Name The Adam Sandler Movie From Just One Secondary Character
- by Jacob Ormrod
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- in Movies and TV
There are some people out there that manage to find success, that manage to reach for the stars because they give themselves to their craft, creating art well beyond any of our imaginations. They become legends for what they achieve and prove that anything is possible if we just put our mind to it. However, there are others out there who find success because they want money, want a chance to use entertainment to get fame and fortune. We believe that Adam Sandler is one of the latter.
We're not saying there's anything wrong with this though! Sandler has brought a lot of joy to a lot of people's lives with his writing and acting. Alongside that, he has managed to make a hell of a lot of money and create many characters that people remember fondly. This is why we decided to make a quiz to see how many of you Sandler fans are able to name one of his films based on a secondary character. All we're giving you is an image of a character and we want to see if you can guess which Sandler film that image is from!
So, are you ready to prove that you're the biggest Sandler fan out there? Want to show up anyone else who thinks they're more of a Sandler fan than you? Well, here is your chance so let's get started!
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
This film sees Sandler's character going back to school to prove to his father that he's smart enough to run his company. This sort of thing has been done before and we imagine it will always be successful with people. For some reason, that sort of comedy that arises out of an adult being placed into a child's situation is the sort of comedy that all people can enjoy. We suppose it makes the comedy universal for anyone watching it.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
If there's one thing you can't accuse Sandler of, it's never allowing himself to play different characters. The man has played an entire raft of characters, and while they were always in the same sorts of comedies, that doesn't mean it doesn't take at least some acting skill to jump in and out of the skin of other people. The guy likes to mix it up, which you have to admire in some way, as it means he's trying new things.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
While Sandler usually likes to appear in the films that he himself has written or directed, starting out writing his own material as a stand up comic, that doesn't mean he doesn't appear in other people's movies as well. In fact, we see to find that he performs best when he's placed into a film that somebody else has written. Maybe that space from the script gives him the chance to really develop the character. He has less time to end up overdeveloping it.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
As we turned the corner of the millennium, people without learning disabilities pretending to have them on camera started to very quickly get uncomfortable for anyone over a certain age. For some reason, just like Sandler in this film, actors were getting away with it for much longer than you'd assume was allowed. How there wasn't people turning up to protest this film about a kid obsessed with water who turns out to be a great football player is beyond us.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
The thing about comedy is that you can often add jokes onto other genres, such as the Western, which is exactly what Sandler attempted to do with this feature film. If we're honest, after Blazing Saddles it sort of feels like attempting to create a comedy Western is doomed to fail. How can you watch a film like that and think it's a good idea to try and top it. There is just no point guys. They've already done it better.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
The romantic comedy is something that allows writers a bit of an easy ride, as they know they've got the general set up covered from the start, only having to worry about filling in the details as they go. The premise of this romantic comedy is that the female lead has a problem with memory loss, so as Sandler's character continues to fall in love with her, she is systematically forgetting every time they meet. On paper, it's pretty depressing!
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Comedy films are sort of seen as being lesser than dramatic films, but the people who love film know that a great comic actor can never be topped by someone who is better with dramatic roles. Sometimes, people are able to utilise their talents and appear in both dramatic and comedic films. The ability to appear angry, both sincerely and in an over-the-top manner, is a skill that can gain you prestige in both dramatic and comedic roles, as this movie proves.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
We always got a little bit uncomfortable round films like this. In this film, Sandler's character reluctantly takes his friends son on board, looking after him when nobody else is able to. However, he slowly grows to love the kid, fighting to keep him, even though he has no right to the child. If this happened in real life, you would find it incredibly uncomfortable, but for some reason the film manages to get away with it. It's pretty grim when you think about it though...
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
The concept of being able to mess with time, whether it's to rewind to the past, fast forward to the future, or pause time right where it is, is something that we all have dreamt about at some point in our lives. Time is the only constant, pretty much the only thing we truly have no control over, and yet it has so much control over us. If you can control time like Sandler's character, surely you'd have no troubles?
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
One of our favorite forms of writing is metafiction, taking a look back at the real world, putting the fiction into a space where it is referencing itself. This film is written by comedians and details the life of various comedians, including Sandler, who is known for many young American comedians as ushering in a whole group of new comics. These people idolise him, so to get to appear alongside him must have been a pretty amazing thing to do.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
We know that comedies are usually absurd, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be at least somewhat believable, which is why we always struggle with comedy films that include adult characters who behave like children. They're always living happy lives and feel like they need to get away, when really they'd be doing terribly. Growing up and maturing is part of being an adult, whether adult comedians want to accept that or not. You can have fun, but you have responsibilities as well.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
A lot of Sandler's earlier work seemed to stick with a particular framework, whether it was about golf or something else, in that he always played the good guy and there was a larger villain that needed to be defeated. Thankfully, he has moved away from this as he's got older, as we find the whole setup to be pretty juvenile. We all know that there are no truly good and truly bad people in this world. It's a lot more complex than that.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Some people have posited the idea that what Sandler has been doing with his career for the past few years is set up a way for him and his friends to make a lot of money, which you can't really fault him for wanting to do. That's why you always see him in films with the same people, films that go on to make a hell of a lot of money when you compare them to the weirder comedy that's going on out there.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
When we first saw the trailer for this film, we thought it was a parody, a farce making fun of people like Eddie Murphy who have ruined their career by appearing in films where he played two different character. No, you it was played straight faced, and we were supposed to find it funny that Sandler was not only playing a man, but playing that man's sister as well, heavily made up and in a fat suit. It was ridiculous.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
If you and your career soar early on, just as Jennifer Aniston did, then you may find that the entertainment industry isn't offering you much once you have to make your way back into the business, looking for work. Of all the people in Friends, she has done the best, but she still has to end up in boy meets girl romantic comedies just like this one, which we imagine isn't what she was dreaming of when she was studying acting.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Comedies, not matter what they're about, don't often tend to have an odd aesthetic unless they're going for something weird or indie. However, if you're going to make a comedy that includes the devil or the son of the devil, we suppose that you must have to add some sort of weird vibes into it just to keep with the feeling of the piece. Sure, they were going for something mainstream with this film, but they also got pretty weird with it as well.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Hollywood has a habit of rehashing things, taking something that was successful once and then pushing it to the absolute limit, which is exactly what happened with this film. They remade a very old film, adding their own modern take on it. It would be a lie to say that this lives up to the original, but it also isn't the worse thing that Sandler has ever made either. The film gets a couple of chuckles out of us, which is more than we can say for some of his later works...
