r/marvelstudios • u/achilles-_-23 • Jun 13 '22
Clip This is my favorite Improvised scene in MCU, it's absolutely hilarious. What's yours?
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u/7rian8owers Jun 13 '22
dosent get any better than Paul Rudd. but Agent Woo’s character is one of the funniest (silliest) characters in the MCU… when he flipped out his card using “the card trick” in wandavision… i lost my shit..
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u/PhilJanksDMN Jun 13 '22
Such a great touch. It’s hilarious but also indicative of a fine attention to detail that showed WV’s caretakers really cared and respected the character.
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u/p_s_i Jun 13 '22
Rudd set him up and Park's ability to run so damn far with the akward straight man is some next level talent. Rudds eyes in this scene migth not be acting but the real joy of "if i keep mouth shut Park is going to dig an epic hole" :D
These two should work together more.
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u/Mossed84 Daredevil Jun 13 '22
Have you ever watched him in interviews? Park had an amazing 1 on 1 with Conan. He’s funny as hell
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u/HappyHourEveryHour Jun 13 '22
Hes such an underrated actor, I wish he had more work.
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u/OSUTechie Sharon Carter Jun 14 '22
He had a pretty steady gig with "Fresh off the boat".
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u/DarkStarStorm Jun 13 '22
I love that he's a youth pastor, too.
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u/ShitButtPoopFuck Jun 13 '22
I love that his name is Jim
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u/WeAreBeyondFucked Jun 13 '22
I didn't know his name in the movie and thought it was an office joke when I watched it.
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Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
I'm convinced it's a joke from the writers* but who knows for sure
edit: *casting director
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u/PartisanHack Jun 13 '22
Jimmy Woo is a character in the comic books. So it is really a joke from the casting director.
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u/YouStupidDick Jun 13 '22
I also liked that agent woo was portrayed as being a bit less of a joke in wandavision
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u/formulavice Captain America (Cap 2) Jun 13 '22
No joke, I'd love it if the next Ant Man movie opens with these two getting dinner somewhere.
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u/IndirectBarracuda Jun 13 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
reddit is filled with douchebags
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Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
I am sitting
In the morning
At the diner
On the corner
I am waiting
At the counter
For Ant-Man
To pour the coffee
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u/insane_contin Hunter Jun 13 '22
And he fills it
Only halfway
And before
I even argue
He is jumping
Out the window
At somebody
Flying down
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u/CocoaCali Jun 13 '22
BRING BACK MARVEL ONE SHOTS! This would be perfect like a 15 minute little self contained story of them just having dinner.
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u/F-nDiabolical Jun 13 '22
Do a "My dinner with Andre" remake.
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u/hfusidsnak Jun 13 '22
And to really go down the rabbit hole just have Ahbed and Jeff sitting in a background booth. Then have extras from Cougartown pass by the windows or something.
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u/phenomenomnom Jun 13 '22
"My Dinner With ANT-dre"
Like the pun names he gives all the ... yeah you get it
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u/lazylion_ca Jun 13 '22
Even better if they are doing the podcast together and discussing magic tricks while Dr Strange does actual magic outside the window.
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u/InfanticideAquifer Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
A podcast that Strange somehow got roped into where they discuss stage magic and he just slowly dies inside would also be amazing.
edit: typo correction
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u/DJZbad93 Korg Jun 13 '22
Thor’s story about snake Loki in Ragnarok. Loki laughing at the story works but it’s actually Tom Hiddleston laughing because the story cracked him up.
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Jun 13 '22
For me, the kicker in that story was always "and then he stabbed me". Like he just kind of shoved that part in at the end, even though it's kind of a major detail.
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u/Worthyness Thor Jun 13 '22
The cut to Loki laughing makes it better- like they're reminiscing over a bygone era and that it's not a big deal
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u/altxatu Jun 13 '22
Was it a big deal? They’re Gods. Getting stabbed isn’t fun, but if you heal in like a day it can’t be that bad. Plus it’s Loki. He’s a trickster God, he must be doing shit like that all the time. I imagine Thor would be used to his antics.
I got the impression that this sort of thing happened fairly often and wasn’t a big deal. It was him reminiscing about a simpler time, while still noting that Loki is in fact Loki and kind of a dick.
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u/centran Jun 13 '22
It's like our measly human version of your sibling smacking you with a wiffle ball bat. That stings as a human but wouldn't do anything to a god child do they do other things that sting a little like stab each other!
