In The Mind Of Rupert Pupkin | Character Analysis
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2022
- In this entry we’ll be taking a closer look at the mind of Rupert Pupkin (Robert DeNiro) from The King of Comedy.
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One of Robert De Niro’s best roles along with taxi driver also taxi driver + king of comedy = joker.
OMG one of my suggestions. Thank you so much. I watched this movie two months ago for the first time and fell in love with it and had to get a DVD copy. It's amazing, creepy and so relevant. Celeb worship, fans stalking their idols and so on. Thank you again
As a former journalist and film reviewer who worked the local film Festival circuit in my town, Rupert Pupkin reminds me o f some people I came across in film lines or at events. People I couldn't stand .
This is why The King Of Comedy has always been so unnerving yet hynotically watchable to me over the years.
It's scary how true this type of person really is in this movie. Really scary.
Some of the people in power or who have made it in life are scary.
I haven't watched this video yet (I'm sure I'll like it though) but I wanted to say thank you for this upload! A very underrated Scorsese film imho, it honestly disturbed me b/c I could see bits and pieces of Rupert in myself if I'm being completely honest.
Even to this day this movie is still relevant with how it portrays fame and extreme insecurity/delusions of grandeur. I'd put this one up there with Casino and Goodfella's in my top 3 Scorsese flicks. I'm looking forward to watching this later on, take care!
I think the ambiguous ending works in both ways.
1) If it's all a fantasy as if Rupert misinterpreted his newfound "fame". As the network only allowed him to do his standup routine as shock value to boost their ratings, and now he's famous for all the wrong reasons, kind of similar to Tommy Wiseau after he made "The Room".
2) If it is real and Rupert is a worldwide phenomenon, but realizes he's not truly happy, despite achieving his hopes and dreams. Jerry Langston, despite being a celebrity isn't happy either because he lives alone and has no family. Despite having a massive fanbase, nobody loves Jerry for who he was outside his career, and now that pain has fallen on Rupert.
Rupert Pupkin is another example of a Robert DeNiro character, who suffers from the flaw of denial. Like many DeNiro characters, much of the conflict in the film is caused by Pupkin’s denial of the world around him, namely how people react to his crap. Pupkin never considers that he’s at fault for anything and believes people’s reasonable discomfort around him is unfair. He is also unwilling to face his own faults and take action to correct them, due to this denial.
You say he wasnt funny, but he was just as funny as Jerry Langford. When he actually gets on stage, he didnt flub, didn't freeze up, and the audience liked him.
Consider this: if UA-cam or Instagram had existed in his day, he mightve gotten a little channel going and been happy, and had have never done what he did.
I think youd find theres very little difference between Rupert and every other ambitious person.
Exactly. The people who have "made" it in life are somewhat suspect. Who knows how many people they stepped on to get there. Like the so called rich neighborhoods.
Annie Wilkes from "Misery" please
Personally, I think the ending is another fantasy.
can you do Lord Henry Blackwood from Sherlock Holmes?
I’ll look into it, but it may take a while.
Dr Hannibal Lecter and Mason Virgil from “Hannibal”
3:22 Had the film included Jerry Langford’s TV monologue-available on UA-cam as a deleted scene-it would’ve sunk the film, as it is straight Jerry-Lewis-unfunny, compared to Pupkin’s monologue on the show.