My uncle died of AIDS when i was 2. when he was diagnosed as HIV positive I hadn't been born yet but when I turned one he started suffering from skin lesions and pneumonia, so he preferred not to pick me up or kiss me, he just patted me on the head. my mother told me that once, a few months before he died, while he was caressing me, he was crying... he probably wanted to hug me like he did when I was a newborn and maybe he also knew that we would never see each other again but I'm sure that since the diagnosis no one had hugged him again without showing fear or disgust. I don't know what he felt but I know that I love him even now that he's not here, and I'm grateful to him for being affectionate with me even if I don't remember it
What always amazes me is the advent of the "triple cocktail" drug treatment regime. So many people had seen the disease run it course and knew exactly where it would lead. And then to have this treatment be available and all of a sudden your life is handed back to you, seemingly overnight. It also makes you think about the character here of Andy. A couple years give or take, and he could have been saved. He just misses the window.
As so many people did, like Freddie Mercury. And this will happen with cancer also. There will be a time in rhe near future where we will think of all the people who only just missed the boat, because the cure came a month after their passing. In 15-50 years from now, cancer will be curable or at least a chronic disease, instead of a deadly one.
@@reallyjustme But there's multiple types of cancer, of various very different body parts, so it's unlikely 1 single cure would be effective against every type! More likely, a different cure would have 2 be developed 4 every individual type!
Its only one pill a day now, maybe two and the drugs response is almost immediate. Within 3 to six months the HIV victim can be back to normal and the virus is non-detectable in blood tests.
@@reallyjustme cancer isn't a disease, it's a category. There are literally thousands of different types of cancer and they all require different treatments. That's why it'll be a long long time before cancer as a whole will be cured. Certainly not within the lifetime of anyone alive today.
Tom Hanks is a great actor. Won the Oscar for best lead actor in this film. What I don't get is how Denzel did not get a nomination. Not even a mention.
And Antonio....who people thought might suffer by playing a gay so early in his career. I think we've come a long way since then, as a society. He was great!
The Director believed Denzel’s performance was too worthy of a supporting actor nomination. Unfortunately, he couldn’t be nominated along with Tom in the same category. He believed Denzel and Tom were both leading men so he didn’t submit Denzel’s name. Denzel talks about this in a few interviews.
Okay, but can we laugh at the fact that this librarian finds and hands Tom Hanks cases for discrimination for AIDS and then proceeds to discriminate against him for having AIDS
I saw this in the theater. At the time I didn't pick up on the symbolism of Andy wearing a hat with an African pattern on it while Joe recognizes he's being treated like a black man would've been treated in the Jim Crow era.
I bet he just found a "hat" that was in style at this time. He tried to fit in wearing it....camouflage his AIDS. Plus a busy pattern with colors might distract from his "ill" appearance. Beckett's character seemed otherwise conservative, artsy, cultured, so maybe he was out of his comfort zone picking a "hat". Or Miguel picked it!!
I kinda thought that was one of the more obvious subtleties from the scene. But we don’t all catch the same things at the same time. It’s certainly worth watching again and again as there is so much to this scene.
Philadelphia is one of the best movies ever made in the 90s and Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington did phenomenal performances in this movie 🎥. This movie really hit hard for me and it is an amazing movie .
At this point Denzel's career is so goddamn long and stacked with great performances that this one seems to fly under the radar. It's one of his greatest though in my opinion
I agree. It maybe the best scene in the movie. Up until this point you’ve seen how Andy has been discriminated against even by Joe and then they end up talking about the definition of said discrimination by law and Joe starts to see past his bigotry.
It's a terrible shame that we have not gotten more movies with these two working together. This is like Jordan and Bird. All you would need is some top-notch scriptwriters and these two, and it would be instant cinema gold.
I remember him when he played Bob the Goon in Batman and when he played a Fast Food Manager in Married to the Mob. He’s definitely excellent at playing multiple roles
Thanks for this clip. We've come a long way since 1993. (I'm negative- I mean, as a society.) I remember the signs in the high school bathroom, how terrified everyone was- This was an important movie
have we come a long way? Firing people for not getting vaccines and ostracizing them from society for not masking up. Making them eat/sleep and live away from you out of fear. Seems like were still on the same path.
