Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American FilmMurray Pomerance NYU Press, 2002 - 274 pages The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. |
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... Axel (Johnny Depp), to get into the car-sales business. Comedy and pathos mix with realism and surrealism in this engaging but unlikely tale woven by Kusturica with the help of an American screenwriter, David Atkins. “I like Emir so ...
... Axel Blackmar, is our main protagonist. In fact, Axel sets up the whole film, for what we literally see is his story, told in voiceover to “us.” But what becomes clear long before the film is over is that, as Axel's crazy uncle, Leo ...
... Axel has just described is what is actually revealed onscreen; for it is Leo who is clearly in deeper “shit” than Axel. Finally, Axel makes the film very personal as he establishes a direct relationship with us: My name is Axel Blackmar ...
... Axel's pain at having lost both parents in a wreck in which Uncle Leo was the driver, generating at the center of the film a huge love-confusion relationship between Axel and Leo. Leo has basically raised Axel as his son after his ...
... Axel's love interest, Elaine Stalker, a crazed woman old enough to be his mother (a point that is mentioned several ... Axel, who has just arrived from New York. Thus Kusturica starts us off with a very familiar pratfall and slapstick ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |