I just re-watched this great film last night and I noticed something that I hadn't before: If you show the film run time at the bottom of your screen, you see that the exact halfway point of the film takes place in this scene. Before that point, everyone's lives SEEM great. After that point, Scotty makes a fool of himself, Little Bills murder/suicide, the descent of several characters into drug addiction, Todds death, Ambers disastrous court hearing... This scene is the turning point of the film.
A metaphor for Cinema as a whole and, honestly, American Culture as the ‘70s gave way to the ‘80s. We never did get back to that level of artistic integrity, did we?
This what America is doing to illegal immigrants right now especially in CHICAGO STAND THE F#€K UP!!! NEW YORK STAND THE F#CK UP AMERICA AND FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS STAND THE F#€K UP!!!!!!!!
i think thats how vhs won over beta, betamax was a superior technology, image was better and the tapes had two sides. But VHS carried all the porn so they sold more tapes.
"Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party...." I get the feeling that I'm watching the real Burt Reynolds. The soft-spoken anger of a man fighting for what he believes in and knowing that he is right. A filmmaker taking a stand for quality against the "fast buck" artists of the world. People who worked with Reynolds as a director commented on the "scene" he directs with Dirk and Amber, saying that it was exactly how he worked on set. Even the call for, "quiet sticks".
I love that Rob Ridgley is laughing uncontrollably in the background when Philip Baker Hall says "butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth". The editor decided to leave that take in and just make the background blurry. I also love how relevant this scene was to Hollywood when the films was made in 1997, since digital filmmaking was about to overtake making movies on film. Rip Rob Ridgley, Philip Baker Hall, Burt Reynolds, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. True legends that will always be immortalized by this great film and the other great films of their careers.
Imagine some years later a porn VHS mogul is outraged when someone says that DVD porn is the way to go. Some years later a DVD porn mogul is outraged when someone says that internet and digital porn is the way to go. Some years from today there will be an internet porn mogul outraged when someone says that VR porn is the way to go. Some years after that the VR porn mogul will be outraged when someone says that rentable AI driven sex bots are the way to go. Some years later the rentable, AI driven sex bot mogul will be outraged when someone says that genetically engineered/cloned sex slaves are the way to go, at which point they will eventually become so mundane and boring that some entrepreneur will tell the mogul that their soulless fleshy holes are trash and that there is a demand for sex with actual 100% real, birthed human females, even if they are not 10/10 perfect with centuries of research backing up every curve and moan and we will have come full circle. Hopefully this human pimp isn't a black guy who dresses like a cartoon character because that would just be racist.
This movie is underappreciated. The characters were so well played by the cast. This scene is one of the best in the film with three Hollywood veterans giving great performances and complementing each other so well.
Very well said. Boogie Nights is my personal favorite film and it is one of the best films ever made. Not that many people talk about it today which is shame. The directing, acting, writing, and casting are all top notch. you can hardly say a bad thing about the movie and only nit pick it.
“I like simple pleasures like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth. That’s just me, that’s something I enjoy. Call me crazy, call me a pervert” 😂
The "war" between video and film was a very real one back on those days. Those who saw themselves as "serious" filmmakers avoided videotape like the plague because it could never give the "look" of film. Of course, improvements in technology changed all that. But in those days it was a real war.
It has a Godfather Vibe to it when Tom Hagen (The Family Lawyer) explains how drugs are going to be a very big thing in the future and he was right. Then I remembered telling My Grandmother in 1982 that Computers are going to be the way of the future. She wasn`t interested. She died in 1987 she would have been stunned if she knew how much stuff we do thanks to computers.
The halfway point of the film takes place in this scene. And their whole world, from one side of that half to the other changes. Dirk begins the road to addiction...Little Bill's murder suicide. And let's not even get started on The Colonel...
Fun fact: Couple seconds before Jack's face was out of the shadow at the end, he have cigarette hanging out of his mouth, but when the camera angle got switched to reveal his face, it magically disappeared.
Phillip Baker Hall just slaying here
Bookman gets around.
1:11 that's just me, that's just something I enjoy
Hot action to the max. Guy just wants to make a dolla and a cent in this bidness.
I could do without the butter part
Was the riot footage in the beginning from an actual event?
Video tape tells the truth
I just re-watched this great film last night and I noticed something that I hadn't before: If you show the film run time at the bottom of your screen, you see that the exact halfway point of the film takes place in this scene. Before that point, everyone's lives SEEM great. After that point, Scotty makes a fool of himself, Little Bills murder/suicide, the descent of several characters into drug addiction, Todds death, Ambers disastrous court hearing... This scene is the turning point of the film.
Watching the Colonel try to keep his composure during Floyd’s pitch was the icing on the cake!
“Call me crazy! Call me a pervert!”
Butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth.....25+ years later I still remember this...
A metaphor for Cinema as a whole and, honestly, American Culture as the ‘70s gave way to the ‘80s. We never did get back to that level of artistic integrity, did we?
