+SirBumRush Lost it when he did the typical Walken inflection on the word "Damned" in "He'd be damned if any slope's gonna' put his greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright".
ik this comment is 4 years old but I saw that Tommy Lee Jones was considered for the role and he’s the only actor I can think of that could even hold a candle to walken in this scene
@@jameswhite-aldworth2804 the watch seems to be much more a curse. All the trouble Butch runs into in his story is related to the watch. Though, I suppose, it works out better for him in the end as Marcellus agrees to call off the hit on Butch.
i remember the first time watching this film and this scene was so moving..until he said " i hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years" i was crying with laughter. just brilliant
@@SStupendous Haha, after that point I felt conflicted.. should I be laughing? This was so dramatic up to that point, and then the change in camera angle, the change in the way of speaking, and it was like watching a completely different movie!
Notice how the scene is serious and gripping until 1:20, at which point Butch's mother disappears from the frame. After that the focus is solely on Walken, and the scene becomes classic Walken at exactly the same time.
I woke up this morning and first thing I did was search for this clip. I don't know why. I just wanted to see this great performance by Walken again. Even better than I remembered. Comedic gold.
There's basically no reason why this scene had to be so long, with Christopher Walken in it, except to let Christopher Walken be Christopher Walken. And you know what? I liked it!
this is actually my favourite scene. I’ve never been so shocked, and it made me burst into hysterical laughter. imagine, christipher walken did a whole speech about a watch being hidden up multiple asses
Sorry to reply to a 10 year old comment but I always figured that he had heard the first part of the story countless times from butches dad and was reciting it, which is why it was so heartfelt, but everything from this point was his recollection hence the tone shift and comedy!
I don't know what Christopher Walken got for this one scene that Tarantino was willing to pay for, but it was worth every damn cent and then some. He delivered gold.
The point of this scene is that even as a child Butch understood the significance of hellish bloody struggle, which is why he dreamed of that moment to the day of the events in Pulp Fiction.
Great Scene! B-17 gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki, was a character played by John Garfield in the 1943 Howard Hawks movie “Air Force”. It follows a B-17 crew from it entry into the war, landing at Hicham Field during the Pearl Harbor attack, and it’s continued flights and battles across the Pacific including the stop Walken refers to at Wake Island. “Air Force” is one of the best films to come out of WW2 and includes many scenes of the rare B-17C. And, yes, there is a scene where Wake Island Marines give last letters and packages to Winocki.
Only someone with the ridiculous amount of talent Walken has would be able to literally forget his line and turn it, on the spot, into the plaintive expression of a PTSD-riddled ‘nam flashback
Such a brilliant scene that was necessary to tie all the ending scenes together. Tarrantino had to write this in in order to give Butch a motivation or reason why he would dare go back to his apartment after screwing over Marcellus. It had to be something so sentimental for him to risk his life but yet easy for his girlfriend to forget and accidentally leave when she packed for him. LOL!
How many other scenarios did he go through to get Butch to go back to the apartment before he hit on this idea. A writer might go a lifetime without finding the exact perfect reason.
A masterpiece of juxtapositioning tragedy and comedy. Same as almost every other scene in this brilliantly written, wonderfully directed, and excellently performed film.
For people that read Steel Ball Run, the panel where Funny Valentine's backstory is shown where the soldier gives a handkerchief to him to a reference to this scene in Pulp Fiction nice Araki
This scene is incredible in so many ways! I love how the monologue starts out with genuine heartfelt emotion and decorum (if you can get around it being Christopher Walken delivering it), devolves into Walken obviously forgetting his line, somehow trying to get back on track by dropping casual ethnic slurs, Walken’s obvious and not quite successful struggle to suppress laughter when he reveals where the watch was hidden, “he gimme da watch”, and then abruptly cutting to the boy as a boxer flashing back to it. The scene shouldn’t work, but it does. The whole was truly greater than the sum of its parts.
Fun fact: While giving the monologue, Christopher Walken forgot what he was gonna say, resulting in the pause right after he says "this watch". But his acting skills are so phenomenal that he managed to turn that aside and continue it, as if his character was working emotionally to continue the speech.
