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  • For Helsinki, I need someone with diplomatic skills.'' Gus calls into question the entire leadership of the CIA and decides to smash the office window before walking with a cheeky smile to the enraptured office workers.
    This scene is BRILLIANT!* One of our favourite argument scenes in any movie ever.
    Charlie Wilson's War (2007) SYNOPSIS: Based on the outrageous true story, Charlie Wilson's War stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times calls "wickedly funny."
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  • @Thegreywanderer42
    @Thegreywanderer42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +299

    the tap on the typewriter after he asked that lady how he did is such a wonderful little touch. I dont know why I love it so much

    • @joshuamurray9403
      @joshuamurray9403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It's a perfect little I love you too 😉

    • @JDL0427
      @JDL0427 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      just like in the park when he tears off the sugar packet with his teeth and puts the empty in his suit pocket. great actors make great choices.

    • @romualdlim4281
      @romualdlim4281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was a subtle way of Gust saying, "You're welcome." 👍

    • @kevinrusch3627
      @kevinrusch3627 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The line that got me was "...people who know how."

    • @novemberalpha6023
      @novemberalpha6023 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was dignifying her in her typewriter

  • @woodysmith2681
    @woodysmith2681 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    If you read the source material, the scene is even better. Gus Stavros was a high-ranking CIA officer who wasn't an Ivy League blueblood. He supported the secretarial staff and used them as a network of informants within the CIA (and they loved him for it). So he could both get away for insulting a superior (since it was expected of him) and he would care what the secretaries thought of him insulting the snobs.

  • @desmosoldier
    @desmosoldier ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Losing Hoffman was a tragedy. Fantastic actor and one of my favorite scenes.

  • @Waterinmenbenen
    @Waterinmenbenen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    Great scene & superb acting. Hoffman was one of the greats.

    • @caseroj6020
      @caseroj6020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was just thinking the same thing. It's really a loss for cinema that he died of a heroin overdose. The guys was a veritable fountain of talent and apart from his family who no doubt feel his loss more keenly than anyone else American cinema and audiences have been deprived of one of the great actors of our time.

    • @Jay23445
      @Jay23445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He’s leagues above Dicaprio in every sense

    • @duncanidaho5834
      @duncanidaho5834 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Picked such good roles too

  • @Rachel-ul8et
    @Rachel-ul8et 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    For 24 years people have been trying to kill me. People who know how. Awesome line

  • @cps2204
    @cps2204 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I will NEVER grow tired of this scene.

  • @toomuchdrivetothrive
    @toomuchdrivetothrive ปีที่แล้ว +41

    The secretary at the end gets me every time. Great comedic touch to a tense scene.

  • @jamesteegardner2273
    @jamesteegardner2273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    This was the 2nd funniest scene in the entire movie! The 1st was:
    "I apologize. As a former Navy officer I should've known better."
    "As a former Navy officer I would've been surprised if you had."
    This whole movie was solid gold!

    • @caseyshultz5447
      @caseyshultz5447 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Gotta disagree - the funniest scene was "I wasn't listening at the door, don't be ridiculous. I bugged the scotch bottle."
      "What?!" *camera pans to the scotch bottle*

    • @cuzned1375
      @cuzned1375 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      “There’s a microphone on the scotch, a receiver in my ear, get past it.” 😆

    • @gmill7414
      @gmill7414 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "Why do elected officials say one thing and then do the opposite?"
      "Well, tradition, mostly."

    • @gibu002
      @gibu002 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Thats a little paranoid."

    • @billyboblillybob344
      @billyboblillybob344 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Well you're no Thomas Jefferson. Let's call it even..."

  • @TraustiGeir
    @TraustiGeir 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    RIP, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
    What a powerhouse.

  • @seanmulloy854
    @seanmulloy854 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    A top 10 scene of the past 20 years, for me. Just a masterclass here. "...and I'm never, ever sick at sea" has always gotten the biggest laugh from me. The reference, the delivery, the timing. I ripped this and put it on my iPod.

    • @tomshea8382
      @tomshea8382 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sorkin loves his Gilbert and Sullivan.

  • @writerconsidered
    @writerconsidered 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Wouldn't we all want to break our bosses window, twice! and still hold our job.

    • @Greybeardmedic
      @Greybeardmedic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He knew the details of his bosses affair. Probably had recordings.

