: Man on the Moon
Author: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Director: Milos Forman
Recommendation: learn something about Andy Kaufmann before you see this movie; you’ll enjoy it more. I watched an Andy biography prior to seeing the movie and I’m really glad I did. Andy was a complex man — by the time the movie explains enough of him to make sense to you, the film’s nearly over. That said, this is an great film. Carrey’s performance is fantastic — he not only does Andy, but all of Andy’s alter-egos (Andy was a man of a thousand faces). I never watched Taxi or really even heard of Andy before this movie, but I can tell he was a performer I would have liked. He basically enjoyed fooling people by pretending to be things he wasn’t. He was the ultimate “boy who cried wolf.” The film plays up the ironies inherent with such a character, showing us how the tabloid newspapers refused to run stories of Andy having cancer, when he really did, because they didn’t want to be fooled by another Andy prank. This movie is a real mind-trip into the head of Andy Kaufmann. He’s such a fascinating man I’m going to keep an eye out for him; I’d like to see more.
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