
Every day huh ?
Yes, exactly! Joe could see how Andrew was being discriminated against unfairly due to having AIDS, just like Joe had been discriminated against for his race. Whatever way we look at it, it’s still the same kind of behavior and treatment towards another person. That’s when Joe finally was able to put any personal feelings he had about Andrew aside and realize he wanted to help him fight for his rights as an individual.
This movie just has you shaking your head the whole time.
That last sentence is so powerful: " This is the essence of discrimination, formulating opinions about others not based on individual their individual merits but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics". So true today.
AIDS was an automatic death sentence in 1993. There’s no assuming to it
@@moreme40 you missed the point completly. Discrimination in this line was not only AIDS but any disability in which the employer fired you because assumed you could not perform the job based on assumed characteristics of the disability and not the merits of the individual.
Membership or perception thereof, I'd add
@@ekathe85 The perception is implied by _assumed_ characteristics. The assumption itself can be fundamentally flawed.
Jonathan Demme stated that it is often overlooked that Denzel's character was intimidated by the law firm he would have to fight, as he dealt with ambulance chaser cases most of the time. The AIDS situation and his fear and lack of understanding only added to the situation.
I also like how in the beginning of the scene they showed how the librarian was profiling Denzel's character because of his race. To me, that's when his character had a change of heart realizing that Tom Hank's characters fight was no different than his.
This scene so strong so powerful. The delivery, the direction, IMPECCABLE
The scene is a brilliant example of great acting - where nothing needs to be spoken yet so much is said in a simple look. The look on Denzel Washington's face at 1:52 says: "I don't want get involved, but f**k you, librarian". Then the guy across the table has the most sympathetic and sad look: "I've seen this all before, and man I'm sick of it!" This is the point in the movie where Denzel's lawyer character begins to transform by witnessing the humanity and determination in the Tom Hanks character.
Interesting analysis. I took Denzals motives to mean something different. I imagine that being a black American lawyer he would have faced discrimination himself and seeing the situation Tom Hanks faced probably would have made him reflect on situations he had faced himself in different ways so in the end he felt he had a duty to represent him.
@@amanred9337 Correct. And as the film goes on Denzel's character deals with his own prejudice he holds against gay people. By the end of the movie when Hank's character is dying in the hospital he sees him as human and not a gay man dying of a terrible disease.
@@dre3k78 Yes you are right. Denzel taps into his own prejudice and uses it to expose people's own prejudice to themselves hence exposing the injustice of the situation. But I think its particularly in this library scene that draws him to the case on a personal level. It was only 30 years before this film was made that African Americans had to sit on the back of buses and go to segregated schools so I think7u788⁸888888888888889999999999⁹99⁹
There is a ''social death that precedes the actual one'' when it comes to Alzheimer's as well. My father's condition was not critical for some time but the friends he had, including the pastor at his church, dwindled to almost none very quickly.
He was left to fend off his loneliness and heartbreak with two out of three of his kids and some clambering relations intent on ''getting theirs'' in the Will after his passing.
As one of those two kids I tell you soberly it was tough but I wouldn't have traded the opportunity to give him back a measure of the care he took to raise me for anything. He could be a thorough going bastard at times, but you don't leave your old man. You just don't.
Illness in others makes people afraid for themselves. Fear/hatred of the homeless is similar. We don't want to see how far we can fall. That is "human nature," but overcoming such infantile fear makes us ethical people-- and gives us a measure of self-respect. Plus, the sick need our help.
@@SuperRobertoClemente I've been there. When you are homeless everyone tells you to ''move along'' and you get tired of looking for someplace to sit that isn't already spoken for.
A Circle-K store keeper tore open packages of day old bread and threw them in a dumpster telling me: "You ain't gonna get this for free. Nuh Uh! No way!" And she said she'd call the police if I tried to eat anything from the shredded pile she left out to rot.
It's illegal to have no money in the United States.
Love gives us dignity.
@@docducttape9270 Wow, you really got the point of this movie: be heartless and fire disabled workers. You must be one of the people helping life in 2022 to be so much fun.
@@blackbird5634 thank you for sharing. I felt that. Hope you’re in a better place now.