    • @AlifNurfakhri
      @AlifNurfakhri 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The secret to grabbing your bosses by the balls is keeping all their secrets, professional and personal, and let them know that you know

    • @AlifNurfakhri
      @AlifNurfakhri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Without actually telling which secret you know about

    • @Petefx86
      @Petefx86 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "MY LOYALTY...?" Cravely insulted Gusts's accomplishments, his work ethic, and his nationality. Yeah. I would've smashed his window again too. And a few other things.

    • @iandhr1
      @iandhr1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well if you had details of your boss's affair with someone else's fiancé you would probably have pretty good job security too.

  • @NicolasPare
    @NicolasPare 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I love how as they are arguing, the entire office is at a stand still and everyone is staring through the window. The moment he opens the door, they all start pretending to work!
    I always liked Mr. Hoffman's work. I wish he could have gotten help and still made movies. He will remain one of very few celebrities for who I feel sad we don't have anymore.

  • @jan-olofharnvall8760
    @jan-olofharnvall8760 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    ”For twenty four years people have tried to kill me, people who know how “.😂

  • @nelsonzambrano5788
    @nelsonzambrano5788 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love the "How was I?" at the end...

  • @3ameternalforryan
    @3ameternalforryan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which PSH is a genius in this scene as well.

  • @SavoPaddy
    @SavoPaddy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hoffman gave us so much. What an incredible body of work he left. He was unbelievably prolific and consistently brilliant.

  • @The_McD
    @The_McD 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    He steals just about every scene.

    • @dindu551
      @dindu551 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he steals nothing. he walks straight up to it, looks it straight in the eyes, and the scenes gave him... whatever he wanted. he was truly gifted and was beloved by the people

  • @garykubodera9528
    @garykubodera9528 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I thought this was one of the best movies in 2007.. It was told well and it was based on a true story!! Always a worth the time to watch this movie again! 😃

  • @davidlasdon457
    @davidlasdon457 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm sure that much of the dialogue was invented but Sorkin gives you the characters in such a ridiculously believable way.

  • @rac1061
    @rac1061 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Whenever I see Phillip Seymour Hoffman kill a scene (like he does here) I start getting emotional. Man died way too young

  • @novemberalpha6023
    @novemberalpha6023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Hank Pym said never to trust a Stark....

  • @velotill
    @velotill 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I got hooked on PSH after his raging Matress Man ("are you threatening me???") scene in Punch Drunk Love, this scene has the same energy

  • @liamdaly3825
    @liamdaly3825 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I miss him so much

  • @louislepage5111
    @louislepage5111 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We miss you Phillip Seymour Hoffman 😢

  • @paulengle5784
    @paulengle5784 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is a short movie all in itself. Maybe one of Sorkin’s best.

  • @willusa4167
    @willusa4167 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I need to watch this movie again.

  • @erdub84
    @erdub84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I FUCKING MISS PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

  • @Ken-gr6iu
    @Ken-gr6iu 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He was an amazing actor.

  • @Phi1618033
    @Phi1618033 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    PSH is a f***ing legend.

  • @peterswain3636
    @peterswain3636 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In a league of his own. Such talent.

  • @billmiller9145
    @billmiller9145 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thus was such a good movie, rip PSH.

  • @bigshash9946
    @bigshash9946 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hoffman, great job in this scene.

  • @presleyfranks9880
    @presleyfranks9880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Gus is a fucking beast

  • @billlawrence8520
    @billlawrence8520 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I know this film, and scene are from George Crile’s book. I so wish Hollywood could have made a screenplay for PSH to replay this brilliant, patriotic,American, Gust Karvatokas. RIP

  • @davidgudlaugson528
    @davidgudlaugson528 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is hysterical....

  • @tr7b410
    @tr7b410 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Writer Sorkins wit was just brilliant in this script.

  • @cesaralejandro7725
    @cesaralejandro7725 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Omg it’s Howard stark.

    • @eoinMB3949
      @eoinMB3949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Its Roger sterling actually

  • @DeltaStar777
    @DeltaStar777 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A fantastic movie

  • @presleyfranks9880
    @presleyfranks9880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Puncy school boy lmao

  • @dirtycommtroop
    @dirtycommtroop ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i wish i could tell PSH how good he was

  • @presleyfranks9880
    @presleyfranks9880 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Talking to a CIA BOSS LIKE THIS

  • @brianellinger6622
    @brianellinger6622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can be diplomatic when necessary

  • @Clickbait6000
    @Clickbait6000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    just gold

  • @robotman6380
    @robotman6380 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This guy was awesome. Hoffman was a gift. Where were his real friends in the the time of need?

