He simply wants nothing more than to have him give up and leave. What could go wrong? Having added Benson to his scheme in an attempt to teach the gruff underling about high culture, Jamieson poses as a wealthy socialite who woos extravagantly rich women with his sophisticated charms, conning them out of money with promises of marriage before introducing them to his brother Ruprecht. Who is Ruprecht?
There is literally nothing I can add to that to make it funnier. The sequence begins with a familiar look as we witness Jamieson con a rich, corrupt woman again, this one from Oklahoma, convincing her to marry him and take him home, and she, believing she is bringing back a heroic prince trying to save his country, agrees. That is until she meets Ruprecht, who utterly overwhelms her with lunacy. Hair slicked down, suit ill-fitting, and shoulders hunched up, Ruperecht is a tightly-wound spring coiled to snap.
Safely unstable, he bangs on pots while prancing about and is also a little indignant, looking to test authority, knocking over breakables with a veil of contempt. Notice what Martin does when he hears that threat though, leaping into the air like a pronking springbok before settling across the room, legs folded.
Martin is no stranger to pratfalls on screen, kicking it off in his debut, The Jerk , a minor masterpiece in the genre itself, and one that might be said to have reinvented it as well. His tour de force turn in All Of Me proved even further his almost limitless talent for the work, and while he tones it down a bit in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , he is nonetheless very funny as Ruprecht.
Caine is crucial to the scene, reeling in Ruprecht like a circus handler, a comparison fleetingly confirmed when he guides Ruprecht off the bed, with Ruprecht walking like a chimpanzee for a few steps toward the camera.
After Ruprecht gets cozy with a rubber glove and a tube of lubricant, then a squirm-inducing hug, the action shifts to some time later, now with a new target, a woman sitting at a large diner table with Ruprecht beside her, a plate of applesauce in front of him. He is wearing an eyepatch and holding a trident.
For real, which leads to what is easily the funniest line in the entire movie when the butler approaches. Why does this one line he says absolutely crack me up every time? Martin is almost unnervingly funny here, and while Ruprecht is but a small part of the film and Martin goes on to take up a different character for his rouse, the abnormal little brother is a delicious piece of comedy that has come to define the film.
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Accept Read More. By David Duprey On Mar 10, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a comedy about a pair of con-men with decidedly different styles who collide in a European city, only to end up working together. Men don't live as long as women. We get more heart attacks, more strokes, more prostate trouble. I say it's time for a change. I say let them give us money.
Let's live off them for a while. That probably shocks a guy like you, right? Lawrence Jamieson : Well, it's rather a revolutionary thought. Freddy Benson : Look what I did in the dining car!
She gave me francs. That's like, uh, 20 bucks! Do you have any idea what it feels like to take a woman for 20 bucks? Lawrence Jamieson : No, I haven't. I'm afraid it's a little out of my class. Lawrence Jamieson : Well, the Jackal has finally tucked his tail between his legs and crawled away. Lawrence Jamieson : Freddy. This is really very serious. They don't treat gigolos lightly in France.
Freddy Benson : What do you mean? Lawrence Jamieson : Until 75 years ago, they were still castrating them.
Freddy Benson : Larry. Lawrence Jamieson : Lawrence. Freddy Benson : I look great, don't I? I know the moves! Lawrence Jamieson : Yes, Freddy.
You're ready. Lawrence Jamieson : All right. Lawrence Jamieson : I have wonderful news. Miss Trumble and I are going to be married. And we are going to live in Oklahoma. Freddy Benson : Really? Janet Colgate : You heard that awful story about his girlfriend and the dancer. How did that make you feel? Lawrence Jamieson : It made me physically sick. Freddy Benson : Oh, come on!
She's keeping the mink. I mean, if we take her for everything, she still comes out with a very very nice mink. Lawrence Jamieson : Freddy, the women I deal with are carefully screened. They're wealthy and corrupt. I never take advantage of the poor or the virtuous. Lawrence Jamieson : It seems the teacher has underestimated the student. Freddy Benson : Of all the lousy - She is disgusting!
She is lying! She is deceitful! She is two-faced! She is conniving and she is dishonest! Lawrence Jamieson : Yes. Sign In. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Showing all 72 items. Jump to: Photos 49 Quotes Create a list ».
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