Leslie Nielsen died at the age of 84 years of complications from pneumonia. I suggest either this evening or THE NAKED GUN, THE INCREDIBLE regarded TRAVEL IN A PLANE CRAZY, while drinking a glass of Leslie. Few other has given us so many times getting them to laugh uncontrollably tears.
He was actually for decades as a serious actor on the move: As commander in Forbidden Planet, as a captain in The Poseidon Adventure, in dozens of American television series. And is fair to say that it was precisely the fact that he was not crazy good at serious roles, which laid the foundation for his later career as a comedian: The ZAZ team declared on the audio commentary for THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY etc . that they Nielsen (and Peter Graves) have occupied precisely because he can be stiff and with the utmost seriousness the recent nonsense from him. So it was always amusing to spot him in old movies: Almost reflexively have to smile, because it was exactly this game later used in the comedies as brilliant - forgiven no sign of a meaningful glance, the body straight and seriously put forward the text whether it is B-movie nonsense or dramatic gold now. All this means, of course not mean that we have not always seen Leslie like .
But his Legacy is his second career, in which the world exposed sank about Leslie in chaos, film conventions, and puns were torn, and where the central character is not perceived that they themselves were causing the whole disaster, while also not the slightest idea was that something like this could be funny. (! Including the previous one, then still flopped television series Police Squad) The brilliance of THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY and THE NAKED GUN-trilogy, none of the later films, which adheres to these successes like the class and never reached this strip - the managed not even CANNON-director David Zucker himself with his later SCARY MOVIE 3 & 4 movies But Leslie himself was always wonderful to see how he is talking nonsense and the last is truly too stupid for anything - whether in the mostly tired AGENT 00, in the forced MR. MAGOO, or quite amusing VERY SUSPICIOUS where a lady pointed it out that he was just to the back part of their long-haired dog speaks, and he replies with a patented Nielsen-zero expression: "He is the treat may not at all well, the I have given degree. "
If you look closely, you realize how accurate his timing is always - as every joke is sitting with precision. So it is not an absolute coincidence that he seems so funny, and no pleasure in the failure: The effect may have something to do with a certain timber unit in the game, but the use of the Leslie effect was sovereign in his hand. And when we read that he earned a few years ago on stage with the dramatic one-man Clarence Darrow much praise and applause, we certainly can imagine that he could do more than has been largely seen. Nielsen is perhaps because most of Shatner compare to his early dramatic roles also had times like stiff, and now scores in his later years with self-mockery, and then acting but still amazing shows.
matter. We salute Leslie and laugh always happy with him and his wonderful characters.
I would also point to the beautiful obituary by Craig Mazin, who has worked at three of Leslie's late projects - as a co-author of SCARY MOVIE 3 & 4 and as a writer & director of SUPERHERO MOVIE. Craig writes:
He was a gentleman, a man's man from an era that's sadly bygone. Even in his old age, he was tall, broad and strong. He treated everyone with kindness. It did not matter that I was the new guy. It did not matter that I was the four thousandth director that had come and gone for him. It did not matter that he had in his career Achieved more than I could ever hope to in ten lifetimes.
It did not matter that I asked him to do and say things no octagenarian should do or say.
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