    • @luvcheezchris
      @luvcheezchris ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of the greatest actors of all time and you don't think he might have been great at keeping a secret from people in his life?

    • @EricaNewGirl
      @EricaNewGirl ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually they knew he was using again and were trying desperately to get him help. But he kept telling them “I’m not ready” in regards to getting help.

  • @dnasty312
    @dnasty312 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Also, water goes over a dam and under a bridge. You Ponzi schoolboy."

  • @bcask61
    @bcask61 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I’m never ever sick at sea! What?

    • @Saintbow
      @Saintbow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Because where he would have been stationed would have required him to be on listening boats. Can't do your job and run an operation if you're puking up your guts...

    • @abrahamedelstein4806
      @abrahamedelstein4806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Helsinki is a port city.

    • @rederic2004
      @rederic2004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's a reference to the light opera HMS Pinafore, by Gilbert and Sullivan.

    • @el34glo59
      @el34glo59 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not that complicated buddy

    • @DrLeroyGreen
      @DrLeroyGreen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rederic2004 Points to you, budd! Nice catch!

  • @jiiig8667
    @jiiig8667 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I miss Hoffman a lot ❤

  • @hendu7111
    @hendu7111 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man, so this is why Roger the way he is.

  • @daffyduck8244
    @daffyduck8244 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really enjoyed this movie. I have watched it countless times. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

  • @Paumanokcom
    @Paumanokcom 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And Im never sick at sea....😀

  • @Bax503
    @Bax503 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hoffman was a great actor!

  • @NicolasPare
    @NicolasPare 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact : It's much better when water goes under a dam as compared to over.

  • @michaelmcfeely6588
    @michaelmcfeely6588 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    For Gus it is normal to interfere in the government of other countries. The audience doesn't question this.

    • @farhanahmad6316
      @farhanahmad6316 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its ok when America does it. Only when Russia does it to America, that is when its wrong. Got it.

    • @topolinopippo3451
      @topolinopippo3451 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      'cos this is the norm for USA... 😂

    • @ababilashari9970
      @ababilashari9970 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Watch the end of the movie

  • @N.W-ing77
    @N.W-ing77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a great scene.

  • @markallen3293
    @markallen3293 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I know for a fact that bosses need to be told what to do....

  • @theSANDMAN1052
    @theSANDMAN1052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Office politics at its best

  • @Zak6959
    @Zak6959 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know it’s too late, but I could’ve watched a movie about these characters alone.

  • @DocCulprit
    @DocCulprit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Epic

  • @GOODJMR
    @GOODJMR 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How many people would love to have that moment with their boss? ❤😂

  • @dixiebrick
    @dixiebrick 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a shame he decided to leave us to face the world alone.

  • @Wastelander1972
    @Wastelander1972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Loses the gig as the Helsinki Chief, takes up a pivotal role in getting the Soviets out of Afghanistan and leading the Soviet Union to collapse shortly after.
    Nice.

    • @joestallings
      @joestallings 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      An actual Zen master "We'll See" turn of events.

    • @jamesteegardner2273
      @jamesteegardner2273 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joestallings So very true! It would've been interesting to see what would have happened if the U.S.S.R. never collapsed and we were still in a cold war. Would we have ever been involved with wars in the Middle East? Would 9/11 have happened? Or would we have all died in a nuclear holocaust? Who knows! But it sure would've been interesting to have seen!

    • @regibson23
      @regibson23 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And the real point of the movie is that by doing so and not helping rebuild Afghanistan after we used them to fight a proxy war it made a lot of people in Afghanistan very mad at the USA.

  • @alexludavertigo6926
    @alexludavertigo6926 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:20

  • @ray.shoesmith
    @ray.shoesmith 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Every man in the world wishes they could educate their boss like this. And every man also knows this is pure fiction. Irl he'd never work again..

  • @lakecitylens
    @lakecitylens ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "How was it?"

  • @bcask61
    @bcask61 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excuse me!

  • @MrOctober44
    @MrOctober44 ปีที่แล้ว

    In fairness, he is coarse

  • @GoatZilla
    @GoatZilla 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    he gave teh job to Don Draper

  • @seankim884
    @seankim884 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You Can’t Do That You Might Go To Irvine Police Office.

