{"id":79576,"date":"2020-10-01T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stranger-than-fiction-is-will-ferrells-best-film\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:00:30","slug":"stranger-than-fiction-is-will-ferrells-best-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stranger-than-fiction-is-will-ferrells-best-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stranger Than Fiction is Will Ferrell’s Best \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stranger Than Fiction is Will Ferrell’s Best \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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(Welcome to\u00a0The Quarantine Stream<\/strong><\/a>, a new series<\/a> where the \/Film team shares what they\u2019ve been watching while social<\/a> distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Movie:<\/strong> Stranger Than Fiction
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Where You Can Stream It: <\/strong>Netflix
\nThe Pitch:<\/strong> What happ<\/a>ens when a man suddenly starts to hear someone narrating his life as if he were the main character in a story? That\u2019s exactly what happens to IRS auditor Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), and as if hearing a female voice describing everything he was doing wasn\u2019t bad enough, she\u2019s also made him out to be an ill-fated protagonist, and his death is imminent. It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, \u201cThere are only two things certain in life: death and taxes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Why It\u2019s Essential Viewing<\/strong>: Will Ferrell is best known for his raucously hilarious comedic roles in Step Brothers<\/em>, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy<\/em>, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby<\/em>, and other comedies. But in 2006, Stranger Than Fiction<\/em> saw Ferrell mix some of his comedic antics with an outstanding dramatic performance that should have earned him an Academy Award nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n

Half of Will Ferrell\u2019s performance as Harold Crick entails some of the great comedy that we know he pulls off magnificently, but he does it in a much more reserved fashion. Ferrell\u2019s reaction to the sudden appearance of a female voice narrating his life is undoubtedly funny, but he doesn\u2019t ham it up. Instead, he takes the actor\u2019s route by reacting to this phenomenon as realistically as possible, and as an IRS auditor, he does so in an especially analytical way, treating it as a problem to be solved, a situation to be audited.<\/p>\n

As Harold slowly tries to figure out how to confront this issue, he reaches out to literary scholar Professor Jules Hilbert, a supporting turn executed perfectly by Dustin Hoffman. The professor\u2019s approach is one of curiosity and education, seemingly hoping to learn something from this debacle and never hesitating to believe Crick\u2019s unusual predicament. Hoffman\u2019s dry delivery as he asks some of the most specific questions in order to determine what kind of story Harold is in are funnier than intentional jokes in many comedies. And Ferrell\u2019s bemused reactions to his ongoing investigation only heightens the hilarity.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Emma Thompson is spectacularly miserable as Karen Eiffel, the author of Harold\u2019s story, who is struggling to figure out how to end it. Even though she knows Harold Crick has to die, she\u2019s having a hard time figuring out how to do it. Thompson\u2019s role could have easily been unremarkable, but the actress makes a meal out it, despite the fact that most of it unfolds in voiceover. This movie will make you want to listen to Thompson read an entire book, or maybe even narrate your own life, even if it means you have to die sooner. But I digress.
\nFinally, we have Maggie Gyllenhaal as tax delinquent baker Ana Pascal, a sort of hipster who isn\u2019t going to let the tax man get her down. She\u2019s downright rude to Harold, making him think that he\u2019s in a tragedy. But as an unlikely romance blossoms between them, Harold begins to accept that regardless of when he\u2019s meant to die, he needs to start enjoying every minute he has left.<\/p>\n

Stranger Than Fiction<\/em> might be director Marc Forster\u2019s best film. It has just the right mix of comedy and drama. It\u2019s quirky but not overly so. It\u2019s tragic, but not in an overwhelming way like Monster\u2019s Ball<\/em>. It\u2019s whimsical but without being saccharine like Finding Neverland<\/em>. It\u2019s simply an entertaining and original way of giving us a touching reminder that our time on this planet is not guaranteed. In many ways, Harold is all of us. We may not know our death is imminent like he does, but we shouldn\u2019t waste a single day given to us. That might be hard to accomplish in the middle of a pandemic, but this situation we\u2019re in is all the more reason to enjoy life to the fullest as soon as we can.<\/p>\n

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