{"id":668887,"date":"2025-05-13T14:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cannes-flashback-when-robert-de-niro-visited-the-fest-as-king-of-comedy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:49:50","slug":"cannes-flashback-when-robert-de-niro-visited-the-fest-as-king-of-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cannes-flashback-when-robert-de-niro-visited-the-fest-as-king-of-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Flashback: When Robert De Niro Visited the Fest as \u2018King of Comedy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe recipient of an honorary Palme d\u2019Or at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival, Robert De Niro has a long history with the Croisette. In 1983, the legendary actor joined director Martin Scorsese and co-star Jerry Lewis in bringing\u00a0The King of Comedy<\/em>\u00a0to the fest. The black comedy marked De Niro\u2019s fifth film with Scorsese, coming on the heels of his best actor Oscar win for their 1980 collaboration,\u00a0Raging Bull<\/em>.<\/p>\n

King of Comedy\u00a0<\/em>stars De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring comedia<\/a>n with mental health issues who becomes obsessed with app<\/a>earing on the late-night show hosted by his idol, Jerry Langford (Lewis). Paul D. Zimmerman, a former\u00a0News<\/a>wee<\/em>k film critic, had penned the script more than a decade before it got made; director Michael Cimino was initially attached but got held up with\u00a0Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/em>. When Scorsese joined, he hoped to cast Johnny Carson as Langford and has said that the real-life late-night host spurned him by quipping, \u201cYou know one take\u2019s enough for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tScorsese was in poor health throughout the shoot. He had recently been hospitalized for exhaustion and pneumonia after filming several movies<\/a> in rapid succession, but first-time producer Arnon Milchan pushed him to start filming\u00a0King of Comedy<\/em>\u00a0a month ahead of schedule due to a looming directors\u2019 strike. In the 2004 book\u00a0Scorsese on Scorsese<\/em>, the director recalled that the \u201cstrange movie\u201d included a tough scene where Pupkin shows up at Langford\u2019s home: \u201cIt took two weeks, and it was just so painful because the scene itself was so excruciating.\u201d<\/p>\n

20th Century Fox had released the film in theaters on Feb. 13, 1983, and critics were impressed, with\u00a0THR<\/em>\u2019s review deeming it \u201ca major achievement for all concerned.\u201d But the dark film fizzled at the box office, collecting just $2.5\u202fmillion ($8.4 million today). \u201cPeople in America were confused by\u00a0The King of Comedy\u00a0<\/em>and saw Bob as some kind of mannequin,\u201d Scorsese said about De Niro, who would go on to lead the Cannes jury in 2011. \u201cBut I felt it was De Niro\u2019s best performance ever.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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The recipient of an honorary Palme d\u2019Or at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival, Robert De Niro has a long history with the Croisette. In 1983, the legendary actor joined director Martin Scorsese and co-star Jerry Lewis in bringing\u00a0The King of Comedy\u00a0to the fest. The black comedy marked De Niro\u2019s fifth film with Scorsese, coming on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Robert-De-Niro-and-Jerry-Lewis-at-Cannes-1983-Getty-Images-2.jpg?w=1440&h=810&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28928,155500,124783,19801],"class_list":["post-668887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-2025","tag-international","tag-robert-de-niro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}