Moscow on the Hudson is great, too, but it defies chick flick structure. Typical girls don't like it, but maybe they would better like it around the 4th of July.
I want to write about Robin Williams german voice actor: here in Germany really everything get dubbed. And that is done very professionally and very well! You can imagine that in the case of Robin Williams that can be very difficult! His german voice actor was Peer Augustinski and he really did a wonderful job on every film! When Robin Williams won the Oscar for "Good Will Hunting" he even sent Mr. Augustinski a replica of the Oscar with the words "Thank you for making me famous in Germany"! Unfortunately Mr. Augustinski suffered a stroke in 2005 and was unable to continue his work as a voice actor. He died in 2014 at the age of 74. Just two months after Robin Williams death! May both rest in peace!
I couldn't agree more. He caught Robins spirit wonderfully. If I remember correctly he also did the songs on Aladdin in German version and they are fun and great, too
Fun Fact - and bear with me on this, but until Robin Williams was on Mork and Mindy, studios would shoot with 3 static cameras. One of the first days on set, Robin was like a whirling dervish, improvising lines, and moving around the set. At the end of the scene, the director said to one of the cameramen, 'Tell me you got that', to which his reply was 'he didn't come by here'. To make sure that no more material was potentially lost, they added a fourth camera, mobile, whose job it was to literally follow Robin and capture everything he did. This setup then became standard in the industry, all because of Robin Williams.
@@tempsitch5632 here is the excerpt from the HBO documentary about Robin WIlliams: He changed the way sitcoms are shot. Traditional, live-before-a-studio-audience sitcoms (like Mork & Mindy) are often called “three-camera sitcoms,” but most now actually use four cameras. That’s because of Williams’s unpredictable behavior as Mork. “He would run around the stage - you know, run around and do crazy things all the time,” Scott Marshall explained. “And there was like union cameramen. He would do something great and my dad would go, ‘Did you get that? Did you get that?’ The cameraman said, ‘He didn’t come by here.’ ‘You gotta capture this, he’s a genius!’ And the cameraman said, ‘If he’s such a genius, he can hit his mark.’” In order to get all of that Robin Williams good stuff, Marshall hired a fourth cameraman “just to follow Robin.” Source - www.vulture.com/2018/07/9-things-we-learned-from-robin-williams-come-inside-my-mind.html
The juxtaposition of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" playing with all the chaos they show in that stretch is one of the best compositions in movies ever.
This film made the song successful. The first time around it was not promoted in the USA, but did well elsewhere. It was rereleased in 1988, after this film, and made it to number 32 on the Billboard Top 100.
I don't think you picked up on the fact the young vietnamese friend dragged Robin Williams out of the bar just before it exploded. You were like "that was a close one" but in actual fact he was a part of the bombing. Adds a very bitter sweet moment to that scene, he chose to save his friend but had no empthay for the strangers in the building. When Williams is reacting to the carnage he's standing next to the guy who did it
It doesn't make it right, but you do have to bear in mind that Cronauer and Garlick (and the DJs who tag along) are the only Americans that haven't treated him like he's less than human.
@@joehoy9242 Oh yeah I mean he's at war. There are also innocent vietnamese as collateral damage. I'm just saying its a clue to the fact that they are on aposing sides and the complications of that relationship. The same could be said if a Vietnamese made friends with an American GI and found they'd torched a village. Its the fact that once you humanise people rather than seeing them as the enemy it turns everything you're doing upside down
@@spencerarnold669 - Regarding the question of Vietnamese as collateral damage, I think the whole point of the establishing scene in the bar with Cronauer taking on the bigoted GIs is to have the script explicitly state (via the GI who abuses Tuan) that Jimmy Wah's has been appropriated as a "GI bar" by the US troops and that Vietnamese (besides working girls) are not welcome there. It's an awful but unavoidable fact that women who fraternise with and make themselves available to occupying troops tend to be perceived by resistance movements as collaborating with the invaders. Remember, for example, that women who made themselves available to German soldiers in France, Belgium, Holland etc. during WW2 were ritually exposed, humiliated and abused by the resistance movements as the Allies advanced across Western Europe after D-Day - and what the majority of Soviet troops inflicted upon women they encountered during their advance from the East almost defies description. Unfortunately, that "justification" probably extended to the working girls in the bar at the time.
@@joehoy9242 Yeah I totally get it. The sad fact is, the vicious cycle. the bigoted Gis who we hated were (in some ways) right, he was the enemy. But of course that attitude also creates the enemy This is the messed up thing about war (especially this war). Personally I don't see a distinction of the veitnamse bombing a bar and the US carpet bombing a village, to me its the same thing. I both understand and hate the tactic in equal measure. But my point wasn't the morality of what he did so much of the underlying complications it had with their friendship and the cognative disonance of his view of the 'other side'. The duplicity of being friends with the literal enemy (one unknowingly and one knowing) .......but mainly that the guys didn't connect the dots that it wasn't a coincidence Robin Williams got out just in time and that it was his friend behind the bombing haha
You spurred a linguistic lesson for me today. Those Chinese characters are used in Japanese to reference the Yuzu fruit, but a Pomelo is clearly not a Yuzu. Did a Google search and found out the Japanese (and apparently Koreans) kept the old word for the smaller fruit, and in China it changed over time to describe the larger one.
An under reacted movie around the War in Cambodia which resulted due to the Vietnam War is 'The Killing Fields' from 1984. Everyone should see this masterpiece but it's an emotional one based on a true story - so bring tissues Simone ! One of the main characters wasn't even a trained actor, he was actually a Doctor, but won the role because he actually lived through the period and he wanted to tell the world the story of his country. His performance won him an Oscar in his debut - and rightly so.
5:58 "That's a lot of energy for 6 a.m." I dunno, both times I visited Vietnam, that was the only time of day I had any energy. Then I'd step out into the muggy heat and I'd be a sweat-drenched sleepwalker for the rest of the day.
Another fun bit of trivia, the slot that Adrian Cronauer had on AFN was later taken over by Pat Sajak, who continued to use the "Good Morning, Vietnam" sign-on.
