QUERY: the incompetent hero--multiple responses
Kenneth Nolley <[email protected]>
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From: Ron Roizen <[email protected]> Not sure if they qualify as "heroes" exactly, but the great masters of incompetence humor were, of course, Laurel & Hardy. The humor was given extra comic punch by ever-bungling Hardy's insistence on instructing Laurel in how to perform tasks. Wonderful stuff! * * * * From: Marilyn papayanis <[email protected]> Forrest Gump? Chauncey Gardiner? * * * * From: Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D. <[email protected]> Ed Wood (perf. Johnny Depp) Forrest Gump (perf. Tom Hanks) Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D. Curriculum Coordinator CAS Writing Program Boston University * * * * From: <[email protected]> a further thought on this: could it be said that many film noir protagonists, as in Double Indemnity, Lady From Shanghai, Chinatown, are incompetent?