MASH: Hawkeye Tells Hot Lips Off

[@mikesullivan6422]

One of the best lines of the whole movie. He was drafted

[@pamalford8319]

RIP Donald. You were the consummate actor.

[@dnasty312]

My favorite Hawkeye always

[@williamhaggard451]

Rest In Peace Sally Kellerman Hot lips in MASH movie will be missed

[@99999janice]

RIP Sally. We loved your work thanks for everything.

[@MegaloSaro]

This is the most important scene in the movie IMHO. It's basically the thesis of the movie. The "villain" of the movie is the Army itself, along with its bureaucracy, protocol and pagentry. Hawkeye and co are rebelling against the the system that put them in a fucked up situation where death is all around them. They respond to it with contempt, anger and cruelty, as that is the only way they can stay sane.

[@ryanarment5393]

The funny thing is that is how most of the MASH doctors treated regular army protocol. They were completely contemptuous of it and ignored it as often as they could since it interfered with their objective and got in the way most of the time. They coped with the stress and harsh conditions by raising hell.

[@mattpope1746]

Sally Kellerman did such a great job with this role. You can see her seething with the contempt of the self righteous fanatic.

[@bessied.5694]

Matt Pope; Exactly. Anyone would seethe with contempt toward a self-righteous , smug liberal fanatic like Shmuckeye .

[@samsonguy10k]

It was revealed not long ago that originally Major Houlihan was set to just be pretty much an extra with just a couple of lines, with more emphasis instead on Lt. Dish. When Sally Kellerman saw the script, she cried. And when she was done with that, she went straight to Robert Altman, wondering why she would be cast for a nothing role. He dug in and changed the formula to make Houlihan a more standout character. It was due to Sally Kellerman fighting to make Major Houlihan a prime character that we got to enjoy Loretta Swit carry the torch in the series.

[@spuwho]

@@samsonguy10k I would cry too if my role was to crawl naked along a soapy wooden floor followed with screaming at the camera with my towel falling off. Altman gave her more but she had to go farther too.

[@williamhaggard451]

May she Rest In Peace be remembered Sally Kellerman

[@kwdrm1]

And Sally Kellerman received an Oscar nomination for her work in that role.

[@chrisconsorte7893]

You tell her Odo!! RIP!!

[@TTony-tu6dm]

Rene’s delivery of his line is absolutely perfect

[@Legba85]

In hindsight, I wished that the show had done a two or three part episode featuring everyone’s first day at the 4077.

[@ssjjggjj5561]

I was a MASH (the tv show) fanatic as a teen and it was so great when I finally got to see this movie and the backstory of how all the characters met. Of course Hot Lips has a much quicker character trajectory in the movie than in the series, by an hour and a half in she’s sleeping with Duke. 🤣🤣

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

@@ssjjggjj5561 The novel had some hilarious scenes omitted or modified stuff from the show and the movie because even in 1969-1970 would be pretty offensive. one was when Ho-Jon, the Korean houseboy working in the Swamp, is drafted into the South Korean army he gets wounded, and arrives at the 4077th for treatment. After rehabilitation, he resumes his position as houseboy the Swampmen decide to send him to Hawkeye's old college. To raise funds, Trapper poses as Jesus Christ, selling autographed photos and making personal appearances. Another was the swampmen tying up a visiting protestant Chaplin who wrote letters home claiming all was is well when a solider was badly wounded that had a low survival chance and they take the chaplin kidnap him and tie him up to a stake holding a mock burning. Another was when Col. Blake is sent to Tokyo for three weeks and is temporarly replaced by Colonel DeLong . Col. DeLong is unfamiliar with the type of high-volume, high-speed surgery used at the 4077th; after an angry confrontation with Hawkeye, DeLong gains respect for the work. Eventually the Swampmen get bored and decide to convince DeLong they need psychiatric evaluation. When he sends them to a diagnostic unit, they escape custody and visit a brothel and they convince the shrink to see this whore who is believed to be epileptic.

[@hamburg1306]

He was drafted! Brilliant!

[@Kara_Kay_Eschel]

Was that Constable Odo?

[@lyianx]

@@Kara_Kay_Eschel It sure was. Rene Auberjonois. Lotta good names in this movie.

[@jameswolf133]

The line was an ad-lib.

[@dnasty312]

​@@jameswolf133most of the film was 😄

[@dnasty312]

Why my great-uncle missed out being my old man's godfather, drafted to 'Nam

[@marisalombardi385]

Brilliant, magnificent, irreplaceable Alan ❤️ you

[@OneEye.]

RIP to both of you Donald and Sally. And Rene

[@TheStuport]

Seems as though Maj. Houlihan and Maj. Burns could never understand that NOT ALL the Soldiers in Korea actually enlisted voluntarily!

[@alcockell]

It was taking potshots at Vietnam - but placed in Korea.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@alcockell There was a reluctance at the time of Vietnam to actually make films set in the Vietnam War.

