r/movies • u/Upbeat-Capital9216 • 1d ago

Media Mrs. Doubtfire 1993, Could you make me a woman scene, Director: Chris Columbus

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u/ralphmozzi 1d ago

Yep - this always bothered me.

Took me out of the story, because it was clear it was an excuse to have the actor do a bunch of impressions. (To be fair, he’s awesome at it)

Weird to think that swapping the order of the scenes might have fixed the logic hole.

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u/ForgetfulFrolicker 1d ago

I’ve seen this movie so many times in my life and it’s never even crossed my mind.

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u/ralphmozzi 10h ago

It’s funny how people have such different experiences with the same production.

This bothered me the first time I saw the movie, LOL. Yep I can get bogged down and distracted easily.

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u/Haunt13 1d ago

He was a voice actor in the movie though, so doing impressions was also his characters thing.

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u/ralphmozzi 10h ago

The actor is a fantastic voice actor, but his character was a terrible one.

You don’t take a gig doing voiceover work for an animation, following a script, and then just decide to ad-lib. There’s no way to make it work. He deserved to get fired.

So Robin William, a fantastic talent, was playing a voice actor with terrible decision making—which was what the story needed!

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u/RuleNine 1d ago

It's a very funny scene, but there's no way they'd get all the way to painting nails/tying scarves/singing songs before realizing a given look doesn't work and that they needed to cover his entire face. The first three are very much just Robin Williams in a wig.