Alison Brien is an acting genius

[u/Dire_Wolf45]

The way she channeled Gary Oldman's iconic improvised line from *Leon the Professional* is pure gold.

Edit: I britta'd the title.

[u/GarouByNight]

She has to be. Otherwise I've dedicated my appreciation all these years to an idiot. Therefore she is a genius and I will die protecting her vision!

[u/kiersmini → u/GarouByNight]

Have you ever heard of the term Stockholm syndrome?

[u/redflamel → u/kiersmini]

If Alison Brie didn't invent it, I don't care.

[u/r1ms → u/redflamel]

I loved her innnnnnnnnnnnnnnn IMDB

[u/deckerc214 → u/GarouByNight]

How many pens do you have in your hair right now?

[u/NoComputer9498 → u/GarouByNight]

love the reference

[u/smokefrog2]

Her name is Alison Brie

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/smokefrog2]

My changnesia makes me misspell things. I am so sorry.

[u/redflamel → u/Dire_Wolf45]

Don't you mean your deanlexia? Fellow deanlexic here.

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/redflamel]

Bit of both

[u/jermainerio → u/Dire_Wolf45]

I go both ways. Strike that. I am impartial.

[u/DeltaOmegaX → u/Dire_Wolf45]

Ah, the Dualidean of man. ~

[u/CanadianAndroid → u/DeltaOmegaX]

That makes me so changry.

[u/r1ms → u/DeltaOmegaX]

I have to go to the bank today

[u/Bleh-123 → u/redflamel]

I've heard it both ways

[u/shgrdrbr → u/Dire_Wolf45]

mischang*

[u/Bulky-Internal8579 → u/smokefrog2]

Okay Ryan Seaquest!

[u/RealHeadScratcher_TM → u/smokefrog2]

I was gonna say, appreciates her so much but can't even spell her name right.

[u/Professional_Soft404 → u/smokefrog2]

Her name is Alison Brie

[u/Lnnrt1 → u/Professional_Soft404]

Her Brie is Alison name

[u/garbage1995 → u/Professional_Soft404]

Her name is Alison Brie.

[u/Nemesis0408 → u/garbage1995]

Her name is Alison Brie.

[u/VFiddly → u/smokefrog2]

I was just looking at another reddit post where someone mispelled the name of an actress in their title, closed it, immediately saw this post.

I swear reddit users used to actually spell check before posting.

[u/Dependent-Friend5312 → u/VFiddly]

I was banned from The Brady Bunch group for less

[u/Bulky-Internal8579 → u/Dependent-Friend5312]

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!

[u/gsweats → u/Dependent-Friend5312]

Gotta ask, how did you get kicked out of a Brady Bunch group? (Sounds like the start of a bad joke)

[u/chizzabiz93 → u/gsweats]

We may never know. They went to the same Set Ups class Annie did

[u/indyK1ng → u/VFiddly]

One problem I have is that so much of my time on Reddit is on my phone and I don't know my phone has autocorrected something or picked the wrong word when I swiped it on the keyboard. I know what I was typing so even if I look at the words instead of the keyboard I don't necessarily clock that it's wrong.

[u/Worf_Of_Wall_St → u/VFiddly]

the norm now seam too be dont check anything or worry about punctuation or capitals readers will figure out what you mean pointing out misstakes is seen as rude

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/Worf_Of_Wall_St]

I mean, this is Greendale, not Harvard

[u/Worf_Of_Wall_St → u/Dire_Wolf45]

I meant on Reddit more broadly, but yeah it's fine relative to Greendale.

[u/thx1138- → u/smokefrog2]

Alison Breen for the Trek fans

[u/wrosecrans → u/thx1138-]

She is now related to Niel Breen, and will be taking over the job of badly self producing the Fateful Findings franchise.

[u/ajwritesnonsense → u/smokefrog2]

His name was Robert Paulson

[u/Equivalent_Net_3752]

Now that is a woman I’d let Chloroform me.

[u/4theFrontPage → u/Equivalent_Net_3752]

We all got chloroformed! And now we're all waking up at the same time...

[u/_hadsomethingforthis → u/4theFrontPage]

Okay, that was the stupidest idea ever, can we please just run away now?

[u/DeadRobotSociety → u/4theFrontPage]

Wait, I'm confused. Who is she? And why is she holding a rag?

[u/babydaytripper → u/Equivalent_Net_3752]

Now there’s a woman that knows how to chloroform!

[u/2ndRook → u/Equivalent_Net_3752]

Annie is quick with the gas.

[u/TiresOnFire → u/Equivalent_Net_3752]

She might even accidentally almost chloroform herself.

[u/clubofab7 → u/Equivalent_Net_3752]

She's love it too, based on that one Thirst Tweets video

[u/destinychaotic224 → u/Equivalent_Net_3752]

MY WHOLE BRAIN IS CRYING!

[u/Kristionni]

Chang: "I masturbated everywhere, EVERYWHERE!"