I was a military broadcaster in the USAF and this movie was released when I was in tech school learning my trade. Everybody in my class wanted to be like Robin Williams in GMV, but none of us lived up to that kind of hype. Robin Williams was a comedic genius and is sorely missed. I settled for having a nice little DJ gig in the Philippines from ‘88 to ‘91 and had a lot (probably too much - killed lotsa brain cells in the bars outside Clark Air Base where I was stationed) of fun during my time in the military. The real Adrian Cronauer, whose real life exploits this movie is based on, was nowhere near this wild and unhinged on the air I found out later.
I know I'd never live up to Robin in this role, but this movie is what made me want to join as a PA in the AF. Sadly I'm stuck maintenance... I hope i can retrain and go broadcasting but man hearing you talk about it you lived my dream!
Not sure how many times I saw this before I discovered Adrian Cronauer was a real person. According to him, the film is about 45% accurate. He unfortunately passed away in 2018.
I was reading Robin's autobiography today and just got to the good morning Vietnam part tonight. It was his break out movie. Not his first starring role, but the first role he got unanimous praise from. So yeah, I feel like in the matrix rn.
"Let's get ready to rumble!" I feel that Simone is correct, regarding the energy of the line "Good morning Vietnam" as it has echo'd through pop culture. But I have to say, George's comment about that's how wars start is also a SCORCHINGLY on the money take. I really appreciate you folks reacting to this movie, especially with your usual empathy. The range of emotions and depth of the human condition portrayed in this movie makes it more than a classic, but tough to watch as well. If you haven't listened to it, the official soundtrack album has many short clips of Robin Williams' broadcast scenes interwoven with the great classic hits featured in the film.
I saw a video of an interview with the real Adrian Cronaur on TH-cam years ago where he was talking about the movie. According to the interview, the reason for his customary "Gooooooooooooooooood Morning Vietnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!" Wasn't because he was trying to be funny, but was actually because he was buying time to start his set. I think that the army had the DJs scheduled too close together, so when the last DJ left he didn't have enough time to get set up (get out his records, put on his headset, get his list of news items to discuss, etc). So he would drag out saying "Good Morning Vietnam" while getting all this stuff together.
It's a mixture of scripted gags and Robin improvising, certainly there was way more footage recorded than could be used. What is 100% genuine is the reaction of the other actors. The camera used to 'float' on set recording the laughter for real so when you see Whitaker and Wuhl creasing up - the were. Same with the english class, they recorded as per the script but it seemed dry yet when Robin was talking to the extras off camera he had them in hysterics. So Levinson told him to keep doing whatever he was and he would signal to the cameramen when to film their reactions and cut it into the footage Classic example, the softball game. The guy had seen a softball game and knew the fruit was too big to be a ball so he approached Levinson. He explained that Robin was in charge of the equipment so he went to find him. Levinson grabbed the nearest cameraman and told him to start shooting and follow what happened - what you see is Robin's genuine reaction to his concern. Brilliant.
This is without a doubt Robins movie but I love Bruno Kirby as the witless lieutenant who above all else just wants to be funny and can't understand why people are laughing at him not with him. May they both rest in peace
When I bought the Soundtrack to this movie on cassette as a kid, I loved they also put in all his radio skits, it was like listening to him on the radio with the songs interspersed.
The late great Robin Williams RIP. I first saw his stand up on video (Robin Williams Live) in about 1988. Of course as a kid I'd seen him on Happy Days and Mork and Mindy, but this was a very different re-introduction to this absolute epic comedy genius. He was like an express train on stage. Good Morning Vietnam, this film is a favourite but there are so many others I highly recommend: Moscow on the Hudson, Jacob The Liar, Patch Adams, The World According To Garp, Bicentennial Man, Good Will Hunting, Mrs Doubtfire, and then there are many many more to consider, from Hook, to The Fisher King, Nine Months, Night At The Museum, Jumanji, August Rush, the list goes on and on. But if I had to recommend one, I fell in love with this a long time ago and it was one of his first films, 'The World According To Garp'.
One of the many things I love about this movie is Robin Williams is so chaotic and funny that you forget there’s a war going on. Then the bar bomb goes off and snaps you back to reality
This movie makes me remember how amazingly Bruno Kirby played an "angry little man" unlike any other character actor in his time. Unfortunately he came around the same time as Joe Pesci. He found his niche though.
Donna Reed starred in "It's a Wonderful Life," which I think y'all have already watched? Then she went on to be the star of a TV show where she played a goody-two shoes perfect wife. At least that's what Gilmore Girls taught me.
Donna Reed was also the female lead in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, where she played a married woman who fell in love with an army sergeant, which is probably why Robin Williams name dropped her here.
Everyone overlooks Bruno Kirby’s performance. He does such a good job at being unlikeable. Up there with Giamatti in Private Parts and Hart Bochner in Die Hard.
Since Geore liked this, I'm begging you guys to check out Mrs. Doubtfire, The Fisher King, and Aladdin. They each show Robin Williams range and energy. They're so good, and I think they'd make for good reactions.
The Fisher King is such a good movie! Not enough people know about that one. I also think The Birdcage is another great one that tends to get overlooked.
My absolute favorite Robin Williams film along with "Dead Poets Society"...he is brilliant here. I had the opportunity to meet Robin when he came on a USO tour to the Middle East in 2003-4ish. He came with Blake Clark (of Adam Sandler films) & NFL QB John Elway. Have great respect for that act of selflessness as it was during Christmas, & they chose to come visit us, sacrificing time away from their families. I spoke with Robin a few minutes that day. He was very soft spoken & humble, but I could see a fog of pain in his eyes...a sadness of sorts.
Speaking of the queens/drag queen joke where he answers tall thin men who like showtunes, you both need to watch The Birdcage with Williams, Nathan Lane and Hank Azaria (Simpsons).
One of the first comedy/dramas by Williams - and yes most of his scenes were entirely ad-libbed (director Barry Levinson had several cameras on him at all times to get every reaction shot possible). And yes you do know Donna Reed - she's Mary Bailey in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
I had the opportunity to hear Adrian Cronauer speak at a lecture. He was genuinely a humble man and said there was no way he was nearly as funny in real life as Robin Williams. He also acknowledged the lasting legacy of Williams' portrayal. While Cronauer only served one year in Vietnam, he has had many veterans, who served in-country at various times during the war, tell him how much his broadcasts meant to them. His service has literally become part of America's cultural memory. Oh, and like you mentioned, if he had done half of what Robin Williams portrayed in the film he would have been in Leavenworth!