I tell you this is a perfect example of how a black person who have been discriminated against all our lives can’t walk away from any person who is being discriminated against ❤️👍🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Such a great movie. Should be noted that Denzel character probably was old enough at that time where going to law school he probably dealt with people walking away because he sat at their table
Wow! Did anyone else ask themselves "Where the hell in the movie did a stage curtain come down?". I completely forgot I was watching just a clip. One of the greatest movies ever
A buddy of mine from high school got AIDS from a bad blood transfusion. He'd been in a bad car wreck that almost killed him and needed like 4 transfusions. He died in 2008. I hadn't seen this movie, but I immediately thought of him. RIP Al Keller. I'll see you again some day, bro
You will see him again some day and he is so proud of you ❤ i may not know you or your friend, but I will keep him in my heart and thoughts, I know he’s glad you remember him so fondly 🤜🏽🤛🏽
I cared for and nursed many individuals in The The Inner City New Orleans community at Ochnser Foundation Hospital. I specifically recall an individual Professional Interior Decorator who lost clientele, contracts and social relationships because he was isolated due to his disease and disability in hospital. I recall him begging for a " librium" because if the emotional inability to cope with the anxiety and fear associated with the losses he was experiencing. He wanted a peaceful night's rest, and by God almighty, that Man got a Librium capsule and we cried together for the panic he was feeling.
My mom had a friend that had aids. I miss him so much. He was sweet and very smart. I remember when I had my son and his dad was like don’t ever let that man hold my son. I was like excuse me and told him off. He was so ignorant. He acted like you can get aids by hugging and kissing on the check 😡. I grew up around him. We hugged a lot. I know I’ll see him again. Rip
This scene was not shot at the University of Pennsylvania's Biddle Law Library. I've studied there many times. Instead, the filmmakers chose the much more atmospheric Fisher Fine Arts Library, in the Furness Building on the Penn campus in Philadelphia.
oh gosh, I remember now, several years ago. I was getting treated for a hospital-induced case of MRSA at a popular northern virginia hospital that gave it to me during a surgery. And they put this man who was in horrible pain in my room. One night his family came in and was yelling at him to talk to him (he couldn't hear well) and tell him he had AIDS and they needed to sign a DNR order and lots of other stuff. I was in so much torment from the long conversations and other stuff going on, that I asked to be transferred. I didn't know how to help the guy, and I didn't have any tools to help him. And all of the family drama stuff was too much, along with the guy in constant pain. I don't know the relationship between AiDS and hearing loss though. My wife was with me at the time, she died 2 years ago from an aggressive breast cancer (5 months time).
Why does every good role require a trophy, he got paid, made millions, he got recognition, he did a great job. Now he needs a trophy? Stop with all the accolades and awards, they are actors, thats it.
@@tombryan1, Tom Hanks got one. He shouldn’t have received it. People that are great in any field get awards.. people can’t be awarded for expectational work?
@@jsdzxDenzel has won Oscars for other rolls. Whats the point here? Every damn movie he’s in is Oscar quality, as @tombryan9531 mentioned, everyone know’s he was good in this movie too and he was well compensated and recognized for it.
Demme was one of the few who benefited and treasured the amercan cinema of the 70s, his approach was subtle yet frank, like reality could bring as much emotion than a Hollywood fake and easy teardrop movie. A great director and a great personality.
This scene was shot at around 4:00 pm, and the discussion at the table between Tom's and Denzel's characters happened at 4:10 pm. How did I deduce that?
@@flyinghow Ignorance kept people from actually learning this info about the disease? & there’s hardly a great deal of it today, considering homosexuality has become much more accepted in society
Hell yeah. Especially since he was coughing. He’s showing symptoms of a deadly disease. Plus having HIV automatically made you gay. The public wasn’t sure about the information back then
So what changed Joe's mind about helping Andy? It was unjust for sure what Andy was going though and he without a doubt had a case for discrimination. But i also tend to think that maybe he drew the parallel's between black racism and exclusion and Homosexual/AIDS fear that was very prevalent at the time. I'm old enough to remember when AIDS was new and when being Gay was absolutely a death sentence socially for people. We've really come a long way since those days, of course nothing is perfect but this film was a huge achievement and eye opening into the humanity of people suffering with AIDS as well as showing that Gay people are still human beings like everyone else.