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u/Good_old_Marshmallow Jun 13 '22
In the comics young Thor and Loki do that kind of thing all the time. Thor wasn’t an angel either he was kinda a bully. In World War Hulk, Hulk Thor sees Spider-Man read and it triggers him of the time he threw Loki off the top of the Asgardian palace cus he caught him reading
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u/Lukthar123 Ghost Rider Jun 13 '22
Like he just kind of shoved that part in at the end
Yes, that's what stabbing means.
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u/Porkenfries Jun 13 '22
He says it as if every Loki story ends with Loki stabbing him. Which they probably do.
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u/jpterodactyl Daredevil Jun 13 '22
I like how the reason the plan worked was because he picked up a snake to admire it. And how he mentions that like it’s just a thing we all do from time to time.
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u/Software_Vast Jun 13 '22
"He had transformed himself into a snake... Because he knows how much I like snakes..."
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u/The_Bjorn_Ultimatum Jun 13 '22
I love this line becausd in actual norse mythology, Jormundgandr, the world serpent, and Thor are fated to kill each other during ragnarok.
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u/tpklus Jun 13 '22
Of course Chris Hemsworth is funny. He has to be some sort of flaw. Maybe he snores really loud...
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u/Bigsmall-cats Jun 13 '22
No there's no way he snores, maybe "he puts milk before the cereal" is his flaw
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u/theyak93 Jun 13 '22
That’s unforgivable
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u/UlrichZauber Jun 13 '22
He puts the cereal in first, but insists on referring to it as "soup".
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u/JimboLodisC Jun 13 '22
he probably doesn't wet his toothbrush before he brushes his teeth
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u/2noch-Keinemehr Jun 13 '22
The whole Thor movie is full of improvised scenes.
My favorite scene is, when Thor asks Banner if he wants revenge.
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u/OjiikunVII Captain America (Captain America 2) Jun 14 '22
"I'm undecided" was the best response he could have made
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u/KaySquay Ant-Man Jun 13 '22
I think Waititi said they did a bunch of takes of different scenarios for that scene. There's a tweet somewhere out there where he said one was Loki turning himself into a rug over a hole in the ground and Thor fell into it
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u/NEBook_Worm Jun 13 '22
I loved the way they captured Tom Hiddleston genuinely laughing. That just makes it so much better.
And now we're getting Hemsworth and Pratt in a Taika Waititi film..
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u/derangerd Sam Wilson Jun 13 '22
I hadn't thought about Pratt being promted to improvise again. I am excited.
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u/Grootfan85 Jun 13 '22
In Captain America: Civil War when Tony is talking to Peter, “I’m gonna sit here, so you move away.” Tom Holland actually forgot a stage cue, and RDJ was telling him to move over on his bed.
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u/Photometric4567 Jun 13 '22
Another fact about this: According to the extras, the Russos let RDJr direct this entire scene, which makes the fact that Tom Holland forgot his cue even more funny.
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u/MuNansen Jun 13 '22
Also, what we saw was similar to how they'd rehearsed it the first time. The writers changed it a bunch, but RDJ said "no, I like the old way" and voila.
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u/DarthNobody Drax Jun 13 '22
Can we have RDJ back, but to direct?
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u/BigConversation13937 Jun 13 '22
I mean, the closest examples we've seen to him directing anything are this and Favreau just letting him do whateve tf he wanted for IM2.
I'd love to see him produce something though.
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u/stupidillusion Doctor Strange Jun 13 '22
Jeff Bridges said that working on the original Iron Man movie was like doing improv; they'd get the script in the morning and then Robert and John would go off and rewrite everything.
“It turned out that many times — 10, 12, 15 times — we would show up for the days work, not knowing what we were gonna shoot. – All the guys in the studio tapping their foot, looking at their watch, and we’re sitting in my trailer trying to figure out my lines, man. – On the day!”
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u/Unique_name256 Jun 13 '22
Can we at least have him cameo in random roles the way Stan Lee used to? That would be so fun.
He could play an Australian HYDRA spy posing as a black staff sergeant in SHIELD?
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u/swans183 Jun 13 '22
It works so well! He definitely has that bundle of energy air about him from the early movies; and it helps put Peter in his place too through Holland lol
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u/AlberGaming Jun 13 '22
It fits both characters perfectly
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u/pinklavalamp Maria Hill Jun 13 '22
They could’ve said this was scripted exactly as seen and I would’ve believed it.
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Jun 13 '22
Funner fact: this sub has me convinced every scene in the marvel universe is improvised.
