Characte Carrey's Role In Ace Ventura Pet Detective

In Hollywood, stars are not only known for acquiring plentiful identities, but also several distinctive types of identities, which are determined by the diverse traits of their characters, along with the various characters that they depict (Shingler, 121). This has made it fundamentally impossible to distinguish between the star, the character, the private personality and the public persona of the actor, especially since these distinct and overlapping identities are both exposed and concealed at different moments throughout the film (Shingler, 121). For Edgar Morin (27), “The star is incarnated in the characters of his or her films but also transcends them. Moreover, these characters transcend the star” (Shingler, 124). With that being said, Morin believes that “the star cannot appear when this reciprocal interpretation of actor and hero fails to occur, for in that case, they are mere …show more content…
This was shown from the very beginning, in Carrey’s first comedic role in Ace Ventura Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac, 1994). In the film, Carrey’s plays Ace Ventura, a detective who specialises in animals, who is on the hunt for a football team’s missing dolphin mascot (IMDb, 2014). Carrey’s brand of physical comedy is shown throughout the movie. Personally, I feel that this was best shown in the scenes when Ace goes on a hunt for the owners of the championship ring. In these scenes, Carrey was running, rolling around on the ground, arm wrestling and hiding in one of the player’s mailbox. To match Carrey’s goofy character, Ace Ventura is dressed in colourfully printed shirts, and has perfectly gelled hair that does not go out of place throughout the film, regardless of the situations he gets himself into. From then on, with Carrey’s physical style of entertainment, animated face and expert impersonation skills, the hits just kept coming (Biography.com,