Joe did see the parallel’s and why he ultimately took the case, at first he was just looking at everything from a legal standpoint, but as the case went on and as Andrew and Joe continued to work together, Joe’s homophobia began to disappear as he continued to work with Andrew and see him for more than just his sexuality. It goes to show while it may be difficult to change someone’s perspective, it’s not impossible.
Yeah, the things that were unknown terrified everyone! I heard stories of a hospital in Ohio who burned 2 ambulances 🚑 because they’d transported AIDS patients in them!
I remember when I was in middle school somebody asked if I knew how to spell AIDS and after I did he said that was a swear word if I could go back and do that over again I'd probably knock him off his pedestal by pointing out what AIDS actually is
who cares about the individual Oscar nomination albeit it opened up the opportunity for an everlasting speech - above all the movie is brilliant and a wakeup for many at the time - at least humanity has come a long way on this front
@@blackbutterfly4739 It will never stop. You know, I'm not gay, I don't have AIDS or HIV, I'm a heterosexuell woman. But there is something, that still makes me sick. And it will never end. That's not to let people live their own live, but stigmatize them. It's almost like the horrible treatment of animals. Everyone is like "Yeah! I'm so tolerant" but in fact, no one nowsx what he's taking about by saying this. I also can tolereate everything by closing my eyes. This movie is sooo old and it seems that so one learned from it. To let people live like they want. Edit: I was upset, so ignore my orthography.
The equipment used for sound design in older movies was so different than the crisp, clear one we have now. Each are good in their own right but I do miss it
@@danielwilliamson6180Hes a lawyer. I think those people dont have a designated lunch break because of all their work and whatnot. So they basically wat. While they work, even in libraries.
"On membership within a group with assumed characteristics" so generalization, yeah, but I would add "especially unwilling otherwise involuntary membership"
What I never understood about this scene was when Joe asks him how he goes from one of the partners noticing a lesion to them deducing he had AIDS and firing him on the basis of that conclusion and Andrew says “hmm, that’s a good point.” I am like, how would a lawyer not have thought about that? Isn’t that kind of the crux of what he would have to prove or explain in court? That’s a pretty basic question that, what, he just never considered until Joe asked him about it?
It's a movie, and you shouldn't really overthink it. Also, people are still human beings no matter what their profession is and can make mistakes and still overlook things.
We are suppose to feel bad for Hanks in this scene but damn… dude is sitting there coughing and blowing his nose at a public table with other people sitting around.
These two were magical together. Totally cried at the end, very beautiful film.
Yes, me too
Who cares about awards. These guys kill this scene, two GOATS coming together to talk about discrimination.
My uncle died of AIDS when i was 2. when he was diagnosed as HIV positive I hadn't been born yet but when I turned one he started suffering from skin lesions and pneumonia, so he preferred not to pick me up or kiss me, he just patted me on the head. my mother told me that once, a few months before he died, while he was caressing me, he was crying... he probably wanted to hug me like he did when I was a newborn and maybe he also knew that we would never see each other again but I'm sure that since the diagnosis no one had hugged him again without showing fear or disgust. I don't know what he felt but I know that I love him even now that he's not here, and I'm grateful to him for being affectionate with me even if I don't remember it
hahahahaha😆🤣🤣🤣 wow what a story Mark!
anyway, how's your s3x life? and I love Lisa so much
Cool story bro
Sounds like you’re rockin on your uncle’s victim hood.
That was a lovely story. Thanks for sharing it with us ❤
It would make him happy to know you still think of him and love him.
I had stopped reading the comment out of fear of sadness, but I'm glad I read it. His memory is alive, even to people who have never met him.
This is TRUE acting. Only REAL actors can pull this off. I love it!! Its like watching a great tennis match.
