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The King of Comedy is Scorsese and De Niro’s meditation of the often hostile lines that form between private and public life, and it remains one of the most eerily prescient films of the 1980s.
Mar 27, 2016 · Pupkin is naive, inept, annoying, cloying, clueless and largely untalented, but armed with a single-minded perseverance that is able to overcome each and every one of these deficiencies. Not in a feel-good, overcoming-the-odds, Rudy -type way, though. In fact, not a single thing in this film ever, ever feels good.
Yes, The King of Comedy bombed at box office when released... but it's become extremely well-regarded since then and despite financial losses, it was still regarded highly by those that did see it (critics) when released.
The King of Comedy is a 1982 [3] American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro (in his fifth collaboration with Scorsese), Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard. [4]
Dec 8, 2023 · Martin Scorsese still hasn't reconciled with 'The King of Comedy' flopping at the box office, but it's long since been cemented as one of his finest films.
Jun 27, 2016 · In The King of Comedy, no-talent obsessive Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) stalks his way to success after he kidnaps talk-show idol Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) and bullies his way into getting...
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Mar 12, 2021 · Scorsese’s work in The King of Comedy may be a kind of homage to old masters, but he can’t quite disguise his ambivalence: he holds the camera on his minimalist compositions, the rock-like figures set against stark and cheerless decor, but it’s not because they’re so damn beautiful.
