Do you know what the Lama says? ‘Gunga galunga … gunga, gunga-lagunga.’ So we finish the 18th, and he’s gonna stiff me. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a 10,000-foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. It’s as unforgettable as Carl’s accent, his frustrating encounters with a sneaky gopher, pretending to win the Masters, and, of course, the speech below.Ĭhoice Quote: “So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. That entire night scene between him and Chevy Chase’s Ty Webb? Completely improvised when studio heads realized there needed to be a scene between the two of them. Murray’s role as groundskeeper Carl Spackler in Caddyshack is a prime example of Murray just rolling with it. He’s going to make it work, or at the very least make it as good as it’s ever going to be. Give Bill Murray a script or don’t give Bill Murray a script. Michael Roffman 07. Carl Spackler, Caddyshack (1980) I was a schmuck, and now I’m not a schmuck!” It’s a feast for cynics.Ĭhoice Quote: “The Jews taught me this great word: Schmuck. As curmudgeon television executive Frank Cross, Murray carries every scene - with the exception of those featuring an irate Bobcat Goldthwait - as he barks and groans and screams and oozes with charming venom. Here’s why his film gets a pass, though: If you’re going to tell the story right, you need a real jerk to sell a pre-Christmas Scrooge, and few jerks are more enjoyable to watch than Bill Murray. We don’t need one now ( sorry, Ice Cube), and we didn’t really need one back in 1988 when Richard Donner issued the black comedy Scrooged. Nobody needs to adapt Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Winger’s the consumate Murray everyman, a screwup in civilian life who finds his calling when it’s time to do what he does best: hide his intelligence beneath several layers of slacker sarcasm.Ĭhoice Quote: “Oh, it’s not the speed really so much, I just wish I hadn’t drunk all that cough syrup this morning.” Even if the film is all over the place, it’s Murray’s ability to rally a ragtag band of misfits into full-fledged soldiers that’s lasted and for good reason. If you’ve ever done anything in life that required you to march alongside a corps in regiment form, you know Stripes even if you haven’t seen it.
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