From "Blood Simple" one of my favorite movies:
Marty: [to Ray, out in back of the bar] You think I'm funny, I'm an a**hole? No no no... what's funny is HER... what's funny is, I had you two followed, because if it's not you she's sleeping with, it's someone else... what's funny is, when she gives you that LOOK, and says, 'I don't know what you're talkin' about, Ray, I ain't done nothin' funny'... but the funniest thing to ME is... you think SHE came back HERE for YOU... THAT'S what's F**KIN' FUNNY!
Later in the film:
Abby to Ray: I ain't done nothing funny.
The genius part about this pair of scenes is they intersect perfectly 40 minutes apart from each other, and like the rest of the movie, they have a completely different meaning to the characters in the movie, then they do to the audience watching the movie.
Nobody outsmarts anybody but themselves.
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