There are certain rules that are universal to all men. I was trying, not altogether successfully, to explain this to my wife as we were shopping for a gift for a friend, a friend who just so happens to be a man. We were perusing the video section at one of the many local Barnes & Noble stores, when I suggested "Patton." She didn't care for that idea at all, and wasn't sure that our friend would enjoy the movie.
I attempted to explain that there are certain things a man will always watch and enjoy. One is a really good war movie, such as "Patton." Anther thing any man will enjoy watching is the Three Stooges. We're men, and we like to see other men hitting each other. It's why we watch football, although football isn't nearly as funny as the Three Stooges. With the Three Stooges you have a concept of comedic filmed violence that still works to this day.
All this long-winded expository is my way of explaining why I, a man, love Carol Kane as a Christmas angel who fancies fisticuffs when she pays Bill Murray a visit in what I think is a modern-day Christmas classic (really a twist on an old classic, to be honest), "Scrooged."
P.S. My wife, a woman no less and no fan of war movies or the Three Stooges, really enjoys the sight of Carol Kane beating the Christmas spirit into Bill Murray. Maybe men and women have more in common than we care to acknowledge.
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