![]() ![]() The greeting-card poems that the original Deeds wrote may not have been literary masterpieces, but they passed muster as what they were. This requires changing Deeds from a simple man to a simpleton. The greater problem lies in the idea of taking a fairly serious role conceived for a light leading man and transforming it into something suitable for a broad comic with a penchant for “shtick” comedy. With his rumpled clothing, boorish - occasionally psychotic (he doesn’t just punch people, he pummels them) - behavior, and his circa 1952 Jerry Lewis haircut, he comes across more as a pathetic 30-something who never got past hanging out in shopping center parking lots with his “buds.” That’s only part of the problem with Mr. Regardless, I’m going on record as saying he ain’t no Gary Cooper. The scary thing is that it’s hard not to think this is how Sandler himself feels - and when you’re making movies for your own production company that are written (considering the huge chunks of Robert Riskin’s 1936 script that are lifted intact for this, transcribed might be a better word) and directed by your best friends, I suppose you might well have trouble not feeling this way. This Deeds is the center of the known universe - and he’s fully aware of it. And it’s no surprise, since in the Sandler film everyone in Mandrake Falls (which has apparently fallen prey to continental drift and is now in New Hampshire) exists solely as an extension of Sandler’s Longfellow Deeds. Deeds, with Deeds boarding a fancy helicopter to claim his $40 billion inheritance (inflation, you know) - except for one thing: Deeds’ realization of how many friends he has is conspicuously absent. Almost exactly the same scene occurs in Steven Brill’s Adam Sandlerized version of the story, Mr. As he looks out over the assembled crowd, he mutters, “Gee, I’ve got a lot of friends.” It’s a simple, heartfelt, wonderful little moment in a film filled with such moments. on his trip to New York to collect his $20 million (interestingly, the amount of Sandler’s guaranteed salary for the new version) inheritance. Deeds Goes to Town, where Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) is packed off on a train by the townsfolk of Mandrake Falls, Vt. Gross worldwide: US$171,269,537.There’s a scene early on in Frank Capra’s 1936 classic, Mr. Though critically panned, the film was a major financial success. “I have always looked at myself as an actor,” says Turturro, who was born in Queens, the middle son of a working-class Italian-American family. That’s Model Year 2000 Corvettes, not 2,000 actual ‘vettes… though Longfellow Deeds’ mythical home town of Mandrake Falls probably had more than a couple thousand residents. He played a demented version of himself (or maybe it was his regular self) in Mr. Deeds?īehold, another Adam Sandler movie cameo was made by John McEnroe in both Mr. Deeds: New Milford, CT., Newburgh, NY., Carmel, NY., New York, NY., Los Angeles, CA., Pasadena, CA. Where is Mr Deeds filmed?įilming locations for Mr. Babe, aka “Pam Dawson” : I’m from a little town like that. Just a little town nobody’s ever heard of. Emilio has a foot fetish.īabe, aka “Pam Dawson” : Where do you hail from, Deeds? Longfellow Deeds : Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire. ![]() Consider a scene where Deeds meets his new butler Emilio (John Turturro). ![]()
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