James Owen As much as I love this movie I don’t love this scene. How is casual racism intellectual?

@@Jay-jn6ul Well, it's the subtext in the culture clash that Boyle is playing around with. Wendel exudes all the training and professionalism expected of an FBI agent but you just know he must face prejudice from time to time because he's black (and has probably hard to work harder to overcome it), Boyle is a fat copper from a parochial part of Ireland and many would preconceive him as a useless yokel - perhaps especially, say, a high-flying FBI agent chasing international drug smugglers. Effectively in each others company both are outsiders because they're not traditional white men suits. Wendel's character and professionalism see him take the politically correct approach of ignoring these facts, while Boyle goes the other way and tosses them around in casual conversation (btw notice he only jokes around with inconsequential prejudices about black people and never questions Wendel's abilities as law enforcement due the his race). So these two different men have two polar opposite ways of dealing with and dismantling the superficial judgements people can make about them, and in the meanhile they discover a shared determination to bust the bad guys, in essence finding a commonality in each other that's more important than anything society might suppose makes them so different. That's why Boyle can make sly racial digs like this, and Wendel can smile fondly at the end of the film thinking about him, he knows he doesn't mean it but knows too why he says it. They're both outsiders sharing the experience of being in a dumb world that doesn't often understand them. Grounds for quite a good friendship. It's what makes the writing and acting in this film so brilliant, such sardonic wit and lyrical irony are rarely found in most comedies.

​@@Jay-jn6ul race based jokes aren't racist if there's mutual respect or understanding, this braindead PC line of thinking completely disregards context and doesn't help anything

joe y couldn’t be more true. “They said X so they MUST be Y” Bunch of insecure motherfuckers looking to find connection or meaning through their bullshit virtue-signalling.

It's also a callback. In the scene where the two first meet Cheadle's first impression is Gleeson asking "I thought only black lads were drug dealers", a similarly absurd question. He's referencing it here in a "do you really think I'm stupid enough to genuinely think such absurd things" kind of way.

LMAO

Very funny😂

Thanks for bringing up that PTSD causing film...

You are all disgusted. Please tell me more.

@@SirNilzey Irish short film "Cáca Milis", staring Brendan as a blind man and a particular slice of cake...the full film is on KZfaq: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ib1dp8eStJjXaaM.html

@@masdawg thanks, I'll grab some food and give it a watch

SirNilzey dont lad its traumatic also its in Irish

I saw one swim once at the Olympics. I was embarrassed for him. Google Eric the eel

Because the differences in wealth mean they don’t go skiing

@Alexander Leblanc she did. But I wasn't talking about her i was talking about Eric the eel.

@@KiLLJoYKZfaq no it doesn't.

Could have said you thought he looked cold....lol...

Yep Brendan Gleeson

Of all his iconic roles he’s payed you remember old mad eye moody 😂😂😂

I remember him most for playing Hamish in Braveheart.

@@macman975 the Major in gangs of new york is a good role

He also appeared in Paddington 2.

@Paul the Westerner and then there are Asians, the home grown ones, who laughs at racism like its another genre to having a good time with beer, in one Asian mans words, "If he can do it to you, that means you can too, like sex. Its something both parties will experience. If youre not having a good time either hes not very good at it or you are."

One thing I have learned from my Irish friends is that if they stop taking the piss out of you with whatever they can find is the time you have worry they actually don't like you.

speaking from experience here. yes, there' s this curiosity, but the irish are quite racist across the board. i know this. btdt.

@@paulmcgrath6118 been to ireland on several occasions meself & my almost daily encounters with me irish friends in the u.s. as well, that's what! now if you have any objections, that'll be just fine with me. btw all of us have all sorts of biases & prejudices towards other people in this world. & lastly, just read your namesake's book on his own upbringing & encounters in the republic (dublin) & you'll see what i'm talking about. so fuck off you pretentious twat!

@@rakoczi29 Oh christ look at bible boy over here. Lad reads a few words and he understands our entire race. Man yerself haha. Your the kinda man who if i put me hand down yer knickers, id find traces of your fathers lipstick 🤣🤣🤣

always is

lets force all people to like what you like.

@@joshuavickers9820 when did i say anything of the sort? The fuck you on about?

Have you ever seen basketball?

@@chriswalls5648 ? What are you getting at?

@@chriswyatt9869 People see patterns they want to see.

Racism isn't real. It's just a way of stopping whites from protecting their interests.

@@stephenmurray2851 Racism is real, that's why you're defending the shit, you mad lad

@@stephenmurray2851 Based out to space.

@@wasimalam305 No, it's not real. It's used as a weapon to ethnically cleanse whites in their own countries through mass replacement.

@@stephenmurray2851 miss me with that Muh White extinction of yours

The guy's just messing with Don Cheadle's character. He's playing into the stereotype that rural Irish are ignorant and genuinely curious about other races. So they hear some racist stereotype and believe it because they have no other frame of reference. In Brendan Gleeson's character's case, he knows better but deliberately setting off an American (where race is a really prominent issue) is funny so he'll say whatever he can to make Don Cheadle's character think that he's really dumb when he 's actually pretty smart. Another aspect of both Irish and British humour is that we love to take the piss out of each other and never shy away from saying the most outrageous shit to our friends. A good example in my case is that I am Half-Irish and grew up in England and my mates would never stop making car bomb jokes. The thing with out sense of humour is that we will be polite to people we don't know or don't like. So that fact that Brendan's character is openly making a racist joke towards Don Cheadle's character shows that Brendan Gleeson's character actually really likes him and considers him a friend.

@@joshuabruce9599 i c...thanks for the explanation

@@joshuabruce9599 thanks! I don't get it that Brandon likes American and it's another reason about jokes

​@@joshuabruce9599it doesn't necessarily mean he thinks he's a friend. In Ireland people will also act this way passive aggressively in order to get a rise out of someone. It's a game you play to mess with their head, or to deflate their ego if you think they're full of themselves.

​@@jasonquigley2633 Well, slagging is the Irish national sport. I'll be insulting my friends right, left and centre while my wife (who's not Irish) looks on in total bewilderment.