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June 28, 2021 – 11:39 am
The work consecrated the award-winning company Zaz, a trio of screenwriters, revolutionizing the canons of comedy. And revealing the acting skills of Leslie Nelsen., Hitherto luxury supporting actor
of Filippo Mazzarella
On June 27, 1991, it was released in American theaters A blunt bullet 2 ½ – The smell of fear, the first of two sequels to the adventures of Lieutenant Frank Drebin inaugurated by The Naked Gun, three years earlier. The hugely successful and somewhat unexpectedly successful series of parody films took off from the 1982 TV series with a very short life Police Squad (only 6 episodes before its irrevocable cancellation), in turn a parody of the popular Lieutenant Ballinger (M Squad), played in 1957 by Lee Marvin. At the top of the operation, the trio made up of the director-screenwriter brothers David and Jerry Zucker with Jim Abrahams, or the infamous company ZAZ (acronym of their respective surnames) which at the end of the seventies revolutionized American comedy by defining that “insane humor ”Which held the table in various capacities for at least two decades before falling back into more superficial and becere forms (from Scary Movie to go down). By applying a healthy relativism, one can also spend on their works (the epochal The craziest plane in the world, 1980, but even more the formidable Top Secret!, 1984, preceded by the general rehearsals of Laugh to laugh, 1977, second direction by John Landis of which only the screenplay signed) the qualification of masterpiece: and A blunt bullet 2 ½ – The smell of fear, seen today, represents not only the testimony of an unrepeatable verve vomica but also of a free, irreverent, allusive and above all intelligent cinema that has become a very rare commodity in the media (and “political”) confusion of the third millennium.
June 28, 2021 | 11:39
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