![]() ![]() It wasn't until I watched the new trailer that I learned otherwise. In all honestly, I originally thought when I heard there was a movie about the Three Stooges, it would be a biopic about the men behind the eye-poking. The point is - Moe, Larry and Curly are so tightly bound between actors and characters, bringing them back in 2012 with new faces and actors trying to emulate the original formula seems ill-conceived. Then, when Moe died, an "all new Stooges" formed from the replacements, but who the hell remembers those guys? Hell, after Curly and Larry died, Moe did continue on with Shemp, then Joe, then Curly Joe. Now, according to my intensive Stooges research, the Stooges struggled for years with their third stooge, and it could be said that somehow that makes them all fungible. Which opens the door to the whole "Fake Shemp" discussion, which is sort of morbidly fascinating. Hell, the Stooges didn't just hire some new guy to play Curly. But its also, for this human, impossible to separate the characters from the actors. I do not labor under any illusions that the three Stooges really went about poking one another in the eye, slap-sticking each other and pulling one another's nose, no matter how totally awesome that illusion might be. Yes, the Three Stooges were characters portrayed by actors.
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