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

29-04-2022 8:08pm #1

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.

29-04-2022 8:10pm

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

29-04-2022 8:21pm

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

Gregor Samsa · 29-04-2022 8:29pm

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 · 29-04-2022 8:34pm

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

Gregor Samsa · 29-04-2022 9:07pm

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

For Forks Sake · 29-04-2022 10:27pm

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

For Forks Sake · 29-04-2022 10:28pm

opening scene of The Way Of The Gun

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

30-04-2022 6:50am

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 · 01-05-2022 9:39am

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 · 01-05-2022 9:46am

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

fryup · 01-05-2022 9:48am

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

he looks like one of the Jackson 5🤣

sam t smith · 01-05-2022 9:52am

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

01-05-2022 9:56am

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 · 01-05-2022 10:29am

https://youtu.be/C-U5K71x5r4

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

01-05-2022 11:11am

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 · 01-05-2022 1:08pm

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 · 01-05-2022 1:18pm

01-05-2022 1:36pm

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... · 01-05-2022 2:10pm

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

StevenToast · 01-05-2022 2:15pm

https://youtu.be/s8JFVSNxkEI

80s Gold

rob316 · 01-05-2022 2:25pm

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

Laughing? I always found that scene particularly hard to watch

01-05-2022 2:28pm

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 · 01-05-2022 3:19pm

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

Is that the sequel to ‘Marley and Me’?

sam t smith · 01-05-2022 3:21pm

https://youtu.be/U0z62IALjqM

Great song in the background.

sam t smith · 01-05-2022 3:27pm

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 · 01-05-2022 3:37pm

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 · 01-05-2022 5:41pm

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 · 01-05-2022 5:53pm

The opening scene to Blitz...

https://youtu.be/VEvQofZvBUA

trashcan · 01-05-2022 6:18pm

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 · 01-05-2022 6:34pm

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

Bonus points for the use of the hurl.

BrianD3 · 01-05-2022 7:00pm

Commando has been mentioned already, the comedy aspect is maybe too obvious for this thread but several parts of the final fight crack me up each time. Bennett's orgasm face near the start, the sound effects, "I feel gooood" after bring electrocuted etc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bv_vRNLdvY

Detritus70 · 01-05-2022 7:08pm

Hands down

SuperBowserWorld · 01-05-2022 7:19pm

Another Paul Verhoeven film. Whole thing a satire of violence, fascism and war. Brilliant movie. If it was released today, people still wouldn't get it. 😂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_%28film%29

SeanW · 02-05-2022 6:49pm

If you're looking for violence with comedic lines, try Tomorrow Never Dies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VB9m6Eten4

Skip to just after 5 minutes. After throwing one of the bad guys henchmen into a printing press (making a bloody mess), Bond casually drops the line "they'll print anything these days"

Jequ0n · 03-05-2022 9:57pm

Any time

Mad_maxx · 03-05-2022 9:59pm

Mr Kinney getting shot to sh1t at the start of Robocop by ED 209

" can someone call a paramedic "

the insane level of violence makes it impossible to take seriously

03-05-2022 10:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119012513#Comment_119012513

Looks like a neo-noir underground type of deal.

Something you'd find in Le Rectum of film production.

04-05-2022 12:02am

"Whores don't get a second chance......"

https://youtu.be/_W1joC0Y0Vg?t=75

Again, a scene with genuine character to it (unlike that "Robocop" crap).

That line has got to be one of the most Pimp lines in cinema history (obviously not to be replicated under those circumstances but, good way to tell a one-night-stand it she's going to remain a one-night-stand).