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u/Gigantkranion Jun 13 '22
Supposedly, the first Iron Man and some of the other movies were such a fucking shitstorm that they were basically improvised or written the day of.
Like, that morning the director (Jon) and writers were just making up shit at the last second.
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u/waitingtodiesoon Thor (Thor 2) Jun 13 '22
Iron Man 1 barely had a script and the script they had kept changing. Warmonger was supposed to survive the first film, but they changed that later and the fact there was no real script to memorize was really making Jeff Bridges angry. It was more of an outline than a script for Iron Man 1.
The scene where Iron Man was giving the speech about the Jericho missiles in Afghanistan was written the day of filming too. Someone is holding up cue cards for RDJ to read behind the camera, but it was too obvious at first since you could see his eyes reading the cue cards. So they had RDJ wear his sunglasses to hide the fact you can see his eyes reading them.
Despite all this, it worked out great in the end.
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u/Dotaproffessional Jun 13 '22
this piece of info will become the new "did you know vigo actually broke his toe when he kicked the helmet". I see it in every thread about improv
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u/anrwlias Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
Everybody talks about the toe kick but no one seems to mention the fact that he deflected a goddamned knife that was accidentally thrown directly at him straight out of the air.
Edit: I've been informed that this is just a rumor and have seen enough credible evidence to consider it an unreliable claim. I retract it.
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u/Fa_Ratt Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
Also tom holland hugged rdj in the beginning of homecoming when
he wastony was getting the door for him to exit the car.Edited.
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u/UCanJustBuyLabCoats Jun 13 '22
I never thought of that. He says “that’s not a hug I’m just grabbing the door for you, we’re not there yet” and then immediately hugs Peter when he sees him alive in Endgame. One of the last things he does with Peter too.
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u/altxatu Jun 13 '22
I’m not a touchy person, but a perfectly timed hug is just the cat’s meow. That was some good character development.
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u/RoboticCurrents Wong Jun 13 '22
mine is: “Nobody would know. Nobody. ‘The last I saw him, when Ultron was sitting on him. Uh...yeah, he'll be missed, that quick little bastard. I miss him already’”
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u/Freakazoidberg Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
What was this from (or in reference to?)
Edit: Oh damn literally within minutes of this Pietro dies saving Hawkeye. I forgot about this. I should rewatch Ultron I think I enjoyed that movie a lot more than I realized.
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u/RoboticCurrents Wong Jun 13 '22
It's from Age of Ultron,jeremy renner improvised it
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u/khkokopelli Jun 13 '22
Renner IMPROVISED that line? That is one of my favorite lines in the whole MCU!
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u/emcee_cubed Captain America (Captain America 2) Jun 13 '22
Hawkeye strongly contemplated murdering Pietro Maximoff because he perceived him as being a little shit.
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u/seakrakken Jun 13 '22
Hawkeye had a chance to shoot Quicksilver and was talking to himself about what it would be like if he did because he was annoyed at the time.
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u/snakeskinsandles Jun 13 '22
And then he FUCKING DIED
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u/marvelous_aardvark Hawkeye (Avengers) Jun 13 '22
What gets me is that Hawkeye was joking about killing him BUT THEN Quick Silver ended up sacrificing his life to save Hawkeye’s and the little boy’s! Talk about unexpected.
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u/legomaximumfigure Jun 13 '22
It's also one the most Hawkeye accurate moments in the MCU. Hawkeye has a bad temper and a smartass but they don't explore that that much because they let others have the jokes and Hawkeye's a family man.
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u/GrimReaapaa Jun 13 '22
Did not know it was improvised, if true this makes this scene even better
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u/Killer-Barbie Jun 13 '22
I used to think Paul Rudd was okay, nothing crazy outstanding, but not bad by any means. The more I watch his stuff the more I realize how brilliantly funny this man actually is.
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u/TheDevDad Matt Murdock Jun 13 '22
He’s so good at keeping a straight face through the gags he’s pulling. Like in this clip he just seems genuinely curious, even though what he’s getting at is pointing out the absurdity of cliché lines like that
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u/rudyjewliani Jun 13 '22
I mean, he got plenty of practice on Conan's show.
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u/SlamMasterJ Jun 13 '22
The Mac and Me wheelchair scene never gets old no matter how many times Paul pull the clip out.
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u/Risquechilli Scarlet Witch Jun 13 '22
He recently did it on Conan’s podcast as well. Still hilarious even without the visual. (Although the visual is also available.)
