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<div>The Mask is a 1994 American superhero comedy film directed by Chuck Russell and produced by Bob Engelman from a screenplay by Mike Werb and a story by Michael Fallon and Mark Verheiden. It is the first installment in the Mask franchise, based on the comics published by Dark Horse Comics. It stars Jim Carrey in the title role along with Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni, and Cameron Diaz in her film debut. Carrey plays Stanley Ipkiss, an ordinary man who finds a magical wooden green mask that transforms him into the Mask, a green-faced troublemaker with the ability to animate and alter himself and his surroundings at will. Filming began on August 30, 1993, and concluded in October 1993.</div><div></div><div></div><div>After being denied entrance to the Coco Bongo to watch Tina perform, Stanley's faulty loaner car breaks down during his drive home. While looking over the harbor bridge in despair, he tries rescuing a humanoid figure in the waters but finds it to be a pile of garbage concealing a wooden mask. Upon returning to his apartment and donning the mask, he transforms into a green-faced, zoot-suited trickster known as "the Mask", who can animate and alter himself and his surroundings at will. With newfound confidence, Stanley indulges in a chaotic rampage through the city, humiliating several of his tormentors, including his temperamental landlady, Agnes Peenman, and assaulting the mechanics who gave him the faulty car, along with some street thugs, whom he distracts with balloon animals, before scaring them off with a Tommy gun.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>mask 1994</div><div></div><div>Download File &#10004;&#10004;&#10004; https://t.co/jSnRcFSN1e</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>The next morning, Stanley encounters Detective Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway and newspaper reporter Peggy Brandt, both of whom are investigating the Mask's activity. To obtain the funds necessary to attend Tina's performance, Stanley dons the mask and robs the bank, inadvertently foiling Tyrell's robbery. At the Coco Bongo, Stanley dances exuberantly with Tina, whom he ends up kissing. Shortly after, Tyrell confronts him for disrupting the robbery and Stanley flees, leaving behind a scrap of cloth from his suit, which reverts into a piece of his pajamas. After arresting Tyrell and his henchman, Kellaway finds the piece of cloth and suspects Stanley's involvement.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Later, Stanley consults Doctor Arthur Neuman, a psychiatrist who has recently published a metaphorical book on masks, and deduces that the mask may be a creation of Loki, the Norse god of mischief, and its powers are only active at night. Though Neuman believes it is mythology, he concludes that the Mask's personality is based on Stanley's repressed desires. That night, Stanley meets Tina at a local park as the Mask, until they are interrupted by Kellaway, who attempts to capture him. Stanley flees with Peggy after he distracts the police with a mass performance of the titular song from Cuban Pete; she then betrays him to Tyrell for a $50,000 bounty. Tyrell dons the mask, becoming a bulky and demonic green-faced being. Tyrell's henchmen force Stanley to reveal the location of the stolen money before turning him in to the police.</div><div></div><div></div><div>When Tina visits Stanley at the station, he urges her to leave the city. Tina thanks Stanley for showing her kindness and tells him the mask was unnecessary. She attempts to flee but is kidnapped by Tyrell and forcibly taken to a charity ball at the Coco Bongo, hosted by Niko and attended by the city's elite, including the mayor. Upon arrival, the masked Tyrell kills Niko and prepares to destroy the club with a time bomb. Milo, Stanley's dog, helps Stanley escape from the station by retrieving the keys from the guard. Stanley sets out to stop Tyrell, taking Kellaway hostage.</div><div></div><div></div><div>After locking Kellaway in his car, Stanley enters the club and enlists Charlie's help, but is quickly discovered and captured. Tina tricks Tyrell into removing the mask, which is recovered and donned by Milo, who battles through Tyrell's henchmen as Stanley and Tyrell fight each other. Stanley retrieves the mask, and uses its powers to swallow the bomb seconds before it detonates and to flush Tyrell down the drain of the club's ornamental fountain; the police arrive and arrest Tyrell's henchmen. Kellaway tries arresting Stanley again, but the mayor intervenes, implicating Tyrell as the Mask and praising Stanley as a hero.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The following day, Stanley, exonerated and more secure, returns to the harbor bridge with Tina. Tina throws the mask into the water before she and Stanley kiss. Charlie tries to retrieve the mask for himself, only for Milo to swim away with it.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Mask: Music From the New Line Cinema Motion Picture was released on July 26, 1994, on Chaos Records through Sony Music Entertainment. It features music from Xscape, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Vanessa Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Carrey himself and more. The songs "Cuban Pete" and "Hey Pachuco" were also used for the trailer of the 1997 Disney film Flubber.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The film was a box-office success, grossing $119 million domestically and over $350 million worldwide,[3] becoming the second-highest grossing superhero movie at that time, behind Batman. In terms of global gross compared to budget, the film became the most-profitable comic book movie of all time, and remained so until 2019, when Joker surpassed it.