One of the greatest movie scenes ever made. Jack Nicholson was the perfect actor to play Cl. Jessup!

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" Is probably the best line in this movie.

@cliffbooth4826

Ай бұрын

Probably best line in any movie that decade

@CrniWuk

Ай бұрын

And it turns out, he could handle the truth.

@consigliere8688

4 күн бұрын

Probably????? it is!!!!

alternate ending: - Colonel Jessep, did you order the code red?! - No. Credits roll....

@Ferchovicente

25 күн бұрын

Colonel was a fanatical crazy little bast...rd that was impossible to think about

@JoshuaHornbaker

25 күн бұрын

That wouldn’t happen like that because his anger took over him

@Neiodaslol

20 күн бұрын

They actually talked about this in a movie.

@tommos1

11 күн бұрын

- Colonel Jessep, did you order the code red?! - maybe Credits roll.... Col. Nathan Jessep will return...

@JoshuaHornbaker

10 күн бұрын

@@tommos1 his selfishness and anger took over him

Nicholson kicked ass acted his way to an Oscar nomination in this scene.......👍

I really appreciate what Tom Cruise has done for the genres of action and sci-fi, BUT this is the kind of tom I wanna see again. The Tom that makes great dramatic characters building a great tension only through good dialogues

@tylerbarclay629

Ай бұрын

Spot on. I need him as a villain again like Collateral

@user-mb1sy9uz6z

27 күн бұрын

Only Tom Cruise could drive Jack Nicholson CRAZY!!❤😂❤😂❤😂

@dougwebb704

25 күн бұрын

They should do another movie set in the present with this cast again. Just need the right story and script. Would love to see Cruise and Pollack and Bacon work together again

@Julia25120

21 күн бұрын

@@tylerbarclay629 Do you agree that Tom Cruise is more famous than Tobin Bell?

@tylerbarclay629

20 күн бұрын

@@Julia25120 lol yeah I’d say so

Iconic just iconic

@oobenoob

Ай бұрын

Yes I was as stiff as a broom handle watching this video.

"You're not going anywhere, Colonel!" 🤣🤣🤣

@brandondaniels9471

24 күн бұрын

"the 'witness' is EXCUSED!!!" whoa, BURRRN!

@jeromerizzo423

8 күн бұрын

"This witness will address this court as judge, or your honor. I believe I've earned it".😂😂😂😂😂😂

I've always loved when he snaps his coat back down, symbolizing his return from a moment of being completely fkg unhinged. Kaffee got him. Nailed his azz right to the wall.

This is another movie that should not be remade. You can't get a better scene.

@Ridley_Lockhart

28 күн бұрын

If some ahole tries to remake this IM GONNA ORDER A CODE RED!

@Fbiguy

Күн бұрын

Hard disagree. I for one think this scene would be vastly improved with some unfoldable CGI helmets and some uncanny valley CGI face replacement on 2 random characters.

@phild8095

18 сағат бұрын

@@Fbiguy Maybe we have the courtroom in zero gravity?

@Fbiguy

5 сағат бұрын

@@phild8095 I think also in order to make these incredible monologues less boring for the modern audience, we need to intesperse them with quips. "You can't handle the truth!" "That's not what your wife said last night!"

One of the best scenes ever in a movie, both actors were excellent.

The look on Harold's face when the judge said Dishonorable Discharge was PRICELESS 😟😧

@ChrisTownsend98

2 күн бұрын

It could've been worse.

This scene shows exactly what lawyers are good at. They set you up by asking questions knowing the answers you give will bury you later on.

@sodasaintcommentaries4054

Ай бұрын

To be fair, Jessup did it to himself. He opened his big mouth and admitted the one thing that proved his guilt beyond the shadow of a doubt.

@CoralCopperHead

Ай бұрын

@@sodasaintcommentaries4054 That's literally what randy was describing, yes.

@simpudney8191

28 күн бұрын

That's a good thing though, I think people would mistakenly think that's a bad thing from your post, although you may not have intended it that way

@Marvellous132

25 күн бұрын

​@sodasaintcommentaries4054 But what made the scene such a great character study is that EVERYONE knows that admitting he ordered the code red would sink Jessup...... EXCEPT JESSUP. After the fact, he can't believe he's being charged with a crime. He gave an order, and that's the end of it. Everything else, the cover-up, the trial is all BS to him. Kaffee cottoned onto this and was able to put Jessup in a place where he just wants to say and do what he wants, by ordering him to sit down, by treating him with no redirect, by making him feel stupid by repeating previous testimony, like a child. By then, Jessup's had enough of the crap. He just wants to say what happened and go back to being the boss. Brilliant.