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u/altxatu Jun 13 '22
It’s fun to do. Just take a simple everyday thing and take it to an absurd level, and kinda see where it goes. Like asking if Rudd really did want dinner, mentioning he’s free, then thinking better of it. Park didn’t need to add that little bit of flavor, but it worked. I could see that exchange being ad-libbed a few of different times. It’s pretty cool to see artists work, see what they think works and what doesn’t.
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u/Lacrez Jun 13 '22
He's just so subtly funny about everything.
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u/horse_renoir13 Jun 13 '22
He seems like a genuinely funny person to hang out with.
I still love his role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Him and Segel are great together.
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u/MightyJoeYoung1313 Jun 13 '22
If you liked them in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, check out I Love You Man.
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u/dumbass_sempervirens Jun 13 '22
I'm more impressed by Randall Park if he was just playing off Rudd improvising. I knew Rudd could do things like that, but only with a good enough scene partner.
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u/senik Jun 13 '22
Randall Park is hilarious. These guys play off each other so well. I'd love to see a D+ show with them teaming up, similar to FatWS.
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Jun 13 '22
After Wandavision, I read a Reddit post where someone suggested they do an X-Files type of show starring Randall Park and Kat Dennings.
I feel like that’d be fun.
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Jun 13 '22
I met him in person once a long time ago and he was super nice and friendly. His head is really big though, like compared to the size of his body or other peoples heads. 100% awesome guy though.
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u/tactical_tomato Jun 13 '22
I’ve met quite a few famous people over the years and having a big face/head seems to be a desirable trait for those in front of the camera.
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u/shodan28 Jun 13 '22
"Ohhhhh the weather outside is weather"
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u/MonsieurBerwick Jun 13 '22
I sing this far too often and literally no one gets it! I'm glad someone else out there does 🙂
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u/Okonomiyaki_lover Jun 13 '22
Wanna watch something super fun? Find the show Travel Man with Richard Ayoade and the episode with Paul Rudd.
As a bonus, check out the episode with John Hamm as well.
The whole show is pretty great though.
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u/marvelous_aardvark Hawkeye (Avengers) Jun 13 '22
I feel like all of Ant-Man could be improvised and it would still work haha
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u/tymelodies T'Challa Star-Lord Jun 13 '22
Luis storytelling scene being all improvised is kinda believable too.
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u/OliviaWG Jun 13 '22
I always loved how Luis' storytelling felt like it was all Edgar Wright's idea. I love the feel of his movies, and I'm glad they kept that in.
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u/riffraff Jun 13 '22
Edgar Wright is a freaking genius, and I think this scene is incredible, and my favourite part is the sudden Stan Lee in it.
I would watch an entire movi made like that.
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u/Fluffypuppyzone Jun 13 '22
My son was hoping for one of his riffs on the whole End Game story which would have been so much fun to watch.
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u/lousmer Jun 13 '22
Paul is hilarious, but the cherry on top is jimmy coming back after all that w a genuine “did you wanna get dinner of something?” Randall park is very funny
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Jun 13 '22
The whole scene was improvised? Loving that. Thanks for posting it. 😊
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u/SleepIsDelicious Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
Now that I watch it again, halfway through this clip they both almost break character a bit with a slight grin but they just keep running with it's. Hilarious
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u/cam52391 Jun 13 '22
Yeah I don't really doubt that it's improvised because they're both really funny improv guys this is what they do just let a scene roll out
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u/chugz Jun 13 '22
the whole scene wasn't improvised, but some of the banter went off script
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u/rdunlap1 Jun 13 '22
Makes sense to me. Rudd and Randall Park are probably the two best purely comedic actors in all the MCU, so it makes sense to just let them play off each other.
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u/jpterodactyl Daredevil Jun 13 '22
I think that Randall Park might be the funniest working actor. There’s just something about the way he delivers things where he can be charming in the most awkward scenarios.
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u/srfrosky Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 14 '22
This is correct because these are not shot with multi cams like a studio show. Each angle is a separate camera set up. So while one pov might show an ad lib moment, the reverse had to take that into account, or simply be reacting to something else and edited to be seamless
Edit: The trolls need some clarification so hope this helps:
“Most films use a single-camera setup, but in recent decades larger films have begun to use more than one camera on set, usually with two cameras simultaneously filming the same setup. However, this is not a true multiple-camera setup in the television sense.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-camera_setup?wprov=sfti1)
“In this setup, each of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera, or multiple cameras pointed in one direction, which are moved and reset to get each shot or new angle. If a scene cuts back and forth between actor A and actor B, the director will first point the camera toward A and run part or all of the scene from this angle, then move the camera to point at B, relight, and then run the scene through from this angle. Choices can then be made during the post-production editing process for when in the scene to use each shot, and when to cut back and forth between the two (or usually more than two) angles. This also then allows parts of the scene to be removed if it is felt that the scene is too long. In practice, sometimes two cameras shooting from the same angle are used: one to capture a medium shot, the other a close-up during the same take.”
