It was Russell who envisioned “The Mask” as a comedy. He’s a crime fighter, a superhero in a dark way like Deadpool.” He’s doing all these cartoony insane things. Stanley, he said, “talks to the audience” like Ryan Reynolds’ masked Deadpool. It’s interesting looking back at the film now - it’s really the precursor to ‘Deadpool’ in a lot of ways. “The Mask,” he added, “is a great combination of great source material, both the comic book and the Tex Avery cartoons and the unbelievable great casting of Jim Carrey. It had a crime noir plot and cartoon references.” It wasn’t really anything, on one hand, like ‘Roger Rabbit.’ On the other hand, it was a lot like it. Rounding out the cast was a charmer named Max, a Jack Russell Terrier, who played Stanley’s beloved pet, Milo.įeaturing Oscar and BAFTA-nominated visual effects and colorful BAFTA-nominated production design, “The Mask” made over $351 million worldwide - not bad for production budgeted at $23 million.Īnimation historian Jerry Beck noted “The Mask” was the perfect follow-up for a “film like ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit,’ which was a gigantic sensation of 1988.
Peter Greene played her boyfriend, the vile gangster Dorian Tyrell, and comic Richard Jeni was Stanley’s best friend Charlie. She proved to be a contemporary Carole Lombard and her career took off like a rocket. “The Mask” introduced movie audiences to a young model named Cameron Diaz as Tina, the object of Stanley’s affections. The masked Stanley is a human Tex Avery cartoon, a wisecracking zoot-suited dynamo who cracks wise and dances a la Carmen Miranda to the Desi Arnaz song “Cuban Pete.”
0 kommentar(er)
