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Someone Spliced Elle Woods Into A Few Good Men And It Should Not Be As Funny As It Is

What, like you can’t handle the truth?

Some actual genius out there spliced together Elle Woods grilling the witness about perm maintenance with Col. Jessup finally admitting he ordered the Code Red and it’s pure poetry.

While the comedy comes from mashing up two films that couldn’t be more different in tone, it also says something about the lack of creativity in Hollywood’s approach to the courtroom. You could probably get Jack McCoy to crack Wilma Flintsone on the stand if you were so inclined. Grandstanding monologue, maybe win a few objections, elicit dramatic confession. Rinse and repeat. Delete a few of the more specific factual references and everything’s interchangeable.

But I digress. It’s pretty funny.


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