Christian Koch salutes Hollywood's sidekicks, the actors who skulk in the shadows
Will Ferrell's new film, The Other Guys, features the frizzy-haired funnyman appearing alongside Mark Wahlberg, playing the titular "other" dudes, a pair of disgraced NYPD detectives relegated to filling out paperwork for smart-aleck superiors Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson. The two pen-pushing cops then stumble upon NYC's biggest crime, before attempting to solve it. It's not unusual for underdogs to fare well in Hollywood, but what of the celluloid world's real "other guys", the subordinate sidekicks who skulk in the shadows? Here, The Guide gives them an adulatory shout-out …
Garth, Wayne's World, 1992
Wayne was the winsome slacker metalhead who got to stage his own festival (Waynestock) and play tonsil tennis with Tia Carrere. Garth Algar, on the other hand, was the highly strung, dorkish best mate who'd say things like, "Did you ever find Bugs Bunny...
Will Ferrell's new film, The Other Guys, features the frizzy-haired funnyman appearing alongside Mark Wahlberg, playing the titular "other" dudes, a pair of disgraced NYPD detectives relegated to filling out paperwork for smart-aleck superiors Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson. The two pen-pushing cops then stumble upon NYC's biggest crime, before attempting to solve it. It's not unusual for underdogs to fare well in Hollywood, but what of the celluloid world's real "other guys", the subordinate sidekicks who skulk in the shadows? Here, The Guide gives them an adulatory shout-out …
Garth, Wayne's World, 1992
Wayne was the winsome slacker metalhead who got to stage his own festival (Waynestock) and play tonsil tennis with Tia Carrere. Garth Algar, on the other hand, was the highly strung, dorkish best mate who'd say things like, "Did you ever find Bugs Bunny...
- 9/10/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
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