[24] The Mask is one of three films featuring Carrey (the others being Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Dumb and Dumber) released in 1994 that helped launch the actor to superstardom; The Mask was the most successful of these three films both critically and commercially.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>On the possibility of a direct sequel to the 1994 film with Carrey reprising the role of Stanley Ipkiss and Diaz as Tina Carlyle, Mike Richardson said in a 2014 interview, "We've been talking about reviving The Mask, both in film and in comics. We've had a couple of false starts".[36]</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hi paying AWKSD subscribers! Welcome to the first entry of the Unauthorized Serial Novelization of the 1994 Movie, The Mask. Over the next few months, I\u2019m going to give the Jim Carrey hit the literary treatment it always deserved. Nobody stop me!</div><div></div><div></div><div>Then Jim Carrey\u2019s name appears on the screen and we\u2019re like \u201COOOOOOooooh.\u201D We know that guy. He\u2019s famous. 1994 was a banner year for that guy. We got three Carrey Classics in \u201894, so that makes it a banner year for us as well.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In addition to crushing the diver, the pipe also knocks open the treasure chest. Out of it floats the titular mask, which is like like green and brown and wooden. Why was it in the treasure chest buried in the sea? I\u2019m afraid we never know, but the lengths someone went to hide it give us the delicious impression that it might just be a tad dangerous.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The mask floats past the camera in a bed of bubbles and it\u2019s a really good shot. If we were watching together, I\u2019d be all, \u201CThat\u2019s a really good shot.\u201D As it floats out of the frame, the words \u201CThe Mask\u201D\u2014large and yellow, radiating an eerie green magic\u2014zoom at us with alarming speed. The screen goes white. Bam. \u201CThat\u2019s how you start a movie,\u201D I would say if we were watching together.</div><div></div><div></div><div>No. The 1994 version was based off of Norse mythology, as the wearer of the mask became a reincarnation of Loki (yes, the same Loki from Thor/The Avengers fame, and a bonafide prankster) whereas the 1961 Mask was a psychological thriller/horror movie where the wearer of the mask was slowly driven insane. There is a fine line between becoming a prankster and committing murder, but the line exists, nonetheless.</div><div></div><div></div><div>However, in a larger context, the 1994 movie was based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name, which shared a closer storyline with the 1961 movie. The 1994 version was also intended to be a horror series, but the story was changed along the way. So, in some cases they are, in fact, related.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The opening shots of "The Mask" look like they were salvaged from a desperately low-budget 1950s science fiction movie. Marine salvage operations lead to the rupture of ancient chest that has rested for ages on the bottom of the bay, and a curious wooden mask floats to the surface.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Not long after, disconsolate bank teller Stanley Ipkiss, a genial nerd played by Jim Carrey, is staring into the dark waters and contemplating suicide. He has just been bounced from a nightclub - the latest in a long series of humiliations. But he has a good heart, and when he sees the mask floating with some rubbish, he thinks it is a drowning victim and jumps in to save it.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Consider what happens to Stanley when he puts on the mask. He is instantly transformed into a maniacal whirlwind of energy, dressed in a 1940s-style zoot suit - a cross between the Joker and Aladdin's genie, with elements of the Shadow.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I was not one of the admirers of "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective." Millions were, however. I thought the story surpassed stupidity, and not in interesting ways. But I could sense some of Carrey's unrestrained energy and gift for comic invention, and here - where the story and the decor and the idea of the mask provide an anchor for his energy - Carrey demonstrates that he does have a genuine gift. It is said that one of the indispensable qualities of an actor is an ability to communicate the joy he takes in his performance. You could say "The Mask" was founded on that.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Take this one, for example. The Mask was based on a comic book series of the same name, one that was so zany and cooky it would have been unfilmable just a few years before. But in 1994 they had the right technology and they had the right leading man. Jim Carrey has given us lots of entertaining weirdness over the years. Sir, we here at Oddities Theater salute you. Thanks for fully embracing your inner weird.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Mask is based upon a comic book series which features Stanley Ipkiss as a man that comes across a mysterious mask that takes over the person that is wearing it and causes them to become a hyper, magically-powered superhero of some sort. Jim Carrey portrays Ipkiss in the film adaptation, which I was anticipating to be another enjoyable comedy filled with classic Jim Carrey humour and antics. After all, what other actor could so fittingly fill the role of this description: a man finds a mysterious mask which causes him to go physically berserk with a motor-mouth and wild body movements when he places it on his face. However, the consequences that this mask impose on Stanley Ipkiss unfortunately do not translate into comedy gold, and often do not seem as though they attempting to. Even my love of Jim Carrey could barely get me through this painfully unfunny and bizarre 100 minute film.</div><div></div><div> dca57bae1f</div>

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