I remember watching this movie for the first time in my college dorm room. After this scene, I was on my hands and knees laughing so hard I couldn't even make a sound...just a long string of drool hanging out of my mouth for 2 minutes until I almost passed out.
I have a very similar heirloom in my family. It is a golden pocket watch with a chain and everything that doesn't work anymore. It went down 7 generations going from son to nephew at every interval. Currently my dad has it and I will eventually be the 8th generation when it is passed along to me. Although I don't think there are any crazy stories as most of my ancestors kept it locked in a box because it is so valuable to them.
This watch. Is very valuable. Because of that it was kept in a box by my uncle. Before that he had gotten it from his father who had kept it in a box because it is so valuable watch to have. You will be seventh nephew to receive this watch from his uncle who has kept it in a box because it is so valuable. It longer holds time because it has been in a box for so long time.
That watch has been through some shit.
just to be more specific - "through some serious shit". haha
Did he just crack a joke.
Rasta Fari you could say it's gotten a lot of shit
seen some shit
Well shit. I can't think of a shit-joke.
I took this scene so seriously, as soon as Walken said "Ass" I lost it.
Me too :-D
Yeah me to
+SirBumRush I think that was the Idea
+SirBumRush I lost it at the time when he said dysentery! :P
+SirBumRush Lost it when he did the typical Walken inflection on the word "Damned" in "He'd be damned if any slope's gonna' put his greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright".
Five long years he wore this watch - up his ass.
Always gets me xD
Rustman lmao me too😂😂😂
😂😂😭😭💀💀
I didn't realize that he meant that literally
Then…..he died of dysentery
Does that mean he also hid a severed wrist up there too?
"he'd be daaamned" so much Walken in that line
HAHAHAHAHAHA
EVERY TIME the phrase "I'll be damned" comes up in my life I think of this scene and this line.
bruh he's the reason i pronounce "greasy" the way i do lmao
I'm the 500th like!
He’d be deæmed..
I hope that kid was old enough not to put things in his mouth...
Lenoh I thought Quentin hated video games?
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks this made my day
🤣🤣🤣
Lollll
If anybody else but Christopher Walken played this role, it wouldn't be anywhere as good
He was born for this role
It would not surprise med if his part was written with him in mind as well.
ik this comment is 4 years old but I saw that Tommy Lee Jones was considered for the role and he’s the only actor I can think of that could even hold a candle to walken in this scene
@@hybridgames7119 I can see Morgan Freeman doing it justice as well
I can see Jack Nicholson doing it
Why Apple didn't hire Christopher Walken to be the spokesperson for their smart-watch I will never understand. LOL!
smh thats why I wont buy one
Are you winding me up?
pkg996 yuppp is aassss
Cause they are pinko liberal commie asses dumbass.
OMG I never thought of it until I read this. You are brilliant!
I love how casually he says “he died of dysentery” and then just moves on as if he isn’t talking about Butch’s father 😂
Did he get dysentery because of the watch I always wondered about that.
Probably still painful for him to talk about it. Easier to be detached
@@bearjuncture absolutely. The hilarious irony
@@jameswhite-aldworth2804 the watch seems to be much more a curse.
All the trouble Butch runs into in his story is related to the watch. Though, I suppose, it works out better for him in the end as Marcellus agrees to call off the hit on Butch.
Wonder how he caught it!🤪
Could very well be the greatest monologue ever performed
To be part of this and the Sicilian monologue in True Romance, awesome
Agree that it's really good, but I actually prefer the lion speech a bit more.
@@dj3114 what's the lion speech?
The story of the sinking of the indianapolis by Robert Shaw in Jaws was dammed good.
top 10 easily maybe top 5
"He died of dysentery"...Walken's comic timing is so amazing.
He gimme the watch
He gimme the watch
@@fazec0ld802I said this ten years ago? Jesus Christ.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 Hard to believe 2014 was 10 years ago, trust me I'm aware lmfao
@@dudermcdudeface3674 Hahaha. Any fond memories ?
I saw this in New York City in 1994. The entire theater exploded with uncontrollable laughter over this comic genius.
One of the biggest rolling laughs I've ever experienced in a theater, as well.