Chintara Sukapatana, playing the Vietnamese girl, is Thai. She, like so many women from that area are elegant and beautiful. I was teaching in a community where many refugees from SE Asia settled and had the honor of meeting many of these wonderful people. I would gladly welcome more of them into the US. BTW, their children wound up graduating at the top of their class and two that I taught received full academic scholarships to Duke University.😊❤
I watched this movie with my Father at the cinema. He was a Vietnam vet who was in the entertainment side and he said that parts of this movie were the most realistic portrayal of the war for him. It makes me cry everytime I watch it
I can say without equivocation, as someone who spent a year in an absolutely miserable part of the world, taking malaria pills, stuck in a combat zone with no fun or escape: Cronauer would have been a hero. It's impossible to overstate how beloved and important to morale that guy would have been, and for once reason: As always, Robin Williams performance works so well because it comes from the right place, a place of compassion, which is exactly what both he and his character brought to the Vietnam war
Best non-Williams line in the whole movie: “Don’t tell these jokes Sir. They’re gonna bomb!” “Then why did I see you laughing while you were typing them?” “Uh……I was thinking of something else?” 😂
Chintara Sukapatana is still an actress and played the "Hey is that the prettiest girl ever, who is that" through the 90s and 2000s. Now at 60 she is often cast as the mom to a number of Thai actresses that look AI and yet you cant still see where they got it from.
This was one of my dad's favorite movies. What a wonderful way to honor his (and Robin Williams') memory to watch this right after Father's Day! Thank you for what you do, you two. Always a good source of smiles.
This is one of Robin William's very best films, A great comedy that has such powerful and poignant parts, blended seamlessly together With one of the greatest ever soundtracks. A True Classic
Actually, there's a blink and you missed it moment in _Platoon_ where you hear the famous 'Good Morning, Vietnam!' in the background (the latrine scene). This movie is one of the reasons I wanted to work in radio. Never panned out - but still miss being in that DJ booth, heh.
Most of the actors including those of Lt Hulk (Bruno Kirby), Dan 'the man' Levitan (Richard Portnow), and Sgt Magor Dickerson (J.T. Walsh) have comedic and improv backgrounds so maintaining a serious and stern demeanor through the shooting of this movie must have been insanely difficult. As with many Robin Williams movies, especially with other comedians, they would always have the "who can deliver their lines but make the others break" contest. Robin also indicated that a lot more of the gags than you think were Mitch Markowitz (writer) work, Robin would just run with it and punch in the delivery. But yes, much of the radio spot was just a camera on robin and they cut it up later. BTW this was also just AFTER he quit cocaine and alcohol...when the man was on, he was on.
This scene was not scripted. In between takes, that gentleman went to the director to tell him that wasn't a baseball. The director pointed to Robin and told the man to speak to him. The director then filmed the two talking. 27:05
Me and my dad were sitting and watching this one day.He said he knew someone like Lt. Steven Hauk when he was in the Army.He would go out of his way to walk across the street to make my dad salute him.
I want to see Simone & George react to Robin Williams in 'What Dreams May Come' (1998), hat movie kills me everytime I watch it, so sad, so beautiful & so touching & utterly delightful. If any of their Patron members read this (I am unemployed & can't afford membership) PLEASE suggest it as it would make for an amazing reaction seeing them go through all their emotions as they watch this oustanding movie.
28:00 those fruit they are playing softball with are Pomelos. Kind of a tougher, drier version of a grapefruit, and the ancestor of modern oranges. They grow everywhere in Vietnam.
The "what a wonderful world" sequence hit me more than any other war movie. I mean, the bridge sequence in Apocalyspe now is about the travesty of the war, the opening of Private Ryan is about violence, but this here is about people
Great timing around Father’s Day and Memorial Day ❤ my stepdad enlisted as a senior in high school and was scheduled to ship out for basic training the day after he graduated high school. After his high school graduation, he got home and there was a draft notice in the mailbox, but he was already scheduled to leave the next day. That was in 1968. My mom was in third grade at the time. 🤪 I’m 40 now and they are still together.❤ Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida
I love this movie. It lures you in with some comedic genius, and then rips your heart out and puts it through the wringer. Metaphorically speaking. There are so many great moments, but a few of them stand out. Cronauer : ". . . and then I find out my best friend's the enemy. " Tuan : "I'm not the enemy - you're the enemy!" Yeah, this made me stop and think. Also, one of my favourite segments is when Cronauer is having different characters phone in and he gives us this exchange (my paraphrasing): Cronauer - We have a caller on the line. What's your name, soldier? Caller - MY NAME'S FRED GRUBER! Cronauer - Hello, Fred, and what do you do? Caller - I'M IN ARTILLERY! Cronauer - thank you, and can we play something for you, Fred? Caller - ANYTHING, JUST PLAY IT LOUD, OK?
About the baseball game scene the where Vietnamese student complains about playing using coconuts: in an interview, the director Barry Levinson said that actor was a real fan of baseball & Americana and actually came to him to express his concern. Barry responded, "You know, I think you're right. But the person in charge of the baseball equipment is Robin. You should mention all this to him," and then told the cameras to keep rolling. 🤣I mention it because I feel like the scene just shows what a kind and gentle soul Robin Williams was.
Forest Whitaker is 6'2" tall. Practically a giant in Hollywood terms. Dickerson was portrayed by the prolific JT Walsh (RIP). A character actor who excelled at playing these types of characters. Career highlights of his include this one, Sling Blade and Breakdown.
Arguably the greatest Cinematic cross-over between Robin Williams, the Manic Comedian and Robin Williams, the brilliant Dramatic Actor. An excellent movie all around, with a great supporting cast and an excellent soundtrack. Goooooooooooood Mooorning, Cine-B!tches!!! 😁🥃 2:32 I'm going with "Copse Whitaker". 🌲🌳🌴
I am so glad you guys watched this classic! It's definitely Robin Williams' tour de force, and one of my favorite of his movies. It's one of the best combinations of hilarious and emotional gut-wrenching I've ever seen. Well done.