What always amazes me is the advent of the "triple cocktail" drug treatment regime. So many people had seen the disease run it course and knew exactly where it would lead.
And then to have this treatment be available and all of a sudden your life is handed back to you, seemingly overnight. It also makes you think about the character here of Andy. A couple years give or take, and he could have been saved. He just misses the window.
As so many people did, like Freddie Mercury. And this will happen with cancer also. There will be a time in rhe near future where we will think of all the people who only just missed the boat, because the cure came a month after their passing. In 15-50 years from now, cancer will be curable or at least a chronic disease, instead of a deadly one.
@@reallyjustme But there's multiple types of cancer, of various very different body parts, so it's unlikely 1 single cure would be effective against every type! More likely, a different cure would have 2 be developed 4 every individual type!
Its only one pill a day now, maybe two and the drugs response is almost immediate. Within 3 to six months the HIV victim can be back to normal and the virus is non-detectable in blood tests.
@@reallyjustme cancer isn't a disease, it's a category. There are literally thousands of different types of cancer and they all require different treatments. That's why it'll be a long long time before cancer as a whole will be cured. Certainly not within the lifetime of anyone alive today.
If only he would have kept his boo boo close for a couple three years.🤔
Tom Hanks is a great actor. Won the Oscar for best lead actor in this film. What I don't get is how Denzel did not get a nomination. Not even a mention.
And Antonio....who people thought might suffer by playing a gay so early in his career. I think we've come a long way since then, as a society. He was great!
Denzel didn’t get an Oscar for the same reason he didn’t get it or the countless great performances before this..because he is BLACK…
The Director believed Denzel’s performance was too worthy of a supporting actor nomination. Unfortunately, he couldn’t be nominated along with Tom in the same category. He believed Denzel and Tom were both leading men so he didn’t submit Denzel’s name. Denzel talks about this in a few interviews.
@@Write662 Oh, that is horrible!
Hollywood was very different back then. Now the pendulum swings and people get awards simply based on their race regardless of talent
Okay, but can we laugh at the fact that this librarian finds and hands Tom Hanks cases for discrimination for AIDS and then proceeds to discriminate against him for having AIDS
@PHX2PDX only because the others were uncomfortable.
@@Stitchman3875
Anybody would be uncomfortable.
@@donarthiazi2443 I never was uncomfortable with the whole HIV/AIDS thing. As long as you know how to avoid it, there's nothing to worry about.
@@Stitchman3875
I never liked being around those people. I feel sorry for them, but it's still a dangerous situation.
@@Stitchman3875 you can say that now. Back then all people on the street knew was it was infections and it had no cure.
I saw this in the theater. At the time I didn't pick up on the symbolism of Andy wearing a hat with an African pattern on it while Joe recognizes he's being treated like a black man would've been treated in the Jim Crow era.
I bet he just found a "hat" that was in style at this time. He tried to fit in wearing it....camouflage his AIDS. Plus a busy pattern with colors might distract from his "ill" appearance. Beckett's character seemed otherwise conservative, artsy, cultured, so maybe he was out of his comfort zone picking a "hat". Or Miguel picked it!!
Looook. The first thing I noticed was the hat but did not get the connection . Shoutout to you
I kinda thought that was one of the more obvious subtleties from the scene. But we don’t all catch the same things at the same time. It’s certainly worth watching again and again as there is so much to this scene.
Solid connection
And might I add, today's era too smdh. Sundown towns still exist .. & so much more
The Librarian..."You're right, THERE IS A SECTION ON HIV RELATED DESCRIMINATION." About as subtle as artillery.
Librarian: Sorry.. It kind of echoes in this library🙄
@@Professor__S and you'll notice no-one said 'sshhhhhh!' 🤫
You are my number one guy
I WORK AT LIBRARY BUT IM ALL ABOUT LOUD, HIV GUY, RIGHT OVER HERE. THE GUY WITH THE HAT.
Oh for gawd's sake! Don't destroy our English language by misspelling words such as "discrimination!". Don't you have auto correct??
My mom had an hiv/aids support group in the 90s. I remember asking her how she stood so many losses. She said if I don't who will.
