50 first dates5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() At the same time, all around him, shady shenanigans and gross-out jokes abound, but none affects your sympathy for him. It starts with Sandler (here named Henry Roth) making trouble and gallivanting (here in Hawaii, where he works as a veterinarian at an aquarium), then coming to some revelation (here inspired by Barrymore’s character, Lucy), which reveals just how morally upright the Sandler character has always been. And the tone is a very hard thing to bridge in this film, to have broad comedy and a lot of jokes, but to have this hard to swallow, tough story of someone who really is… it’s a condition that she has to overcome and everyone around her has to overcome.”Īnd yet, 50 First Dates is much like any other Adam Sandler film (that is, any other Happy Madison project, as Punch-Drunk Love remains the dazzling exception). “And we wanted to add that comedy and levity into it so that it could be a true romantic comedy, and not just drama. “The original script was quite dramatic,” says Barrymore. While it’s surely heartening to learn about their pleasurable experiences, the commentary is more compelling when they discuss what was hard, namely, how they thought about making sense of a film so potentially “spastic.” That is, a film that leaps from broad comedy to poignant melodrama within seconds. “I have to say, ‘Yay!’ You were gorgeous.” They’re watching 50 First Dates, laughing over how delightful it was to shoot in Hawaii, with people they just loved-loved-loved and a gigantic, well-mannered walrus. “Here’s your first shot in the movie,” says director Peter Segal to his fellow commentary track-maker (not to mention producer and star), Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore, commentary track, 50 First Dates There’s the pineapple, metaphoric of her brain, which gets damaged.
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