Such a great movie 💘💗🥰🥰🥰 Him talking to the troops while they're all stuck is just beautiful 🥺🥲🥲🥲🥲 Its hard seeing Robin like this and knowing how badly he was hurting inside. I grew up watching and adoring his movies. GMV, Mrs. Doubtfire, Toys, Jumanji, Dead Poets Society, etc. And even his later more serious work in One Hour Photo, and What Dreams May Come ... A part of me died the day he did 💔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Anytime Robin was shooting scenes of him being a DJ on the radio, it was all improv. Many of his other quips throughout the film were also off the cuff. What a powerhouse he was! RIP.
Of all the actors I've seen in my lifetime, not one has touched me to the degree that Robin Williams did. Growing up as a kid in the 70s watching Happy Days, and then Mork & Mindy into the 80s, I grew up enjoying the comedy of Robin Williams. But then I saw The World According to Garp (which I highly highly highly recommend you watch on your channel), and realized that he was more than a comedian, more than an actor, but that he was a force of nature. His death moved me more than any other in all my years. Fun reaction! This is a great movie.
My granddad did three tours as a helicopter rescue pilot, he would never talk about Vietnam -- the first time I saw this movie was a copy that I found in his condo.
Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films. She is well known for her portrayal of Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra's fantasy holiday film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Reed won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fred Zinnemann's war drama film From Here to Eternity (1953). Reed is also known for her work in television, notably as Donna Stone, a middle-class American mother and housewife in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958-1966) whose character was more assertive and complex than most other television mothers of the era. She received numerous Emmy Award nominations for this role and the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in 1963. Later in her career, Reed replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow in the 1984-1985 season of the television melodrama Dallas; she successfully sued the production company for breach of contract when she was abruptly fired upon Bel Geddes' decision to return to the show. From her Wikipedia page...
My first time seeing a trailer for this movie made an impression on me. I am quite certain that he was in the radio studio wearing a uniform that he never wore in the studio during the movie. Hence I believe it was simply footage of Williams improvising into a mic, but which didn't make it into the movie.
Behind the Scenes: Robin Williams “took off” with Improv, multiple times (driving director Barry a bit nuts). Rumors are that minutes of film were not used (there is another movie in there).
Yes, the "What A Wonderful World" montage hits hard. This movie is a masterpiece. It uses comedy to make you lower your guard, then hits you right in the feels with some unpleasant truths. In many ways it follows in the footsteps of the TV show M*A*S*H, another masterpiece dealing with war (the Korean war) shown through a lens of comedy. It's a fine line to walk, weaving comedy around some very tragic issues _without_ being disrespectful about it, and both Good Morning Vietnam and M*A*S*H do it masterfully.
This is one of my favourite movie performances ever. Robin Williams shows both his comedic and serious sides at their absolute maximum in this role. Award worthy
This is the movie that made me realize that Robin Williams was not just an insanely good comedian but also a fantastic actor.
Yeah, this is *the* Robin Williams movie.
World According To Garp for me.
No.
The Dead Poets Society.
Ditto on Garp. Still one of my favorites from him. @@LeChaunce
Moscow on the Hudson is great, too, but it defies chick flick structure. Typical girls don't like it, but maybe they would better like it around the 4th of July.
I want to write about Robin Williams german voice actor: here in Germany really everything get dubbed. And that is done very professionally and very well! You can imagine that in the case of Robin Williams that can be very difficult! His german voice actor was Peer Augustinski and he really did a wonderful job on every film! When Robin Williams won the Oscar for "Good Will Hunting" he even sent Mr. Augustinski a replica of the Oscar with the words "Thank you for making me famous in Germany"! Unfortunately Mr. Augustinski suffered a stroke in 2005 and was unable to continue his work as a voice actor. He died in 2014 at the age of 74. Just two months after Robin Williams death! May both rest in peace!
I think in the German dub the answer to the "three up and three down" thing was something about group s... 😂
What a lovely story, thanks for sharing man
That’s an incredible story.
I couldn't agree more. He caught Robins spirit wonderfully. If I remember correctly he also did the songs on Aladdin in German version and they are fun and great, too
Thank you for sharing that. I am learning German, and I'd love to watch it to see how much I can understand.
Fun Fact - and bear with me on this, but until Robin Williams was on Mork and Mindy, studios would shoot with 3 static cameras. One of the first days on set, Robin was like a whirling dervish, improvising lines, and moving around the set. At the end of the scene, the director said to one of the cameramen, 'Tell me you got that', to which his reply was 'he didn't come by here'.
To make sure that no more material was potentially lost, they added a fourth camera, mobile, whose job it was to literally follow Robin and capture everything he did. This setup then became standard in the industry, all because of Robin Williams.
The had to employ a censor that spoke 4 languages, because Robin kept trying to sneak in swear words in other languages.
4 cameras in a sitcom is in no way “standard”.
@@tempsitch5632 here is the excerpt from the HBO documentary about Robin WIlliams: He changed the way sitcoms are shot. Traditional, live-before-a-studio-audience sitcoms (like Mork & Mindy) are often called “three-camera sitcoms,” but most now actually use four cameras. That’s because of Williams’s unpredictable behavior as Mork. “He would run around the stage - you know, run around and do crazy things all the time,” Scott Marshall explained. “And there was like union cameramen. He would do something great and my dad would go, ‘Did you get that? Did you get that?’ The cameraman said, ‘He didn’t come by here.’ ‘You gotta capture this, he’s a genius!’ And the cameraman said, ‘If he’s such a genius, he can hit his mark.’” In order to get all of that Robin Williams good stuff, Marshall hired a fourth cameraman “just to follow Robin.”
Source - www.vulture.com/2018/07/9-things-we-learned-from-robin-williams-come-inside-my-mind.html
There is a reason why Tuan was so adamant that Adrian immediately followed him away from the restaurant that then exploded early on - he knew.
I thought that was obvious.
Yeah, I remember telling my wife the first time we watched this that Tuan was VC. She is usually quicker to pick up stuff like that than I am.
Fun fact: the DJ who replaced Adrian Cronauer in Vietnam was Pat Sajak.
I was racking my brain trying to remember this. Its a really small world sometimes.
Never knew that! Wild.
The juxtaposition of Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" playing with all the chaos they show in that stretch is one of the best compositions in movies ever.
Strangely true story: My Dad sang in a Barbershop Quartet that was part of a USO tour in Vietnam. They closed each show with What a wonderful world.
