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Post by Tryina Denouement on Nov 18, 2012 5:44:42 GMT -5
OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLLOLOLLOLLOOLLOLLOLOLOL!!!!
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Nov 18, 2012 7:37:08 GMT -5
To be brutally honest, I thought he was an awful choice for Olaf. For any kind of "dark" villain, indeed. I don't think he's a bad actor at all, but just in a role so very far from what he's good at. Still, I really wasn't happy with most things in the movie. I agrees completely... about everything you just said. Everything. I mean, they should have picked someone scary. Count Olaf is a difficult role to play anyway. No, the movie was lacking in many things. I like to imagine it as a parody of the books, made by a low budget company, of whom only one person had read the books. I totally agree about the parody idea. I was pretty horrified at the finished product, to be honest. Even if you just say to someone who hasn't seen the movie: "Jim Carrey was cast in the role of a frightening, complex villain in a dark movie," eyebrows go up. He played it like a Disney villain, more or less, and Disney villains are great in their place, but... just not here. The only thing that I really like about the movie was the DVD commentary with Silberling and Handler.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Nov 18, 2012 8:21:04 GMT -5
I dont think you've read these books at all...
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Post by zombiesinthesnow on Dec 23, 2012 18:23:59 GMT -5
Personally, I hated him in the ASoUE movie, because he ruined the seriousness of the character.
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Post by Wrathful Writer on Apr 7, 2013 19:30:11 GMT -5
Loved him in The Truman Show, hated him in ASOUE.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 7, 2013 22:27:43 GMT -5
Jim Carrey's performance in the biopic 'Man on the Moon' actually proves that he's quite an amazing actor. The movie's so-so (kinda clichéd and overromanticized), but man, Jim downright BECOMES Andy Kaufman, it's scary.
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Post by colette on Jul 10, 2018 9:58:25 GMT -5
I have never seen him in other movies. I know that directors sometimes ruin very talented actors' career by belittling their potential and not letting them to realize it. However, I really dislike him as Olaf and don't think his acting style fits Olaf. I think it may be the director's fault, not Carrey's. I difenetely prefer Neil Patrick Harris. Especially I love this dialoge from episode 1:
Count Olaf: I hope I can prove myself to be the father you never had. Klaus: We had a father. Count Olaf: Yes, I know. And a mother. Remarkable woman. Flammable.
I was very excited by it. This dialoge made me realize that he is the Olaf I wanted to see.
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Post by Reba on Jul 10, 2018 13:59:21 GMT -5
still baffled how people on this site tore into jim carrey for over a decade because he was too goofy for count olaf but i've never seen the slightest pushback against Neil ickleing Patrick ickleing Harris
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Post by Teleram on Jul 10, 2018 14:18:00 GMT -5
He's an anti-vaxxer
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jul 10, 2018 15:07:06 GMT -5
I think the main problem with Jim Carrey as Count Olaf is that he was told to be Count Olaf, but not told how to be Count Olaf, and so proceeded to be Jim Carrey Dressed As Count Olaf.
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Post by Reba on Jul 10, 2018 15:22:51 GMT -5
well it's certainly not anyone else dressed as count olaf. he read the books and interpreted the character in a way that is both count olafish and jim carreyish, as that is who he is. carrey added more wacky oratory than is perhaps in the books, but i think it's very similar to the later TGG-era olaf. he also added a lot of physical comedy which admittedly is unique to carrey. but do you mean to say the netflix olaf is not NPH dressed as olaf? not a chance we would have gotten those bilious musical numbers if the netflix olaf wasn't unique to NPH's "talents."
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jul 10, 2018 15:41:29 GMT -5
well it's certainly not anyone else dressed as count olaf. he read the books and interpreted the character in a way that is both count olafish and jim carreyish, as that is who he is. carrey added more wacky oratory than is perhaps in the books, but i think it's very similar to the later TGG-era olaf. he also added a lot of physical comedy which admittedly is unique to carrey. but do you mean to say the netflix olaf is not NPH dressed as olaf? not a chance we would have gotten those bilious musical numbers if the netflix olaf wasn't unique to NPH's "talents." That's true. I do think NPH works better for the role than JC, but no, I didn't really mean to compare the two with that comment.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Jul 10, 2018 16:17:56 GMT -5
not a chance we would have gotten those bilious musical numbers if the netflix olaf wasn't unique to NPH's "talents." Handler has literally said in multiple interviews that he personally chose Neil Patrick Harris because he wrote musical numbers into the show. Not the other way around. Daniel Handler is also very open about the fact that he loves music and musicals, after all, there's a reason why he's written the lyrics to every single song that's appeared in the Netflix series. Hell, if you go back to some of the first pages in this sub-forum, you can see that Daniel Handler and Barry Sonnenfeld were pitching the movie as a musical all the way back in 2001.
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Post by Reba on Jul 10, 2018 16:34:44 GMT -5
sure, we wouldn't have gotten NPH without the musical additions and we wouldn't have gotten the musical additions without NPH, my point stands. anyway, i don't know why you're acting like daniel handler's preferences add some credence to the decisions made in the netflix show. adaptation to the screen is a wholly separate writing skill, the fact that he wrote good books is irrelevant to his ability to turn them into good movies/tv. (ntm his screenplays for 'rick" and "kill the poor" are abysmal)
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Jul 10, 2018 16:50:17 GMT -5
My point wasn't that I think Daniel Handler's work on the show is perfect, in fact, the episodes he's written tend to be my least favourites.
My point was that the idea of making the books' screen adaptation a musical, existed well over a decade before Netflix even bought the rights to make the show, let alone began the process of casting it.
Personally, I don't really care which version of Olaf people prefer. I think both have their advantages and disadvantages. I only wanted to correct the misconception that NPH's casting was the reason for the musical numbers.
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