PHILADELPHIA (1993) | "What Is This Case About"
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- In this powerful scene from Philadelphia (1993), Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) throws a curve-ball in the courtroom when he questions his witness' (Bradley Whitford) sexual orientation.
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Hailed as a landmark film that dazzles with deep emotion and exceptional acting, PHILADELPHIA stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington as two competing lawyers who join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. And as their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
#Philadelphia #Sony #TomHanks #DenzelWashington
Lol, the judge calls him to give an off-record bench explanation of what's going on, and he turns around starts giving a speech to everyone. Only in Hollywood courtrooms!
Literally what I was thinking. "Nope, absolutely not" involuntarily blurted out from my mouth at the sight of the judge having a side-bar to only one party.
The courtroom belongs to that judge, so Mr. Miller's explanation was the judges to allow or squash.The judge also knew that all present were baffled by Miller's seeming attack on the witness.
never say never
The judge has before him an objection to Attorney Miller’s question. To help him rule on the objection, it is reasonable that he might ask the lawyer to explain the relevance of his question to the case. (That was not a “side-bar”, and it was not off the record, since it was a question posed openly, in open court, with the jury present.) Miller then actually offers a rational explanation of why his question was pertinent, in light of the witness Jamey Collin’s previous answer - which had been in the form of a rhetorical question, asking why Becket’s illness with AIDS might have motivated malicious actions by the firm’s partners, since a number of lawyers at the firm had been seriously ill in the past, without attracting any malevolent conduct as a reaction to their illness.
And as Miller explains to the judge (Charles Napier, long a splendid member of the director Jonathan Demme’s regular ensemble), the purpose of his question was to show that Collins’s answer had been misleading - because what motivated the partners’ conduct was not that Beckett had a disease, but that he had the •gay• disease. His question redirected the focus of the examination back to, as he said, what the case was really all about, from the diversion that Collins’s answer had been straying toward.
Of course, the judge grants defense counsel’s objection, but it is clear that his subtext is, “Okay, you’ve made the point you were wanting to make, so I won’t require the witness to say whether he’s gay or not, because that wouldn’t illuminate the matter any further for the jury."
@@ColumbiaB also see: it’s a Hollywood movie.
“You’re gonna give the company to Eric? He is a bad, bad man.
-Billy Madison
'Facepalm' that's where I know him from. I just couldn't place it.
"Is he gonna have a stupid party every time he passes a grade?"
-Eric Gordon
“Sorry doesn’t put the triscuit crackers in my stomach now does it Carl ?”
ZABADOO!!!!
Eric is pregnant!!! Congratulations...shoo...boo...be..bo.
Boo-de-do-mo......😂
"With all due respect we don't live in this courtroom do we?" And the little smirk of approval by the judge was pretty subtle but good acting.
No, we don't.
In real life denzel would've been told to shut up
Good thing Miller didn't ask Eric to define Business Ethics, he would have totally lost it. 🤣
But the industry…that my friends…was a revolution!
😂
Denzel is outstanding in this movie..what a brilliant job he did.
There was a heavy unacknowledged Scene. Jamie didn't answer because he probably "is" and is scared to say so.
No different to how it was in earlier times. Even now people are still made to feel ashamed.
Of course he is. He had two choices. Out himself, or perjure himself.
And in the meantime, everyone seems to ignore the objection: "Mr. Collins' sexual orientation has nothing to do with this case." You cannot say the same about the firm's reasoning for firing Andrew Beckett.
Andrew Beckett was fired for incompetence.
@@tomace4898yes because a critical piece of a giant case for a law firm ALWAYS disappear out of nowhere and coincidentally end up in a random office right before the client can find out
Would be great if in real life as an attorney, you could turn your response to objections to the judge, into a closing argument to the jury.
It can, and has happened in real life. Some attornies run the table in trials. Joe Miller's shock and awe moment wasn't unprecedented.
A movie that helped us all to deal and understand the illness AIDS. The movie and both outstanding artists Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks helped us understanding the case HIV. God bless them therefore.