What a wonderful world
This film made the song successful. The first time around it was not promoted in the USA, but did well elsewhere. It was rereleased in 1988, after this film, and made it to number 32 on the Billboard Top 100.
Right there and THEN it was film making at its best, seemingly ALMOST lost nowadays
Absolutely.
Wow that's a really good thumbnail. They really managed to make George look Asian!
lol
Hold on. George is Asian? Whoah!
It's those Adobe AI tools at work. 😂
I LOLed
In before all the "but George is asian" comments.
"In my heart, I know I'm funny." Bruno Kirby killed that line!😂 Such a funny "unfunny" delivery.
He was always a natural (if not outright gifted) "straight man" in terms of comic performance.
"He's like the Diamond City DJ before you fixed him."
Perfection.
Nah, that guy is actually pretty funny the way he is, he actually is more boring after you fixed him.
That guy is just terrible crinch.
Btw, Robin Williams spent a lot of time entertaining the troops. He did six USO tours between 2002 and 2013, including 5 overseas.
The video of him when they played retreat during one of shows it’s a classic
@@shawnmiller4781 lol, it's brilliant. Makes me smile every time I see it.
I don't think you picked up on the fact the young vietnamese friend dragged Robin Williams out of the bar just before it exploded. You were like "that was a close one" but in actual fact he was a part of the bombing. Adds a very bitter sweet moment to that scene, he chose to save his friend but had no empthay for the strangers in the building. When Williams is reacting to the carnage he's standing next to the guy who did it
It doesn't make it right, but you do have to bear in mind that Cronauer and Garlick (and the DJs who tag along) are the only Americans that haven't treated him like he's less than human.
@@joehoy9242 Oh yeah I mean he's at war. There are also innocent vietnamese as collateral damage. I'm just saying its a clue to the fact that they are on aposing sides and the complications of that relationship.
The same could be said if a Vietnamese made friends with an American GI and found they'd torched a village. Its the fact that once you humanise people rather than seeing them as the enemy it turns everything you're doing upside down
@@spencerarnold669 - Regarding the question of Vietnamese as collateral damage, I think the whole point of the establishing scene in the bar with Cronauer taking on the bigoted GIs is to have the script explicitly state (via the GI who abuses Tuan) that Jimmy Wah's has been appropriated as a "GI bar" by the US troops and that Vietnamese (besides working girls) are not welcome there. It's an awful but unavoidable fact that women who fraternise with and make themselves available to occupying troops tend to be perceived by resistance movements as collaborating with the invaders.
Remember, for example, that women who made themselves available to German soldiers in France, Belgium, Holland etc. during WW2 were ritually exposed, humiliated and abused by the resistance movements as the Allies advanced across Western Europe after D-Day - and what the majority of Soviet troops inflicted upon women they encountered during their advance from the East almost defies description.
Unfortunately, that "justification" probably extended to the working girls in the bar at the time.
@@joehoy9242 Yeah I totally get it. The sad fact is, the vicious cycle. the bigoted Gis who we hated were (in some ways) right, he was the enemy. But of course that attitude also creates the enemy
This is the messed up thing about war (especially this war).
Personally I don't see a distinction of the veitnamse bombing a bar and the US carpet bombing a village, to me its the same thing. I both understand and hate the tactic in equal measure.
But my point wasn't the morality of what he did so much of the underlying complications it had with their friendship and the cognative disonance of his view of the 'other side'. The duplicity of being friends with the literal enemy (one unknowingly and one knowing)
.......but mainly that the guys didn't connect the dots that it wasn't a coincidence Robin Williams got out just in time and that it was his friend behind the bombing haha
What an incredible situation.
Me when I make a joke in the comments and it gets no Likes: "In my heart, I know I'm funny."
Why do I picture your heart rolling its eyes every time you say it.
Okay, I chuckled at your comment. 👍😊
@@bluebird3281 Well, it does that a lot.
Donna Reed was a famous actress that you may remember as the wife of Jimmy Stewart in, "It's a Wonderful Life."
The "ball" they're playing with is a citrus fruit called a Pomelo. In Chinese it's 柚子。It's like a big grapefruit.
You spurred a linguistic lesson for me today. Those Chinese characters are used in Japanese to reference the Yuzu fruit, but a Pomelo is clearly not a Yuzu. Did a Google search and found out the Japanese (and apparently Koreans) kept the old word for the smaller fruit, and in China it changed over time to describe the larger one.
The "It's a Wonderful World" sequence is still the most impactful movie sequence I've ever seen. It's simply haunting.
An under reacted movie around the War in Cambodia which resulted due to the Vietnam War is 'The Killing Fields' from 1984. Everyone should see this masterpiece but it's an emotional one based on a true story - so bring tissues Simone ! One of the main characters wasn't even a trained actor, he was actually a Doctor, but won the role because he actually lived through the period and he wanted to tell the world the story of his country. His performance won him an Oscar in his debut - and rightly so.
The Killing Fields and The Year of Living Dangerously are two forgotten classics.
I still have The Killing Fields VHS. One of the best war movies
So true, thanks for mentioning it. Dith Pran and Haing Ngor, the man who portrayed him, went through such unimaginable horrors.
@@andrewcharles459 Both with amazing soundtracks.
An epic and harrowing film, but yes, a film that everyone should watch.
My equivalent recommendation would be 'The Mission'.
5:58 "That's a lot of energy for 6 a.m." I dunno, both times I visited Vietnam, that was the only time of day I had any energy. Then I'd step out into the muggy heat and I'd be a sweat-drenched sleepwalker for the rest of the day.
Another fun bit of trivia, the slot that Adrian Cronauer had on AFN was later taken over by Pat Sajak, who continued to use the "Good Morning, Vietnam" sign-on.
I was a military broadcaster in the USAF and this movie was released when I was in tech school learning my trade. Everybody in my class wanted to be like Robin Williams in GMV, but none of us lived up to that kind of hype. Robin Williams was a comedic genius and is sorely missed. I settled for having a nice little DJ gig in the Philippines from ‘88 to ‘91 and had a lot (probably too much - killed lotsa brain cells in the bars outside Clark Air Base where I was stationed) of fun during my time in the military. The real Adrian Cronauer, whose real life exploits this movie is based on, was nowhere near this wild and unhinged on the air I found out later.
