Yes Man

Sinopse

O filme conta a história de Carl Allen (Jim Carrey), um homem deprimido que decide dizer sim a tudo que vier em seu caminho. Durante o filme diversas consequências acontecem a ele devido à medida tomada.

Elenco

Ligações Externas

Yes Man

Sinopse

O filme conta a história de Carl Allen (Jim Carrey), um homem deprimido que decide dizer sim a tudo que vier em seu caminho. Durante o filme diversas consequências acontecem a ele devido à medida tomada.

Elenco

Ligações Externas

Yes Man

Yes Man er en amerikansk filmkomedie fra 2008. Den ble regissert av Peyton Reed, og Jim Carrey spiller hovedrollen som Carl Allen. Filmen er basert på en sann historie som det også er skrevet en bok om, med samme navn som filmen. Filmen hadde i Norge premiere på norske kinoer Andre juledag 2008.

Handling

Filmen handler om Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) som ikke har vært noe annet enn sutrete og negativ etter at han ble dumpet for tre år siden. Carl vrir seg unna avtaler og gidder ingen ting, helt til han en dag kommer over et selvhjelpsprogram som fører til at han må si ja til absolutt alt.

Ja-livet starter dårlig når han gir en uteligger skyss, men tar seg betraktelig opp fordi han på grunn av uteliggeren møter frilynte Allison, en spontan person i total kontrast til gamle Carl. Oppildnet av å ha møtt en mulig kjæreste, begynner også bankmannen Carl å slå seg løs.

Roller

Jim Carrey som Carl Allen
Zooey Deschanel som Allison
Bradley Cooper som Peter
John Michael Higgins som Nick
Rhys Darby som Norman
Danny Masterson som Rooney
Terence Stamp som Terrence Bundley
Molly Sims som Stephanie
Sean O'Bryan som Ted
Sasha Alexander som Lucy
John Cothran Jr. som Tweed

Synopsis

Carl Allen décide de changer sa vie en répondant « oui » pendant un an à tout ce que l'on pourra lui proposer.

Producción

La producción comenzó en Los Ángeles (California) en octubre de 2007.

Durante el rodaje de una escena donde el personaje de Carrey realiza bungee desde un puente, el actor la interrumpió y pidió hacer él mismo truco. Carrey le declaró al doble que tenía la intención de hacerlo en una sola toma.[1]

Carrey también domina el idioma coreano de base para una escena. Un maestro de lenguas fue contratado para ayudar a Carrey a aprender el idioma con precisión.

La comedia de Carrey "Yes Man", debutó en primer lugar recaudando $18.2 millones en boletería, durante su primer fín de semana de estreno.

Argumento

Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) se compromete a decir "sí" a todo lo que se le presente en la vida durante un año, generando así situaciones cómicas.

Yes Man

Yes Man, conocida como Di que sí en España y como ¡Sí, señor! en Hispanoamérica, es una película cómica estadounidense de 2008 dirigida por Peyton Reed y protagonizada por Jim Carrey. La cinta está basada en el libro homónimo escrito por el comediante británico Danny Wallace en 2005.

Yes Man (Ffilm)

Mae Yes Man yn ffilm gomedi Americanaidd o 2008 a gyfarwyddwyd gan Peyton Reed ac mae'n serennu Jim Carrey. Seiliwyd y ffilm ar stori wir ac ar gofiant y digrifwr Prydeinig Danny Wallace, Yes Man (2005). Dechreuwyd ar y broses gynhyrchu yn Los Angeles, Califfornia ym mis Hydref 2007.

Reception

Yes Man generated mixed reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 42% of critics gave positive based on 128 reviews.Most critics thought that its plot was too similar to Liar Liar, which also starred Jim Carrey. Metacritic also calculated a 45/100 approval rating based on 23 reviews.

In his review for The Miami Herald, Rene Rodriguez wrote, "Yes Man is fine as far as Carrey comedies go, but it's even better as a love story that just happens to make you laugh," while Kyle Smith of The New York Post countered in his review that, "The first time I saw Yes Man, I thought the concept was getting kind of stale toward the end. As it turns out, that was only the trailer.".