I had an uncle and grandma with Alzheimer’s. It’s psychologically dibilitating when they forget who you are over time .
Two of the greatest actors of my generation, maybe of all time.
Even the way Denzil eats a sandwich is brilliant.
Simply one of the great dramatic exchanges between two of the best. Great script in that it was basically a normal legal conversation, except that it had to do with alleged discriminatory behavior toward an individual with AIDS. For me the awesomeness of it comes from the soft normal tone they were required to use given they were sitting in a legal research library. No distracting street noise going on around them. Their voices and eyes do all the acting, with the exception of the long push of the hardback across the table. Denzel doesn’t wait long and receives the book with purpose. That to me is a major victory for his character. For me the scene represented two legal souls coming closer and closer to one another for a common purpose. .
After 30 years, this scene still roasts my potatoes. So good, so generous. So relieving.
The title of this video should be “What the F-ck is your problem?
😄
No, it should be “the Fiction of a Homophobic Librarian.”
It's easy to take that perspective with 30 years of hindsight.
AIDS was killing and infecting millions of people. It was carving a swath in Africa, and it was steadily on the rise in the 80s in the United States.
It wasn't even fully understood how it was transmitted in full until the turn of the century. If you had AIDs back then you were a ticking time bomb just waiting to infect others. You were like a lepur. Is it fair? Is it right? No, but it is understandable. Times change. We know a lot more now. People who get aids now have a far better chance of living at least a somewhat normal life.
Wild that he tried to discriminate against him while helping him research discrimination.
I know. The irony of all that
Now I find myself a sloppy mess looking at clips of a film that ruined me when I first watched it. So powerful and still as relevant today as when first released. In my opinion the Oscar should have been shared between the two giants in this clip.
Denzel is brilliant in this scene.. best almost getting caught eating a sandwich acting i've ever seen. Oh, and the whole commentary on homophobia, race, prejudice and injustice he does with his eyes alone. A total masterclass.
Amen.
Bob....you... are my number one..... guy......
“Bob, gun..”
“Yes sir.”
Then puts on shades.
Haha, brilliant
Nicely done
Also, the church organ player in Silence of the Lambs, which was made by the same director.
Two actors at the top of their game. Awesome scene, thanks for uploading ✌️
Having Denzel, a black actor/character, read that last line not only sends ripples but is golden.
This scene is so interesting.
Firstly, there's a geometric thing going on here, with Becket opposite another random researcher. Then, the librarian approaches on one side, and the Denzel approaches on the 4th side. The verbal (and eye contact) interplay between the 4 is fascinating and well crafted.
2 of the greatest actors of all time. In a powerful scene. So beautiful to watch.
There's actually a "No Hats Allowed In the Public Reading Spaces" rule in effect and the library staff was simply too polite to point out that Tom Hanks is breaking the rules.
Incredibly powerful movie. ❤️👌🏻
Denzels character changed immediately after experiencing a moment of discrimination himself.. 0:18
It’s called a public library, folks. It like a Wikipedia you can walk in, but you have to shut up.
I like that first scene when Denzel takes a bite, he starts to chew and stops when the other guy lock eyes and they just stare, and then the other scene when the guy tells Tom Hanks he’d be comfortable somewhere else, and Denzel mocks the guy by moving his head 😂😂😂😂 hilarious
This is the essence of discrimination, formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.
2 titans, sitting across from each other…Acting…the scene is brilliant in its simplicity but also it’s depth
Thanks alot now i have to go watch the whole movie
Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington are two awesome actors
Props to Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington for taking this role decades ago. Heath Ledger knew how difficult it would be amongst the ignorant.
What difficulty? Both movies were universally praised and won multiple Oscars. 2 of the actors won Oscars for their performances. All four actors went on to become bigger stars than they were before. Stop with the victim bullshit.
Let's not act like aids & homosexuality were not linked in a rather ignorant way back in the day. Torch song trilogy (1988) was also a film that gave a mainstream look to gay life. This movie here was just more important socially & health wise to the common, less informed citizens
All we have to fear is ignorance. Superb movie and well developed characters. Humanity (and lack thereof) are on full display developed to the ultimate.
just amazing unreal scene thanks so much for posting. great movie
Whatever Denzell was eating....that looked good.
