Line #11 Funny/NorthByNorthwest


1	* Just about everything Roger Thornhill says:
2	** "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself ''slightly'' killed."
3	** While gazing through a viewing machine at Mount Rushmore: "I don't like the way [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt Teddy Roosevelt]] is looking at me..."
4	** This exchange, toward the end. (Note that it takes place while they're hanging on for dear life from a cliff atop Mount Rushmore.)
5	--->'''Eve:''' What happened with your first two marriages?\
6	'''Roger:''' My wives divorced me.\
7	'''Eve:''' Why?\
8	'''Roger:''' I think they said I led too dull a life.
9	* Hitchcock having a bus door slammed in his face, literally just after his credit appears on the screen.
10	* When investigating Kaplan's hotel room at The Plaza, Thornhill tries on Kaplan's suit jacket to check its size, and his mother says "I don't think that one does anything for you" upon seeing it's too small. Then Thornhill checks the size of the trousers (which are also too small) and she says "Ah, now that's much better!"
11	* The scene in the crowded elevator where Roger's mother asks Vandamm's two henchmen, "You gentlemen aren't ''really'' trying to kill my son, are you?" causing an awkward pause. Then the henchmen start fake-laughing, causing everyone in the elevator but Roger to laugh. The topper is when Roger's mother starts laughing, too.
12	* The NewhartPhonecall between drunken Roger, who's been detained at the Glen Cove police station, and his mother.
13	-->''"No, Mother, I have ''not'' been drinking. No. No, these two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn't give me a chaser."''
14	** Then there's his surprised reaction to the police officer's name: Sgt. Emil Klinger.
15	--->[after giving the name to his mother] ''"No, I didn't believe it, either."''
16	* Regarding his big sunglasses:
17	-->'''Ticket Clerk:''' Is something wrong with your eyes?\
18	'''Thornhill:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Yes, they're sensitive to questions]].
19	* Everything about the "travel sized" razor, shown [[http://toldbydesign.com/?portfolio=alfred-hitchcock-north-by-northwest here]] life-sized.
20	* Creator/MalcolmAtterbury hilariously plays the man at the rural bus stop as the ultimate deadpan country bumpkin.
21	-->'''Thornhill:''' Then your name isn't Kaplan?\
22	'''Man:''' Can't say it is--'cause it ain't.
23	** And of course:
24	--->'''Man:''' That's funny.\
25	'''Thornhill:''' What?\
26	'''Man:''' That plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.
27	* The auction scene. All of it.
28	-->'''Thornhill:''' I still say that's a fake!\
29	'''Woman:''' One thing we know: ''You're'' no fake. You're a genuine idiot.\
30	'''Thornhill:''' Thank you.
31	* The kid in the Mount Rushmore cafeteria sticking his fingers in his ears before Eve fires the gun. Funny as a {{Blooper}} that made it [[ThrowItIn into the film]] (obviously he remembered when the blast was supposed to happen from a previous take and prepared himself), but also there's the amusing notion that there was some [[PsychicChildren psychic boy]] in South Dakota who just happened to be sitting at a nearby table.
32	* While escaping, Roger enters a woman's hospital room through the window. Startled, she exclaims, "Stop!" Then she puts on her glasses, and gets a better look at Roger as he hurries through the room. Entranced, she asks him once again to "stop," [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe this time in a more suggestive tone.]]
33	** His finger-wagging, "don't start with me!" reaction really sells it.
34	* Vandamm's reaction to Leonard's death is priceless:
35	-->''"That wasn't very sporting, using ''real'' bullets."''
36	** His TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Thornhill at the auction is great, particularly since he's unaware that he's ComicallyMissingThePoint.
37	--->''"Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan? First, you're the outraged Madison Avenue man who claims he's been mistaken for someone else. Then you play the fugitive from justice, supposedly trying to clear his name of a crime he knows he didn't commit. And now, you play the peevish lover, stung by jealousy and betrayal. It seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors' Studio."''
38	* Hitchcock himself has a few in the film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfmTpmIUwo trailer]]:
39	-->''"Have you planned your vacation yet? You've a choice between sand and sunburn, or mountain climbing and the charley horse. I find it all very enervating, but we should all have some kind of holiday. So, my suggestion is a quiet little tour, say about... two thousand miles?"''
40	** For those who know what [[SexyDiscretionShot actually happens in that scene]], his description of the ride on the 20th Century Limited as "an uneventful fine-night's rest."
41	* From the commentary, Ernest Lehman's pained "Dammit!" after admitting he didn't come up with the final shot's phallic symbolism.

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