Wtf
@@brendanbloomberg3283 s.m.d
@@nikolauswolff5791YOU DEAD 💀 THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE SAYING 🤦🏼♀️😬
Andy tried to whisper to Miller that the witness wasn't answering the question. Miller winked as if to say "No problem; I'm setting his ass up."
Denzel shoud have got an Oscar for that speech.
Denzel was cheated that year. Tommy Lee Jones who won that year is the same character in all his movies
Its actually a terrible speech and bad presentation of law.
Everybody deserves an Oscar!
@@lauralarrabee7870 Denzel wasn't nominated for best supporting actor you goofball
@@MellowFellowOfYellow that doesn’t mean he wasn’t cheated. There are tons of people who give great performances and aren’t nominated for squat. Another example is Tom Cruise Born on the 4th of July performance. Great performance but no award recognition. These award shows are no indication of true talent. The award show is just a fancy dinner and opportunity to network
One of the best movies ever made
Denzel Washington was funny yet serious in this movie
"Pillow Biter" I never heard that slur. It's a little funny😁.
Lol
You never watched the Sopranos?
You must be young
@@DeepFriedDaveHe got a note from his doctor. It‘s the blood pressure
I love how Denzel character winks at time hanks when he tells him he's not answering the questions. Like I got this
I like it, too, but actually, I think that -- given the angle when he winks -- he's actually winking at the jury. It'd be improper but a way of saying, "Sure, let's pretend this wassan accident. Uh huh."
Love me some time hanks.
“I’m going to select some really powerful and moving clips, put them on UA-cam, and then right when I want to cut the scene I’m going to pick out some of the loudest, obnoxious music I can find.”
A plan considered, and a plan followed through.
😄😄😄😄😄
Yeah, I always wonder just how hidden the "normalize audio" setting (or something to that effect) is in their editor. If there isn't one, they should choose another editor.
There's multiple movie clip channels all with this same outro and I shit myself at the end of every clip.
Funniest line in this movie comes from the judge; “In this courtroom justice is blind to matters of race, religion, color or sexual orientation”.
'Funniest' line?
"rump roaster"
hahahahaha
And now Eric's secretary is in a coma...
1:02 Bradley Whitford reminds me of Kevin James in Hitch
"Eric?
You're gonna give the stand to Eric?!
He is a bad, bad man!"
I hate these pseudo-legal dramas where lawyers are objecting without any legal basis. You can't just yell objection because the other lawyer is saying something you don't like.
Yes, you can. Goes to relevance.
Objection
@@UnleashthePhury I see what you did there .. ;)
but it's fun.
Yes you can. It breaks up the momentum of the other side. It's a common tactic.
Denzel has never looked more like his son!
A fine response from the Judge. Ready when you are, Sergeant Pembrey! 😆😆
The judge is one of the "Good ole boys".
You'd look pretty funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no teeth!
I luv how he thinks a heart attack is contagious 😂
Denzel should have gotten that Oscar
"Pillow Biter." "Objection!"
Bradley Whitford was such an amazing "Character Actor". He also played Randy Slade (Frank Slade's Nephew) in Scent Of A Woman. I said this on another Channel, I bet he was responsible for The file being misplaced. Think about it, how in God's name can a File be lost that was on The Desk that Andrew put on The Desk on Saturday and what about The Files, how could they disappear, did he erase the file. Always have a Backup no matter what.
And as a fellow gay as Whitford's character is, what better way to prevent the partners from ever questioning his private life than to destroy Andrew Beckett.
You should watch him on "west wing".
He was also in “Presumed Innocent” with Harrison Ford in 1990 where he was apart of The defense team, for Rusty Sabich.
"So Cool" Mike in Adventures in Babysitting.
@@randyt700 The scene with Leo where he says "I won't permit it." is powerful.
"Rump Roaster"? That's classic.
Booty snatcher....lol 😂
Danzel Washington ❤is soooo HANDSOME
As wonderful as Hanks is in this movie, Denzel Washington deserved a Best Actor Oscar.