“By contrast, a multiple-camera setup consists of multiple cameras arranged to capture all of the different camera angles of the scene simultaneously, and the set must be lit to accommodate all camera setups concurrently. Multi-camera production generally results in faster but less versatile videography, whereas the single-camera setup is more time-consuming but gives the director more control over each shot.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-camera_setup?wprov=sfti1
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u/SirBing96 Jun 13 '22
Yeah I had no idea either, I love little things like that
Edit: Also hi fellow destiny player
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u/Aqua_Tot Jun 13 '22
Crazy how this guys characters’ names are always Jim.
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u/Loganp812 Wilson Fisk Jun 13 '22
He could play Asian Reed Richards as a prank on Doctor Doom.
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u/katchaa Jun 13 '22
He already played Reed Richards in Dr Strange.
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u/Autumn1eaves Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
Hey, hats off to you for not seeing race, Lang.
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u/Loganp812 Wilson Fisk Jun 13 '22
“So, why don’t you tell me about that amazing discovery you made yesterday, Richards?”
“Oh, the negative zone? Yeah, we’ve done some research, and it’s mostly uninhabited. Or do you mean time travel? I haven’t quite figured out the ins and outs yet, but I’m working with Scott and Hank on that one.”
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u/Hefty-Association-59 Jun 13 '22
My favorite is the I got nothing for you cap. No plan no clues. Nothing zip nada. No trust. Liar.
The entire dialogue wasn’t improvised but the last part was and it just hit like an entire brick because RDJ just was on a different level in that movie.
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u/phred_666 Jun 13 '22
According to Taika Waititi, about 80% of the dialogue in Thor:Ragnarok was improvised. The original Iron Man movie was mostly improv as there wasn’t a full, finished script when they filmed it. According to Jon Favreau (the director), they pretty much had an outline to work from and the actors, writers and director would get together and work out the lines and then immediately go shoot it. A lot of the movie was RDJ improvising. There are a LOT of improvised lines that make it into MCU films.
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u/Merky600 Jun 13 '22
Gwyneth Paltrow really really didn’t like RDJ improv. I guess she’s a by the script person. Which make it all funnier.
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u/HaphazardMelange Winter Soldier Jun 13 '22
If you watch, you see Paltrow struggles to keep up with him and can’t find the words to respond to some dialogue RDJ has spouted off. There’s a scene or two where even Jeff Bridges and visa-versa RDJ struggled finding the words to respond in character too, but not as much as Paltrow.
There’s something oddly charming about that film that it was made like an indie film in a lot of ways.
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u/easycure Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 14 '22
A short but always funny one, for me, was in Iron Man 3 when Tony and Rhodes reach those oil tanker things for the finale.
Rhodes and Tony are both hiding behind cover, Rhodes asks Tony to check how many guards there are, Tony pops up and back down quickly, and Rhodes asks him how many there are, Tony replies something like "too fast, didn't see"
Apparently that was improved and it cracks me up every time.
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u/Nugatorysurplusage Jun 13 '22
Paul Rudd’s reaction to the “do you want to grab dinner or something?” question was one hundred percent celeryman.
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u/LeoFireGod Jun 13 '22
I love Paul Rudd lol. He’s aged like fine wine and somehow still just as funny as before without changing a thing.
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u/willstr1 Jun 13 '22
I am not sure if he really counts as "aging like wine", he has more "aged like a twinkie" in that he hasn't aged at all. There is no way he us older than his mid 30s
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u/Escapedtheasylum Jun 13 '22
He's not older than he was in Friends. Obviously.
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u/ChewySlinky Jun 13 '22
They actually filmed Friends after Ant-Man, so the schedules wouldn’t conflict. Must people don’t know this as Friends came out almost 20 years prior.
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Jun 13 '22
Do we know for sure this was improvised?
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u/tigerslices Vision Jun 13 '22
the actual line was "but i'll be seeing you again..." "not if i'm an ant-sized man with an ant-sized plan, you ant-sized stan!"
