A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) - Comedy Tonight Scene (1/10) | Movieclips
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- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Comedy Tonight: Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) introduces the setting and characters of the story through song.
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FILM DESCRIPTION:
This screen adaptation of the stage musical of the same name finds the Roman slave Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) scheming his way to freedom by playing matchmaker for his master's son, Hero, who is smitten with the blonde and beautiful Philia. However, things don't go at all according to plan. The complications that ensue involve blackmail, funny disguises and long-lost children, while Pseudolus desperately tries to keep up with his end of the bargain.
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TM & © MGM (1966)
Cast: Buster Keaton, Leon Greene, Michael Hordern, Phil Silvers, Zero Mostel
Screenwriter: Melvin Frank, Michael Pertwee
Director: Richard Lester
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Something interesting is that this is probably the most accurate depiction of the life in Ancient Rome. It was wild, noisy, restless, full of sales, and most importantly colorful
Absolutely. It took until HBO's Rome to give an authentic depiction of the ancient world after this from my studies
only thing is that i feel like this opening number includes an enormous amount of white men, i feel like rome was more diverse in ethnicities but idk
@@jits8767 Just a consequence of 1966 filmmaking. The very foundation of Rome's portrayal and the research done in support were fantastic and are still played today globally with many races and ethnicities playing the parts.
@@jits8767 Youre damn right you dont know Im tired of all this BS about rome being muti ethinic. Complete BS. They were meds or gauls.
@@rodrikofharlaw6848 ... and conqured North Africa, Iberia, the Middle East and Egypt, with visitors, travellers, tourists and slaves from throughout the ancient world.
Rome was diverse.
My high school Latin teacher used this movie as a fun way to wrap up our unit on the plays of Plautus. Best 2 days of class that year.
bruh same
Same
My teacher used the same script. 1982
In his high school years, my brother was a technician for a play based on this movie. Ahh, memories!
I showed this movie at the conclusion of THEATRUM, Unit 1, of the Latin Course from Cambridge University Press.
The last movie of Buster Keaton (1:17) before his passing that same year... RIP, Thankyou for all these funny movies you've left behind.
RIP Sondheim! This is a terrific tune. Surprising that the staging of it here is so clunky, though I like the way Lester is filming Roman streetlife in a verite style.
Larry Gelbert (MASH TV Show, among others) helped write the book of the original play. When interviewed about his career, he was asked about this film, and said very disparagingly, "I could have lived without that being done." The musical is very funny, much more fun than the filmed version. Was revived a few years ago on Broadway.
I like both. Seemed like they had a lot of fun in the movie version too. I like to watch them having fun. ^___^
@@reelgriffHa! Cant remember much of it but did see David Alan Grier in that role on Broadway, ‘96 or ‘97.
Fun Fact: The actor playing Senex's son Hero is Michael Crawford, (1:48) who would later go on to musical fame as the original Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera".
I know - and he's so spindly and nerdy and adorable here;
and in some mothers do ave em, definatly worth a look that show he did all his own stunts in that show (and in all his films and theatre plays).
A face-covering role was certainly a better fit.
He was also Cornelius in 'Hello Dolly!'
More power to him
I first saw this movie in an English language theater in Rome when I was there on a foreign studies program in 1971. I'd never laughed so hard in my life.
I gotta believe this film inspired Mel Brooks' conception of the Roman segment in "History of the World: Part 1," but both are awesome in their own right.
If it wasn't, I'd be honestly surprised
Superior comedy. Best line: "Was one a year" when Zero was checking out a wine. Last role for Buster Keaton. Wish Zero could have starred in the film "Fiddler on the Roof" that he played on Broadway. Zero's greatest movie, IMHO, was the 1968 The Producers.
I watched it last night and thought he said “was 1 a good year”
Such an underrated movie - thanks, Dad, for sitting me down & insisting I watch it!
RIP Stephen Sondheim, you beautiful soul.
RIP Stephen Sondheim who wrote these awesome lyrics. He passed away today at 91.
I had a question on this in the film music round of my church quiz last night. I am so sad that the wonderful Stephen Sondheim has died. What a gracious man and what an amazing legacy of music and words.
My dad flew with him on a trip.
Thanks for the memory he shared because he heard this.
RIP Stephen Sondheim 91 yrs. Thanks especially for THIS!
Always loved this incredible song.loved the movie.
This song MADE the musical. The original script didn't have it. The opening of the show wasn't going well. When they change the line up and added Comedy Tonight at the beginning, it became a raging success.