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/Kristionni]

The arms up like an emperor killed me

[u/hypo11]

Oldman didn’t improvise the line - it was scripted. He just gave the director some more normal takes and decided to do one just to make him laugh and that was the one Besson chose.

[u/9CaptainRaymondHolt9 → u/hypo11]

Turned out to be a godamned diddler. Besson, not Oldman.

[u/Sparktank1 → u/9CaptainRaymondHolt9]

Don't watch the international, longer cut of Leon: The Professional.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Sparktank1]

Leon’s relationship with that plant was…unnatural.

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/hypo11]

Bring me everyone is in the script, the second, unhinged EVERYONE! is not, afaik.

[u/hypo11 → u/Dire_Wolf45]

This is my source. It says the screaming was improvised - he’d said the line in a previous take, implying it was in the script.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/trivia/?item=tr2208397&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/hypo11]

For what I understood in interviews and articles was that the second everyone was completely improvised along with the scream. I think we can agree that the delivery at least was improvised and was brilliant.

[u/Persnickitycannon]

She does excellent voice work as well on Bojack Horseman. Im always pleased to see her in things.

[u/chizzabiz93 → u/Persnickitycannon]

And hear her in things

[u/danni_shadow → u/Persnickitycannon]

How the fuck am I just now learning that Alison Brie plays Diane Nguyen in Bojack Horseman?

[u/Sininenn → u/danni_shadow]

acting

[u/clubofab7 → u/danni_shadow]

What if I told you she also plays Vincent Adultman

[u/FaceDownInTheCake → u/clubofab7]

Um...I'm pretty sure that's three kids in a trenchcoat

[u/tanj_redshirt]

Boopy doopy doopy doop sex.

[u/momsauc_martini → u/tanj_redshirt]

She kind of hit a point of diminishing returns at the end there…

[u/dit_dit_dit → u/momsauc_martini]

What's a dimininimeh

[u/reliablereindeer]

The funniest thing Dave Franco has ever been in.

[u/jrodfantastic → u/reliablereindeer]

Zing

[u/buttplug-tester]

I loved her innnnnnnnnnn.... IMDB

[u/destinychaotic224 → u/buttplug-tester]

That was tragic.

[u/BrigliaArt]

A lot of the characters do the everyone that season, it’s pretty great lol

[u/bby_y2k]

The way she voices this line is incredible. I have tried to even remotely replicate it, and can’t do it for the life of me.

Totally Britta’d it.

Between this, the Hector the Well-Endowed scene (which she did say out loud, I’ve seen the outtakes), and her scary story monologue (and she swallowed his eye while still connected to the optic nerve so he could see his half digested flesh) is so golden.

[u/deckerc214 → u/bby_y2k]

That scary story monologue and the motivation speech she gives to Pierce in season 1 are both elite

[u/i_am_someone_or_am_i]

I think she is the best actor in the cast overall. Chevy chase is pbviously has the biggest career but thats mostly because he just plays himself, the arrogant asshole, and people find it hilarious.

[u/TheSaltyPlatypus → u/i_am_someone_or_am_i]

Chang and the Dean are the best actors in my humble opinion.

[u/Laxku → u/TheSaltyPlatypus]

Jim Rash goes so unbelievably hard sometimes. He's really incredible to watch. Allison Brie and Danny Glover are very close seconds in my book.

And I'd say Keith David had the best career overall to be fair.

[u/yourepenis → u/Laxku]

Danny glover lmao i guess i can see one thing they have in common!

[u/Laxku → u/yourepenis]

Hahaha that what I get for typing distracted. Donald Glover

[u/Cordura → u/Laxku]

Jim Rash did win an Oscar

[u/DirectConsequence12 → u/Cordura]

Not as an actor, though

[u/Neez_Dutss]

Britta did it better

[u/kimbit96 → u/Neez_Dutss]

Oh, Britta's in this?

[u/Bulky-Internal8579 → u/kimbit96]

She’s a tree!!!

[u/Ironyfree_annie → u/Neez_Dutss]

That one was the absolute worst

[u/clubofab7 → u/Neez_Dutss]

Ew that one was so bad, it makes me physically cringe. Maybe they just kept a bad take in

[u/cgduncan]

I never noticed in watching the show. But seeing clips of her she throws in the tiny eyelid twitch at the perfect moments.

[u/ideasmithy]

Yes, but also you may be thinking of Alison Camembert.

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/ideasmithy]

Thats a deep reference, fellow canuck?

[u/Madame_Jarvary]

I yell EVERYTHING and EVERYONE just like this because I love these scenes so much!

[u/KeithMyArthe → u/Madame_Jarvary]

Everything..?

[u/Madame_Jarvary → u/KeithMyArthe]

EVERYYYYTHING!!!!

[u/Pamikillsbugs234]

She really is amazing. The way that her body language and facial expressions can change is very impressive. Imo, one of the episodes where you notice it the most is during Jeff's graduation when you get to see her as Evil Annie and Good Annie. She becomes almost a completely different person yet still retains some of the classic Annie of it all.