I know I'd never live up to Robin in this role, but this movie is what made me want to join as a PA in the AF. Sadly I'm stuck maintenance... I hope i can retrain and go broadcasting but man hearing you talk about it you lived my dream!
Not sure how many times I saw this before I discovered Adrian Cronauer was a real person. According to him, the film is about 45% accurate. He unfortunately passed away in 2018.
If the movie actually happened, he would end up federal prison Leavenworth.
@@Dularr And he would have gotten clemency after six months...😃
Cronauer didn't like the movie, he was very conservative and anti-communist and nothing like the characterization here
It was mostly factual. It is also factual that one of the people who replaced Cronauer was Pat Sajak, of Wheel of Fortune fame.
Good to know.
I was reading Robin's autobiography today and just got to the good morning Vietnam part tonight. It was his break out movie. Not his first starring role, but the first role he got unanimous praise from. So yeah, I feel like in the matrix rn.
"Let's get ready to rumble!"
I feel that Simone is correct, regarding the energy of the line "Good morning Vietnam" as it has echo'd through pop culture. But I have to say, George's comment about that's how wars start is also a SCORCHINGLY on the money take.
I really appreciate you folks reacting to this movie, especially with your usual empathy. The range of emotions and depth of the human condition portrayed in this movie makes it more than a classic, but tough to watch as well.
If you haven't listened to it, the official soundtrack album has many short clips of Robin Williams' broadcast scenes interwoven with the great classic hits featured in the film.
Second the statement about the soundtrack - on top of it just having some damn good music!
I saw a video of an interview with the real Adrian Cronaur on TH-cam years ago where he was talking about the movie. According to the interview, the reason for his customary "Gooooooooooooooooood Morning Vietnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!" Wasn't because he was trying to be funny, but was actually because he was buying time to start his set. I think that the army had the DJs scheduled too close together, so when the last DJ left he didn't have enough time to get set up (get out his records, put on his headset, get his list of news items to discuss, etc). So he would drag out saying "Good Morning Vietnam" while getting all this stuff together.
Forrest Whitaker actually did accidentally turn the ignition on a running MUTT. It eventually became a running joke.
It's a mixture of scripted gags and Robin improvising, certainly there was way more footage recorded than could be used. What is 100% genuine is the reaction of the other actors. The camera used to 'float' on set recording the laughter for real so when you see Whitaker and Wuhl creasing up - the were. Same with the english class, they recorded as per the script but it seemed dry yet when Robin was talking to the extras off camera he had them in hysterics. So Levinson told him to keep doing whatever he was and he would signal to the cameramen when to film their reactions and cut it into the footage Classic example, the softball game. The guy had seen a softball game and knew the fruit was too big to be a ball so he approached Levinson. He explained that Robin was in charge of the equipment so he went to find him. Levinson grabbed the nearest cameraman and told him to start shooting and follow what happened - what you see is Robin's genuine reaction to his concern. Brilliant.
This is without a doubt Robins movie but I love Bruno Kirby as the witless lieutenant who above all else just wants to be funny and can't understand why people are laughing at him not with him. May they both rest in peace
How good is Kirby to play that convincingly
When I bought the Soundtrack to this movie on cassette as a kid, I loved they also put in all his radio skits, it was like listening to him on the radio with the songs interspersed.
Oh wow, I didn't know that! As a huge fan it's time to get the original soundtrack. Thanks a lot! 😊
The last king of Scotland is Forrest Whittaker at his absolute best. Hope you watch that soon
The late great Robin Williams RIP.
I first saw his stand up on video (Robin Williams Live) in about 1988. Of course as a kid I'd seen him on Happy Days and Mork and Mindy, but this was a very different re-introduction to this absolute epic comedy genius. He was like an express train on stage.
Good Morning Vietnam, this film is a favourite but there are so many others I highly recommend:
Moscow on the Hudson, Jacob The Liar, Patch Adams, The World According To Garp, Bicentennial Man, Good Will Hunting, Mrs Doubtfire, and then there are many many more to consider, from Hook, to The Fisher King, Nine Months, Night At The Museum, Jumanji, August Rush, the list goes on and on.
But if I had to recommend one, I fell in love with this a long time ago and it was one of his first films, 'The World According To Garp'.
One of the many things I love about this movie is Robin Williams is so chaotic and funny that you forget there’s a war going on. Then the bar bomb goes off and snaps you back to reality
"Ever meet anybody like that before" - George
"Every day when i was in radio" - Me
This movie makes me remember how amazingly Bruno Kirby played an "angry little man" unlike any other character actor in his time. Unfortunately he came around the same time as Joe Pesci. He found his niche though.
I always think that Bruno Kirby's Lt Hauk is the younger version of his character in Spinal Tap.
Donna Reed starred in "It's a Wonderful Life," which I think y'all have already watched? Then she went on to be the star of a TV show where she played a goody-two shoes perfect wife. At least that's what Gilmore Girls taught me.
Gilmore Girls has taught you well. Now release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.
Wait. What?
@@LeChaunce You were supposed to bring balance to Stars Hollow!!
Donna Reed was also the female lead in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, where she played a married woman who fell in love with an army sergeant, which is probably why Robin Williams name dropped her here.
It's the journalist from Batman!
Robert Wuhl. He was also in the HBO sports agent comedy "Arli$$" with a young Sandra Oh.
Everyone overlooks Bruno Kirby’s performance. He does such a good job at being unlikeable. Up there with Giamatti in Private Parts and Hart Bochner in Die Hard.
Since Geore liked this, I'm begging you guys to check out Mrs. Doubtfire, The Fisher King, and Aladdin. They each show Robin Williams range and energy. They're so good, and I think they'd make for good reactions.
Never seen The Fisher King, but Aladdin is good fun and I REALLY want to see them react to Mrs. Doubtfire 😂
The Fisher King is such a good movie! Not enough people know about that one. I also think The Birdcage is another great one that tends to get overlooked.
One Hour Photo is my suggestion for showing Robin Williams' range.
Donna Reed played George Bailey's wife in the Christmas movie, It's A Wonderful Life.
Thank you, this is the comment I was looking for... Have a like sir!
My absolute favorite Robin Williams film along with "Dead Poets Society"...he is brilliant here. I had the opportunity to meet Robin when he came on a USO tour to the Middle East in 2003-4ish. He came with Blake Clark (of Adam Sandler films) & NFL QB John Elway. Have great respect for that act of selflessness as it was during Christmas, & they chose to come visit us, sacrificing time away from their families. I spoke with Robin a few minutes that day. He was very soft spoken & humble, but I could see a fog of pain in his eyes...a sadness of sorts.