Good. ^____^
Saw the play in the 60s. It is a great comedy which I still enjoy. Great opening.
*Wow I love this! It feels so real because there’s no CGI just real people and real sets*
Why are YOU here, Moldy Shorts? Shouldn't you be obsessing over 11 year old boy's and hugging the son of that one blonde guy that kisses your feet every meeting?
@@wandering_star_7777 I assume they changed their name from Voldemort
Yes, they used to do that back then.
Long, long years ago. Back before they even *had* CGI.
My highschool Latin teacher showed us this, we loved it. Such a funny movie.
How good is Zero Mostel!? Saw this back in the 1970's on British tv & loved it. To my knowledge it has not been televised on terrestial tv so much as once more in the 40 odd years since on UK telly
It has been broadcast at least once since the 1970s because I remember watching it.
@@jackiehamilton2738 and me. Donkeys years ago, late at night on C4 but I do know I saw it, and it wasn't in the 70s because I was well into my teens so that makes it around 1990 I'd reckon.
They used to show this film on the BBC almost every Christmas when I was a kid back the early 70’s!
@@ruthcrumpton3393 They defo showed it on the BBC in the 90’s!
I'm not sure if this is right, but this beginning scene feels like it really draws from how it must have been for the Romans. Like I can kinda imagine some chorus like this being performed in front of the public 2,000 years ago. Would be really cool to travel back in time and see how this really went down
That was the idea. They wanted to write a comedy like those that the great Roman playwrights would have. I'd say they succeeded.
I wish I could too.
I know they didn't sing/speak in English back then, but some things about the performance style were likely similar.
The tradition of having 3 different buildings/houses in the stage set is a real Roman tradition and was also used in Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors which is based on/inspired by some of the same traditions.
Forum is based on ancient Roman plays with plots similar to Forum (but I don't think they ever had all of this all in one play before until Forum came along!).
Plays where father takes son to brothel for the first time were apparently fairly common in Rome. And there would be several male characters of different ages including an old man named Senex, which really just means, old man. ^___^
@ariandynas: They did what they set out to do, I'd say. ^___^
They wrote a great play in a similar style. ^____^
Cool. 😎
He was such a talented man.
As a senior student I remember my fine arts teacher making us watch this movie like a couple months ago LMAO!!!😂😂😂
Gosh, I saw this before I even knew who Stephen Sondheim was. What a man. What a great musical!
I noticed screenplay by Michael Pertwee.
He is the brother of Jon Pertwee (3rd doctor - Doctor Who) also play Worzel Gummage.
I mean proof that comedy is nothing new. Something crafted in 190 BC is still funny to us today!
@Howard Kornblum It was based on the plots of several plays, either Greek or Roman, I can't remember which.
@Howard KornblumThe entire plot of the movie was basically lifted from 3 or 4 of Titus Maccius Plautus early Roman comedic plays and put together. The comedy was basically written a couple of thousand years ago and still holds up over two thousand years later
And he's always running!
@@rickfoley5596 worked for Aristophanes!
Human beings have always been human beings :)
This movie is basically a Roman theatre textbook.
*i have no idea why this song's been in my head all day. hope watching this cures it.*
Sondheim defined Broadway for his era, a very long era.
Something for everyone!
A comedy tonight!
One of the best works that Sondheim did. Freaking hilarious!
Oh too true.
And bravo. 👏👏👏
If this doesn't snap me out of my COVID depression . . .
“tragedy tomorrow”
@@EricCampbellUAV comedy tonight ???
I cracked up over this movie
“No no no no no no no no no no no no!” -Cartman
You only need one, fatboy!
Was looking for this comment. :)
Honestly it's beyond me how most people involved with the stage play seem to think the movie is so bad. It's really not *that* bad.
I ended up far preferring the stage play of Brigadoon to the movie but still like the movie of it anyway.
We all have our own favorites. Live and let live. ^____^
Either way, I think we are all agreed that neither the play nor the movie would ever have been anything like as good without this song. ^____^
The approach of FU** it, we're gonna laugh.
A great opening to an underappreciated movie.
I recall first seeing this in The Summer of 1983 and before watching it how my older Brother saw the ad for and recommended it too.Then I watched it and enjoyed it later on that night.
This is Right Up There With DUDES (1985) a true Cinema Classic.
Pseudalus: "I play the part."
Classic. And it's in both versions. ^____^
Oh, and also classical. 😉
Don't know though if they had that line in ancient Rome.