❤
Philadelphia is one of the best movies ever made in the 90s and Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington did phenomenal performances in this movie 🎥. This movie really hit hard for me and it is an amazing movie .
It gets Pushed off that spot by Seven …1995
Denzel Washington’s performance by todays standards would have easily gotten him an Oscar.
Without a DOUBT
He was so snubbed for it… yet, it still marks a notable before-and-after in his career…
easily
90's were a powerhouse era of actors. Denzel, Daniel Day Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, etc.. standard of actors today is subpar. Says a lot about Gen Z..
He should have won Oscar for this instead of Training Day.
That librarian is still the Joker’s number onnnneee!!
The word after one is guy, “you, are my number onnnnneee…guy!
Bob, gun..
@@wiseauserious8750 this guy gets it….
He's also the one that gave Erin Brokivich the documents she needed to when her lawsuit against PG&E!
Was that really Bob?
At this point Denzel's career is so goddamn long and stacked with great performances that this one seems to fly under the radar. It's one of his greatest though in my opinion
" A social death which precedes the actual physical one "😔
DENZEL SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FOR THIS PERFORMANCE AND THE WIN !!
Oh man that familiar tug to do the right thing even when it’s going to cost you big. What is society without it?
This is exactly the comment I was looking for! You can tell he was being tugged big time!
Exactly!!! If not for those decisions to do the right thing... What would society be indeed?
yeah, now i remember why I love 90s movies
Same here, no CGI for the most part, and they still shot on actual film
@@wiseauserious8750
Why would it be neccessary to CGI for this film?? 🤔
Two amazing actors. This is one of my favorite scenes from the movie. I’m a lawyer.
Ride on, Anthony. 🤙
Objection!! Hearsay
@@rickmaldoo4205 request a sidebar!
Nobody asked you though
I agree. It maybe the best scene in the movie. Up until this point you’ve seen how Andy has been discriminated against even by Joe and then they end up talking about the definition of said discrimination by law and Joe starts to see past his bigotry.
Still one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
It's a terrible shame that we have not gotten more movies with these two working together. This is like Jordan and Bird. All you would need is some top-notch scriptwriters and these two, and it would be instant cinema gold.
Very true I always think of Jordan as Tom Hanks and Larry Bird as Denzel.
Young people today will never know or appreciate the significance of this beautiful film.
This library scene changed my life back in 1993. That a lawyer does his homework.
Whatever
Young straight people perhaps...
Facts
Young people have been through covid, they know what nonsense is
Tracy Walter is one of those great character actors who ive always said deserves more work.
I remember him when he played Bob the Goon in Batman and when he played a Fast Food Manager in Married to the Mob.
He’s definitely excellent at playing multiple roles
@@jefftcritic He was great in Erin Brockovich too
What a wonderful treat seeing Denzel & Tom on the same screen.
This movie is a masterpiece.
When he pushed the book over - I reckon that’s one of the most powerful moments in film
Thanks for this clip. We've come a long way since 1993. (I'm negative- I mean, as a society.) I remember the signs in the high school bathroom, how terrified everyone was- This was an important movie
have we come a long way? Firing people for not getting vaccines and ostracizing them from society for not masking up. Making them eat/sleep and live away from you out of fear. Seems like were still on the same path.
I tell you this is a perfect example of how a black person who have been discriminated against all our lives can’t walk away from any person who is being discriminated against ❤️👍🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
What a load of crap.
@@cameronelliott9709 I know the TRUTH hurts 🙏🏽
Saw this in the theater, at 1:30 the theater roared with applause.
The ending family film is the saddest thing I've ever seen.
@@Jb991-q9xyea. Why I never go to theaters. People applaud like director in studio
That's amazing
These guys should have won best actor and best supporting actor at the academy for this film
Tom Hanks did, but Denzel didn't. But he had won the prior year, for Glory.
Every year has people that deserved it but only one can win, it's one reason I dont bother watching awards shows
Such a great movie. Should be noted that Denzel character probably was old enough at that time where going to law school he probably dealt with people walking away because he sat at their table
for a not-so-subtle movie, that was the idea here
Meaning there was very little diversity in law schools in the 80’s?
