00:00This mistake was so good that the director left it in, deciding to cast Robin Williams
00:05as the most serious character in your movie might seem like a pretty strange idea on paper,
00:09but it...
00:10Definitely paid off in the 1996 comedy The Birdcage.
00:13The Birdcage is about a gay man.
00:15Played by Williams, who pretends to be straight in order to impress the ultra-conservative
00:19parents of his...
00:20The only problem is that he owns a drag club in San Francisco.
00:24The movie is...
00:25Stuffed with really funny moments, one of which was actually completely unintentional.
00:29As the meeting between the...
00:30The two families slowly falls apart, Williams' character is horrified to learn that the
00:33big meal that he had planned...
00:35Has gone awry.
00:35He scolds his housekeeper, Agador, for messing up, as well as his son, Val, for failing
00:39to stay...
00:40But in the middle of his tirade, Williams slipped on the floor by mistake, but got right back
00:44up and carried...
00:45This fall fit in perfectly with the chaos of the scene and serves to punctuate the tension
00:49with a...
00:50The fact that you can tell the other actors are trying really hard not to corpse makes
00:54the whole thing evil.
00:55Even better!
00:56Even better!
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