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| Boilerpipe Text | Catch-22 (1970)
In Mike Nichols' war comedy - a screen adaptation
of Joseph Heller's 1961 satirical first novel about the absurdity
of war, with numerous flashbacks and dream sequences:
WWII bombing mission bombardier Captain Yossarian
(Alan Arkin) at a US Air Force base on the Mediterranean island
of Pianosa, and his desperate claim that he was "insane" in
order to be removed from combat, and his many absurd attempts to
convince others that he was indeed crazy; however, he was trapped
by Catch-22, explained by Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka (Jack Gilford) to Yossarian:
(Doc:
"Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really
crazy, so I can't ground him." Yossarian: "OK, let me see
if I've got this straight. In order to be grounded, I've got to be
crazy. And I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded,
that means I'm not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying." Doc: "You've
got it. That's Catch-22")
the egg scene, in which Col. Cathcart completely ignored
a distressed airplane that landed and caught on fire, while listening
to an inane, elaborate money-making black market scheme suggested
by First Lt. Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight) to sell fresh chicken
eggs from Malta for a profit
the hallucinatory dream sequence of Nurse Duckett
(Paula Prentiss) who climbed on a floating raft, called and waved
to Yossarian: ("Over here, hurry up!"), and then removed
her white gown to reveal full-frontal nudity, and tossed the garment
into the water toward Yossarian who was struggling to swim to her,
and as he grabbed the white garment, he awoke in a hospital bed
the absurd hospital scene, witnessed by Yossarian,
in which two nurses, one of whom was Nurse Duckett, swapped the IV
and urine bottles on a man in a full body cast, while distractedly
speaking about cooking: ("It takes me 45 minutes to do this
thing. First I sauté the chicken parts, then I put the raisins
and the onions in") - and then left the room giggling
the milestone scene - the first US film to depict
an individual (Martin Balsam as blustering Col. Cathcart) defecating
on a toilet seat, and then unwinding a long piece of toilet tissue
while nonchalantly talking to earnest Chaplain Capt. A.T. Tappman
(Anthony Perkins) - reminiscent of President LBJ during the Vietnam
War
during a medal presentation ceremony for bravery,
Yossarian stood naked ("out of uniform") (because "a
man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over
him" and all of his clothes and underwear were still in the
laundry), when Brig. Gen. Dreedle (Orson Welles) reprimanded Yossarian's
commanders: "What the hell do I care? If he wants to receive
a medal without any clothes on, what the hell business is it of yours?" and
then told Yossarian: "Here's your medal, Captain. You're a very
weird person, Yossarian"
the final scene - Yossarian's escape from insanity
and madness ("I can do it") - and the military base -
by jumping out of a hospital window (after being stabbed in the
back by an unknown assailant), running crazily and then furiously
paddling away in an inflated yellow raft toward Sweden, as his
buddies Maj. Danby (Richard Benjamin) and the Chaplain yelled back: "They'll
catch you, they'll bring you back!", "This is insane," "You'll
be on the run with no friends! You'll live in constant danger of
betrayal!" and "You'll have to keep on your toes every
minute"
"That's Catch-22"
Plane Crash Scene
Dream Sequence
Hospital Scene
Toilet Scene
"This is insane"
Yossarian's Escape |
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