[@mechellestewart8439]

Donald Sutherland looks just like Kieffer, here.

[@Camop-iz9kt]

RIP Sallly Kellerman.

[@47of74]

And now RIP Donald Sutherland.

[@dnasty312]

​@@47of74René Auberjonois too

[@stravinsky1300]

Pardon me, Major, but I really don't think people calling him 'Captain' instead of 'Hawkeye' is going to save more patients.

[@eadecamp]

Hot Lips has no clue what life is really like in a forward combat unit of any kind. You respect them and they'll respect you, black, white, man or woman. She and Frank had it coming.

[@timthewarlord2304]

Amen

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I disagree - I think her character was mistreated - she was a jerk but they were worse. Robert Altman, the director, was sometimes accused of misogyny in his films and it is possible to detect some here.

[@TheBermudaMan]

Maybe Frank did, but Houlihan didn't. And the fact you called her "Hot Lips," a deliberately mocking title invented by Hawkeye and his jackals-in-arms to humiliate Houlihan even further, says some very troubling things about you.

[@bessied.5694]

Aimee Ward; Shouldn't you be out vandalizing a statue or burning down a Wendy's?

[@Aristotle2000]

@@stevekaczynski3793 Her character was horribly mistreated. She was no more flawed than many others, and she worked hard for her patients and staff. Those guys bullied her to no end.

[@octoman511]

RIP SALLY KELLERMAN DONALD SUTHERLAND AND ROBERT ALTMAN

[@dnasty312]

And René Auberjonois

[@maggiechaney858]

And Roger Bowen

[@MegaSammy70]

You make a mean martini there, Ho Jon. You keep it up, you hear?

[@Vydio]

I think Major Houlihan really blew it here. You asked the man what he thought of the nurses on his shift, he told you. You didn't need to bring up what Major Burns thought of the nurses on his shift.

[@whitshade]

Damned good point, Vydio. That's not how you win over someone with whom you're going to be working closely.

[@rorycalhoun6484]

she's IN LOVE with Burns. And the Army way of life.... any chance to talk about them, she'll take. she's not "Hotlips" for nothin'. 😉

[@ryanarment5393]

Also when she attacked him for the fact that he allows the people on his shift to address him by his nickname. That further alienated him. If she was observing anything, she should have observed the fact that the nurses and staff on Hawkeye's shift had higher morale. I also bet if she had bothered to evaluate the two shift's surgical records she would have found that Hawkeye's shift had a better record.

[@hamburg1306]

The key language comes at the end when hot lips pontificates and father mulcahy says, “ He was drafted”. Hawkeye was just a surgeon he didn’t care about army rank or army bs. He only care about being a good surgeon and saving lives. That’s the conflict.

[@GM-xh6gj]

@@whitshade thanks

[@austinpalmquist3196]

RIP Hawkeye

[@johnwilson4158]

"you might have possibility come!"

[@cindydott452]

Were you thinking of spelling that with a "U" ?

[@johnwilson4158]

@@cindydott452 u could say so

[@blockmasterscott]

The book was awesome. I must have read it 5 or 6 times so far. Thank you Kindle! XD

[@whitshade]

I hear you! I've got it on my Kindle too. Thanks for commenting.

[@TheStuport]

I actually read the book long before Kindle was even thought of!

[@justinbrockshus8483]

"He was drafted."

[@hamburg1306]

R.I.P. Rene Auberjunois. Father mulcahy who delivered that line.

[@dnasty312]

​@@hamburg1306my other favorite line of his is "...I cannot give absolution to a man who's about to commit suicide."

[@misterprecocious2491]

"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves" RIP Oddball lets hope Moriarty finally gets that Tiger fixed.

[@geraldchesnut2017]

RIP Sally

[@thiskid990]

I love the poster wheezing at the jokes 😭😭

[@joshs4594]

1:11 During the O.R. scene, Hawkeye in the background - "Is he alright, Dago? Yes, you mean he's gonna live? Good. Somebody's got to be around tomorrow morning...when he wakes up tell him that he hasn't got anything between his legs anymore."

[@cindydott452]

The most chilling line in the whole movie. The only line to come close in the series is when Radar directed someone to the hut "Just past were we bury the arms and legs" I only heard that line on the DVD. Most TV stations cut it.

[@tylerjohnson6696]

Honestly I'd kill myself first chance I got. Lose a leg, major inconvenience, lose an arm, major life changes, huge blow to your usefulness, lose you junk, what's the point of even breathing.

[@starwolf99]

Thanks for the clarification. As much as Altman's style of dialogue is realistic in his films, it's easy to miss some of these poignant lines.

[@starwolf99]

Also, this was a conversation between Hawkeye and Dago Red aka Father Mulcahy the resident celibate. Talk about irony and humanity. (At least the Father is celibate by choice unlike this patient, so he sympathizes.)

[@peace-yv4qd]

Sally Kellerman and I share two things. A Birthday, June 2. And a birthplace. Long Beach California. We were born exactly ten years apart.