Denzel is such a good actor.
Amazing movie!
Great scene when they read the airline decision together Denzel realises the error of his ways and Tom realises he is going to die
I had so many patients die of AIDS in the mid 80’s and early 90’s, all young and so tragic. Then the triple therapy came out and some of them came back from the brink of death like it was a miracle. Don’t forget how terrible this disease was.
powerful scene
I guess I need to watch this movie because the guy walking past Denzel Washington staring at him is hilarious out of context
Love all his movies.
I love the look of Denzel when he pretends that he does not eat anything, like "Me ? not at all" 🤣
But he eats as he has never eaten before that 🙄
Beautiful movie 🌹
What an incredible scene and intelligent response from Andrew Beckett at 2:00.
it;s amazing to see the deelopment of the character/ he saw himself in him, black, sick, etc. it was the just the next item on the list for people to hate.
Great movie!
Great movie
I love this scene
Way b4 google. You actually had to research and write information down.
They don't make 'em like this anymore. Is there even space in Hollywood to put a good movie out like this these days? Assuming there were, what would it take to get another one out there? I feel like we'd have to scramble for a good script with a good plot and the right actors to deliver the lines just the right way. I love a good super hero/ action movie as much as the next moviegoer but I miss the days when films were down-to-earth and told humanity's tale.
Because this kinda film doesn't make massive profits. Nowadays down-to-earth films are either called woke or feminist for no reason.
If you can't find a drama of this level in the last 10 years it's because you haven't looked hard enough.
There have been numerous movies of this caliber case in point Lincoln, whiplash, parasite, Selma, 12 years a slave, the butler, the revenant, I could go on.
You just ignore newer amazing movies because these old ones hold an amazing g level of nostalgic interest because of their poignant messages that were important to you back then, which also means you have an inability to connect with the same type of messages in the dramatic films of today.
They really don't make them like this anymore. I also miss the scores movies had back then.
This scene was shot at the University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Library on Walnut Street. I've spent many hours studying there.
This was filmed on location in the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
In The Novel The Rainmaker, Rudy Baylor went to Study at a Hospital Cafeteria I think he wore a White Jacket and nobody was the wiser. They had no idea he was a Lawyer working on a Insurance Case.
After covid, he is coughing and blowing his nose, he should be wearing a mask. Lol
thanks for posting this! really helped me with an english assignment i had.
thanks for telling us this. You are so great Amelia !
i am very interested by your life
@@harounlee208 I'm very in you Haroun
@@harounlee208 - Nope, just pathetic enough to actually write a comment like that to someone. Maybe your life will improve one day, but don’t take it out on anyone else.
@@HurricaneDPG I'm very in you Ned
Andrew’s interest in his baby… says it all about his character
Oh shut up.
First rule in visual storytelling: don't SAY it ... SHOW it. And SO much is shown in this scene.
Denzels moustache looks like 2 chain links. More actually like the arms of two boxers touching gloves before a fight.
Never seen this movie but looks good
I’m about to watch it myself
where can I get it?
Anyone that enjoys writing screenplays or thinks they'd be a good director, needs not watch what perfection really looks like.
I rewatched this movie today after 25 years and this scene stuck with me. DW plays lawyer who hates gays and is scared to death of AIDS, yet when he sees the librarian asking TH to use the private study, it changes his mind and he goes and takes his case. I wonder if it is because he can relate to him now due how black people were treated in US not so long ago prior to this movie. So he thinks to himself: gay or not, no one should be treated this way.
Maybe I am wrong, maybe it was meant to be just human solidarity, but it would make such a perfect sense.
yes, the opening shot with the man walking past Densel implies he is being judged for being black.
@@AlexanderNixonArtHistory aaa you reckon? I thought he was a gay person trying to hook up with him😅😅
@@petrthingsilike8487 your dad?
@@gene.dig17 correct!
The man in the opening shot was not only judging him for being black, but for being for being a black man studying LAW.
6:35 - 6:45 Such a accurate phrase perfectly fitting at all nowadays situation too.
