Review: Pineapple Express (Part III)
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Review: Pineapple Express (Part III)
Author: wincestuouslove
Summary: To review the movie in a homoerotic aspect.
Hence, to disprove the term "bromance" -- a common misconceived description on the nature of the relationship -- between the two main characters, Dale and Saul.
A/N: It is the "Season of Love", huh?
My mom is watching No Reservations (2007) starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart in the sitting-room while I was like, screencapping Pineapple Express (2008) here.
Well, Pineapple Express is romantic in its way, don't you think?
I know I'm not weird.
To read the entire review in Part I, Part II.
From mutual, to three-way
Saul: Dale, no! No, wake up, man. No, you're not dying, man. Not without me.
[Dale starts to wake up]
Saul: Dale.
Dale: What?
Saul: You're alive. You're... You're alive.
Dale: What happened?
Saul: He got your ear, man.
Dale: He got my what?
Saul: He got your ear.
Dale: Fuck!
Saul: Red?
Red: Saul. Hey, Saul. I came back for you, bro.
Saul: Yeah.
Red: I remembered, man. Bro's before ho's.
Saul: You lied to me.
Red: I did. I lied big time to you.
Saul: Dale said that you didn't even have herpes and I said that you did.
Red: Honestly, like, from now on, from everything that we've gone through... and, like, from seeing this asshole's nuts smashed with my Daewoo... I Wanna be a better friend to you, like I really am.
Saul: I fucking love you, dog. Fucking love you.
Red: I wanna be inside you, homes.
Saul: No more lies, Red.
Red: This is my moment.
Saul: This is your moment.
Note Dale is pantless as like "the princess is saved by the prince" scenario is not slashy enough. He took it off as his pants was on fire.
Dale: You're not dying today, friend. Not on my watch. Saul. Wake up, man, please. Saul. Wake up. Oh, sweet Saul.
[Saul starts to wake up]
Dale: Saul. Yes. Yeah. Saul, you made it.
Saul: What?
Dale: Yeah.
Saul: Where am I?
Dale: You made it, man.
Saul: You saved me. You came back for me.
Dale: Yeah.
Saul: Oh, thank you. What happened?
Click to viewDale: Hello, you're listening to PPRPBP. I am Dale Denton. The topic of the day: New beginnings. Getting over losses. Friends. Life. We have our first caller.
[Saul knocks the table]
Dale: Yes, ring-ring-ring. How's it going?
Saul: Hi. Am I on the air?
Dale: You are. You're about to get D'd by the Dale. A D in the face.
Saul: Dale Denton?
Dale: Yeah?
Saul: You're my hero.
Dale: *clapping* Hahaha. "You're my hero".
Red: *clapping* Yeah! You are good, man. Seriously.
Dale: Thanks.
Saul: Gotta admit, you're pretty good.
Red: It sounds pretty good. It sounds real.
Dale: It's not bad, huh?
Red: If I close my eyes, it sounds like...
Dale: You are on the radio. That's the radio. That's a DJ.
Saul: If you were on it, I would listen to it.
Dale: Thanks, man.
Saul: It's like when my bubbe was always playing opera... I hated it, but my bubbe loves it.
Red: And it grows on you. It grows on you.
Dale: Yeah. It's like Red. I didn't like Red when I first met him.
Red: You didn't like me?
Dale: [to Saul] But you liked him so much... [to Red] I like you now.
Red: I know this sounds weird, but can we be best friends? Just us, for real?
Dale: Of course we should.
Saul: Seriously. You guys are, like, both of my best friends. You didn't know it. Now you know it, we'll all be best friends.
Dale: Know those hearts that break up and it says "best friends"?
Saul: Three-way. Three-way.
Dale: We should get a three-way one.
Red: I don't know if they fucking make those.
Saul: Three-way...
Dale: We should make the first one. What about three-way...?
Saul: I want the middle piece, so it'll be crooked on both sides.
Red: I know we've gone over this, but, like, 1000 pardons, 1000 pardons, please.
Saul: I fucked up...
Dale: I was a dick to you, man. I'm sorry.
Red: I know I was an asshole. I hope I redeemed myself.
Saul: You saved my life.
Dale: I know me and you had our deal. We've had some times.
Red: I kind of feel like something's happening here. Is that a boner?
Dale: Is that a condo? That us moving into an apartment together?
[...]
Red: Should we touch each other's hands while we do it? Okay.
Saul: I love you guys.
Dale: I love you dudes so much.
Saul: I'll remember that for the rest of my life.
[...]
Red: I'm like the nerd at the sleepover who fell asleep at 9.
Dale: That's okay. We won't put our dicks in your mouth.
"You're my hero" Oh Saul, you are so in love.
Saul had revealed that he hated radio talk show twice in the movie. How ever he loves Dale, loves his dog.
As much as I find Red, who has a wife in jail, hilarious, I don't appreciate them to go three-way.
Red should always be the "best friend" while Dale and Saul are BFFF.
Another version of the ending scene
At 01:23, Dale puts a piece of bacon on the wound on his right ear and hopes the fresh he lost in the gun-shot wounld grow back.
And then, Saul bends across Dale's nap playfully and pretends to bite it off.
This 2009 Oscars skit shows Dale had already moved in Saul's house after their "adventure".
LMAO when they watch the kissing scenes from Milk (2008).
Blooper -- Look at where James' left hand is.
Seth: Hahaha. You got it. Haha. I got to the second base.
By the way, the "hand holding scene" at the top of this entry is from the alternative ending.
The "diner scene" at the end was not in the originally script.
Seth Rogen, James Franco and Danny McBride improvised the whole thing.
Credit to
Pineapple Express Screencaps on Fanpop for the screencaps
Drew's Script-O-Rama for the transcript
murtyeah, lawyerupasshole, scofielding, tomstlh, sogold, per-manent, fghtffyrdmnzz, sookeh, among with other equally talented artists @ tumblr for the gifs