  • @dolorusedd2586
    @dolorusedd2586 ปีที่แล้ว

    RIP PSH

  • @travisfrederick3533
    @travisfrederick3533 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How was I hahaha

  • @courtneyconaway3091
    @courtneyconaway3091 ปีที่แล้ว

    Classic Sorkin

  • @donlessnau3983
    @donlessnau3983 หลายเดือนก่อน

    anyone know the name of the actress who played the typist?

  • @Ddamien-th8nh
    @Ddamien-th8nh ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish PSH was still alive.

  • @matthewmc4363
    @matthewmc4363 ปีที่แล้ว

    Or course that must be tha joke.

  • @kelakakku
    @kelakakku ปีที่แล้ว +1

    suomi prkl

  • @ubomninomen7765
    @ubomninomen7765 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This might be PSH's best work, IMHO. An otherwise mediocre, but watchable, movie. No interest in watching the movie a second time, but I can't watch PSH scenes replayed enough

  • @shnobi24
    @shnobi24 ปีที่แล้ว

    I watched this movie for Hoffman only.

  • @logic9436
    @logic9436 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wHAT MOVIE?

  • @ScottAdair
    @ScottAdair ปีที่แล้ว

    we lost an icon

  • @christhomas6103
    @christhomas6103 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Always loved this scene but hated the "sick and sea" line. Feels like a direct lift from the powerful god complex scene in Malice. Takes a little away from PSH's brilliant acting here.

  • @paladro
    @paladro 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    lulz

  • @kewltony
    @kewltony 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    no fucking idea who this guy is

    • @nigelft
      @nigelft ปีที่แล้ว

      Which guy ...?
      The one with the glasses and mustache was played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman ...
      ... a brilliant character actor, who, sadly, let the daemons of his addictions get the better of him ...

  •  หลายเดือนก่อน

    The only small part of a role that I could stand to watch Philip S Hoffman portray... The most mediocre of actors.

  • @wrongway1100
    @wrongway1100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As propaganda as this movie was. And it was propaganda via hollywood. The history is not accurate.
    It was extremely funny.

    • @zakatalmosen5984
      @zakatalmosen5984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      in what ways?

    • @nigelft
      @nigelft ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@zakatalmosen5984
      It is on historical record that, after the formation of the CIA from the OSS during WWII, its most biggest, and expensive operation, was in funding the Mujahideen to kick the Soviets out of Afghanistan ...
      ... in exchange, the Mujahideen requested funding to rebuild schools, hospitals, and all the infrastructure that the Soviets had destroyed ...
      ... but Congress, whom I believed was in Republican control during the Presidencies of Reagan, and H. W. Bush - I was only 16 -18 at the time, so I can't remember - blocked that spending, even though it was far less than expended in providing especially single use, surface to air, Stinger missile launchers ... one single shot only.
      As Gust tried to warn Charlie Wilson, using the fable of the Buddhist Monk, and the Young Boy, seeming insignificant events turn out to have not so insignificant outcomes ...
      The failure of America to follow through with help rebuilding Afghanistan, is, according to many experts (cf. Frank Gardner) the flash point that caused the eventual rise of the Taliban, and a son of a relatively unknown, rich, Saudi Arabian family, the bin Ladens ...
      As for the material left behind ... allegedly, it would've cost more to bring it all back, than to write the lot off, like a tax loss ....
      As for what will happen next in Afghanistan ... "We'll shall see ..." ...

  • @AM-jr9lg
    @AM-jr9lg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Overacting

    • @nigelft
      @nigelft ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You would be overacting if you were passed over for significant promotion, after spending years in clandestine operations, and knowing there were legitimate people out to kill you, that's how good you were, just because a manager with an extensive, and expensive, private education, almost half your age, was made your boss ...
      ... then denied said promised promotion ...
      Denial of promises made seems to be the running theme of the actual events that took place, between a US politician and a spy, both with the same names: the entire premise of the film is based on the US backing of the Mujahideen in kicking the Soviets out Afghanistan ...
      ... but failed to follow through with the much smaller expensive of helping rebuild what the Soviets destroyed ... which eventually would give rise to the Taliban ...
      ... as for Afghanistan, now ...? "We'll shall see ..." ...

  • @mikeodonnell6799
    @mikeodonnell6799 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    smoking in a government building, ah the good ole days