Jim Carrey is a black swan on 'Saturday Night Live'
"Black Swan" is an over-the-top movie; Jim Carrey is an over-the-top comedian. Clearly, the two are a match made in spoof heaven. Carrey's sendup of "Black Swan" this weekend on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" featured the actor wearing a tutu and showing off his ballet chops in the service of lampooning the awards-magnet prestige picture starring Natalie Portman.
Carrey played the darker, malevolent protagonist in the Tchaikovsky ballet, known as Odile, as interpreted in the movie by Mila Kunis. In "Black Swan," Kunis' ballet dancer is a sneering bad girl with considerable sexual prowess who tempts Portman's frigid princess out of her ice shell. Carrey communicated his character's sexual skills by placing his fist in his mouth, flipping his legs over his head and gyrating his hips.
It should be noted that Carrey -- who has been compared throughout his career to Jerry Lewis -- is above all a physical comedian who brings a dancer's alacrity to the art of mimicry. The "SNL" skit doesn't really take advantage of that -- it feels too short and underimagined -- but Carrey's imitation of a hissing swan is brilliant. As Matthew Bourne has shown, male dancers make more zoologically convincing stage swans than their female counterparts.
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-- David Ng
The reviews of this movie have all been wrong, there is no light and dark side. There are the pure idealist girl with teddy bears who wont grow up, the sensual newcomer who brings freedom and passion, and the controlling mother, all have their symbolic manifestations that come and go, with advantages and negatives to all. The point is about balance, about growing up and becoming a woman.
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These other incomprehensions are usually by boys or metrosexuals. It is basically the female version of All That Jazz. which is the creative male out of balance, with death always lurking for the fallen who will not grow.
As St Paul and some guy named Obama said
it is time to put aside childish things.
Posted by: Donald frazell | January 10, 2011 at 12:28 PM
I watched SNL this past weekend with Jim Carrey. Jim was the best guest on the show since Betty White. The show needed him. They have been writing sub par material for awhile now. They were lucky to have Jim and his comedic genius grace the show.
Posted by: Robin | January 10, 2011 at 05:47 PM
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Posted by: Horus | January 11, 2011 at 05:27 AM