[@kenclark9888]

Combo of the movie and TV show!

[@isolatedfavorites5094]

Ho Jon you bring me some ketchup, will ya?

[@kevhead1525]

Loved her, and well everyone in Serial.

[@dylangomez5551]

“He was drafted” hilarious

[@j.p.8304]

Put away the best part of a bottle of scotch. 😂😂👌

[@whitshade]

Finest kind.

[@PrincessWarsop]

Hard to believe that they fell in love, and left Korea with a kiss.

[@ericmcgowan1993]

Not really

[@KatraPlessure]

Rest in Peace Donald Sutherland and Sally Kellerman

[@rlshafer7115]

You tell her, Odo!

Man he looked like Keefer

[@Shellinois]

Classic. Love this scene. So well acted.

[@37Dionysos]

She would've been easy for him to play his own way, but the truth was that with all those hots, she bored the shit out of him.

[@DanielBarrett-og7sv]

Rest in peace Donald Sutherland

[@stpat7614]

The army drags people kicking and screaming into war, then is shocked when they are find themselves treated with contempt.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"You put me right off my fresh fried lobster!"

[@MrWeezer55]

You tell 'em Hawkeye!!!

[@KT72273]

At the end of the day, her 1st love is being an Army nurse! Not Ferret Face Frank Burns, not Hawkeye, not Scully in later years. She has a frenemy relationship with all the doctors, not counting Col. Potter and Blake. She expects peak military efficiency but don't forget she is called Hot Lips for a reason!

[@hermanjustice7338]

I saw this when it came out In a theatre. After I left I puked.

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

Was this made much later??

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

@Jonathan Kent Yeah I saw it yesterday. The quality was much better so thought the film might've been the later one.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

The movie "Mash" was rated R and was nominated for Best Picture in 1970 ( I wish "Airport" had won.) "MASH" won an Oscar for its screenplay only. If the movie is mostly slow-moving throughout, the lovely football game near the end makes up for it.

[@stephenreeds3672]

I thought it was bad too.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@@hop-skip-ouch8798 The movie "MASH" in 1970 was nominated for Best Picture, before the TV series even existed.

[@cjhan9816]

Hawkeye = Trump; Hotlips = Pelosi; Burns = Schumer.

[@timbuktu8069]

Much better than the TV show.

[@neerdowell2010]

Hot Lips was the original Karen

[@TheJoshuamooney]

Way too many in this great early Altman film no longer with us-Now Sutherland as well. But the film remains the same…

[@lostinalbion4223]

Was that Rene Auberjonios??

[@donaldhsmiley5723]

Hot Lips was sending negative waves... May they both rest in peace high in the Heavens!

[@robertwaid3579]

Bravo: That was probably the Best clip you ever could of Found? First Kellerman's, serious acting along with Mr Donald Sutherland's excellent skills. Secondly it showed the US Army 🪖🪖 in Korea? When we were still bottled up in The Vietnam, Conflict. My point even though it was roughly 18 - 15 yrs later? The Army was still FXXKing up just as much. Why are we even In The Ukraine Today?

[@jessicawhittemoore7829]

Seen the movie and it's good have the entire series that comes with the movie and the book on my iPad is not in English at all is there any other way I can get the book Any suggestions if anybody can help me

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Library.

[@KatraPlessure]

Sally Kellerman ... Way hotter than Loretta Switt

[@thenaturalmidsouth9536]

No doubt.

[@mymusic8414]

Loretta Swits body was way better imo

[@jvolstad]

No PC in the Korean War.

[@blacbraun]

Oh you havn't seen the TV show I take it.

[@thenaturalmidsouth9536]

Lol, more like no pc in 1970, when the movie was made.

[@kwdrm1]

A military surgeon? I don't think so.

[@R3dp055um]

The sound is so fucked up you can't tell WTF they are saying. Did you record this off your television or something?

[@johnsimpson8043]

Filming a TV screen. Bogus

[@OroborusFMA]

The television series was great. The movie is mostly embarrassing and not at all funny.

[@mymusic8414]

If the movie was embarrassing then no one would have thought about making a tv show of it. In fact mash the movie was the highest grossing film of 1970 and it wasn't meant to be a slap stick comedy like the tv show, it was suppose to be sarcastic and dark humor and a protest of Vietnam war even though the setting was Korean war

[@TheMetisTribalChief]

Sally kellerman ... Infintely hotter than Whoretta Slit

[@mymusic8414]

Ralph said she was a whoora

[@kslater1495]

It was not a good as tv

[@marksolarz3756]

MASH the movie was hilarious. MASH the series was funny up until Major Winchester. Then they made it a semi drama. It sucked! Canned laughter made it unwatchable. Written by the same people as Hogan's Hero's but not nearly as good. Or humourous.

[@ashtu31]

Just bought the book and so far Hawkeye is my favorite

[@cindydott452]

The sequels get weird! "MASH Goes to Hollywood" and things like that! "MASH Goes to Maine" was a good followup though.