Emotional laughter

Dejon 2022-03-20 09:01:39

One-sentence comment: Sandler finally abandoned the role of stunned youth and played a bad film. The courage is commendable and worthy of encouragement.
Serious topics aside, the first ten minutes of the film tell us that uniforms matter. Using the word "sexy" to describe Adam Sandler is too bad, and his signature voice squeezed from the corner of his mouth is believed to only make women's sexuality more swept away. But he was able to push 16 women in the film in two months, and the original words in the film also included "4 Canadian women who just enjoyed a late wedding night", what power can be other than "uniform"? ? The most convincing is the scene in the hospital, where the doctor treats Sandler in a hospital gown with disdain, and appears in his home to play a game of "handcuffs" in a blink of an eye. Of course, a considerable amount of "kung fu" is needed as a foundation, but "the power of uniforms is infinite." The rational use of external resources should at least be the motto.
Personally, I think that three-quarters of the plot arrangement and handling of the film can be compared with many classics in film history, and it is also Adam Sandler's relatively outstanding work in recent years. Although the performance is still not divorced from his own housekeeping skills, But at least he got the movie right again. If it weren't for the hurried end of the fire captain's arrogance, the audience would be more interested in watching how the more and more troubled farce ended. It is precisely because of the trouble that it is impossible to justify it, the director and screenwriter came up with this clumsy and nonsensical way to end the climax.
The serious plot and dialogue made me wonder for a while that without the face of Adam Sandler, the whole story was not based on absurd conflict, and this film would be a very close-to-life, very realistic work. It doesn't look like a comedy at all, and the comedy comes out of it so well. The comedy creation of this film is more like a tired egg, and the foundation is laid in an extremely dangerous position. With each additional layer, the danger increases several times; , is also enough to make people happy. The quarrel scene in front of the pipeline and the court scene look so lively and dripping, there is no contrived comedy treatment at all, not with those puzzling surprises, nor with grandstanding, real life problems collide together, making A pair of fake homosexuals tend to be homosexual more and more naturally; the two people are completely aware that they are not homosexuals, but they continue to do N kinds of very "same" things. Viewers need to constantly remind themselves that they are not gay. As a result, the more reminded, the more amused, so I laughed and watched the scene from quarrel to reconciliation. This kind of "combination" is commonplace, but with a premise of disguising homosexuality, it forms a comedic effect of "the less you want, the more you get closer" - although this is a common method used in ordinary tragedies of fate. The courtroom scene in the climax is also a good highlight. The two male protagonists have a natural and smooth flow from string confession to common memory and then to the revealing of their true feelings. There are no fancy camera edits, and the playful words that are not excessive slowly show the change of the whole atmosphere. Time blurs the boundaries between the two.
The handling at the end of the climax is the worst part. The screenwriter started a very good start, and he is also steady in the narrative of the story. The only shortcoming is that the climax is blowing up the bullshit, in a wide range of space. What should have been a small-scale conflict between a few people continued. In the end, the courtroom's hilarious way of solving the problem is simply deliberately tickling the audience, completing the final task of his comedy, making people close their eyes in desperation amid the shriveled jokes.
The gay movement is now a social movement with a wider influence in the United States, and it may even exist and develop as a social change. Of course, this film is not a traditional way of encouraging people to "be yourself", but more importantly, it expresses a kind of emotional cognition and change. Playboy uses the guise of being gay to approach and get to know the women he admires; at the same time, he also cements the age-old brotherhood between men in a huge lie.
It's not a good movie unless you watch the ending.

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry quotes

  • Larry Valentine: [Enters the firefighters' common room, holding the petition that they had all signed asking the captain to transfer out Chuck and Larry. He addresses the fourteen firefighters in the room] Hey, fellas! Hey, heard you guys have been circulating a petition. You mind if I take a look at it? Oh, what do you now, I got it right here. It's impressive, a lot of names! Let's go down the list, see who we got here. Nootzie! Hey, remember that time Chuck and I ran back into that textile plant and dragged your limp body out? Even though Chuck's leg was broken like in three different places. Man, that was pretty freaking gay of Chuck, huh? Wow! Renaldo! Man, I remember your first day on the job. Remember you were so scared you actually crapped yourself? And Chuck and I, we snuck you back in here, we cleaned you up so nobody'd find out. You begged us not tell anyone. And did we? Let's ask. You guys hear that story before right now? Show of hands?

    Fred G. Duncan: [laughing while eating a big bowl of potato chips] No, but it's hilarious.

    Larry Valentine: Yeah, it is hilarious. Tony! Nice signature. Hey, is that the same one you used to endorse the check that Chuck gave you when you gambled away your mortgage payment on college football? I guess his money wasn't too gay to bail you out or keep your wife from leaving you again.

    Fred G. Duncan: [laughing] Again!

    Larry Valentine: I guess Chuck's not a enough of a man to work next to work next to big *strong* heroes like you guys.

    [Fire station bell starts ringing]

    Larry Valentine: Oh look at that, a fire, well I hope it's not a bad one - because the *faggot* who's been saving your sorry asses is now, thanks to you, working on another shift. Let's go.

    [Slides down the firepole]

  • Larry Valentine: [Takes hot sauce out of the microwave, pours it on noodles and adds 3 burger patties] Bolognese!

    Teresa: Looks more like bowl of shit.

    Larry Valentine: Thanks for all your help, Teresa.