@@joewhitehead3 probably the late 60s since he's about 40 here with a baby and family
@@jamesmalik3355 I thought he was younger
@@jamesmalik3355 late 1970's. Denzel was born in 1954.
Wow! Did anyone else ask themselves "Where the hell in the movie did a stage curtain come down?". I completely forgot I was watching just a clip. One of the greatest movies ever
I took care of hundreds of AIDS patients in the early 90s. It broke my heart. Their families abandoned them.
:/
All of their families?
They abandoned them because to get aids you need to get your anus plapped. Not good.
The movie was centered on Hank's character but it was Washington's character arch which made the story.
Yes. Denzel's character actually undergoes the most growth throughout the film.
Denzel's face in that thumbnail tho. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did him dirty 😂
@akuabadoll7924Yes. Theres a longer version of this vid that shows him eating a sandwich of some sort.
@@theintrovertedaspie9095and you can see him chewing when it initially shows him
Beautiful movie - these two knock it out of the park
3 amazing humanitarian actor's. Thankyou ❤ Thankyou ❤Thankyou ❤
A buddy of mine from high school got AIDS from a bad blood transfusion. He'd been in a bad car wreck that almost killed him and needed like 4 transfusions. He died in 2008. I hadn't seen this movie, but I immediately thought of him. RIP Al Keller. I'll see you again some day, bro
You will see him again some day and he is so proud of you ❤ i may not know you or your friend, but I will keep him in my heart and thoughts, I know he’s glad you remember him so fondly 🤜🏽🤛🏽
That librarian always plays a mean guy.
He plays the unsung hero in Erin Brockovich
@@SheriPhaffArtPaintBrushed YES Exactly, without his character they never get the needed evidence documents.
Didn't he also play a professor in college on HOW HIGH
he plays a doctor in silence of the lambs... he's in the coroner's room with clarice and Crawford.
The wagon driver in "City Slickers", Bob The Goon in "Batman" and countless other roles. Good, old Tracey Walter.
I cared for and nursed many individuals in The The Inner City New Orleans community at Ochnser Foundation Hospital. I specifically recall an individual Professional Interior Decorator who lost clientele, contracts and social relationships because he was isolated due to his disease and disability in hospital. I recall him begging for a " librium" because if the emotional inability to cope with the anxiety and fear associated with the losses he was experiencing. He wanted a peaceful night's rest, and by God almighty, that Man got a Librium capsule and we cried together for the panic he was feeling.
Real people and " Ordinary Men" who love, lose, bleed, and suffer from various diseases and illnesses. Women suffer too.
3:45, this is why you get a lawyer. They help fill the gaps an average person sometimes leaves open.
Brilliant acting
My mom had a friend that had aids. I miss him so much. He was sweet and very smart. I remember when I had my son and his dad was like don’t ever let that man hold my son. I was like excuse me and told him off. He was so ignorant. He acted like you can get aids by hugging and kissing on the check 😡. I grew up around him. We hugged a lot. I know I’ll see him again. Rip
I cry like three separate times when I watch this wonderful, powerful scene.
This scene was not shot at the University of Pennsylvania's Biddle Law Library. I've studied there many times. Instead, the filmmakers chose the much more atmospheric Fisher Fine Arts Library, in the Furness Building on the Penn campus in Philadelphia.
Thank you. Very interesting choice, and you're right. The library is perfect for the scene.
Well written, gloriously acted.
oh gosh, I remember now, several years ago. I was getting treated for a hospital-induced case of MRSA at a popular northern virginia hospital that gave it to me during a surgery. And they put this man who was in horrible pain in my room. One night his family came in and was yelling at him to talk to him (he couldn't hear well) and tell him he had AIDS and they needed to sign a DNR order and lots of other stuff. I was in so much torment from the long conversations and other stuff going on, that I asked to be transferred. I didn't know how to help the guy, and I didn't have any tools to help him. And all of the family drama stuff was too much, along with the guy in constant pain. I don't know the relationship between AiDS and hearing loss though. My wife was with me at the time, she died 2 years ago from an aggressive breast cancer (5 months time).