The film opened #1 in its first weekend at the US box office with $18.3 million, and went straight to the top of the UK box office in its first weekend after release.

Production

Yes Man is based on a memoir of the same name by British humorist Danny Wallace. The books tells of the 6-month period in which he committed himself to saying 'Yes' to everything based on a brief conversation with a stranger he met on the bus. Danny Wallace also has a cameo in the film, in the final bar-scene of the movie, in which he is speaking to someone behind Jim Carrey.[1]

Carrey received no upfront salary for his role in the film. He will instead be paid 36.2% of the film's gross after its production and marketing costs are recovered.[2]

During shooting of a scene where Carrey's character bungee jumps off a bridge, Carrey interrupted and asked to do the stunt himself.[3] Carrey stated to the stunt double that he intended to do it in one take. When he jumps off, he is seen taking out a cell phone for the scene.

While shooting the scene in the bar where Carrey's character turns around into a waitress and falls flat on his back, Carrey executed the stunt incorrectly and fell to the floor harder than he expected, breaking three ribs in the process. Carrey himself revealed this in an interview for Moviefone in response to a viewer-submitted question about the film's stunts. [4]

Carrey also mastered basic Korean for a scene. A language coach was hired to help Carrey learn the language accurately. However, this is not the same for the scene in which Carrey's character learns to play the guitar; Carrey has been playing the instrument since his childhood.

The film's soundtrack features original music by "Munchausen by Proxy", a fictional band named after the Münchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder. Jim Carrey's character is incessantly invited to see the band by an over-eager manager/street promoter. Along with female lead Zooey Deschanel, the fictional band was created by Von Iva.[5] The San Francisco-based all-girl power trio of vocals, keyboards and drums were hired to collaborate with the actress to write and perform the original songs and stylized aesthetic of the group for this pivotal scene.[6][7] Von Iva got the part of the fictional ensemble in the film after the movie's music supervisor, Jonathan Karp, saw the cover of their CD in Amoeba in Hollywood.[8] The soundtrack also features 9 songs by Eels including a brand-new song, "Man Up." [9]

Cast

Plot

Carl (Jim Carrey) is a divorced middle-aged man in Los Angeles who spends his days working as a junior loan approval officer in a bank, supervised by his immature manager Norman (Rhys Darby). Routinely declining social engagements so as to avoid meeting his ex-wife Stephanie (Molly Sims) with her new boyfriend, he has grown used to spending his evenings watching DVDs alone in his apartment while ignoring his friends' phone calls. Only complicating things is when he forgets the engagement party for his best friend, Peter (Bradley Cooper). Shortly thereafter, Carl comes across Nick (John Michael Higgins), an old co-worker who seems to have completely changed. Aware of Carl's personality, Nick persuades him that he needs to start living again and takes Carl to a motivational seminar called "Yes!" where Carl is publicly accosted by inspirational guru Terrence Bundley (Terence Stamp). Browbeaten into making a covenant with himself, Carl promises to stop being a "No Man" and to answer "Yes!" to every opportunity, request, or invitation that presents itself thereafter.

After the seminar, a homeless man asks Carl for a ride to Elysian Park. Although Carl's instinct is to say no, Nick intervenes, reminding Carl that the proper answer is yes. During the drive, the homeless man asks to borrow Carl's cell phone (Carl again agrees) and wears out the battery making calls. When they reach their destination, the man asks for the cash in Carl's wallet (which Carl reluctantly gives), but then Carl discovers that his car has run out of fuel. With his phone battery dead, he hikes to a gas station several miles away, where he meets Allison (Zooey Deschanel). She takes pity on him and gives him a hair-raising scooter ride back to his car. Emboldened by her spontaneity and by a newfound sense of possibility, Carl rhetorically asks Allison if she wants to make out, which he expects her to refuse, but, to his surprise, she kisses him.