@edwardhorwitz3980

11 күн бұрын

Bullshit

One of the greatest courtroom drama scenes in Hollywood cinema. If only Colonel Jessup had stayed silent when the judge said “you don’t have to answer that question” after Tom Cruise’s character baited him into incriminating himself…but then, we’d all be deprived of one of the most riveting scenes by Jack Nicholson ever. 😉

@simpudney8191

28 күн бұрын

He also would have gotten away with murder

The best 10 minutes of cinema history.

@Julia25120

21 күн бұрын

Do you agree that Tom Cruise is more famous than Tobin Bell?

Colonel Jessup grew tired of having to hide, he was dying to say he ordered the code red and that is that. He felt like he was untouchable. His arrogance came back to bite him.

@eurisko3676

28 күн бұрын

Ya, exactly what Tom Cruise said in the movie.

He'll need to change his name to Colonel Fessup after that outburst.

This is a classic timeless movie. I love it so much.

And folks came from all around...to see Jack deliver his lines in courtroom scene....they don,t do that for just anyone!

.This movie is a masterpiece that I always find something new in, no matter how many times I re-watch it. It never gets old because it delves into a deep side of human nature.

One of the Hollywood movie masterpiece! Both Nicholson and Cruise had their best performance. It was a battle taken place in a courtroom. Sparks were flying all over, without any arms and ammunition.💗

Such a great movie with great moments throughout and Kaffe's "You're under arrest, you son of a bitch" was so satisfying. Great cast and so amazing to learn that Wolfgang Bodison (Harold Dawson) wasn't a trained actor before this film. No acting experience and yet Rob Reiner saw something in him before asking him to audition. Bodison's performance is one of the standout performances in the film. He really owns his character 100%.

Best Scene in the Movie. Good Show.

A great movie, one of my favorites! Sad thing is, there are real men like the Colonel serving in the military and civilian life😡

Tom set him up nicely with those questions and ran him right into a confession

Rob Pulled Great Performances Out of All The Actors/Actresses in This Movie.. Truly One of My Favorites 👊💯💯

@jfmax2000

18 күн бұрын

..And I Must Add.. Demi Moore... Absolutely Gorgeous.. Nuff Said 💘💘

Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson are both Legends!

Whenever an opportunity to use this line in my daily life presents itself, I pounce at it with great pleasure. 😀

Jack is like: “Wait till they get a load of me “

such a good movie, also like this scene, got to see this movie again soon

Brilliant film, absolutely fantastic drama 🎉

These three are amazing

Tom Cruise!❤ One of Jersey's finest actors EVER!❤😂❤😂❤

Bah! I deride your truth-handling ability!!

@timtheskeptic1147

Ай бұрын

You no truth handler youa

@CoralCopperHead

Ай бұрын

Dist thou engage in the ordering of the maneuver within the camp known as "Code Crimson?!" Wast thine order not "Code Crimson?!"

You LT. Weinberg? Pretty sure he improvised that. How brilliant is that? The character isn’t just an arrogant, violent a-hole. He’s also an antisemitic.

@Gunleaver

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure it's Sorkin trying to insinuate anti-Semitic motives where he can find a way to sneak it in. The more normal reaction would be to say it to Galloway, the lawyer most hostile to Jessup and blatantly the least capable combatant in the room, having not yet trained for GI Jane.

@mcbean1234

Ай бұрын

@@Gunleaver You are over reaching. No offence.

@priscillabouffant9515

Ай бұрын

@@Gunleaver I agree with that. Plus I have read it was Sorkin.

@Gunleaver

Ай бұрын

@@mcbean1234 Then why did you alter your comment to include the antisemitism?

@jeffw1267

Ай бұрын

In other words, he has at least one redeeming quality.

Edit cut a little short, but a wonderful, cinematic scene

One of best movie ever

Fun little tid bit, after the line "The witness is excused, Nicholson no longer has his tie on after having it the entire scene.. Kind of funny they would overlook that. Still one of the best movies of all time.

Isnt Code Red just a Mountain Dew?

That's SOB, Sir.

When Jessup turns away at 5:10, his necktie appears to be missing, or at least so disarranged that the knot is concealed by the collar. A couple of seconds before it was still in place.

@TK-593

Ай бұрын

It's there, look to the right of the shirt button, there's 2 more layers of khaki next to the jacket lapel.