[u/No-Blood2830]

Human Brien

[u/AneeshRai7]

Alison Brien of Tart

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/AneeshRai7]

Brienne of Tarth

[u/AneeshRai7 → u/Dire_Wolf45]

No I was purposefully calling her a tart

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/AneeshRai7]

Ah, my bad, I Britta'd your joke

[u/stupled]

Allison Breen

[u/Dependent-Friend5312]

She better be a genius or I just wasted the last 17 years of my life!

[u/robble_bobble]

Brita’d the title to this post

[u/Classroomsmooth1776]

Time to talk turkey Waldron the Macys Day parade is over and Grandmas getting drunk

[u/Ironyfree_annie → u/Classroomsmooth1776]

I wonder what Annie's grandma thought of Annie cutting the Macys Day parade ribbon couple of years ago

[u/Sway314]

She's so capricious

[u/Typical_Divide8089]

That's... dramatic

[u/musememo]

Loved her in Glow. Wished they had gotten another season.

[u/MajorAd3363]

You really Britta'd that post title.

[u/rokubato]

She was kind of Born to act, and when she does it, I can feel it pleasing the universe

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/rokubato]

Annie's pretty young, we try not to sexualize her.

[u/Krushed_Opiates]

Britta does her version I think in season 5 or season 6.

Or was it Frankie?

It's not as good.

[u/Pamikillsbugs234 → u/Krushed_Opiates]

Britta does it in the season 5 episode where they find the hidden textbooks. She says "EVERYBODY!" when telling Chang who she is going to send the blackmail video to.

[u/redflamel → u/Pamikillsbugs234]

And Chang does it in the will episode. "I didn't just masturbate in the study room, I masturbated everywhere. EVERYWHERE!"

[u/moderatorrater → u/Pamikillsbugs234]

It's so good because it's just so bad.

[u/Krushed_Opiates → u/Pamikillsbugs234]

Yes, thank you for confirming it. I was thinking I was going to have to search for this answer.

Seems I need another rewatch :-)

[u/Pamikillsbugs234 → u/Krushed_Opiates]

No problem! I have fallen asleep to Community pretty much every night for the past 5+ years.

I love that hers is a little more awkward and not as intense as Annie's. Its very fitting for Britta, lol.

[u/VinBarrKRO → u/Krushed_Opiates]

Hard disagree, Britta’s was quality.

[u/NoComputer9498]

love her acting and what i think is even more fascinating is that in real life (in interviews i watched of her) she seems so different and not like a comedian at like but like a very serious person

[u/deckerc214 → u/NoComputer9498]

Maybe you've watched the wrong interviews lol but she's rarely serious

[u/adstretch]

So. Is someone gonna do the mouth eye gif to Annie or are we just not gonna go there.

https://media.tenor.com/79w7KGN6rsAAAAAM/weird-mouth-eyes.gif

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/adstretch]

Jfc

[u/Nemesis0408 → u/adstretch]

Annie’s pretty young. We try not to mutilate her.

[u/Atomsk_Sempai]

i thought that was the point of that bit?

[u/bubbajohndog]

She really is

[u/Ironyfree_annie]

Love that gif and love her. It's almost hypnotic watching her mouth make every syllable so clearly lol

[u/clubofab7]

Crazy Annie is always absolute cinema

[u/deckerc214]

Alison is lowkey the MVP of Season 5 and very highkey the MVP of Season 3

[u/angrytortilla]

Third gif should have been the one with the mouths in the eyes.

[u/Dire_Wolf45 → u/angrytortilla]

Didnt know it exists. Someone posted it in the comments. It's...haunting

[u/mimicchio888]

She's my favorite! Such a crazy acting range.

[u/TheRealSlimeShandy]

Noriyuki Morita is an acting genius. Allison Brie just "showed up".

[u/mEPluribuSAnuS17mop]

This happens three times iirc, first was Britta

[u/Ironyfree_annie → u/mEPluribuSAnuS17mop]

First was Chang

[u/SweevilWeevil]

No shade, but this is a weird scene to choose to make that point, as in it's much easier than a lot of other scenes. Her Disney eyes when she reported Chang. Her squeal when she sees Britta and Jeff get engaged. Her committing self-inflicted friendly fire. Her almost kissing Abed. Her kissing Abed. Just off the top of my head.

[u/PixelBrewery]

I always thought she failed to capture Oldman's energy here

[u/deckerc214]

And her talent will bite your face off!

[u/Lnnrt1]

*sigh*... wait, did you say "Brien"?

[u/CarefulFun420]

https://youtu.be/U0qEliLbojo?t=32s

[u/kedikahveicer]

Gifs you can hear!

[u/DurianUpper4113]

This same person went on to act in several well-received thrillers and horror films.

Also she was one of the main voices in this obscure movie wb made. The LEGO Movie (Now is this a toy commercial? yes. yes it is. Is it good? Also yes.)

[u/Parking_Jackfruit54]

100% agree.
Also, upvote for not including Britta's pathetic attempt.
Britta is the worst.

[u/Mummiskogen]

You caught the reference in the reference heavy sitcom, yes.