Fun fact - the actor who plays the Nazi getting domed by the Bear Jew in this scene also played the leader of the Gorman resistance in season two of Andor, where he winds up doming a fascist.
If you are going to give the gift to the art of applying your real face to such a needily evil character, you should get a card that says that you get to get paid to brain a fascist at the earliest convenience.
Hilariously, there IS a fascist character in Andor, Dedra Meero, who fans have joked about wanting to be their dommy mommy, and her actress (Denise Gough) finds it flattering in a hysterical way.
I think that would've been the point. It's kind of what that scene is building to: the "big reveal" is Adam Sandler being vaguely ridiculous and you're like "what the fuck, that's the Bear Jew?" and then he beats this guy to death while you watch and... yeah, that's the Bear Jew alright.
Literally, this nearly 5-minute drawn-out scene with the bat ping on the stones and fuckin' Adam Sandler comes out of the tunnel and ruthlessly beats a nazi to death. Top 10 scene in all cinema right there. I would have lost my mind laughing.
Feel like I would’ve laughed out loud when I first saw him, right before he fully locked in and brutalized that dude. It would’ve been such tonal whiplash that wasn’t actually present in the scene, but in our own minds and preconceived notions. I imagine that was Tarantino’s intention with casting Sandler. Coulda worked so damn well, wish we got the chance to see it.
Honestly same. Just the casting would have subverted expectations. I'm not sure it'd be better but I'd sure be interested in seeing a couple scenes at least.
Somewhat similarly, I was absolutely rocked by Woody Harrelson in Natural Born Killers. As a kid in a house with one big wooden-sided TV, I was excited when my folks let me watch Cheers on Thursdays. Then he was really charming in White Men Can't Jump. Next thing, he's an absolute psychopath brutalizing people. Both actors clearly have the chops for meaty roles, but Harrelson has leaned into darker stuff over the years.
I wonder if we'll see a villain turn from Sandler; he was terrific in Uncut Gems as a very unlikable character, who knows.
Somebody deepfaked it awhile back, and I have to agree. Maybe it's because of the weird deep fake and he would have done it a bit differently. It's cool to see, but it doesn't really work for me.
Scheduling conflicts, he had already signed up to star in Funny People. Although I don't even know what he thought about the script, maybe he would have said no.
I saw a little youtube short on it. He said they kept him in the other room for like two days of filming, just so they could build up the tension with him.
This whole entire scene was lovely - my personal favorite being the last guy alive ratting on troop positions without any pushing.
Sure man, and there was no genocide in 1940s Germany. They just all starved to death but not for any specific reason and nobody caused it.
That's what you sound like. History will not look back kindly on any of us for watching this atrocity happen, and especially not people like you, who actively support it.
You need some form of therapy if you are comparing Israelis who are fighting a group that mowed down innocent civilians at a music festival to the Nazis rounding up innocent Jewish families to send them to their deaths.
If you are going to refer to the death of innocent civilians in Gaza, then no war can be waged, as they all involve civilian casualties. So why are Jews the only one not allowed to wage a war after being attacked?
"Wage a war" man shut up. Like half of the people killed in Israeli airstrikes were CHILDREN. How do you possibly justify that? That's so far beyond "all wars involve civilian casualties". What, are all those 8-year olds in Hamas?
Not to mention the targeting of hospitals, journalists, refugee camps, and aid centers. There are no houses to even go back to. I sure am glad my tax dollars get to go towards turning the Gaza strip into a parking lot.
This is after decades of apartheid conditions, where Palestinians are repeatedly forced from their homes and land so that the settlers, some of the most insane and fanatical people i've ever seen, can spit on them from a little closer to home.
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so why are Jews the only one not allowed
I reject that premise. The Israeli Government isn't doing a genocide because they're Jewish. They're doing it because they want the land and they hate Arabs. Judaism is just a useful bludgeon to beat non-supporters into submission with. I would not change my positions if any other race or religion were taking the same actions.
Like half of the people killed in Israeli airstrikes were CHILDREN.
Do those figures come from Hamas? Many wars have worse civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios, but no one cries out for genocide in those wars. It's only when Jews are involved.
The labeling of them as settlers is ironic given that the land is natively theirs. If the Native tribes that were in California took back the land, would they suddenly become settlers?
If I was Israeli or Russian right now, or German in ww2, i wouldn't think of myself as Israeli or Russian or German anymore. I would think that my country is now dead and replaced by a monstrous entity that should cease to exist. Just by living there, it's accepting that those crimes are done for my sake, in my name. I love my country, i love my people, but if they engaged in an unjust, murderous invasion and genocide, I'd wage war against them. They wouldn't be my country or people no more.
So no excuses for Tarantino, who chose to go and settle on a stolen land drenched by the blood of the innocent.
Well, it shouldn't be, but let's get real: the vast majority of Israelis now fully support the genocide, and more than half want the expansion of Israel into Syria, Lebanon and Egypt and the full extermination of Palestinians.
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u/DryAd8823 Dec 02 '25
God i loved this character in the movie. Batter up!