Aaron Sorkin is by far an accomplished playwright!

Sad it how war is ...lose soldiers to win the battle any way they can

Fun Fact: Shooting this scene Nicholson wanted everyone to stay on set while he did the take 3 times, each more emotional then the last....no break in between them either, just a pause, then back to yelling again. Solid actor.

Dishonorable discharge will ruin your life.

@stevekaczynski3793

Ай бұрын

Not as much as being convicted of murder would have done.

@francus7227

Ай бұрын

Absolute B.S. There's plenty of avenues in life that could care less. Most of them.... you could just never tell them you enlisted and it would be as if you hadn't.

@jdorffer

Ай бұрын

Now they can actually live productive lives

@francus7227

Ай бұрын

@@jdorffer That's what I said. KZread blocking, again.

@richardking1561

Ай бұрын

agreed, Its on one's DD-214's if they have served. Try getting a job, home mortgage, or getting accepted in school or a professional academic program. That will affect them.,

What makes this scene unique is that apparently Jack was freestyling here and not improvising

Fantastic movie! They don’t make them like they use to

To film that scene....wow i wonder after they did it..... did they clap or say AWESOME!!!!

If you never saw JN in 'Hoffa', you really should. He pretty much does this from start to stop in Hoffa. Fantastic acting.

@jeffreyworthen7033

Ай бұрын

I seen the film "Hoffa".... Nicholson was good in it especially the congressional scene between him and Bobby Kennedy......👍

Love the way Jessup emphasizes “Save Life”.

@guillaume8437

2 күн бұрын

Save life? What does he think he did? He killed/made kill a fellow soldier... if he wanted to get rid of him, why just not send him in battle in the first row and what has to happen, happens? Then he could have said "😭 The lad was an example of US finest men and defended his country whatever the price to pay. He will be remembered!". Defending one's country hardly means killing their own people, most of all if not in danger. And worst of all, he dragged these other two young soldiers. This is insane!

Well well well..... What does DOCTOR Stone, an internal medicine medical expert, think about his posion diagnosis now? How about a malpractice suit and perjury charge?

@Gunleaver

Ай бұрын

Doesn't change anything. That was a different tack by the defense, that Santiago's death was an accident. Jessup's confession proves nothing one way or another in that regard, it only changes the responsibility for the assault. If Jessup ordered the Code Red, maybe his orders led to the rag being poisoned, or the use of an accidentally poisoned rag.

@TK-593

Ай бұрын

That was actually addressed. At the end of that scene Sam tells Jo "Don't worry about the doctor, his trial starts Monday."

@francus7227

Ай бұрын

@@Gunleaver You're wrong.

@francus7227

Ай бұрын

@@TK-593 Missed that. Thanks.

@Gunleaver

Ай бұрын

@@francus7227 Just because he's going to trial doesn't mean he doesn't have a good defense or that his diagnosis was maliciously wrong.

I was hoping at 4.55 that J.Nicklson was going to open Mr Cruises jaw 😂

@musicman2047

12 күн бұрын

I’m sure his jaw is insured for millions lol

Nicholson, Cruise, Moore, Bacon; throw these great artists into a pot, add a good script, you probably don't even need a good director. They'll create an amazing result.

@abijnim

22 күн бұрын

And Kiefer Sutherland

Bad ass!!!

The "truth" will be told to the people through the media... we own the rights to the "truth" and the military.

@SomersBugtopia

Ай бұрын

Uhhh okay sounds good buddy

Its king of ironic Jessop continually going on about honour and loyalty, yet he and Kendrick were very much OK with letting Dawson and Downey take the fall for them. So much for "loyalty", "honour" and "code". I will bet that Jessop never gave it a second thought

The *ONLY* thing that ever confused me about the ending is that Harold told Kaffee earlier that he was willing to accept the outcome regardless (very adamantly, mind you) but then seemed distraught at the outcome when it happened🤔🤔

I'm just thinking how f'ing cool it would've been to be on that jury!

It's sad..that those Who Served Thier Superiors Suffer The Rwal Loss..

RIP Jack

Way to go Mav.

"you NEED me on that wall!" "sir you guard a chainlink fence at gitmo and this is peacetime. lives aren't really at stake."

@Fbiguy

Күн бұрын

Jessup is a Vietnam vet, he genuinely does believe there is a threat from communist Cuba. However for Jessup it is less of a genuine concern for the wellbeing of US citizens and more of a justification for him to be unduly harsh & exploitative with his subordinates without facing consequences.

