Directors Thibaut Sève and Adrien Dénouette have decided to highlight the career of Jim Carrey through a documentary. Jim Carrey: America Unmasked tells us about the beginnings of the comedian through the flagship show of the Wayans brothers, In Living Color, which had the particularity of changing certain so-called classic codes of television programs. This program without any taboos was born in the early 1990s and stood out with certain programs of the time, in particular Saturday Night Live. The originality of its sketches, its humor and its talented cast composed mainly of African-American people has greatly contributed to the success of the show. Jim Carrey knew, with his humor and his gestures, to give a specific dimension to the program, just like Jamie Foxx or Keenen Ivory Wayans. The intervention of guests such as Tupac Shakur or James Brown only made the fame of the show. Over the years, the sketches offered in In Living Color will highlight violence and racism in the United States, such as during the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 following the murder of Rodney King by white police officers. time of the Super Bowl in 1992, the program hits hard by broadcasting a special episode in order to offer an audience somewhat tired of the traditional program of cheerleaders of the previous year to zap to Fox to discover a completely different entertainment. We then discover a young Jim Carrey who clashes with a humor that hits where it hurts. in works such as Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber or even The Mask, which have cataloged it in a specific register of humor. The long and productive career of the artist then proved that his talent was not limited to these roles based on his extraordinary facies and some filmmakers were able to perceive the sensitive potential, even going so far as to find a real emotional depth in the artist, by offering him roles less focused on the humor that made him famous in his early days. His various collaborations with Michel Gondry in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind via the Kidding series without forgetting I Love You Phillip Morris , directed by the duo of filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, allow us to appreciate the comedian in a new genre where humanity triumphs at the expense of his past humorous performances.The film The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir in 1998, can be seen as an autobiographical work that perfectly illustrates this change of direction in the great career of the artist, from clown on duty to an artist on edge. The actor has never ceased to transmit emotions throughout his films, whether in an intimate register that we appreciate, in pure comedy or even by his gestures and his offbeat mimics. From The Mask to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey told us about the five roles that marked his career:
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