What's your favorite violent film scene (with an endearing comical overtone)?

You see, many top level film producers understand that, to capture violence and murder on film in such a way that is palatable to a viewing audience, there simply must be an associated element of comedy spliced in there.

Films now-a-days, many of them go totally OTT with violence in a pathetic effort to encapsulate the "shock factor".

To me that's simply not enjoyable cinema.

Some of the more classically produced films however, they knew that to make violence presentable, there had to be an associated element of character to what may otherwise be quite a distasteful depiction of an obscene act.

And one film that really stands out for me in this capacity is, "Goodfella's".

I think my favorite depiction of violence in this film (and there are several), is the time when Pesci/DeNiro are in the process of opening a can of whoop-ass on Frank Vincent in the bar room scene.

It's kind of like the camera work which switches from Pesci's insane looking little-man-syndrome face of frustration, to DeNiro's resolute conviction to the task at hand.

To me there's just an element of comic genius that simply went MIA outside of the classical era.

The disco-lights version also emphasizes the comic element of this classical production:

Please include a gif or some kind of video link with your reference.

Gregor Samsa

The bit where Rocky is trying to catch the chicken, and Mickey is taunting him. I mean, I don't know if you'd necessarily classify it as violence, but the chicken sure as hell isn't hanging around to find out.

kowloon

Practically all of the original Robocop is over the top violence for comedic effect.

Gregor Samsa

Another movie that made a virtue of it in almost every violent scene:

For Forks Sake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGsm1g3Ow8k

For Forks Sake

opening scene of The Way Of The Gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGsm1g3Ow8k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118995409#Comment_118995409

See, that film had that refined classic element.

Pffffffff.

Cinema just isn't what it used to be.

Now it's all way OTT with this CGI dog shit.

I mean don't get me wrong, some of Tarantino's earlier productions, Fiction/Dogs etc., without the CGI crap, they had grace and refinement.

Then he went on a special-FX bender and any classical appeal his earlier productions had just got totally perverted.

fryup

the organ donor scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life

*don't watch if you're contemplating being an organ donor - might put you off😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0

Sgt Hartman

1933 King Kong eating one of the Skull Island natives. Amusing but terrifying at the same time.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

he looks like one of the Jackson 5🤣

sam t smith

^ Is the lad who is being eaten wearing ‘white face’? 😳

2 that stick out in my mind....

Blood & Bone.....opening fight scene....8 baddies go to take out new boy in prison in the wash room....all 'tooled' up.......they get the living daylights kicked out of them.....as he's finishing off the last guy he utters that classic saying..." anyone in this prison wants to fxxk with ME.....DON'T ".

Breaking Bad..... when Walter orders the hit on 6 inmates in 4 different prisons at exactly the same time....at exactly noon he's casually looking at his Timex.....great scence

pappyodaniel

https://youtu.be/C-U5K71x5r4

This scene from Once Upon A Time in Hollywood got me good. Ridiculously funny and horrifically violent.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119000856#Comment_119000856

You'd know that's a Tarantino production, post Fiction/Dogs where he's just shamelessly eroticizing over the "shock factor".

He seemed to develop an infatuation with that stupid level of unrealistic violence.

It's just so far past the beyond, one could not take it seriously.

Honestly the demographics that style of production appeals to, where it has no basis in reality, you just know they lack life experience.

McGinniesta

Joe Pesci getting beaten with a baseball bat and buried alive in a corn field at the end of casino.

I nearly died laughing.

The american guy getting stabbed in the arsecheek during midnight express was another classic.

inajock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119001519#Comment_119001519

Wut?

That definitely wasn't a comedy scene, but Frank Vincent is at his best in those routines.

He played leading roles in a couple murder/beat-down scenes in "The Sopranos" and he crafts in that endearing sense of character that satirizes those events, probably better than any other actor.

Ironically whether he's beating down or being beat down, his scenes always have that beautiful subtheme of parody.

https://youtu.be/_AC1FoIQVV0

One Who Waits...

Dunno about the comedy but both of these scenes had my jaw on the floor (pun intended).

StevenToast

https://youtu.be/s8JFVSNxkEI

80s Gold

rob316

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119001519#Comment_119001519

Laughing? I always found that scene particularly hard to watch

Just gotta throw in here, maybe some folk who grew up in this setting and were subject to harassment from this type of person could see the humor in it, but the beating of "Marley" in the film "You Me and Marley" where this poor-dude/terrible-SOB (depending on your perspective) gets all his major joints turned to dust with baseball bats;

I saw that as a pre-teen and was scarred for life.

sam t smith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119001910#Comment_119001910

Is that the sequel to ‘Marley and Me’?

sam t smith

https://youtu.be/U0z62IALjqM

Great song in the background.

sam t smith

https://youtu.be/XEpm_lXXpKE

Nazi beaten with a baseball bat in Inglorious Basterds. With the baseball game ‘commentary’ as comical overtone.

sam t smith

https://youtu.be/7YyBtMxZgQs

Harrison Ford had the squits the day this scene was shot. Instead of fighting the swordsman he shot him.

https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-swordsman-shoot-raiders-lost-ark-reason/amp/

Mad_maxx

the bit in Pulp Fiction where the character of Vincent accidently shoots the black guy in the face while him and Jules are driving around Los Angeles

Seth Brundle

The opening scene to Blitz...

https://youtu.be/VEvQofZvBUA

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119001816#Comment_119001816

Oh boy, that “bite the kerb”scene from American History X is something else. Nothing comedic about it though. Does Indiana Jones shooting the swordsman instead of fighting him with the whip count ? Not very violent, but quite funny. Even better when you learn that it was unscripted and improvised because Harrison Ford was under the weather.

edit : just see Sam Smith beat me to that one.

sam t smith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119002913#Comment_119002913

Bonus points for the use of the hurl.