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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 1989 British comedy film written by Richard Curtis (as his first screenplay), directed by Mel Smith, and starring Jeff Goldblum.Dexter King (Goldblum) is a lovelorn American actor working in London. For the last six years he has played "The Tall Guy", a straight man to annoying, egotistical, and outright abusive stage comedian Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson). After commiserating with his nymphomaniac housemate (Geraldine James) and going to a doctor for his chronic allergies, he meets and falls in love with beautiful nurse Kate Lemon (Emma Thompson in her film debut), and is so elated that he improvises onstage to the point that Anderson fires him for it. He fails a few auditions before finally landing the title role in an elaborate West End musical adaptation of The Elephant Man. But his big break could end up costing him his relationship if he's not careful...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Adam Westing: Rowan Atkinson plays Ron Anderson, a hyper-obnoxious version of himself. (The screenplay is partially inspired by Curtis's experiences working with Atkinson.) Even their initials are identical. | |
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Actor Allusion: Elephant!, with its grotesque, tragic protagonist, is a parody of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, but a subtle layer of this trope also exists given who's playing Dexter. Jeff Goldblum spent most of the first 15 years of his career as a supporting player at best before finding a breakout lead role as the tragically Doomed Protagonist of The Fly (1986), which required him to wear extremely heavy, grotesque makeup for much of the shoot. Dexter winds up getting his big break playing the Elephant Man, and he ends up spending a significant chunk of the third act running about London in full disfiguring makeup. | |
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