A Rabbi & A Priest Walk Into A Movie Studio | Hail, Caesar!

[@mr.marooned6318]

I love how the Catholic is the most well verses and determined, but is the first to be preachy and confuses the studio first, the Orthodox is more concerned about the actual logic of the movie, the Protestant is just confused about who’s playing who, and the Jew has the most confrontation but actually cares the least about the whole subject. Really great set up for a pretty funny scene

[@rottensquid]

But leave it to the Coens to make the Rabbi the biggest a-hole. Probably based on someone they know.

[@Schizo_Souls]

@@rottensquidRabbis just enjoy arguing.

[@rottensquid]

​@@Schizo_Souls Not arguing. Rhetoric! Totally different.

[@ludovicomariaamodeo6352]

No, man. If you actually have studied (via catechism) about faith and its disposition, what the Catholic faith is really understandable

[@mr.marooned6318]

@@ludovicomariaamodeo6352 not a statement about Catholicism

[@wisconsinfirenerd]

"Young man, you don't follow for a very good reason. These men are screwballs." Robert Picardo is a legend.

[@heartlessangel2910]

I've barely seen him in anything outside of Star Trek Voyager and Innerspace, but RP is a theatrical gem.

[@samfilmkid]

"What do you think, Rabbi?" "Eh."

[@patrickharner]

I love how the one thing all of these clergy can agree on is Baird Whitlock! "He's a great talent!"

[@robertcapek2425]

This scene alone is Oscar-worthy. Three minutes of perfection!

[@RConnickJr]

Hail, Caesar doesn't quite hang together as an entire movie, but as a collection of scenes it has some of the Cohen Brothers' best work.

[@TheBroz]

Agreed, I think it could have been an amazing miniseries though.

[@RConnickJr]

@@TheBroz Obviously I have no business telling the Cohen Brothers anything about anything to do with movies, other than offering my expert opinion that Junior Mints are the perfect movie snack. That being said, I think there was a really compelling movie in Hail, Caesar! that focuses much more on Hobie Doyle, where you don't even find out that Baird is George Cliooney until Hobie finally tracks him down.

[@Garrus1995]

I agree entirely. I think it quite literally loses the plot after a little while but there are some great ideas and performances nestled away in there. It’s like you can tell that there was a formula for something that could have been truly great had it been executed a bit better.

[@skieth9999]

It's a collection of 1950's themed 30 Rock gags. It is just a 30 Rock movie, functionally Tracy gets abducted by communists, and Jenna has to adopt her own child

[@matthaft2048]

I think if anything it’s a good love letter from the Cohens to the crazyness of early Hollywood

[@Thaddeus_Howe]

I had forgotten about this scene. The dialogue is genius!

[@pwrofrob]

The Catholic priest's answer of "Yes...and no 🙂" was the most Jewish thing he could've said.

[@brand_warwick]

The joy and delight he got in saying “ *no* “ 😂😂

[@pps554]

As someone who went to a catholic college, I thought it was the most Catholic thing he could say haha. I love how affectionate and knowing a ribbing this is to all four clergy though

[@jimjamauto]

As a Catholic, it was extremely Catholic. The Holy Trinity is separate and whole simultaneously, it is beyond human comprehension

[@kiwikakashi]

Justinian went to war over the trinity so trust that it is actually very catholic lol

[@EtruskenRaider]

Motion to bring “screwball” back as a proper insult.

[@bored1ca]

I second that motion with great enthusiasm!

[@gbonkers666]

3rd!

[@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf]

4th

[@edfinkel3398]

@@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf You are all screwballs!

[@billygarcia9885]

I love this movie, it’ll be seen in 20 years as one of the Coen Brothers’ best.

[@Purdé2749]

I love that patriarch

[@henrysax9056]

"But how should God be rendered in a motion picture" "God isn't in the motion picture!!" "Then who's Todd Hocheiser?" This kinda writing is hilarious 😂

[@markbeutner3602]

This is one of my favorite scenes in any movie

[@silverback1953]

The rabbi was gold

[@anon9060]

Really captured the proper stubborn attitude that Jews have on everyone lol

[@WheelbarrowTim]

"what, he got over it?"