MPs guard the Colonel! Big dude shows up behind him

Sad thing about the ending is the Two Marines so proud to be marines to be a marine you have to dedicate your life to it with honer, “Dishonourable discharge that’s the World falling out of a marines arse” Many failing foul of this charge, join the Legionaries in France 🇫🇷 were they can achieve once again honer & actually on retirement possibly get the finest retirement in the World But let’s not loos sight this is a film (based on a real life event, I don’t know) But a very moving film provoking much thought 👍

Neither TC or JN were nominated for Oscar. and TC had never won anything in Oscar.

I bet this movie, or this one scene, inspired a whole generation of lawyers in the 90's.

It is amazing in the scene how he used his own ego against the colonel by completely suckering him. Getting him to give that blanket statement about people follow orders, or they die, and then sandbag him with then why in the world with Santiago ever need to be transferred?

Nicholson performance was by superior to Gene Hackman and should have won for best supporting actor.

Ever heard of a honorable discharge colonel?

“You Can't Handle the Truth!”

wow, what a difference between what it meant to defend the nation then and what it is now.

Firstly, there is no reason that jessup would say he ordered the code red. Even through questioning, he wouldnt admit it. Secondly, military law states that it is illegal to follow orders you know are illegal. These two marines would have been found guilty of murder whether or not is was ordered by jessup and/or he admitted to it. This movie makes no sense

Shots no how many

Crystal….

Consuminatra like mugging

The best part of this is that Jessup is truly defending his actions giving his rant, and Kaffee gives no fucks. Bro, you got a man killed, fuck outta here about your code.

Can someone please explain to me what Dawson and Downey were supposed to do in order to "fight for Willie"? Should've they refused to follow orders and face insubordination? Or worse punishment than Santiago?

Cruise’s tooth is so crooked it’s on the other side of his mouth!

Following orders blindly can result in bad decision making and corrupt behavior.

Goat!

@Javiers-gt8ou

18 күн бұрын

Court martial,do you know what it is?.🤔

Algebra

Something I just realized about this scene is that Jessup actually killed THREE Marines! If JAG didn't do something to reduce their ruling to an "Other than Honorable Discharge, or a general discharge," Those boys won't be able to find jobs in the civilian world! People, most of you have no idea how harsh of a discharge that is! These two's odds of getting strung out on drugs and either dying from an overdose or in prison went through the roof!-NO ONE WILL HIRE THEM!

@dougwebb704

17 күн бұрын

I disagree. If it was me, I just would not include that information on my CV. No one will check, not even sure how you'd check. After you've worked a couple years in a job and done good work, no one will even care if you were dishonorable discharged.

From one side yes the colonel is right, from other side, it was a crime and as a commander he have to take cinsequences

@nathangallegos9304

Ай бұрын

Slap on the wrist and he’s back commanding while the lower enlisted are screwed over Don’t know what they are so F***ing happy bout

@CrniWuk

Ай бұрын

No he's not.

@Hmzmslm

Ай бұрын

In the Things He Said He was right, with the circumstances.... "Son WE living in a world with walls which are protected by man's with guns..."

@CrniWuk

Ай бұрын

@@Hmzmslm He ordered a soldier to be tortured by his comrades, ignoring the direct orders of his supperiors. No, he was not right.

@Hmzmslm

Ай бұрын

@@CrniWuk yes in this Point He was wrong. I mean what He Said in the court was allmost right except that He ordered He Code Red

Sad but true, Colonel Nathan R. Jessup is absolutely right, no country is defended by following good morals. Because your enemy is willing to do anything you aren't and thus gets upper hand in every situation, leaving you weak and vulnerable. When you sign up as a soldier, you are giving your life to defend the country, not morals. That is the sacrafice every soldier must accept. People can't handle the truth!

@why-even-try-brotendo

Ай бұрын

What separates us from them is the fact that we won't stoop to their level.

@sodasaintcommentaries4054

Ай бұрын

No, that's not even remotely true. Jessup, while he was seeking to maintain operational excellence, ordered a hazing that resulted in a man being murdered. This was done on his orders. And then he had the audacity to try to hide it. He knowingly falsified official documents statements, knowingly committed perjury, and basically left the two men he ordered to commit the hazing hanging out to dry for murder. All of which are very serious crimes. Just because he defends the nation doesn't give him a pass to do whatever the heck he wants; by that logic, Ahab had the right to murder Naboth over a vineyard when Naboth refused to sell it to him. The correct way to handle this was to get Santiago to wash out or have him transferred where he wouldn't be a risk to himself and others, not ordering him to be put in critical condition. The only one who weakened the US that day was Jessup, not the attorney daring to tell him the truth to his face. This is Jessup projecting, not putting the attorney in his place. A guilty conscience tends to do that.

