Well, after my previous rant against remakes, it’d be truly uninspired if I were to select one here since we’ve been given the option to choose something fresh. That being said, I’ve opted to go with a Brian Wind original storyline for this challenge. It’s a horror comedy starring Adam Sandler. Surprised at my A-list selection? Me too. In fact, when I first read the challenge, I couldn’t fathom Sandler in a horror film, but as the story came to me, I couldn’t picture the starring role going to anybody but him. So without any further ado, on with the challenge…
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- You have to research into the actor's past characters and come up with something which suits their on-screen persona.
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Shakes the Clown –plays a beer drinking clown that helps his friend, Shakes, clear his name after he’s framed for a crime he didn’t commit.
Airheads –plays the lovable, but dense, drummer for a rock band that hijacks a radio station to get airplay.
Billy Madison –plays the grown up son of a rich businessman who goes back to school in order to prove his worth to his father.
Happy Gilmore –plays a foul mouthed hockey player who takes to the golf course after realizing his monstrous drive may be the only chance he has to save his grandmother’s house.
Bulletproof – plays a small time criminal being brought to justice by his former best friend, an undercover detective, but he manages to help bring down a major crime boss along the way.
The Wedding Singer – plays a down and out wedding crooner that must figure out a way to persuade the girls of his dreams to ditch her asshole fiancé in favor of him.
The Waterboy – plays a waterboy for a college football team that gets promoted to a player when the coach realizes he has a knack for tackling.
Big Daddy – plays a slacker that takes in a kid in order to win back his ex-girlfriend.
Little Nicky – plays the son of Satan, sent to Earth to save his father and stop his two brothers from creating Hell on Earth.
Punch Drunk Love – plays a guy with some severe issues that attempts to work through them when a mysterious woman enters his life.
Mr. Deeds - plays a small town guy that suddenly comes in to a large sum of money and moves to the big city where anyone and everyone is quick to try taking advantage of him.
Anger Management – plays a mild mannered guy who, after a misunderstanding on an airplane, is sentenced to anger management counseling with a borderline psychotic doctor.
50 First Dates – plays a timid guy that meets the girl of his dreams only to realize she suffers from a memory disorder and if he wants to keep her, he’ll have to win over from scratch every single day.
Spanglish – plays an eccentric chef who’s world begins to crumble around him, but finds strength in his family and his Mexican housekeeper and her daughter.
The Longest Yard – plays an ex football player that lands himself in prison and is tasked with the duty of assembling a team of inmates to take on the guards.
Click – plays a workaholic that ends up with a remote control that affects his daily life and in the process learns what he’s been missing out on while he’s always working.
Reign Over Me – plays an unemployed guy suffering from depression after the loss of his family on 9/11 that meets up with an old college buddy and discovers they may be able to help each other overcome their problems.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry – plays a straight firefighter pretending to be gay in order to help out his friend and his friend’s children.
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan – plays an Israeli spy that gives up his life of espionage to become a hairstylist in America.
Bedtime Stories – plays a guy that sees all his dreams shattered only to discover they may still be possible when the bedtime stories he tells his sister’s kids start coming true.
Adam Sandler generally plays the role of a naive, but likable and charming everyman that has trouble attaining what he strives for. Some of his characters have tempers that flare, others get stepped on by those around them but they are usually all trying to do the right thing in the end.
In short, he usually plays someone that most of us can identify with.
With few exceptions (Punch Drunk Love, Reign Over Me), Adam Sandler is a comedy actor. His range within the comedy genre varies from romantic comedies (Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates) to action comedies (Bulletproof) to dark comedies (Shakes the Clown, Little Nicky) to sports comedies (Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Longest Yard) to teen comedies (Billy Madison, Airheads, Chuck & Larry, Zohan) to adult comedies (Click, Spanglish, Anger Management). Most recently, he’s even cleaned up the pottymouth and made for the kids (Bedtime Stories). The only hole on his comedy resume is horror comedy, which I’m sure he’d be eager to fill if the right script came along. (An argument could be made that Little Nicky is a horror comedy, but I would disagree and so would imdb.com. Little Nicky is a goofball comedy that happens to take place in Hell. While the overall theme may be somewhat dark, the tone of the film is very lighthearted and playful.)
The films he makes are generally formulaic, lighthearted fun so that was what I went for with...