Awesome question?
thats not a now thing thats an always been there thing just people now have access to bitch about it to everyone which didn't exist back in the day.
Curious...can you give me an example? Because certain groups deserve condemnation without parsing the merits of the individuals. Klansmen, Nazi's, white supremacists, bigots, etc. And it sure seems a lot of people have been trying to do this thing where complete disregard of these people's 'feewings' is somehow equitable to when gay or Black or Muslim or other groups of people who have experienced tangible discrimination based solely on demographic connection speak out.
Did people still think, even at this point, that you could easily catch AIDS like you would a cold or the flu?
That last line is relevant today.
The cough tho!🤣🤣
Epic
The Law Clerk should have kept his Mouth Shut. He should have said "Here's The Information That You Said You Needed!"
This happened to my Vietnamese girlfriend in Provincetown MA during covid. Everyone covered their noses when she walked into restaurant, managed to contain my rage!
Denzel made that sandwich look good as hell.
Damn Dude
It brings tears of joy to my eyes to see how far we have come as a society to ensure that scenes like these are never replicated in modern day society. I know this covid hysteria has been hard on some but I'm sure glad our media kept a level head throughout this pandemic and didn't push derision & division onto the public. Now we can focus all that built up angst, frustration & hatred onto those pesky Russians!
MSM didn't focus on division? Are you serious?
"This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated."
- every news channel
"We never tested for transmission."
-Pfizer executive
I always wondered what Denzel was snacking on at the beginning? Whatever it was, it was crunchy af for the library.
It was probably some sort of sandwich.
The guy in sweater has been in quite a few movies. Erin Brockovich (towards the end), is one.
He’s in Hitman too.
Same way denzil was passed a book to read in Malcolm X....
Watching him stop from eating his sandwich with a piece of bread on his lip reminded me of a yellow Canary feather hanging outside of Sylvester the cat's mouth hoping he doesn't get caught it was quite a bit comical.
Not a lot said, but if you watch closely MUCH SAID,
What role can't Tom Hanks nail?
Prejudism- the one word that is an inconvenient truth to those playing identity politics.
I never have seen this movie, honestly, I remember my mother crying while watching it as a kid, but I never took any interest on it, even if having Tom Hanks acting on it ...
This is a long ass story, a decade ago I made this friend on the academy, how I knew him? well ... He was "weird" and a bit eccentric you could say but not effeminate just weird maybe because He was always acting as if trying to be different, He was well-mannered and talkative, sadly, and I don't know how this started, while in class or recess some bullies (guys that I meet and knew there also, damn their sits were around mine) always started mocking him for being gay, He denied it and always tried to act "masculine" but others just noticed it by the way He always spoke, I found this stupid not for how ironic or cliché this scene could have look to others... but how senseless was back in 2010 to act this way against him or anyone.
Teachers did nothing to stop this, teachers just acted as if nothing happened, and I was part of this picture, just looking and listening, goddammit (I'm not justifying myself, but I have never been someone with attitude, I was bullied as a kid, I was a little fat, and my dad was always making my life miserable, beating me or talking shit to me, I had my share of hell growing up as any other kid, right? XD ...Thing is from that young boy to the young man I was back in 2010 I found as many others, that good relations and respect are the key, that I learned because things went better for me in high school following that rule, and I had very little troubles with shitty ppl since then and those bullies? I knew them, and they listened to me).
Well, this is how things went and every time they tried to get aggressive with him, I almost commanded them to stop by reasoning with them ... until one day this almost every-single-day bullied guy explode and threatened them to beat the shit out of every single one if they doesn't stop bullying him for being gay, in front of the entire class, interrupting the teacher which only told them to "stop" resuming the class as if nothing happened, I was thinking to myself "Gee Zeus Holy Christ" they were going to kill him and rape His corpse, I'm not joking they were going to beat the shit out of this motherfucker, they just wanted half a reason to do it ...