Their acting is so good its spooky. Also Tom totally gave me the idea of having tough illness.
5:45 how to be a great actor with your eyes only
Denzel should had got a Oscar.
Yup he should of
Why does every good role require a trophy, he got paid, made millions, he got recognition, he did a great job. Now he needs a trophy? Stop with all the accolades and awards, they are actors, thats it.
@@tombryan1, Tom Hanks got one. He shouldn’t have received it. People that are great in any field get awards.. people can’t be awarded for expectational work?
@@jsdzxDenzel has won Oscars for other rolls. Whats the point here? Every damn movie he’s in is Oscar quality, as @tombryan9531 mentioned, everyone know’s he was good in this movie too and he was well compensated and recognized for it.
They it to Tommy Lee Jones.
The cinematography and editing is amazing
Such a brilliant, brilliant film. Two powerhouses at work.
This movie had to be made..Thank you Tom..you freak me out man...😊
Wish Denzel and Tom made more movies together. 2 of my favourite actors
This movie is insanely good. Truly a must watch for all.
I love these two professional actors making movie and legal history together through cinema.
Demme was one of the few who benefited and treasured the amercan cinema of the 70s, his approach was subtle yet frank, like reality could bring as much emotion than a Hollywood fake and easy teardrop movie. A great director and a great personality.
great acting, solid movie, loved watching those two act together
The depth of a black man discriminating and understanding discrimination
This scene was shot at around 4:00 pm, and the discussion at the table between Tom's and Denzel's characters happened at 4:10 pm. How did I deduce that?
This is what good acting looks like. A must watch movie in a lifetime
The librarian was so disturbed by Andy not taking the private research room that he immediately quit his job and went and joined the Joker’s gang.
I guess im gonna watch the whole movie just in short youtube clips
the clips don't show the whole story
Did people still think, even at this point, that you could easily catch AIDS like you would a cold or the flu?
yes
@@jwhitman2447 It’d been like over 5 years by this time since it had broken out. How did people not know yet?
@@joewhitehead3 A whole lot of ignorance, especially since it was concentrated in the gay community.
@@flyinghow Ignorance kept people from actually learning this info about the disease? & there’s hardly a great deal of it today, considering homosexuality has become much more accepted in society
Hell yeah. Especially since he was coughing. He’s showing symptoms of a deadly disease. Plus having HIV automatically made you gay. The public wasn’t sure about the information back then
Such a great and heartbreaking movie. 💔
This is one of my fav Denzel performances.
Two of best actors , together.
So what changed Joe's mind about helping Andy? It was unjust for sure what Andy was going though and he without a doubt had a case for discrimination. But i also tend to think that maybe he drew the parallel's between black racism and exclusion and Homosexual/AIDS fear that was very prevalent at the time.
I'm old enough to remember when AIDS was new and when being Gay was absolutely a death sentence socially for people. We've really come a long way since those days, of course nothing is perfect but this film was a huge achievement and eye opening into the humanity of people suffering with AIDS as well as showing that Gay people are still human beings like everyone else.
Joe did see the parallel’s and why he ultimately took the case, at first he was just looking at everything from a legal standpoint, but as the case went on and as Andrew and Joe continued to work together, Joe’s homophobia began to disappear as he continued to work with Andrew and see him for more than just his sexuality. It goes to show while it may be difficult to change someone’s perspective, it’s not impossible.
Yeah, the things that were unknown terrified everyone! I heard stories of a hospital in Ohio who burned 2 ambulances 🚑 because they’d transported AIDS patients in them!
I remember when I was in middle school somebody asked if I knew how to spell AIDS and after I did he said that was a swear word if I could go back and do that over again I'd probably knock him off his pedestal by pointing out what AIDS actually is
I didn't know Scotty Kilmer was also a librarian
Lol
I didn't know you could eat in the library?
@@cashewnuttel9054 Clearly not. Why do you think Washington's character was trying to hide that he was eating?
@@cashewnuttel9054 I have eaten in libraries.
