Most Rewatchable Scene
The boxcar scene
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- Every scene is called rewatchable, so a few are thrown out: the counterfeit-twenties con in the bar (the 'litmus configuration' test), Jack visiting his daughter, the coffee-shop scene with the chorizo and the 53-cent coffee where the Duke needles Jack about Serrano, the boxcar scene, and the late chase where Jack loses the Duke, stops the car under the helicopters and says he has come too far.
- The boxcar is the pick for both: it is where the two finally break down and become real friends, a cathartic release after the car chase through the desert, apparently mostly improvised, and a lived-in, funny, genuine scene between two great actors; any scene with Farina or Pantoliano is a rewind, but the boxcar is the rewatchable one.
- The setup as recounted: the Duke slips into a boxcar thinking he has escaped, Jack comes around the other side and, furious, announces he is not talking for the rest of the trip; the director then told Grodin to loosen De Niro up, De Niro was too wound up to crack, and Grodin finally landed it with a crude teasing question about the farm animals on the reservation, which leads to the exchange about the watch; the clip is played and it is called the best scene in the movie.