Speaking of the queens/drag queen joke where he answers tall thin men who like showtunes, you both need to watch The Birdcage with Williams, Nathan Lane and Hank Azaria (Simpsons).
4:06 Donna Reed was an actress. She was Mary Hatch / Mary Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life."
4:06 Donna Reed played George's wife Mary in 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
One of the first comedy/dramas by Williams - and yes most of his scenes were entirely ad-libbed (director Barry Levinson had several cameras on him at all times to get every reaction shot possible). And yes you do know Donna Reed - she's Mary Bailey in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
I had the opportunity to hear Adrian Cronauer speak at a lecture. He was genuinely a humble man and said there was no way he was nearly as funny in real life as Robin Williams. He also acknowledged the lasting legacy of Williams' portrayal. While Cronauer only served one year in Vietnam, he has had many veterans, who served in-country at various times during the war, tell him how much his broadcasts meant to them. His service has literally become part of America's cultural memory. Oh, and like you mentioned, if he had done half of what Robin Williams portrayed in the film he would have been in Leavenworth!
Chintara Sukapatana, playing the Vietnamese girl, is Thai. She, like so many women from that area are elegant and beautiful. I was teaching in a community where many refugees from SE Asia settled and had the honor of meeting many of these wonderful people. I would gladly welcome more of them into the US. BTW, their children wound up graduating at the top of their class and two that I taught received full academic scholarships to Duke University.😊❤
I watched this movie with my Father at the cinema. He was a Vietnam vet who was in the entertainment side and he said that parts of this movie were the most realistic portrayal of the war for him.
It makes me cry everytime I watch it
The actor who plays " Srgt Major Dickerson " was also in a Stephen King movie called " Needful Things ". That's a MUST watch !!!
Robin may have been on the marching powder during this film
One of the better Vietnam movies from back then.
I can say without equivocation, as someone who spent a year in an absolutely miserable part of the world, taking malaria pills, stuck in a combat zone with no fun or escape: Cronauer would have been a hero. It's impossible to overstate how beloved and important to morale that guy would have been, and for once reason: As always, Robin Williams performance works so well because it comes from the right place, a place of compassion, which is exactly what both he and his character brought to the Vietnam war
I love George's puzzled expressions at every video-opening Simone non sequitur. 🤣
Best non-Williams line in the whole movie:
“Don’t tell these jokes Sir. They’re gonna bomb!”
“Then why did I see you laughing while you were typing them?”
“Uh……I was thinking of something else?”
😂
"How do you do that" well there's this special magical dust that gives you the speed force.....
Chintara Sukapatana is still an actress and played the "Hey is that the prettiest girl ever, who is that" through the 90s and 2000s. Now at 60 she is often cast as the mom to a number of Thai actresses that look AI and yet you cant still see where they got it from.
This was one of my dad's favorite movies. What a wonderful way to honor his (and Robin Williams') memory to watch this right after Father's Day! Thank you for what you do, you two. Always a good source of smiles.
This is one of Robin William's very best films,
A great comedy that has such powerful and poignant parts, blended seamlessly together
With one of the greatest ever soundtracks.
A True Classic
This movie was the first time I ever heard "It's a Wonderful World." I still feel the impact from that scene every time I hear it.
Robin Williams was a legend. Be a long time until we get another one like him.
Ladies and gentleman, this is the CLASSIC stand up Robin Williams. RIP the Legend
Actually, there's a blink and you missed it moment in _Platoon_ where you hear the famous 'Good Morning, Vietnam!' in the background (the latrine scene).
This movie is one of the reasons I wanted to work in radio. Never panned out - but still miss being in that DJ booth, heh.
4:09 Donna Reed was the female lead in *_It’s A Wonderful Life,_* playing Mary Bailey nee Hatch, the protagonist’s wife.
Most of the actors including those of Lt Hulk (Bruno Kirby), Dan 'the man' Levitan (Richard Portnow), and Sgt Magor Dickerson (J.T. Walsh) have comedic and improv backgrounds so maintaining a serious and stern demeanor through the shooting of this movie must have been insanely difficult. As with many Robin Williams movies, especially with other comedians, they would always have the "who can deliver their lines but make the others break" contest. Robin also indicated that a lot more of the gags than you think were Mitch Markowitz (writer) work, Robin would just run with it and punch in the delivery. But yes, much of the radio spot was just a camera on robin and they cut it up later. BTW this was also just AFTER he quit cocaine and alcohol...when the man was on, he was on.
This scene was not scripted. In between takes, that gentleman went to the director to tell him that wasn't a baseball. The director pointed to Robin and told the man to speak to him. The director then filmed the two talking. 27:05
Me and my dad were sitting and watching this one day.He said he knew someone like Lt. Steven Hauk when he was in the Army.He would go out of his way to walk across the street to make my dad salute him.
George, you are correct. The twins in this film are the guys that played the security guard and the T1000 as his copy in T2.
I want to see Simone & George react to Robin Williams in 'What Dreams May Come' (1998), hat movie kills me everytime I watch it, so sad, so beautiful & so touching & utterly delightful. If any of their Patron members read this (I am unemployed & can't afford membership) PLEASE suggest it as it would make for an amazing reaction seeing them go through all their emotions as they watch this oustanding movie.
Indeed. Criticised at the time but I too loved it. Definitely a tear jerker.
Forest whitaker, the character contrast in this role and when he is saw gerrera in Star wars is phenomenal..
28:00 those fruit they are playing softball with are Pomelos. Kind of a tougher, drier version of a grapefruit, and the ancestor of modern oranges. They grow everywhere in Vietnam.
4:10
Donna Reed played Mary Hatch in
'It's A Wonderful Life'.
👍 for the kitty cameo in the final 15 seconds. Also, great movie choice!
The "what a wonderful world" sequence hit me more than any other war movie. I mean, the bridge sequence in Apocalyspe now is about the travesty of the war, the opening of Private Ryan is about violence, but this here is about people
Great timing around Father’s Day and Memorial Day ❤ my stepdad enlisted as a senior in high school and was scheduled to ship out for basic training the day after he graduated high school.
