“The Fever Pitch” The moment when the movie goddess smiled on Farrelly, the successor of traditional American cinema

Classic plot from Hawks and Wilder

Farrelly's films tend to be talked about for the extremeness of their subject matter. ``The Fever Pitch'' also features a special character, an enthusiastic Red Sox fan, as the main character, a man and a woman with many quirks who clash and struggle, eventually coming to accept each other for who they are. . This is the lineage of the ``screwball comedies'' of Howard Hawks and others, and is the general outline of romantic movies that have been around since ancient times. Farrelly's stories, which tend to be seen as frivolous, are actually quite traditional when you look at the plot alone.

For example, ``There's Something About Mary.'' The general plot, in which a suspicious detective falls in love with the woman he is following and engages in a fierce battle between deceiving and deceiving the client, feels like something out of a Billy Wilder movie. In that case, Ben Stiller would be Jack Lemmon, Matt Dillon would be Walter Matthau, and Cameron Diaz would be Shirley MacLaine. I get excited just thinking about it.

“There's Something About Mary” preview

In reality, ``There's Something About Mary'' is full of vulgar humor, references to animal abuse, and black jokes in addition to this plot, and was rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America when it was released in the United States. Incidentally, the episode about dog abuse that makes you laugh out loud is very similar to the gag about the talented dog in Leo McCarey's `` Honeymoon Journey '' (37). The idea of ​​a performer appearing on screen and playing background music is from `` Afternoon Affair '' (57). Even these gags are treated in line with the flow of traditional American movies.

The first two minutes that only Farrelly could capture