Unlike Chow's typical mo lei tau films, King of Comedy verges on comedy-drama, describing the trials and tribulation an aspiring actor experiences on his way to stardom. Some commentators[who?] say the story is based on Chow's early career, as he started off as a temporary actor, before becoming a successful and popular comedy actor over the course of a decade. The film features a short cameo by Jackie Chan, who also got his start as an extra.
Wan Tin-sau is the head of his village's community centre, where he gives acting lessons and host community plays. On the side, he is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a movie extra, often taking his work too seriously for the roles he receives.
One day, a group of club girls come to ask Wan to help them act like innocent schoolgirls so they can make more money. One of the girls, Lau Piu-piu, although skeptical of advice from an unsuccessful actor, becomes a better actress through Wan's instruction and falls in love with him.
When both characters finally make love, Wan searches his home for enough money to pay Piu-piu for her "services", since he thinks she slept with him for money. After Piu-piu leaves him in anger, he goes back to the film studio and receives a part as leading actor next to a legendary actress, Sister Cuckoo. During this time, Wan reconciles with Piu-piu and he pledges to support her for the rest of his life.
Just as Wan is about to settle in the life of a movie star, his part is given back to a highly sought after male lead. Luckily, he regains his confidence with the help of the misanthropic lunchman at the studio, who is secretly a C.I.B. agent. Wan is used in an undercover operation, where he is disguised as a delivery boy and made to deliver a hidden gun and listening device inside take-out food. Although the ruse is discovered and the C.I.B. undercover agent is shot, Wan takes up the gun and saves the day. The lunchman is rushed to the hospital and survives his wounds.
After a somewhat successful sting, Wan finally becomes famous through a performance of the Thunder Storm. The actors include Piu-piu, Sister Cuckoo, and his wanna-be Triad students. The end of the film involves a blatant marketing plug for Pringles brand potato chips. The entire cast of the play stands backstage rehearsing their lines while literally stuffing their mouths full of Pringles, with the logos of all five cans clearly facing towards the camera. At one point, Wan and one of his triad students argue over who should play the role of Bruce Lee's character, when another actor screams "don't fight, eat chips!" When the closing credits roll, a quick Pringles advertisement appears on the screen.
Standing on its own, The New King of Comedy is merely a competent comedy-drama. There are jokes and feel-good moments and family values, but nothing that makes it any more special than your run-of-the-mill New Year movie. In comparison to its source material, The New King of Comedy is only a disappointment. It has none of the creativity, humor, or charm of King of Comedy, making it a pointless remake that fails to reinvent or expand on the original.
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Like an aspiring John Hughes, Tom Wolfe, or Joe Piscopo, all-time great horror scribe Stephen King decided he wanted to take a stab at satirizing the 1980s. And by poking fun at at the citizens of Castle Rock in his novel Needful Things, he thought he had the perfect vehicle. It was also the first novel that he was going to try to write sober, which, while definitely a good thing for King, may not have been a good thing for comedy.
Lawnmower Man, based very loosely on a short story by King, keeps getting funnier as time goes on due to two factors: 1) The Tommy Wiseau-level lead performance by Jeff Fahey and 2) the computer-generated special effects, somehow unbelievably advanced (for 1992) and jaw-droppingly crude at the same time.
The plot: A comet passes the earth, making trucks come alive with evil menace. You know, as comets do. Apparently, the cosmic streaker has infected all machines -- when King (making a cameo in his own movie) tries to use an ATM, it calls him an a**hole.
Wan Tin-Sau is an actor who cannot seem to catch a break, since his only professional jobs are limited to being a movie extra. As well as being an actor, he is also the head of his village's community center.
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