American behaviour
Well, not everyone gets a watch that's been through three wars and two grown men's asshole.
HexPallett Dude I lost my shit laughing at your comment.
Nah, I'm cool... three wars and two asses...
Lolllll
i remember the first time watching this film and this scene was so moving..until he said " i hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years" i was crying with laughter. just brilliant
Only tarintino could come up with this side story and dialogue. 🤣🤣🤣
At 1:26 I couldn't anymore 😆he started the Walken way of saying things and made it hilarious
@@SStupendous ...yes me too .
@@SStupendous Haha, after that point I felt conflicted.. should I be laughing? This was so dramatic up to that point, and then the change in camera angle, the change in the way of speaking, and it was like watching a completely different movie!
Got to agree @@Charsiupao
lol the way walken says "damned" and "ass"
TheFilipinoBoxer I KNOW RIGHT!!! I nearly died the way he said it.
He‘d be daaaeeeemneeed so he hid it up hissass
Notice how the scene is serious and gripping until 1:20, at which point Butch's mother disappears from the frame. After that the focus is solely on Walken, and the scene becomes classic Walken at exactly the same time.
Wacky TV I like to think that's when butch's imagination takes over for this sequence
I dunno, I think you could describe it as still being "gripping" after this! lol
0:59 that pause... that amazing and wonderful pause... incredible acting
That's something that you can't un-notice once you start realizing it's there. Little details like that makes an actor excellent.
Pezweb (Mauricio Parada) He was just trying to remember the next line :D
lol maybe he was! but i wanna think it's acting ;) i mean c'mon
Pezweb (Mauricio Parada) ***** From our perspective: great acting, wonderful dramatic pause!
From his perspective: "Think think think think think THINK!
nam flashback
0:57 good god 7 seconds of pure, uncomfortable awkward silence. I guarentee you he forgot his line for those 7 seconds. And I love it!
He did xD and it made the scene so much better xD
Liar
he forgot his line lmao
No you don't guarantee it because you're some sort of genius. You guarantee it because you heard Tarantino confirm it.
@@MrBooBeeDoodid he ever specify why he guaranteed, smartass?
I woke up this morning and first thing I did was search for this clip. I don't know why. I just wanted to see this great performance by Walken again. Even better than I remembered. Comedic gold.
"he gimme da watch".. one of the best instantaneous burst of laughter ever when first viewing a movie.
Not sure why this was included in the script so awkwardly?
@@arigoldberger1755 he just says "he gave me the watch really quickly"
@@arigoldberger1755because it’s hilarious 💀 “he died of dysentery-hEgiMMeDaWatch”
This watch has the most character development out of all the characters in the movie.
"uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ***" - Shakespeare couldn't have said it any better.
There's basically no reason why this scene had to be so long, with Christopher Walken in it, except to let Christopher Walken be Christopher Walken. And you know what? I liked it!
The importance of the watch has to be illustrated, otherwise, the entire story falls apart.
There is reason and the reason it that its such a good scene with solid speech.
The entire movie turns on this incredible scene. Incredible dialogue. Incredible Walken performance.
1:26 - the most Christopher Walken moment.
this is actually my favourite scene. I’ve never been so shocked, and it made me burst into hysterical laughter. imagine, christipher walken did a whole speech about a watch being hidden up multiple asses
I always laugh at how fast the kid grabs the watch from his hand. 😂
1:31 "And one place he knew he could hide something, his ass." xD
Yeah we just watched it.
Toxic Twinky
this is the exactly break point.. I laugh so much 1st I watched!!
I love the emotion in his voice at 1:20
scene delivered in a way ONLY Walken could do. still makes me laugh every freaking time. love this movie
I love it how at 1:15 walkens voice changes from serious to casual because thats when he starts to get funny :)
Favourite movie of all time
Sorry to reply to a 10 year old comment but I always figured that he had heard the first part of the story countless times from butches dad and was reciting it, which is why it was so heartfelt, but everything from this point was his recollection hence the tone shift and comedy!
@@sniffmylipsoh yeah, that would make sense!
This man should be Emperor of the known universe.
With a really hot daughter who likes to write books.
He should bend the knee to some guy named Paul or something
@@Wurzelknecht The JK Rowling on 10,191 lmao
That's a nice ass watch, man!
