He quickly gets in an argument with the ambassador of nearby Sylvania, because said ambassador calls him an upstart. Since he’s being played by Groucho Marx, this is not the best plan. She decides that the only way that the country is going to get any more money is if her preferred man, Rufus T.
Instead we get a pile of setup, there’s a country that’s broke called Freedonia, and a woman who has basically been bankrolling the place. So I was at least mildly surprised that there weren’t any jokes for the first five minutes of the movie, which wasn’t very long to begin with. I knew one of them didn’t talk - Harpo, as it turns out - and one of them had a weird greasepaint mustache - Groucho, as everyone knows. Otherwise, I had not actually watched one of their films, and until now the closest I got was watching Skidoo - featuring Groucho Marx as God - which isn’t a good introduction to anything. The computer lab in my elementary school named all of the computers on it after one of them, after all, and while the network occasionally collapse in a comedy of errors that wasn’t exactly an introduction to their comedy. I’ve always been aware of the Marx Brothers, but never actually familiar with them. For 1933, we tackle the Marx Brothers with Duck Soup.
DUCK SOUP MARX BROTHERS MOVIE
A Century of Film is Devin Wilger’s attempt to watch a movie from each year between 1917 and today.
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