In real life:
Judge: Bailiff, cite counsel for one count of contempt
I will hold this Speech in a Public Bus
This is a great scene but in reality the judge would not allow counsel to pontificate in such a manner
...not with the jury still in the room.
Not would a judge allow a witness to offer her opinion on the matter, as the female witness did earlier.
Fact check; True.
There's a lot of things that a judge would not have allowed in reality. I know. But hey, this is the movies and you have to allow for that.
@@andrewvelonis5940 really? I thought this was a documentary.
Eric? You're gonna give company to Eric?
I forgot Bradley was in this
Best scene in the movie...
Most inappropriate sidebar of all time.
Lost accidentally on purpose lol
So many great performances, such an amazing story
this should be a meme 0:57
Jonathan Demme was a freakin master
It's fun to try to reconcile the calm and measured approach of the judge with his acting counterpart from the film The Goods where he is a deranged psychopathic war vet selling used cars.
" Rump roaster " was a personal highlight of mine.
Denzel would have made a good lawyer
Good lawyers are basically actors, well litigators at least.
Except for the small matter of actually understanding the rule of law. Is a great Hollywood lawyer only.
@@chriswesterfield2042 there’s a lot of people who understand the law that don’t make good lawyers. No one’s saying Denzel is qualified to be a lawyer, but he has those types of intangibles that he WOULD have made a good lawyer had he practiced law
Captain Peralta, I see.
So Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia were in a movie together 25 years before The Handmaid's Tale.
I was like, Aw hell. Commander Lawrence is that you? I know that accent anywhere lol
Are you allowed to wink at the jury?
I remember watching this movie in my health class in highschool and sure enough almost all the guys in my class thought this scene was funny because of the homophobic slurs …. Meanwhile I have tears in my eyes because of Denzel’s speech
I would’ve right there with ya 💙
I hear ya. He threw out that question without warning, "Are you a homosexual" intending to get him to show his prejudice and bigotry, which he did, by his reaction and the way he answered.
And sure enough the virtuous assumes the feelings of those that don't act as themselves. As if being un-forclempt proves most "guys" (sexist language) in high school do not understand the gravity of this scene.
I laughed too because "Rump Roaster" Is funny AF on so many levels!
...Yeah I can see that. I'd be using that exact line of questioning for days back in school if I heard it then. Amongst friends or random people.
@@Okidata29 Stop being a weeb
Hes also in Handmaids Tail
Fancy Sauce ,😍
Nice unnecessarily loud outro, thanks.
GREAT scene!!!!
Cried through the whole movie
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (Concord, California; 09 de julio de 1956) es un actor y director de cine estadounidense. Es de los intérpretes más reconocidos de Hollywood. Varias de sus películas, sean dramas o comedias, han recibido el reconocimiento internacional.
67 AÑOS. (68)
With all due respect, Your Honor, we don't live in this Courtroom, do we?
Could someone explain to me what Denzel was referring to when he said some remarks starting at 1:05 until 1:11
I'm pretty sure they're just different homosexual slurs. Ones that where used in the past but not in today's time anymore.
0:56 Denzel forgot to ask: Do you swallow?
Powerful stuff.
Fun fact: Bradley Whitfield was in Scent Of A Woman in 1992 (Al Pacino, Best Actor Oscar) and Philadelphia in 1993 (Tom Hanks, Best Actor Oscar)...
Hes forgotten where the real sugar is!!!!
nice entrance shot.
what is going on with that outro
What you mean? I already explained it you you🤔
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (Mount Vernon, Nueva York; 28 de diciembre de 1954) es un actor, productor y director de cine estadounidense, ganador de tres Globo de Oro, un Premio del Sindicato de Actores, un premio Tony y dos premios Óscar; estos por las cintas Glory como mejor actor de reparto en 1989, y por Día de entrenamiento como mejor actor principal en 2001. En 2020, el New York Times lo calificó como el gran actor del siglo xxi. Conocido por sus actuaciones en la pantalla y el escenario, ha sido descrito como un actor quien reconfiguró "el concepto de cómo ser una estrella de cine", relacionando con personajes definidos por su gracia, dignidad, humanidad y fuerza interior.
