It was an unprecedented success, it surprised everyone in theaters and today is an icon of the comedy and the actor.
Netflix continues to constantly renew its catalog With new productions, but also brings comedy classics that you can not miss. One of these cases is “The mask” the movie that catapulted Jim Carrey to stardom within the comedy-fantasy cinema, thanks to its ability to mix mood, hallucinating visual effects and an overflowing performance.
Directed by Chuck Russell, the film not only consolidated the fame of Jim Carrey, but also presented a youth cast with great spark, visual humor inspired by cartoon, as well as memorable villains and such a fun aesthetic that until today supports the passage of time.
The mask
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What the mask is about, Jim Carrey’s success in Netflix
Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is a shy, clumsy, good heart employee, but crushed for his daily insecurity. Live alone with his dog, facing teasing, humiliations, and repressed fantasies who only dare to go to the surface when he discovers one Magic mask with extraordinary powers.
This mask, related to Loki, the god of malice and mischief, transforms it completely: its appearance changes, its behavior, and also its perception of the world. Suddenly Stanley can realize his wildest, caricaturescos, overflowing; He manages to be the one who always wanted, or at least the exaggerated version of that ideal.
But the film is not just crazy jokes: there is also conflict, romance and villains on stalking. Stanley, in its normal and “masked form”, will try to conquer Tina Carlylewhile facing Dorian Tyrell’s criminal ambitions, a gangster who is also attracted to the power that the mask offers.
Netflix: Mask trailer
Netflix: Mask cast
- Jim Carrey (Stanley Ipkiss / The Mask)
- Cameron Diaz (Tina Carlyle)
- Peter Greene (Dorian Tyrell)
- Peter Riegert (Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway)
- Amy Yasbeck (Peggy Brandt)
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