Rev up your immonosystem
*GREATEST MOVIE OF MY LIFETIME!*
classic scene what a great movie.
Pretty unrealistic
who cares about the individual Oscar nomination albeit it opened up the opportunity for an everlasting speech - above all the movie is brilliant and a wakeup for many at the time - at least humanity has come a long way on this front
Great actors.
2 Acting ultra powerhouses.
Those were interesting times. A lot of paranoia and fear. Glad things progressed past it and people aren't stigmatized like that anymore.
Really? I mean, really?
Yes they are believe me
@@blackbutterfly4739 It will never stop. You know, I'm not gay, I don't have AIDS or HIV, I'm a heterosexuell woman. But there is something, that still makes me sick. And it will never end. That's not to let people live their own live, but stigmatize them. It's almost like the horrible treatment of animals. Everyone is like "Yeah! I'm so tolerant" but in fact, no one nowsx what he's taking about by saying this. I also can tolereate everything by closing my eyes. This movie is sooo old and it seems that so one learned from it. To let people live like they want.
Edit: I was upset, so ignore my orthography.
Yeah. We've come quite a way in 30 years. Still have a way to go, but it's definitely better.
Covid paranoia has entered the chat
Just a movie where 2 dudes did a masterclass on acting
Masterpiece
When Denzel sat down, he accepted the case.
Such a powerful movie. Highly recommend watching it. 😊
I think a lot of people forget about Philadelphia when they think of Hanks' and Washington's best performances
The amsr is REALLY strong in this clip.
The equipment used for sound design in older movies was so different than the crisp, clear one we have now. Each are good in their own right but I do miss it
Look at how young everyone was. But then again I was a baby when this came out. My Xer sister remembers hysteria around HIV.
0:29 LOL. Sorry, I find Denzel with his mouth full very amusing cos it looks as if his mouth has swelled up like a balloon.
he just took a bite out of his crunchy sounding sandwich in his hand, and was eating it slowly and, quetly.
@@AnastasiaSaenz Is it allowed to eat food at a library?
@@danielwilliamson6180Hes a lawyer. I think those people dont have a designated lunch break because of all their work and whatnot. So they basically wat. While they work, even in libraries.
@@theintrovertedaspie9095 All I said was I found it amusing!
I know, I was just explaining why he would be eating I the library. @@danielwilliamson6180
Name Hanks best movie !!!!! All of them
The thumbnail got me like 😂
"On membership within a group with assumed characteristics" so generalization, yeah, but I would add "especially unwilling otherwise involuntary membership"
Well said.
Excellent film
Bob. Gun.
i understood that reference.
Bob was still reeling from those balloons being stolen. Then he regrouped and helped Erin Brockovich nail those bastards.
😂😂😂😂
Now our commercials are like “You have HIV? Take this pill and go have some fun!”
Lol has fat people dancing and two dudes hiking in a mountain.😂
Who excuses themselves from a public library? Like dude just leave he doesn't know you 🤣
No eating in the library.
What I never understood about this scene was when Joe asks him how he goes from one of the partners noticing a lesion to them deducing he had AIDS and firing him on the basis of that conclusion and Andrew says “hmm, that’s a good point.” I am like, how would a lawyer not have thought about that? Isn’t that kind of the crux of what he would have to prove or explain in court? That’s a pretty basic question that, what, he just never considered until Joe asked him about it?
It's a movie, and you shouldn't really overthink it. Also, people are still human beings no matter what their profession is and can make mistakes and still overlook things.
The Terrain is everything
0:41 they got inspired for Devil In A Blue Dress… 😂 when Denzel gets his jaw broke from those gangsters 😂
Its Bob the Goon from batman 89!
We are suppose to feel bad for Hanks in this scene but damn… dude is sitting there coughing and blowing his nose at a public table with other people sitting around.
Librarian looking like a grown up chucky
😂😂😂
DAMN Tom Hanks was good in that movie!
Tracy Walters the librarian, he’s a very nice man in real life.
He looks like a nice guy indeed
The thumbnail makes Denzel look like he has a growth on the side of his face. They did him dirty