Dude should have had a spinoff movie
Hot fuckin' action to the max!
He’s definitely not a complicated man lol
This what America is doing to illegal immigrants right now especially in CHICAGO STAND THE F#€K UP!!! NEW YORK STAND THE F#CK UP AMERICA AND FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS STAND THE F#€K UP!!!!!!!!
This scene is by far the best one in any film I’ve ever watched, friggin classic!😂
Mr Bookman does porn.
i think thats how vhs won over beta, betamax was a superior technology, image was better and the tapes had two sides. But VHS carried all the porn so they sold more tapes.
I do like lollipops and butter....hmmm???
"I want to make a dollar and a cent in this business". Nice going, PB Hall!
"Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party...." I get the feeling that I'm watching the real Burt Reynolds. The soft-spoken anger of a man fighting for what he believes in and knowing that he is right. A filmmaker taking a stand for quality against the "fast buck" artists of the world. People who worked with Reynolds as a director commented on the "scene" he directs with Dirk and Amber, saying that it was exactly how he worked on set. Even the call for, "quiet sticks".
sounds like a blockbuster exec
Get a load of this, joyboy! Bookman...
I love that Rob Ridgley is laughing uncontrollably in the background when Philip Baker Hall says "butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth". The editor decided to leave that take in and just make the background blurry. I also love how relevant this scene was to Hollywood when the films was made in 1997, since digital filmmaking was about to overtake making movies on film. Rip Rob Ridgley, Philip Baker Hall, Burt Reynolds, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. True legends that will always be immortalized by this great film and the other great films of their careers.
Rip
Imagine some years later a porn VHS mogul is outraged when someone says that DVD porn is the way to go. Some years later a DVD porn mogul is outraged when someone says that internet and digital porn is the way to go. Some years from today there will be an internet porn mogul outraged when someone says that VR porn is the way to go. Some years after that the VR porn mogul will be outraged when someone says that rentable AI driven sex bots are the way to go. Some years later the rentable, AI driven sex bot mogul will be outraged when someone says that genetically engineered/cloned sex slaves are the way to go, at which point they will eventually become so mundane and boring that some entrepreneur will tell the mogul that their soulless fleshy holes are trash and that there is a demand for sex with actual 100% real, birthed human females, even if they are not 10/10 perfect with centuries of research backing up every curve and moan and we will have come full circle. Hopefully this human pimp isn't a black guy who dresses like a cartoon character because that would just be racist.
Well hell,who doesn't like butter in their ass?
Where Jack was wrong….
Video did change porn forever. It's not even debatable.
Rob Ridgely laughing in the background is solid gold.
"Butter in my ass...lollipops in my mouth"...I think that is from the Old Testament?
It’s a reference to a Marlon Brando film “A Tango in Paris”.
@@crazyralph6386 Last Tango in Paris. I know the reference... I was just making a humorous comment on the absurdity.
Philip Baker Hall was helluvan actor 👍
This movie is underappreciated. The characters were so well played by the cast. This scene is one of the best in the film with three Hollywood veterans giving great performances and complementing each other so well.
Very well said. Boogie Nights is my personal favorite film and it is one of the best films ever made. Not that many people talk about it today which is shame. The directing, acting, writing, and casting are all top notch. you can hardly say a bad thing about the movie and only nit pick it.
He also played library detective Bookman on Seinfeld…….
“I like simple pleasures like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth. That’s just me, that’s something I enjoy. Call me crazy, call me a pervert” 😂
That’s what my grandmother’s tramp stamp said…..
The "war" between video and film was a very real one back on those days. Those who saw themselves as "serious" filmmakers avoided videotape like the plague because it could never give the "look" of film. Of course, improvements in technology changed all that. But in those days it was a real war.
It has a Godfather Vibe to it when Tom Hagen (The Family Lawyer) explains how drugs are going to be a very big thing in the future and he was right. Then I remembered telling My Grandmother in 1982 that Computers are going to be the way of the future. She wasn`t interested. She died in 1987 she would have been stunned if she knew how much stuff we do thanks to computers.
The halfway point of the film takes place in this scene. And their whole world, from one side of that half to the other changes. Dirk begins the road to addiction...Little Bill's murder suicide. And let's not even get started on The Colonel...
I love that they had to blur the colonel in the background because he couldn't stop laughing
Fucking ruthless. Scary
Rest in peace to 3 legends.
🤣So true👍
Fun fact: Couple seconds before Jack's face was out of the shadow at the end, he have cigarette hanging out of his mouth, but when the camera angle got switched to reveal his face, it magically disappeared.
“Kneel! Stand! Kneel! Stand” in Nicholson’s groaning voice this is a great line
"They call that a paradox..."
geez.....she fell funny ahaha gets me everytime.
From library cop to porn mogul. 👉
Floyd likes pee-pees and wee-wees on film.
Jack is the man.