Eduardo Herrera
Film History 2
Professor Brian Oakes
The King of Comedy
The king of comedy is a movie
directed by Martin Scorsese. It is one of his lesser-known films. It is also one of his films that takes a
different approach to his style of directing movies. The movie follows Robert DeNiro’s
character Rupert Pupkin and Jerry Lewis’ character Jerry Langford. The movie
centers on Rupert trying to become a successful comedian. In his free time
Rupert fantasies about becoming a big time comedian. He believes that if he has
a chance to perform in Jerry’s show then he will be able to stroll in the doors
of success. Rupert becomes obsessed with the idea, so much that he kidnaps
Jerry Lewis. Scorsese goes deep into the
mind of Rupert. Scorsese gives us
different angles of Rupert from the guy who is just a goof at first but then
becomes desperate and turns to do rash things.
In a way this movie is backwards, usually we see the villain in the
story being a bad person, and usually the protagonist being a good guy but in
this movie the roles have been reversed. Rupert is the loveable antagonist, and
Jerry Lewis is the rude, nasty protagonist.
Robert DeNiro captures the trouble
of Rupert, Rupert is very harsh to his mother, and it seems that he will do
anything to get on TV, he is very gullible when it comes to the people who work for Jerry, until the end when he founds out that they have been lying about his location. . At the end of the
film, Rupert goes to jail but his role lands him the titles of king of
comedy. He is greeted well by the public
and his fame grows bigger than he could imagine. Fantasy is a constant theme in
the movie. Rupert is constantly fantasizing on his rise to fame and fortune,
and him and Jerry Lewis having conversations about him starting at the bottom
and getting a break. The King of Comedy
is a film, which portrays a lovable antagonist and a nasty protagonist. A king for a night is what Rupert is called
after his performance on Jerry’s show.
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