I love how the kid is totally un-bothered by the story, and takes the watch immediately.
Don't lick it.
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??
it's been 5 long years
@@EnderSpy358 time flies
@@anycolouryoulike8567 Indeed.
I don't know what Christopher Walken got for this one scene that Tarantino was willing to pay for, but it was worth every damn cent and then some. He delivered gold.
This scene demonstrates the genius of Christopher Walken I love how he can be dramatic and serious and hilarious at the same time. Pure Walken gold.
Only Christopher Walken could make this scene legendary.
"This uncomfortable hunk of metal" just slays me every time. And the way he rushes and undersells just a little bit makes it all the better.
0:58 PTSD - Good actors can say so much, with no words. Screaming is not acting.
@I drink your milkshake its the thousand yard stare...
I love how eager the boy is to grab it...he's like omg smelly butt-watch... yayyyyy!!!!
The point of this scene is that even as a child Butch understood the significance of hellish bloody struggle, which is why he dreamed of that moment to the day of the events in Pulp Fiction.
Yeah he grabs it enthusiastically
Great Scene! B-17 gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki, was a character played by John Garfield in the 1943 Howard Hawks movie “Air Force”. It follows a B-17 crew from it entry into the war, landing at Hicham Field during the Pearl Harbor attack, and it’s continued flights and battles across the Pacific including the stop Walken refers to at Wake Island. “Air Force” is one of the best films to come out of WW2 and includes many scenes of the rare B-17C. And, yes, there is a scene where Wake Island Marines give last letters and packages to Winocki.
Nice information! thank you, i ll watch this movie!
That pause from Walken was the perfect time for him to forget his line. It added so much weight to his delivery like he was having Vietnam flashbacks.
Only someone with the ridiculous amount of talent Walken has would be able to literally forget his line and turn it, on the spot, into the plaintive expression of a PTSD-riddled ‘nam flashback
Christopher Walken is such a great actor. ❤️ him!
Boy: "GIMME THAT SHEET!"
It may be surrounded by sheet but it's still a watch.
This is the best scene in the whole goddam film. Chris Walken is the best actor on this planet. EVER.
I love Christopher Walken 😂😂
1:33 my seriousness was broken at this point 👍
best movie monologue ever!!
0:57 -1:05 gets me laughing every time without fail
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Such a brilliant scene that was necessary to tie all the ending scenes together. Tarrantino had to write this in in order to give Butch a motivation or reason why he would dare go back to his apartment after screwing over Marcellus. It had to be something so sentimental for him to risk his life but yet easy for his girlfriend to forget and accidentally leave when she packed for him. LOL!
How many other scenarios did he go through to get Butch to go back to the apartment before he hit on this idea. A writer might go a lifetime without finding the exact perfect reason.
The best part is how fast little Butch takes the watch after hearing it was up asses for 7 years.
Only Walken could deliver that line without laughing 😂
A masterpiece of juxtapositioning tragedy and comedy. Same as almost every other scene in this brilliantly written, wonderfully directed, and excellently performed film.
For people that read Steel Ball Run, the panel where Funny Valentine's backstory is shown where the soldier gives a handkerchief to him to a reference to this scene in Pulp Fiction nice Araki
is that..
a reference..
jojo..
jojo reference..
They couldnt have possibly found another kid that looked more like a young Bruce Willis. Great casting!
I have "robbed" so many quotes from this film and " HE'D BE DAMNED......" is one of them.
Christopher in any scene of a movie is instantly legendary
One great scene in cinema's history!
Araki is a man of culture for putting this scene in Part 7 xd
Kojima Is God same
Dude I didnt notice your comment and I thought of the same thing sorry man
Wait which chapter?
@@gustavocring1914 Don´t quite remember but, it during the endgame of the manga I think
@@Jesper889ify Oh okay thank you bro
It’s so funny because I was getting really emotionally invested in the story….. right up until the exact moment we all laughed at! 🤣
i come back every other day to watch this scene.....can't get enough of it. lol
“I have taken the first napkin”
Dojyyyan
Fun fact! Christopher Walken forgot his line at 0.58 but he acted to the situation so well that Quentin Tarantino kept it in the movie.
