Back to School (1986) - Thornton Talks Business Scene (4/12) | Movieclips

Back to School - Thornton Talks Business: Thornton (Rodney Dangerfield) challenges Dr. Barbay (Paxton Whitehead) about the true cost of business in the real world.

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FILM DESCRIPTION:
Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is concerned that his son Jason (Keith Gordon) is unsure whether to go to college, so the uneducated self-made millionaire encourages him by signing up as a student as well. As Jason tries to establish himself among his peers and make the diving team, Thornton falls for a pretty professor (Sally Kellerman) and gets others do his schoolwork for him. When the suspicious dean (Paxton Whitehead) finds out, Thornton needs to show he can get by on his own.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1986)
Cast: Keith Gordon, Paxton Whitehead, Rodney Dangerfield
Director: Alan Metter

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[jobmd]

Didactics vs. heuristics. In school you learn a lesson then take a test. In the world you are tested then learn a lesson.

[michaelgonzalez]

R.I.P. Paxton Whitehead, please spread some love and heartfelt condolences to his family. The Englishman appeared 17 times over a half-century on Broadway, earning a Tony nomination for Camelot, and recurred on Mad About You and Friends.

[astroman]

"Doesn't matter?? Tell that to the bank." That line kills me every time. Oh, how true.

[christiankrenek]

I love this scene because it adds such an important dimension to Thornton: he genuinely knows what he’s talking about. If he was “just” a party animal, then he wouldn’t be sympathetic, and people would question how such a bad student managed to become a multimillionaire. This dialogue makes it clear that Thornton IS intelligent, industrious, and has a ton of experience; he also genuinely wants the other students to learn so they can become successful, too. Rodney Dangerfield really knew how to make characters work! What an actor. :)

[musicuniverse]

The funniest part is when he sees the students taking notes on Rodney Dangerfield’s kick back advice. Very funny, subtle comedic effect 😂🤣

[ianchapman]

What I love is how these business students (probably future executives themselves) are furiously taking notes on everything Thornton says about how business really works.

[MT-tudt]

"It doesn't matter?? Tell that to the bank."

[WinslowLeach]

The best is Rodney's face as he's listening to the professor's "lessons." He's trying to be patient and put up with it, but he still has the look of "this teacher is such a fool" on it. Better actor than given credit for.

[asktheetruscans]

This is the reason I dropped out, started my own business instead of going into debt, and didn't look back.
Thanks Rodney, RIP!

[allanburton]

"The next question for us is where to build our factory?"
"How about Fantasyland!?"
😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[WizzRacing]

When you get older. You realize just how right he was..Why Companies buy season tickets to sports events.. They pass them around to inspectors and city hall....As that building will take 10 years to build..

[krakenwoodfloorservicemcma]

30 years in construction and I can tell you he is absolutely correct. Zoning laws will crush a project. Especially the annoying hidden ones. Depending on where you build, teamsters can have an impact on concrete costs lol.

[bobcole]

My dad spent the last 17 years in his career, up until he retired in 1984 as an engineer and construction/project manager, building plants all across the US. When he saw this movie he said Mellon was right on.

[chrissawyer]

When I was a kid, I liked this movie for the silly stuff. After I went to college and got into the real world, I appreciated scenes like this a whole lot more.

[joeosborn]

Always loved this scene! I’ve been a businessman now for nearly 40 years and it still rings true! 😄

[royalrugby]

"Then there is the long term cost, such as waste disposal. I don't know if your familiar who runs that business, but I assure you it's not the Boy Scouts." Mr. Soprano would like a word with you after class.

[joseesparza]

What I love about this movie, aside from being filmed at the university where i went, and the comedy of course, is the hidden message that people who don’t have a formal education or a college degree, sometimes know more about certain subjects as the people that teach. Thornton Mellon owned all those guys simply because he attended de university of hard knocks.

[jeffw]

Best part of this scenes is the quick camera-pan to the students taking NOTES based on what Dangerfield’s character is saying 😄🤣

[TralfazConstruction]

I enjoyed seeing Back to School (1986) in a theater with my family in the summer of '86. This film seemed to come out of nowhere. Watching it present day brings back pleasant memories of that afternoon with my loved ones. Exiting the theater after the movie I pointed out the Coming Soon poster for Crocodile Dundee; another sleeper (well, back then no one knew what to expect) from 1986.

[TheCoolProfessor]

The reality of business is never so clean as the classroom says.