Reply #72: Two of my all-time favorite lines were from Dom DeLuise [View All]

in the movie "The End," where Burt Reynolds tries to commit suicide to avoid a slow, painful, fatal disease, and ends up in a mental institution where he meets Marlon Barunki (DeLuise), a fellow patient, who decides to make it his life's work to help Sonny (Reynolds) commit suicide.

As one of his attempts, he suggests Sonny jump out the window, and the fall will kill him. Sonny refuses, claiming it's not high-enough, and would only result in more pain, and his whole reason for wanting suicide is to avoid the pain. Marlon argues that it IS high enough and that Sonny is just being a coward. Marlon decides that Sonny needs a push, so he gets a running start. Sonny, not paying attention, moves out of the way just as Marlon gets to the window. Marlon flops out the window. Next scene: Marlon in on his back in a Dom-DeLuise shaped depression in the grass below, and just before he passes out, he manages to groan, "You're right, Sonny. It's not high-enough!"

(This is the story I relate anytime someone mentions Bungee jumping).

The other quote, from soon afterward in the movie, is when Reynolds escapes, and DeLuise reacts to the phrase he (DeLuise) has just uttered:

"That man's nuts: grab 'im!"