The greatest speech, ever made in the history of mankind.
1:25 "He'd be daaa-aaamned..."
Walken's use of pause here is magical! Acting students need to study this!
He forgot his line, but stayed in character. I like to call it the Dora Explorer Stare. "This watch. o.o"
This movie is a riot. It lives up to the title of "pulp".
In my opinion one of top ten greatest monologues ever writen and performed.
What a nuisance it must have been when someone asked him what time it was.
came here when i saw christopher got cast as emperor shaddam in dune part two
That guy is so awsome the word dont do it justice... no one cooler than Walken.
My heart and actions are utterly unclouded.
They are all those of justice.
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This gets me rolling on the floor every time 😆😆😆
This scene is incredible in so many ways! I love how the monologue starts out with genuine heartfelt emotion and decorum (if you can get around it being Christopher Walken delivering it), devolves into Walken obviously forgetting his line, somehow trying to get back on track by dropping casual ethnic slurs, Walken’s obvious and not quite successful struggle to suppress laughter when he reveals where the watch was hidden, “he gimme da watch”, and then abruptly cutting to the boy as a boxer flashing back to it. The scene shouldn’t work, but it does. The whole was truly greater than the sum of its parts.
Whatever. Scene is hilarious. Walken is a Queens guy. Dat's how dey tawk.
Christopher Walken a phenomenal actor !!!!
One of the greatest movie monologues of all time from one of the greatest movies ever made!
I love seeing well known actors agree to play such small roles in movies. that just shows how much people want to be in quentin tarantinos movies
When you forget your line 0:59-1:05.
Therapist : when did your obsession of watches start?
Me : *shows this scene*
Fun fact: While giving the monologue, Christopher Walken forgot what he was gonna say, resulting in the pause right after he says "this watch". But his acting skills are so phenomenal that he managed to turn that aside and continue it, as if his character was working emotionally to continue the speech.
to this day, i still have no idea how christopher walken did this scene without laughing himself stupid.
Clearly it's a reference to Funny Valentine's backstory
"back"story
When he said “your dAd” he sounded like Christopher Walken lol
...wait
1:00 that pause always makes me think he forgot his lines🤣
I think that's a fair statement. Rewatching it now, I have to agree with you.
It was confirmed in this thread, he actually did forget his line. But the outcome is just a satisfying
This would've made so much sense if he lived in The Deer Hunter and De Niro died. Haha
Lol
***** It's not much of a spoiler when the movie is nearly 40 years old.
You had 40 years to right that wrong :)
Yeah dude I was thinkin the same I just watched Deer Hunter first time and thought of this scene
I knew what you were thinking
I remember watching this movie for the first time in my college dorm room. After this scene, I was on my hands and knees laughing so hard I couldn't even make a sound...just a long string of drool hanging out of my mouth for 2 minutes until I almost passed out.
Sure thing buddy
right..
Sentimental value is... priceless. Question mark.
could anybody other than Christopher Walken deliver this scene
Geezz...this movie had so many great scenes.
fucking hell what a great scene from a great film
I wonder if that watch is on arakkis now
He could have left out some details hahaha
1:25 lmfaaaoooo
just brilliant!! excellent acting, excellent text, all i love!
Here... This handkerchief belongs to you.
The alternate reality of The Deer Hunter where Walken makes it out alive
Motivational Speech for Experts....
If you came here after steel ball run.. You are a legend ❤️
I have a very similar heirloom in my family. It is a golden pocket watch with a chain and everything that doesn't work anymore. It went down 7 generations going from son to nephew at every interval. Currently my dad has it and I will eventually be the 8th generation when it is passed along to me. Although I don't think there are any crazy stories as most of my ancestors kept it locked in a box because it is so valuable to them.
This watch. Is very valuable. Because of that it was kept in a box by my uncle. Before that he had gotten it from his father who had kept it in a box because it is so valuable watch to have. You will be seventh nephew to receive this watch from his uncle who has kept it in a box because it is so valuable. It longer holds time because it has been in a box for so long time.
You know they've tried it - and you will too 😝
I find Christopher Walken's voice in this scene deeply relaxing.