[@Likeacannon]

“And that kids, is how I got the idea for The Chosen…” -Dallas Jenkins

[@doublep1980]

''Well, does the depiction of Christ Jesus cut the mustard?"

[@notveryniceatall]

Wow you have ears. Thanks for this worthless comment.

[@steveconn]

Sort of a strange sequel to Barton Fink. Good Channing Tatum gay communist dance number, though.

[@SuperPal-tr3go]

Loving the Jesus lore drops.

[@andyhoover8531]

2:00 I like to think that Mannix's reaction to the patriarch's chariot comment is not just bemused frustration that he's providing non-theological feedback... he thought that scene was going to be sick as hell and now here's a man of god telling him it doesn't pass the smell test in a way he always feared was true was didn't dare admit to himself.

[@fredrik8500]

What the hell? This is so good! How come I never saw this?

[@bored1ca]

What happens when a Jewish man and an agnostic who are good friends watch this movie together? They bust out laughing!! Well that's what happened when my friend and I saw this movie! It's such an underrated gem from the Coen Bros.

[@ultimatelyit]

It’s like Thanos collecting his infinity stones in one room together

[@tarnopol]

A great, underrated film.

[@Independentfellow]

“God made everything, but only likes Jews, and persecutes Jews to show his love.” Oy vey

[@DragosDreamer1989]

"Always look on the briiiight siiide of life!...."

[@hccdgvvfccdgn993]

I cannot not see the emh doctor.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Wait.... I'm confused. Who's on first?

[@tariqcollins2609]

beautiful how depsite the Jew not believing He is still at the table.

[@tariqcollins2609]

and the catholic priest is silent

[@kenhunt5153]

So true....so true.

[@tariqcollins2609]

3:39 we don’t need to focus on the nature of the deity here, if we can focus on the Christ…..

[@scottmatheson3346]

"reasonable americans"

[@geoff3103]

Now had they only thrown an Imam in there as well....

[@Master-Mirror]

Lmao, the Imam probably would have had the biggest issues with the movie of all of them. Muslims view Jesus as an important prophet, but not as the Son of God, they don't believe he was crucified, and they frown upon depicting him.

[@TRayTV]

I forgot how funny and subtly subversive this scene is.

[@funnythat9956]

funny and so well played; but actually quite deep in its shallowness

[@davebrooksbank7802]

Lol, why was the Rabbi even there???

[@moretoknowshow1887]

Rabbi Robert Picardo! L'chaim!

[@adnantariq3346]

LOL 😂

[@artsaganza8742]

i really did not like this movie, it barely made me laugh like many of their others, but this scene was the funniest in the movie and im a wiccan, so that s my religious perspective.

[@jamesdc9595]

Of course while the priest is speaking on the profound basis of the Catholic faith, the Jew is just checking his watch after continual antagonistic prodding 🙄

[@JosephFullerton]

@@hwstuder They're just run of the mill weirdos.

[@breadfellow9133]

​@@hwstuder that must make watching coen brothers movies tricky

[@jamesdc9595]

@@alexanderhendry5819 clearly not what I said. The priests were all respectful of the others present, but the Jew couldn’t even be bothered to act politely in public even while the others were discussing the tenets of their faith

[@Hadesthief]

​@@jamesdc9595Well duh, it's three people who believe Jesus is holy, vs one person who doesn't. Put an atheist or an Imam in there and there'd be more conflict

[@Hadesthief]

​@@hwstuder4chan is the next room over

[@gbonkers666]

Ah...back then when Hollywood actually consulted with paying whom they were writing about...and cared about what the audience wanted

[@gdgyhgrd]

Large Hollywood productions are workshopped and test-screened to within an inch of their lives these days, far more so than was the case in the past. It's why so many blockbusters feel like soulless, by-the-numbers, AI-generated slop nowadays. It's much better to let the creative people pursue their own vision than to be too concerned with "being in touch" with the audience.

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

If you over consult what you end up with is something inoffensive to everyone, and also devoid of meaning. You essentially can’t touch controversial topics, which can be as simple as the existence of gay people. You know why the only gar characters in Star Wars are background characters? Because Hollywood consulted Chinese people, and decided to make sure they could be edited out of the Chinese release.