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For years the Farrelly Brothers have been trying to put together a Three Stooges film. Recreating classic comedy teams has never worked before, so I'm confused as to why this is their passion, but I guess that's their business. Anyway, it looks like they've got their cast.
It's Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Jim Carrey. I had to check the date of the article to make sure it wasn't an April Fool's joke. They're fine actors, certainly (and as fans of Hugo Chavez, Penn and Del Toro are stooges), but I don't see any of them working. (And I liked Carrey's performance as Andy Kaufman.) Better to get three unknowns so you're not constantly thinking about the impersonations.
Carrey is Curly, Penn is Larry, Del Toro is Moe. What, no Shemp? I find Penn as Larry, the forgotten stooge, the most interesting. The article says he hasn't done a comedy "since the 1989 laffer We're No Angels." If then.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:33 AM
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Saw the headline that Sean Penn was going to play a Stooge and I thought it was a movie about Iggie. Now there's a movie I'd be interested in.
Is the Farrelly Brothers' movie playing it straight- i.e.silly like a regular Stooges feature or is it going to be about the actual men with Sean Penn plumbing the hidden depths of Larry Fine?
I hope it's an angst-ridden behind-the-scenes portrayal of the true tragedies of the lives of the funny men. All the tears of all the clowns where the dramas play out on screen then we dissolve into a gauzy mist when one of the players takes their place on-stage with a tragi-comic pratfall and we don't know whether to cry or laugh ...or both!
Ahh Jerry Lewis is too for ze part.
Ahh Jerry Lewis is too old for ze part.
It's a comedy using the characters, not a biopic.
Jeff Spicoli is a classic comedic role. Benicio is definitely the hardest sell of all of them.
Mel Gibson must be pissed. He wanted to do a 3 Stooges movie for ages.
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