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u/stanthemanchan Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 13 '22
There was actually not a line here. At this point, the movie was supposed to cut to a clip of a kid in a wheelchair rolling out of control down a hill, and then falling off a cliff into a lake of water and then a wierd alien would sit up with a shocked face.
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u/IAlreadyToldYouMatt Jun 13 '22
Two bros chowing down a hot and fresh BR Cheeseburger talkin’ about crime and stuff
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u/diadmer Jun 13 '22
Would have been a great post-credit scene. Just the two of them quietly munching on burgers at a patio restaurant, no dialogue.
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u/Xero0911 Jun 13 '22
Yeah I thought it would be funny if Scott said yes and they had lunch. Jim seemed to be up for it and wanted to!
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u/trer24 Jun 13 '22
as someone who is not educated or knowledgeable in Performing Arts, I'm curious, how can you tell if a scene in a movie is improvised?
To an average person like me, I think everything is scripted.
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u/Blue_man98 Jun 13 '22
Also a lot of people Misunderstand what improv on sets like these usually mean. They’ll let the actors mess around for a few takes and if they decide one of them really works they’ll shoot it again with that dialogue. Very rarely is the take of the actors just messing around put in the movie, although it does happen
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u/SirDooble Jun 13 '22
My limited understanding of moviemaking is that dialogue scenes like this, where the camera flips back and forth between two people, are almost always a composite of two different takes. One with the camera filming actor A, and another take with the camera on actor B.
So while this may have been improvised in a take (or even a rehearsal) it would have to be repeated for the take of the second person. So the scene had been improvised, but part or all of what appears on screen is a refined version of that improv.
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u/cjankowski Jun 13 '22
You are correct - that’s how they switch between shots where you think “how did they avoid capturing the other camera?”
There certainly are multi-camera productions but they have become less common afaik and would be more common on say, a TV show shooting in a studio with all the cameras on one side (Seinfeld, Friends)
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u/PickledPlumPlot Jun 13 '22
Multicamera sitcom vs single camera sitcom is an interesting distinction
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u/CactusCustard Jun 13 '22
Yup, this is usually how it goes.
The exception being the rare multicam setup which usually only happens for sit coms, and also just two shots where you don’t have the shot-reverse-shot thing going on.
I used to be an extra for a Canadian comedy show set in a school and almost every single joke would be changed every take to whatever the actor thought was funniest. It was never the same unless they found a super good one. It could actually ruin takes because sometimes the joke is so good the whole set breaks character. It happened to me once as I walked by camera. Luckily everyone else fucked it up too.
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u/koolaidkirby Jun 13 '22
people who worked on the movie will say which scenes were improvised. Also there are differences b/w the screenplay and whats on screen.
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u/marvelous_aardvark Hawkeye (Avengers) Jun 13 '22
Watch a lot of interviews with the cast and they’ll mention some of them. Also on YouTube search for improvised or unscripted avengers scenes and you’ll find a lot.
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u/hitman2805 Jun 13 '22
Chemistry between Paul Rudd and John Kransisiki was unreal
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u/EvolutionInProgress Jun 13 '22
Idk if this was improv'd but the Stark/Strange and Starlord exchange on Titan. "What master do you serve? What am I supposed to say, Jesus?" And the whole scene after that.
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u/KwamesCorner Jun 13 '22
You know Thor?
Yeah, tall guy, not that good looking, needed saving.
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u/AtlantaDave Jun 13 '22
Peter's confused reaction to that line cracks me up every time.
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u/extropia Jun 13 '22
"I'm not from Earth, I'm from Missouri"
"Yeah that's on Earth dipshit"I loved the mild dig at how Americans always put forth their home state first.
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u/SomeGuy20019 Thor Jun 13 '22
Not sure about that, but Drax's "Why is Gamora?" was improvised for sure
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u/kbounce24 Luis Jun 13 '22
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u/MagicMer4042 Jun 13 '22
I don't know if it's improvised but I watched a little bit of avengers endgame and when Tony accused rocket of being a build a bear and rocket says maybe I am, that super deadpan delivery was hilarious to me
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u/J_10 Jun 13 '22
I doubt it. Rocket is just so defeated by that point that he's completely given up on correcting people about what he is. It's played for a joke but it's actually pretty sad.
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u/Stagism Jun 13 '22
God I fucking hate v reddit videos. They never fucking load.
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u/pje1128 Kilgrave Jun 13 '22
This movie has some underrated jokes.
"Was she in a wardrobe? That's where I hid every time!"
"Sounds like you didn't really get the point of the game."