We all know Jim Carrey as a laugh out loud zany comic who’s brought us some of the highest grossing comedies of all time as The Mask and Dumb And Dumber. The first example of Jim Carrey that shows perseverance comes when he was a child. Jim grew up in a lower income family with a father who struggled to keep jobs . His family was so poor that he had to drop out of highschool when he was fifteen and get a job as a janitor to help his family. “Jim explains when he was fifteen he went to a comedy…
was wyling out, texted me when I’m anxious and talked me out of dumb decisions. But more than anything else, they have loved me and appreciated me. I don’t know where I would be without them or who I would be without that love and appreciation. Judd Apatow has literally made an entire career out of making movies that are dedicated to depicting male friendships. If you were a white man in the mid-2000s and wanted to be an actor, all you had to do was go audition…
Imagine getting thrown into a pool and almost drowning, then getting yelled at for not knowing how to swim. That was just one of the many things that happened to Kevin hart. Growing up with a father in and out of jail and a strict mother can be difficult, but somehow Kevin Hart spun that into a positive thing and is now one of the most famous comedians in the world. Kevin was born July 6, 1997 in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father Henry Robert Witherspoon, formally in a relationship…
What we think of as the romantic comedy genre was birthed in conjunction with the advent of sound on film. A subset of comedy, the romantic comedy has been through quite the evolution from its beginnings in the 1930s to the present day shaping our culture, I would argue, more than any other genre. While these two films, It Happened One Night and Harold and Maude, are staggeringly different in their formulas, one being classical and one being of the modernist period, they are thematically linked,…