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
If you're seen as an icon in your field, taking on people who are younger or more experienced than you and giving them a shot is just the right thing to do. We like to think that's why Sandler ended up appearing in a film with Sandberg. There was a chance that Sandberg looked up to this man when he was younger, was part of the reason he decided he wanted to make people laugh, and then he appeared with him in a film!
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Just because he usually works in mainstream comedy, that doesn't mean Sandler has never appeared in anything that was a bit odd, or even absolutely smashed it out of the park with some of his acting appearances. Films like this are part of the reason some people argue that he's just trying to have a good time with his mates at this point in his career, while also giving them a chance to make a lot of money and live a good life.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
After romance plots, action is the genre that Hollywood usually goes for when they're looking to add some extra pull to their comedies. This way, if people don't think that it looks funny enough, there's a chance they'll come along for the ride if there's some cheap thrills on offer. Sometimes this can work very well, while other times it just give you both a bad comedy and a bad action film rather than a brilliant mixture of the two.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
This film attempts to walk the uncomfortable line that is magic realism, which can be a real struggle if you want to get it right. Sadly, this Sandler vehicle wasn't able to cut it if the box office figures and critical response are anything to go by. The weird thing is, this isn't even one that Sandler set up himself for him and his mates. It was written and directed by somebody else. We guess there's no end to lack of talent in Hollywood.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
The problem with films that try to do both drama and comedy is that you have to write a very good script if you don't want to end up under cutting the dramatic flair by making jokes. We think that this film actually gets a lot of it right, but it also struggles to decide what it actually wants to be. It's not a great watch, but it's not terrible either, a rather easy film that doesn't ask too much of you.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Believe it or not, but this film was actually somewhat of a roast at Sandler's long term manager, which is a pretty dangerous thing if you ask us. In a lot of ways, this is the middle man between you and your career, the man that can get you jobs or pass you over for them. That being said, we imagine it's a lot easier to do something like this when you're as famous as Sandler and anyone would want to be your agent.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Trying to deal with a topic, a tragic topic, that actually took place within the real world, can be a difficult thing to do well. If you're not careful, you end up hurting a lot of people. This film tries to tell the story of a man who lost his family in the 9/11 attacks, and while it doesn't fall short of something worth watching, it also isn't the grand piece of art that we think the creators wanted it to be.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
It's a shame that this movie didn't do so well, as we believe that it's dealing with a topic that no other films seems to have picked up. We often deem some topics of discussion as more important than others, even though they can all have socially disastrous effects. Online addiction is a modern concern, one that some don't know how to deal with, and one of the ways of changing that is creating art that genuine investigates the issue.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
It's a generally accepted fact that in the world of entertainment, and in other career paths as well, you're going to take jobs at the start that you wouldn't if you had genuine options. That's just what it's like for people who haven't proven themselves yet, which is a shame but is also an understandable fact of life. We think that this is one of those films for Sandler. There's no chance you'd see him in something like this at this point in his career.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Unsurprisingly, people will tend to appear in films with people that they've already appeared with, as we imagine they become friends with them. Not only that, but if they find they've got some sort of chemistry on screen, other people working on the film will want to get them involved as well. In fact, finding an actor that you work well with, especially if they're the opposite gender, can be a great thing for an actors career. Opens up a lot of doors.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
If you're looking to make some money in the entertainment industry, you could do a lot worse than making films that are directed at children. If you can manage to write a script that can keep the adults hooked as well then you're onto a real winner. We feel like Sandler was going for the former here, but there's not much to come back for if you're over a certain age. The kids will enjoy it though, which should keep them quiet for a bit!
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
Musicians have long been the butt of the joke, especially drummers, so it's no surprise that Sandler has actually played a drummer at some point in his career. We'll be honest, we've only watched through the film once when we were younger, and all we can say is that we can't believe that Steve Buscemi would put his name to this sort of thing. That is a man who has appeared in some of the greatest films of the past twenty years, yet he's also in this.
Can You Name This Adam Sandler Movie?
No matter how big and famous and actor is, they will have those films from the past that pretty much nobody remembers. In this film, Sandler played the part of a clown, a part that makes a lot of sense when you think about it. The guy has been playing a clown his entire life after all! That being said, this is a film about foul mouthed clowns, drunken clowns that only seem to do things to make their own lives better.