10 Of The Funniest Moments In Serious Movies Introduction
Everybody enjoys having a good laugh at the movies - but there's undoubtedly a certain
type of movie that you go to see when that's what you're looking for.
That type of movie obviously a comedy - but it's not only comedy movies that provide viewers
with giggles.Plenty of serious movies have funny moments in them.
Now, we're not talking Schindler's List levels of serious here - that would be wholly inappropriate
- but we're talking about movies in which laughs aren't necessarily expected; where
the funny moment comes in an otherwise fairly serious scene - whether it's intentional or
not.
That's the kind of thing you're about to see in this video.Here are the ten of the funniest
moments in serious movies.
The Dark Knight (2012 - Warner Bros. Pictures) 2012's The Dark Knight is probably the darkest,
most serious and grittiest of all the Batman movies to date.
It's mostly played straight and there are very few laughs - in spite of the fact that
The Joker is the movie's main villain - but there is one humorous scene that really stands
out.
Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne and Michael Caine's Alfred Pennyworth are chatting about Batman
potentially being put in jail.
Alfred says "I suppose they're gonna lock me up as well, as your accomplice?", to which
Bruce humorously replies "Accomplice?
I'm gonna tell them the whole thing was your idea!"
Event Horizon (1997 - Paramount Pictures) 1997's extremely underrated Event Horizon
saw the rescue vessel Lewis and Clark sent into deep space to recover the missing titular
starship.
Upon their arrival at the ship, the crew is missing and it soon becomes apparent that
something has gone horribly wrong with their mission.The Event Horizon had travelled beyond
our dimension into a place that may well have been hell itself - and the captain's video
log revealed some horrifying footage of what went on.
There was mutilation, sodomy and all kinds of awful acts occurring - the footage of which
was hilariously followed by Laurence Fishburne's Captain Miller abruptly saying "we're leaving."
Titanic (1997 - 20th Century Fox) Titanic was the highest-grossing movie of
1997 and remains the second highest-grossing movie of all time to this day - and with good
reason.
As tragic as it was, it was a brilliant, highly entertaining movie with some fantastic acting
- but it certainly wasn't meant to be funny.Except it was - and in the least likely part of the
movie.
When the ship is sinking, a man falls to his death, which isn't funny at all - that is
until he hits his head on the ship's propellor and it makes a huge "DONG" sound!
It's not intentionally funny - and it really shouldn't be - but audiences just couldn't
help but laugh.
X-Men (2000 - 20th Century Fox) At the end of 2000's X-Men movie - the first
instalment in the ongoing and hugely popular superhero franchise - the titular team took
on Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants at the Statue of Liberty.One of Magneto's cronies
was Rebecca Romijn's Mystique, who is, of course, a shapeshifter.
This made the X-Men untrustworthy of each other, as they never knew who was really an
X-Man and who was Mystique in disguise.
So, when James Marsden's Cyclops asked Hugh Jackman's Wolverine to prove he was really
himself, Wolverine replied "You're a dick" - to which Cyclops responded "...OK!".
District 9 (2009 - TriStar Pictures) 2009's District 9 is a fantastic movie set
in an alternate Earth timeline in which aliens - called "Prawns" - arrived on Earth and live
in a government camp just outside Johannesburg in South Africa.
When Sharlto Copley's Wikus van de Merwe is appointed to lead a relocation of the aliens,
he accidentally sprays an alien fluid onto his face, his body tissue begins to mutate
into that of a Prawn.His wife's father then leads a smear campaign against him, saying
he has caught an alien STD, and the ensuing telephone conversation with his wife is hilarious!
Wikus says "I did not have sex with one of these fokken creatures man!
I would never have any kind of pornographic activity with a fokken creature!"
The Counselor (2013 - 20th Century Fox) 2013's The Counselor was a crime movie about
the titular counselor - played by Michael Fassbender - who gets in over his head in
a drug deal in Mexico.
The movie deals with issues like greed, mortality, love and trust - but it also has an undeniably
funny moment.Fassbender's character is talking to Javier Bardem's Reiner - a big-time drug
dealer - when Reiner decides to describe, in full detail, about the time his girlfriend
Malkina - played by Cameron Diaz - had sex with his car's windshield (complete with flashback
footage).
We can't go into the same detail that he did for this video, but it was funny as hell - and
so was the Counselor's reaction!
The King's Speech (2010 - The Weinstein Company) The King's Speech was a fantastic 2010 movie
that deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
It was a biographical movie about King George VI - played by Colin Firth - and it was extremely
heartfelt and touching, as he learns to overcome his stammer in order to make his first radio
broadcast regarding Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939.But there's also
a really funny scene in it.
The King is talking to Geoffrey Rush's Lionel Logue, when Logue realises he doesn't stammer
when he swears - cue a torrent of uncharacteristic vilgar language from the monarch!
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009 - Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Harry Potter movies do have a number of funny moments in them, but you certainly wouldn't
describe them as comedies, so it's definitely not humour that you expect from them.
Of the funny moments in the franchise, however, 2009's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
has one of the best.
The trio of Daniel Radcliffe's Potter, Ruper Grint's Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson's Hermione
Granger are brought in fron of Maggie Smith's Minerva McGonagall for a telling off.
When Professor McGonagall asks "Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?",
Weasley replies "Believe me, professor, I've been asking myself the same question for six
years!"
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 - Paramount Pictures)
We now come to the most famous scene on this list - and it comes from the classic 1981
action movie Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The first movie to be released in the Indiana Jones franchise saw Harrison Ford portraying
the character for the first time - and it was his improvisation that made for a very
funny scene.When Indie was confronted by an Arab swordsman, who flamboyantly displayed
his skill with his sword, and a fight scene was meant to ensure.
However, Ford decided to pull out his gun and shoot him, ending the scene quickly and
hilariously.
The directors liked it so much that they kept it in.
Doctor Strange (2016 - Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
In 2016's Doctor Strange – a cinematic smash hit - Benedict Cumberbatch's titular hero
confronts Mads Mikkelsen's Kaecilius to stop him from bringing Dormammu to his dimension.
When Strange attempts to intervene, Kaeciluis says "You'll die preventing this world, Mister..."
before encouraging Strange to finish his name for him.Strange replies "Doctor", which makes
Kaecilius think his name is "Mister Doctor", and when Strange tries to correct him by saying
"Strange", Kaecilius says "maybe, who am I to judge?
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