Of course it would have been in ancient Latin if they did have it, not modern English.
Didn’t Stephen Sondheim also do Sweeney Todd?? That’s so cool they’re such different pieces lol
Also did the lyrics for West Side Story, dude is a straight GOAT
@@owenwilliams7475 ahh him & Andrew Lloyd Webber are my favorites
Don't forget Into the Woods, Company, and A Little Night Music, as well as lyrics for Gypsy. Man's the greatest force in all of musical theatre imo
A truly classic movie.
"That's for those of you who have absolutely no interest in pirates."
^_____^
*COMEDY TONIGHT*
Makes a good double bill w/Mel Brooks "History of the World", but this is the better movie overall
I remember singing this at acting camp back in 2013.. sheesh
“No no no no no no no no”
- Eric Cartman, 2000
Something familiar. Something particular. Something for everyone on tonight.
This song was meant for Zero, no one does it better!
My very favorite comedy
RIP Stephen Sondheim
Takes me back to Freshman year theater class.
Is there a a soundtrack with this version of Comedy tonight? I like the tempo. Also, check out the imagery when we get near the end. VERY appropriate!
Thank you!!!
2:06 this is one big pile of cocaine
"Something for dinner, Stovetop tonight."
I can't believe most of my life I thought the lyrics to this tune were: No no no no no...
Dear Mrs. Say,
The name of the actor playing Pseudolus, is Zero Mostel.
His name IS NOT Nero Mowdel.
Never was...nope, not, nowhere else I can find or have been told so by anyone else....
THANK YOU for the nightmare of your High School English class I still live in fear from experiencing.
I can only imagine the monsters your children became and the horrors your legacy inflicts upon the
Public school system.
RIP Sondheim, dum vivet Plautus
Who else likes the stage version more than the movie?
Everyone. The movie flopped.
What Great Memories From My Childhood 😂
"Smartly done!"
I wonder if this movie inspired Mel Brooks to write "History of the World, Part I"?
Boy, the golden age of Broadway. Now we get SpongeBob. 🤦♂️
You should listen to the parody by Roy Zimmerman "Hannity Tonight".
*"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the MOON"*
I hear Cartman singing, "no, no, no, no, no"🎶
But you only need one!
Weirdest episode of IClaudius ever
We saw this in school too this is so funny
This is my first time seeing this.
Cartman: 🎵 "No-no no-no-no..." (South Park S4E6 - "Cherokee Hair Tampons.")
This film is greato
A less fashionable suburb of Rome is an a**. I love the subtle humor. lol
What a great film!
Some surprisingly big stunts. 2:05 looks particularly hazardous.
I was there in spirit
What a weird way to open a comedy: a montage depicting ancient Roman poverty mixed with clips from the movie we're about to see.
Hey, if you’re going to do opening credits at least make them fun
@@judehutchinson8355 I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or disagreeing with me. I think the basic problem is that the purpose of the song is to indicate that we're about to see A PLAY. It's explicitly asking us to suspend our disbelief regarding the nonsense to come. This opening does the exact opposite. It emphasizes that we're really in Rome and that these events could really take place. "Henry V" does the same thing. Laurence Olivier handled that movie right.
I forgot about the scene! LOL 2:32
Awesome!
0 Mostel a legend
AVENA QUAKER.....UNO DE LOS ALIMENTOS MAS COMPLETOS DE LA NATURALEZA.....
2:45 Christopher Lloyd
0:35 I wonder if that guy was Maester Aemon on Game of Thrones. 0:56 I wonder if that guy was Maester Aemon on Game of Thrones. 1:01 I wonder if that guy was Maester Aemon on Game of Thrones
Um at 2:30.....pretty sure there's nothing under that tunic...
He is wearing a skin-colored loincloth
all i heard was “tragedy tomorrow”
Forum musica tatui cidade das canções!!!!!!
How can I watch the movie????????,where to find it
I think Netflix has it. That or Prime
Zero
Mostel!
A Comdey Tonight!
“no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no-noo-nono-no nonono no-no”
0:55 I like your cut g
NO no no no no, no no no no no, no no no no no no no no no no NO NO!!!
Why not?
Always loved this. Wish I could have seen Zero on Broadway. However, Nathan was fabulous.
I have a math midterm in an hour. Wish me luck.
Any Roman numerals on the test?
So this guy's parents really named him Zero?
❤
Sum reason CASH JORDAN
dude built like a lobster
The House of Leykis.
👽 show
😮😅😅😅😅. 😮😊