![]() ![]() The entire scene of Ventura impersonating a dolphin trainer by the name of Heinz Getwellvet was cut from the movie’s theatrical screening and added back in for the VHS release with the always enticing “footage not seen in theaters” tag.ĩ. Ventura’s cover as dolphin trainer Heinz Getwellvet wasn’t in the theatrical release. ![]() Shadyac wanted a name with some credibility to pair with Carrey and Tone Loc sorta, kinda had that in 1993. Carrey was still just a Living Color cast member at the time and Friends hadn’t premiered yet. As strange as it seems now, Tone Loc was the biggest name in the cast upon filming the movie. Tone Loc was the biggest actor in the movie. ![]() When Carrey appeared on Inside The Actor’s Studio, he told James Lipton about his dinner with Anthony Hopkins and the discovery that they had both based their character’s movements off animals Carrey’s on birds and Hopkins’ on reptiles.ħ. In the movie, Ace compares Ray Finkle’s room to the prison cell of Hannibal Lecter in Silence Of The Lambs. Ace Ventura and Hannibal Lecter are the result of the same method of acting. You might also notice Ventura’s similar manner of speaking to Carrey’s the In Living Color sketch, “Overly Confident Gay Man.”Ħ. Frustrated with trying to find the right tone for his character’s lines, Carrey used a voice from one of the characters in his stand-up act and applied it to his Ace Ventura table-read. Ventura’s cadence and trademark phrase didn’t fully develop until after Carrey did several read-throughs of the script. Ventura’s trademark phrase “Alrighty then” came from Carrey’s stand-up act. Carrey’s family had financial struggles when he was growing-up in Canada, and they lived in an apartment building managed by Schikedanz Brothers. Shickadance, which is probably somewhat similar to Carrey’s own childhood. Ventura has a contentious relationship with his landlord Mr. Ventura’s landlord is named after the landlord of the apartment building Jim Carrey grew-up in. Carrey approached Newborn about giving the theme song more of a “thrash-metal edge,” but test audiences found it too harsh and it was toned down considerably.Ĥ. The theme was conducted by Ira Newborn and director Tom Shadyac wanted something similar to the Peter Gunn theme. Carrey also had an influence over the movie’s theme song. SOUNDCLOUD COLORCAST 13 MOVIEPart of the negotiation for his contract with the movie included a concert scene with the band.ģ. Cannibal Corpse performed their song, “Hammer Smashed Face” because the Buffalo, New York band was a favorite of Carrey’s in his younger days. Death metal band Cannibal Corpse appears in the movie because of Carrey. Actor Rick Moranis was approached about the part, but chose to turn it down and do the live-action version of The Flintstones instead.Ģ. ![]() As difficult as it is to imagine another actor in the Ace Ventura role, Carrey wasn’t the studio’s first choice. Jim Carrey wasn’t the first choice for Ace Ventura. (It also gave millions of 14 year-old boys the ammunition to annoy the hell out of everyone for the rest of the decade.) It was inevitable that he would go on to bigger things after In Living Color, but probably not even Carrey dreamed Ace Ventura would be his vehicle to $20 million per picture paydays only a few years later.įrom Cannibal Corpse cameos to Ace Ventura’s Hannibal Lecter acting connection, here are 15 facts to celebrate one of the stupidest - and I mean that in the nicest way possible - comedies of the last 20 years.ġ. In this one I talk about getting screwed while buying a truck, body odor, run the jewels, and routine creativity.Who could have predicted that a film about a man with talking butt cheeks co-starring Tone Loc would have been such a hit at the box office? Besides being an incredibly successful film for Warner Brothers, it skyrocketed Jim Carrey to movie star status. SOUNDCLOUD COLORCAST 13 MANUALProlly the best colorcast I've put down in a while and it's special to me because i did it on the tail end of a full day of manual labor with achey kidneys. ![]()
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