The Moment: Bottle Rocket comes to a head as Dignan leads his "crack team" into a heist situation, stopping only to remind the hapless Kumar who the other team-members are, and what exactly he's doing there in the first place. "I lost my touch, man," says Kumar, having failed to crack the safe. "Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?" cries Dignan, forlornly.
The Music: The sequence comes to a close with the boys making their getaway to the strains of 2000 Man by The Rolling Stones.
Why It's Great: It's a frantically chaotic sequence, in which the half-baked nature of the plan is relentlessly exposed. Kumar hogs most of the laughs, but Owen Wilson is great as the increasingly exasperated Dignan, as is Luke Wilson as his unwilling co-conspirator.
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marc96
May 16th 2012, 19:27
loved this list wes anderson films are always enjoyable, i would have put any scene involving willem dafoe's Klaus from life aquatic in here
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bernardshakey
May 17th 2012, 0:17
The do you think it remembers me scene from the end of life aquatic always cuts me up. Also love the wolf scene from mr fox, can't believe he was branded a racist for that.
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ChrisWootton
May 17th 2012, 12:15
He's got crazy eye!
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Hadouken76
May 17th 2012, 16:54
Gwyneth Paltrow is rubbish in everything, she doesnt so much act ,as turn up and read lines. Just goes to show you can buy an Oscar if your parents are connected.
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bertus1
May 20th 2012, 5:52
You missed this one: "you were in Nam?" "yeah" "Where you in the s**t" "Yeah, you could say I was in the s**t" Male bonding at its finest
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SpinningtheReel
May 20th 2012, 18:31
Funny, I just mentioned the Gwyneth P scene scored to Nico's 'These Days' in a piece I did on Moonrise Kingdom. That's a helluva scene. You missed one from Life Aquatic - I'm not sure what music it was scored to but Ned sees the little 'copter formerly named Jacqueline on the submarine deck, and asks "What happened to Jacqueline?", and Steve replies, "She didn't really love me."
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