After his high school graduation, he got home and there was a draft notice in the mailbox, but he was already scheduled to leave the next day. That was in 1968. My mom was in third grade at the time. 🤪 I’m 40 now and they are still together.❤
Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida
Donna Reed was George Bailey's wife in It's a Wonderful Life.
one of the greatest movies of all time..
I love this movie. It lures you in with some comedic genius, and then rips your heart out and puts it through the wringer. Metaphorically speaking.
There are so many great moments, but a few of them stand out.
Cronauer : ". . . and then I find out my best friend's the enemy. "
Tuan : "I'm not the enemy - you're the enemy!"
Yeah, this made me stop and think.
Also, one of my favourite segments is when Cronauer is having different characters phone in and he gives us this exchange (my paraphrasing):
Cronauer - We have a caller on the line. What's your name, soldier?
Caller - MY NAME'S FRED GRUBER!
Cronauer - Hello, Fred, and what do you do?
Caller - I'M IN ARTILLERY!
Cronauer - thank you, and can we play something for you, Fred?
Caller - ANYTHING, JUST PLAY IT LOUD, OK?
Had the soundtrack for this on a copied cassette tape back in the day. Loved it . Loads of dialogue included.
How appropriate you release this video this week, as I landed in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City 2 days ago for a holiday !
About the baseball game scene the where Vietnamese student complains about playing using coconuts: in an interview, the director Barry Levinson said that actor was a real fan of baseball & Americana and actually came to him to express his concern. Barry responded, "You know, I think you're right. But the person in charge of the baseball equipment is Robin. You should mention all this to him," and then told the cameras to keep rolling. 🤣I mention it because I feel like the scene just shows what a kind and gentle soul Robin Williams was.
Forest Whitaker is 6'2" tall. Practically a giant in Hollywood terms. Dickerson was portrayed by the prolific JT Walsh (RIP). A character actor who excelled at playing these types of characters. Career highlights of his include this one, Sling Blade and Breakdown.
Arguably the greatest Cinematic cross-over between Robin Williams, the Manic Comedian and Robin Williams, the brilliant Dramatic Actor. An excellent movie all around, with a great supporting cast and an excellent soundtrack. Goooooooooooood Mooorning, Cine-B!tches!!! 😁🥃
2:32 I'm going with "Copse Whitaker". 🌲🌳🌴
I am so glad you guys watched this classic! It's definitely Robin Williams' tour de force, and one of my favorite of his movies. It's one of the best combinations of hilarious and emotional gut-wrenching I've ever seen. Well done.
Such a great movie 💘💗🥰🥰🥰 Him talking to the troops while they're all stuck is just beautiful 🥺🥲🥲🥲🥲
Its hard seeing Robin like this and knowing how badly he was hurting inside. I grew up watching and adoring his movies. GMV, Mrs. Doubtfire, Toys, Jumanji, Dead Poets Society, etc.
And even his later more serious work in One Hour Photo, and What Dreams May Come ...
A part of me died the day he did 💔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Anytime Robin was shooting scenes of him being a DJ on the radio, it was all improv. Many of his other quips throughout the film were also off the cuff. What a powerhouse he was! RIP.
@Cinebinge - George, Donna Reed was “Mary Bailey” in “It’s A Wonderful Life”
Of all the actors I've seen in my lifetime, not one has touched me to the degree that Robin Williams did. Growing up as a kid in the 70s watching Happy Days, and then Mork & Mindy into the 80s, I grew up enjoying the comedy of Robin Williams. But then I saw The World According to Garp (which I highly highly highly recommend you watch on your channel), and realized that he was more than a comedian, more than an actor, but that he was a force of nature. His death moved me more than any other in all my years. Fun reaction! This is a great movie.
The guy who replaced Adrian Cronauer was Pat Sajak
ALSO: The whole "Wonderful World" segment gets me every time.
My granddad did three tours as a helicopter rescue pilot, he would never talk about Vietnam -- the first time I saw this movie was a copy that I found in his condo.
Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger; January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films. She is well known for her portrayal of Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra's fantasy holiday film It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Reed won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fred Zinnemann's war drama film From Here to Eternity (1953).
Reed is also known for her work in television, notably as Donna Stone, a middle-class American mother and housewife in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958-1966) whose character was more assertive and complex than most other television mothers of the era. She received numerous Emmy Award nominations for this role and the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in 1963. Later in her career, Reed replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow in the 1984-1985 season of the television melodrama Dallas; she successfully sued the production company for breach of contract when she was abruptly fired upon Bel Geddes' decision to return to the show.
From her Wikipedia page...
My first time seeing a trailer for this movie made an impression on me. I am quite certain that he was in the radio studio wearing a uniform that he never wore in the studio during the movie. Hence I believe it was simply footage of Williams improvising into a mic, but which didn't make it into the movie.
It's a pomelo!!!
Fun fact: when Boromir kicks the pomelo, he actually cuts his hand. The scream is real, but the blood on Django's face isn't.
In fact two of the Pomelos in that scene got married.
This film is considered a magnum opus to Williams' comedic genius, practically all of the radio material is improvised.
Nice job spotting the twins that were in Terminator 2 as the guard. Good memory!
Behind the Scenes: Robin Williams “took off” with Improv,
multiple times (driving director Barry a bit nuts).
Rumors are that minutes of film were not used (there is another movie in there).
Always loved that scene with armstrong playing to whats going on
RIP Robin
Yes, the "What A Wonderful World" montage hits hard.
This movie is a masterpiece. It uses comedy to make you lower your guard, then hits you right in the feels with some unpleasant truths. In many ways it follows in the footsteps of the TV show M*A*S*H, another masterpiece dealing with war (the Korean war) shown through a lens of comedy. It's a fine line to walk, weaving comedy around some very tragic issues _without_ being disrespectful about it, and both Good Morning Vietnam and M*A*S*H do it masterfully.
This is one of my favourite movie performances ever. Robin Williams shows both his comedic and serious sides at their absolute maximum in this role. Award worthy
Such an amazing performance by Robin. He was one of a kind.
Fun fact: Bruno Kirby also played young Clemanza in Godfather part 2 in the flashbacks.
Oh man, double feature morning with Robin Williams between you guys and Ashleigh Burton, lol. This'll be a good day.