A Few Good Men--great movie, one of the finest courtroom dramas. But I caught it on TV tonight and noticed something. In the midst of the film's climax, the murder trial, where Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon are battling back and forth over a man's innocence, a witness is called. The witness is played by Cuba Gooding Junior. His character's name is.... "Corporal Hamburger".
Corporal Hamburger is called by his name several times during his testimony by Tom Cruise. With each utterence of "Corporal Hamburger", the film loses a little bit of its seriousness to me. I mean...who the the hell is Corporal Hamburger?! Is he a soldier with a hamburger for a head and seseme seeds for eyes? Does he have a gun with french fries for bullets? When the writers were writing the script, and reached the trial scene...were they high and eating Burger King? They couldve used any last name available in the whole world--and they chose Hamburger. It might be the most brilliant name in movie history.
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