I recently watched this movie and when Steve Martin showed up as Ruprecht I had the strange sensation that I had seen this character before: Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.
Does anyone else see the resemblance (before calling it a rip off) between these two characters?
Seeing how this movie was made 6 years before Dumb and Dumber I doubt it's a rip off the Carrey might have ripped off Martin though.
share> I had the strange sensation that I had seen this character before:
> Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber.
Just saw this movie again yesterday (after several years) and yeah he kind of did remind me of Dumb and Dumber in that scene.
> ripped off
... or "vaguely inspired by" - just another way of putting it.
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Actually, (and i'm surprised nobody has made this connection before), Ruprecht was inspired (ripped off) from the character 'Dudley' in the 1970 western "There Was a Crooked Man" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066448/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 In beginning of that film a couple of con men travel to a small town and try to swindel the townsfolk out of their money by asking for donations after the character Dudley (played by Hume Cronyn) puts on an act where he claims to be deaf and dumb, and an idiot, he is dressed in the exact outfit that Ruprecht wears in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and behaves in the exact same manner. Watch the film and you'll see what i mean.
shareAll the Ruprecht stuff is great, but my favorite bit is when he is hugging Meagen Fay (Lady from Oklahoma) and they go off screen for a bit, and Michael Caine scolds him and says "do you want the genital cuff?" and Ruprecht quickly comes skipping back into the room to sit on the bed.
shareI see the resemblance but the Ruprecht character is rooted in much earlier influences, from the days of silent films on.
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