69 AÑOS. (70)
Denzel getting canceled 10x in the same clip
Charles Napier!!!!
Sgt. Pembry
The only legal movie I have seen where they question the witness not in the booth
Tom Hanks plays an exceptionally great young gay character… for some reason.
oh, they MUST have cut the scene when the jury left the courtroom, right ?
Cinematic pacing. Some things we just don’t need to see
So are we going to talk about the fact that the witness didn't answer the question?
Honey CUPS!
Once a weasel....
They should ask him about business ethics, that’ll throw him off
Liquor license ?
"Justice is blind..."
Denzel is phenomenal here. The rage! What a performance. And now everything is gay shit.
If I didn't know it was Tom Hanks sitting there, I would not have recognized him even though I saw the movie when it was initially released.
Who plays the judge? I know I've seen him in a bunch of movies and this is not his usual type of role.
He was the cop who got his face bit off by Anthony Hopkins in silence of the lambs.
Charles Napier
Also Bob in The Blues Brothers. "The gig pays $200, and you fellas drank $300 worth of beer"
Sorry, Bob was someone else.
Charles Napier was Tuck McElroy "Lead singer and driver of the Winnebago "
@@Maria.9094 No, that was a different guy. Lecter beat the guy with the baton. Then he was eviscerated.
he is the cobra kai sensei
Who the hell would wanna climb a rock
That would be a “yes”.
weve all seen court on tv... its boring af.... for me it is
The "Don't say gay" thing made me think about 2:37 - :46.
Anyone?
I wouldn’t wish the scourge of baldness on my worst enemy. Brutal.
No way in hell would a judge have such dialogue with an attorney in the presence of the jury. Hollywood fiction.
I love this movie so much. But as a trial attorney, I have to say that this scene is absolutely ridiculous. The second he started making a speech, he would have been shut down. He gave his closing argument before the trial was over. 😂
Could your outro be more annoying
Forget the Oscar. I don't think Tom Hanks was the best actor in this movie. "Let me ask you...How many lawyers you go to before before you come to see me?" CLASSIC!
I'm going to allow this
I never understood this scene or why someone would react that way to being asked questions on the stand. Why is asking a witness if they are gay would cause the person on the stand to react this way? Are we to think the witness really is gay and doesn't want to lie under oath?
Dramatic license. Yes, it looks silly when examined. And so does the closing argument in response to an evidentiary objection
Kaboor...😁😁
Not sure how it works in US labour law, but if you are alleging that you were dismissed on the basis of your sexual orientation should that not have been raised at the commencement of the proceedings? How do you insert a new claim in the middle of proceedings? Or is that just Hollywood veering into fantasy land?
Rump roaster?
Yeah never heard that one before hahahah
Booty Snatcher was the one that got me💀
It's sad that the thin line between right and wrong is crossed over and over again. We've gone from forcing those deemed less desirable to those deemed so to be so by the destruction of all that is right in God's eyes. Freedom given right or wrong does not give license for anyone to force a lifestyle on others. It is a two headed coin tossed to destruction.
I thought this was a great movie.
Then, I went to law school.
Now it makes me cringe.
Would any real judge allow an attorney to do that?
No.
Mmmmm
Judges can allow what they want to in their courtroom. The judge asked for an explanation while knowing that Miller had stunned everyone present.
@@topgrain not this, ever. I’m an attorney.
@@dgvolkable I really don't care IF you are an attorney. Miller created an unusual situation by the unorthodox questioning of his own witness, and the judge decided to handle it in a way that established clarification. A judge has complete power over their courtroom. He asked Miller to make some sense of the question he asked his own witness, and Miller responded. Seconds earlier, Miller did not respond when the witness answered one of Millers questions by asking a question. He was fair game at that point.
HA! That's why you should ask up front everything that you need to know before you hire someone.
thumbs down for obnoxiously loud outro.
Bu
@0.32 Conan is bad at acting