@pedrorenard8439

25 күн бұрын

Agreed. Whilst this is a film and the circumstances made up, the threats that face a nation are often unseen and unreported but still require unpalatable actions to negate them. I’m grateful to those in the military and security services who do this dirty work knowing that they will be hung out to dry by the very people they are protecting.

@why-even-try-brotendo

25 күн бұрын

@@pedrorenard8439 The irony of what you said is FAR too obvious to let slide. Who left who out to dry again? 😅

@rebootxd6012

5 күн бұрын

Defending a country is when you disobey the orders of your commander in chief resulting in the death of one of your subordinates, apparently.

movies like this ruin whole societies.

what Makes this unique is that apParentry Braydon was freetsylig here Not improvising bravey all intrigung commets but cearly you all can'+ hadetthe truth

Excuses

And with that their lives are absolutely ruined and will never hold a decent job for the rest of their existence.

Great scene great acting but completely unrealistic 😀

@wbduckman

Ай бұрын

Not unrealistic at all. The Marines did this to my son. And I have learned of many more.

@rankoorovic7904

Ай бұрын

@@wbduckman Don't mean Code Red i mean a guy admitting that in court

@agent_mc

Ай бұрын

@@rankoorovic7904he got caught up in the heat of the moment 😮 these trials can get emotional and it’s just movie.

I don't think a lawyer would be able to call someone a son of a bitch in court like he did and it would be ok... lets not forget the judge yelled you are in contempt! I don't think what the witness said a few seconds later would erase that. His career would be over..

@josefk7437

Ай бұрын

It is also a bad idea to bet your case on Colonel Jackoff having a meltdown and rant.

@sodasaintcommentaries4054

Ай бұрын

Well YEAH, it's dramatized. The point is that Jessup thought his position gave him the right to have a man murdered; it doesn't.

i would like to go for a walk in nw,/....

Win win Lose

Does anyone know why he doesn't have to answer that question?

@HovaNirvana

3 күн бұрын

In military court it was apparently illegal to accuse a high ranking Marine officer of a crime without evidence, something like that.

Jessup acts like he's ACTUALLY running a country.😂😂😂😂😂😂. Could have sparred himself the humiliation, had he admitted it, when Santiago died.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

THIS IS EXACTLY TRUE FRIEND 23 YEARS IN CORE USMC HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY 1986 TO 2009 8 deployments 2purple Hearts Few other Medals. I'm 56 now in life just MASSIVE PTSD at END OF LIFE LINE

@saljacobo5871

20 күн бұрын

Thanks for your service!

Today's American:excellent acting! Parents who have lost their Babies who were serving: whose war is this?

Tha never happen in a rourt

@43sunray

Ай бұрын

This is a military court martial not a civil court. Whether it may happen or not is not the issue. This is hollywood after all.

@mrflynn510

Ай бұрын

True, it didn't, but this is how a liberal jackass named Rob Reiner thinks the UCMJ works, so..

@RogueDragon05

Ай бұрын

You could make this comment on every single court drama video ever, but I'd take it as a kindness if you didn't.

@Evertb1

Ай бұрын

Relax, it's a story a fairy tale. Not to be confused with real life.

@martinjames6431

Ай бұрын

@@RogueDragon05 Any one where the lawyer stands up in the well to deliver or examine, so yeah basically every one.

Hollywood.

Dishonorably discharged...for following orders?

@user-xc6jz6oz5g

Ай бұрын

The key is that it was an unlawful order. If given such an order, they should have refused and called the Inspector General office. Such a thing puts young service members in a very poor position. Either way, their careers would be over.

@edmundp123

Ай бұрын

@@user-xc6jz6oz5g One thing they stressed in Boot camp was no one has ever been prosecuted for following orders. But then again this movie is just fiction.

@edmundp123

Ай бұрын

Fiction from the mind of an uber Liberal Fairy by the name of Rob Reiner.

@diegomo1413

Ай бұрын

@@edmundp123 try not to shoot up a school, loser

@sodasaintcommentaries4054

Ай бұрын

They followed an unlawful order. They had the moral and ethical obligation to refuse. "I was following orders" is never an excuse. They essentially beat a man to death on Jessup's orders, when they should have refused to begin with.

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