I had to spend the last 40mins of class reasoning with them and point that no real man will keep taking shit from anyone as He had to do from them, gay or not He demanded respect, and He had mine, and they agreed in the end, and I had to accompany him to his house just in case, that day We became friends for real, He started visiting me on my juice bar, and we talk and talk and talk, He wanted to be a teacher and died while accomplishing his dream because He got HIV, it's been almost 2 years now, and I miss him, He was a very good person and for stupid it sounds I think I will see this movie just for him goddammit too many shit had happened if He only knew lol.
Lol that Librarian guy sure was intimidating
Nah, I'd stick a copy of Readers Digest up his arse sideways
Pretty sure he's the same guy who played one of the Lary, Darryl, and Darryl brothers on the Bob Newhart show.
He should be, in his previous life he worked for the Joker
He looks creepy if you ask me . I’ve seen him in other roles , can’t put my finger on it though.
@@jamesroboyle Larry, with brother Darryl, and other brother Darryl on Bob Newhart show, Joker's assistant "Bob, You are my number one guy" on the 1989 Michael Keaton Batman movie, hotel owner and town clerk of court in the HBO series "Deadwood"
Incredible movie.
Larice is a beautiful name.
Shrimp. Plate. Plate of shrimp.
It wasn’t until years later that I realized that the man staring down Denzel Washington was apparently racist. I initially thought the man was “cruising” him with his lustful stare.
I thought the same thing too
I thought he was staring because he was interested.
I thought he was an employee and it was because he was eating
I think it was meant to juxtapose the prejudice that black people feel in seemingly mundane situations of everyday life to those same feelings that people with AIDS felt during this time. When Joe sees it happening to Andy, he knows how it feels.
It was ostensibly because he was eating in a library, but also possible that the librarian was racist.
All I think about this scene is how delicious those cannolis looked.
This scene is so powerful. People use to go to the library to do research.
Can guarantee you they still do. Not only are the *thousands* of books you will encounter in (for example) a university library still very useful, but you are hard-pressed to find a seat anywhere in the building once the semester has really kicked off. Online databases are invaluable, but not everything is there.
Shook hands with and then hugged a man with HIV in 1997. He thanked me even then, when anyone who cared to know knew, that could not transmit the virus.
“Would it make you more comfortable?”
“Yes! You’re coughing up AIDS juice all over the desk!”
AIDS juice 😭😭😭
No, but he is clearly ill and depositing all sorts of contagious things on the desk and materials he handles...not to mention if he should cough or sneeze without covering it...
@@wpochert it’s……it’s a joke
I don't believe you can catch AIDS that way.
The great Tracy Walter.
Bob the Goon survived being shot by the Joker and decided to become a librarian
What part did that librarian play in Silence of The Lambs?
Denzel Washington it's nice he wants to seat down more descriminating when everyone lives
2 Great actors - 1 great movie!
Oh I wonder what happens at the end
Are all of those Folks Lawyers or Law Students. I love those Yellow Legal Pads that they use and they write information down. I've noticed alot of folks use Felt Tip Pens. The Music in it's own way reminds me of Schindler's List.
Both, I think.
Before computers, legal books were expensive and only the largest firms had their own libraries. Lawyers would routinely go to the local Bar Association library to do research, gossip, and draft briefs away from the ringing phone or clients. As a lawyer who started in this era, I miss law libraries.
@@patrickmcdonnell4427 indeed, truly a forgotten time. Westlaw, lexisnexis, etc. are incredible resources but the whole environment we used to have was really something. I guess it felt more special to be an attorney then. It doesn’t feel the same
anymore, especially with hearings on zoom, but I suppose the evolution is inevitable. I do miss the days of blowing off steam at a bar with all the other suits, debating and bullshitting after a rough day in court, the smell of leather briefcases and fountain pens and happy hour scotch.
@@patrickmcdonnell4427 Yes I believe you. I'm not a Lawyer but when I read Books about The Law, The Library was synonymous. In The Paper Chase, Hart studied in The Library, Kingsfield had his Home Office that had his Law Books where he graded Hart's Paper. In A Time To Kill Jake Brigance arrived at The Law Library and prepared work for his Secretary Ethel Twitty. Also do alot of Lawyers have Home Offices.
Any discrimination should be heavily penalized under the full weight of the law by the Judges!