7/20/2023 0 Comments See no evil hear no evil cast![]() Wilder and Pryor are great at not only portraying the humorous moments of the movie, but also the quiet dramatic scenes as well. People don't understand their difficulties and in their contacts often insult and make fun of them. The both of them are trying to prove they don't need assistance when they, in fact, do. While autism isn't as great a disability as blindness or hearing loss, it's a disability nevertheless. Now it's up to Wally and Dave to clear their names, figure out the signifigance of the coin and keep ahead of Eve and Kirgo before they and Karue's sister Adele (Childs) get murdered. Before they go to jail, Wally empties the change box and gets this valuable coin. When the police come, they get the impression that Lyons and Karue are responsible for the murder. She and her assistant Kirgo (Spacey) are looking for a valuable coin which the bookie palmed into Dave's change box. While Lyons reads the ingredients of some antacid to him, he's shot and killed by a beautiful long-legged woman named Eve (Severance). ![]() Karue's bookie comes to the news stand because he's on the run from some criminals. After a conversation about their lives as disabled people, Wally is hired. The two meet when Karue applies for a job at Dave's stand. Dave Lyons (Wilder) is a deaf news stand owner who reads lips to understand other people, but often misunderstands what they say. Instead, all we get are two really nice guys and some cardboard computer crooks.Wallace "Wally" Karue (Pryor) is a foul-mouthed blind man in debt to his bookie. What if the movie had made the relationship between its two guys one of necessity, not of friendship? What if they hated each other, yet still had to work as a team? That's an old formula, too- most recently used by Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin in " Midnight Run"-but it would have generated some tension. In recent years, however, he seems to have locked himself into a series of sweet roles in which the cutting edge of his personality remains concealed. ![]() He became a movie star by being a wise-guy. I doubt if Gene Wilder has it in him to play a mean-spirited, vindictive character, but Pryor used to be able to call on that other side. Wilder and Pryor both play loving, sensitive, kind and gentle souls, and that would be wonderful in life, but a movie needs some edge to it. (This misses the point, since Wilder, who can see, could throw the punches himself.) In addition to its recycled plot, the movie has another almost fatal problem: Both of its heroes are nice guys. This movie's idea of exploiting that inspiration is to have Wilder stand behind Pryor during a fist fight and tell him where to throw the punches. But think of the sight gags, the double-takes, and subtle little touches you could find in everyday life if two buddies, one deaf, one blind, teamed up together. Think what a great physical comedian like Jacques Tati or Buster Keaton could have done with this notion-or never mind, Hollywood has forgotten how to aim that high. The movie doesn't seem to have had the impulse to experiment with its central idea. But she is not enough to redeem the stock company of goons and heavies who have been written in as her companions. She's great to look at-a not inconsiderable element in a movie like this-and she has a nice, dry sense of humor that reminds you of the intelligence of a Kathleen Turner. The only other character in the movie of any interest is Joan Severance, a tall and classic beauty who is a suspect in the murder of a man connected with the chip. Wilder runs a newsstand, a customer drops a gold coin into his coin tray, and the coin turns out to be a disguised microchip worth millions, so of course that means that an assortment of villains have to threaten the heroes from one end of the movie to the other. The possibilities for visual comedy with this idea are seemingly endless, but the movie chooses instead to plug the characters into a dumb plot about industrial espionage. The good idea: Richard Pryor plays a character who is blind, and Gene Wilder plays a character who is deaf, and once they become friends they make a great team.
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