Cinema
Funny People
When Life is
Comically redeemed
By: By: Iman Abdelwahed
and Hala Aljairoudi
George Simon, a famous Hollywood stand-up comedian with a successful career, who lives in solitary having no friends and away from his family, comes to learn how a fatal blood illness threatens his life. With this traditional old-fashioned cinematic plot, Funny People, an American recent movie, realized substantial success since it first opened in theaters on July 31st, 2009.
George goes into a depression and starts to reflect back on his life. He finds solace by going back to the clubs at which he used to perform. In one of these clubs, he meets Ira Wright, a struggling comedian who is trying to find the right career path. Obviously Ira is Simon’s Paradox. Yet, how would the latter’s new outlook upon life lead the events and develop the comic- dramatic plot and the two lead characters’ newly established relation? The answer is revealed throughout the film, which also ends in a traditional way any viewer may expect.
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Adam Sandler
A prominent multi-talented Hollywood figure who is known as a comedian, actor, writer and producer. Adam Sandler initiated a new comedy genre associated with his formulaic comic wackiness which is typical of his movies. Star of hit movies such as “Billy Madison” (1995) and “The Waterboy” (1998).
Judd Apatow
An American Emmy Award-winning film producer, screenwriter, director and former stand-up comedian. Apatow began his career as a stand-up comedian at an early age. He produced comedies, some of which are: Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, and Funny People.
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