Ed Harris‘s “happiness is bullshit” rant is a glorious retort to Sally Hawkins‘”Poppy” character, an emotional fascist who taunted people left and right with “are you happy?” sentiments, in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky (’08).
It’s from the under-appreciated Kodachrome, and was written by Jonathan Tropper.
I hated Jason Sudeikis‘ character, an overly sensitive 40ish candy-ass who still can’t get past his dying dad’s (Harris’s) show of parental indifference when they were both younger.
Sudeikis to Harris: “When’s my birthday?”
My father wasn’t much in the affection department either, weenie. Man up.