After this positive start, Carl continues saying "yes." After he wins a promotion at the bank for agreeing to work on a Saturday, he goes out to celebrate with his friends, gets very drunk, impetuously kisses a girl, and becomes involved in a comic fistfight with her boyfriend (he luckily escapes injury). But when he agrees to assemble some shelving for his elderly neighbor Tillie (Fionnula Flanagan), and she proposes to reward him sexually, Carl is horrified. He declines and attempts to leave her apartment—but he gets his shirt stuck in the door, falls down the stairs after freeing himself, and almost gets mauled by a guard dog. Terrified that he has broken the "Yes!" covenant, Carl returns to his neighbor's apartment, where he allows her to fellate him.

After this brush with his old "No Man" self, Carl now commits himself to taking absolutely every opportunity that comes his way—he begins flying lessons, attends Korean language classes, learns to play the guitar, and even says yes when he receives spam from a Persian dating website. As before, saying yes works to Carl's advantage. When he accepts concert tickets from a promoter whom he has previously ignored, he sees a band whose lead singer turns out to be Allison. Although the band is dreadful and the audience tiny, Carl is again charmed by Allison's spontaneity and idiosyncrasy. She invites him to the unconventional class that she teaches in the park in the mornings, which combines photography with jogging, and the two begin dating.

At work, Carl has been approving every loan application that crosses his desk, but this seemingly reckless approach to lending wins him a promotion to executive after it opens new territory for the bank in the area of microcredit. He even agrees to attend one of Norman's costume parties, in this case Harry Potter-themed. Carl's newfound talents also prove fruitful when it comes to saving a man (Luis Guzman) from committing suicide: as the man stands on a ledge outside a tall building, Carl discovers an acoustic guitar in the man's apartment and plays Third Eye Blind's song "Jumper" to persuade the man to return inside.

As their relationship blossoms, Carl and Allison meet at the airport for a spontaneous weekend away. Having decided to take the first plane out of town, they end up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they explore the Frank H. Woods Telephone Museum, attend a college football game, and go skeet shooting. As they shelter from the rain in a barn before their departure, Allison asks Carl to move in with her. He hesitates, but says yes anyway. But while checking in for the return flight, Carl is detained by FBI agents, who have profiled him as potential terrorist because he has taken flying lessons, studied Korean, approved a loan to start a fertilizer company, been married for six months three years previously, and bought plane tickets at the last minute.

Carl calls his best friend Pete, a lawyer, who travels to Nebraska to explain that Carl is not a terrorist—his odd potpourri of habits, lessons, and decisions stem from his commitment to saying yes to everything. At this point, Allison finds out about Carl's motivational covenant, and begins to doubt whether his commitment to her was ever sincere. She also finds out about Carl's marriage and divorce, which he had not mentioned to her previously. Deciding that she can no longer trust a man who is obliged to say yes to everything, regardless of his true feelings, Allison leaves Carl at the airport. Carl repeatedly tries to contact her, but to no avail.

In a vain effort to speak with Allison, Carl attends another of her band's concerts, where she indirectly tells him to jump off a bridge. In response, Carl signs up to do a bungee jump. While dangling from the bridge after the jump, he receives a phone call from the bank's vice president, saying that he must fire his old boss Norman. He tries to keep a positive mindset—he goes through with the bridal shower he has agreed to organize for Pete's fiancée, and even setting Norman up with Soo-Mi (Vivian Bang), a Korean wedding planner whom he met when planning the shower.

While he is broken up with Allison, Carl gets a tearful phone call from his ex-wife Stephanie, whose boyfriend has walked out on her. Carl goes to Stephanie's apartment to comfort her, but she kisses him passionately and asks whether they can get back together. After Carl emphatically says no, his luck takes a turn for the worse: The elevator in which he tries to leave Stephanie's building almost snaps free of its cable, a black cat crosses his path, and his car gets clamped and towed. He has a momentary hallucination in which the tow-truck operator metamorphoses into himself, and starts to chant "No Man, No Man, No Man."

In desperation, Carl decides to track down Terrence Bundley so that he can be released from the "Yes!" covenant. After lying in wait for Bundley in the backseat of his convertible, Carl emerges after the car pulls off, and tries to plead with the guru. However, Bundley is so shocked that he drives through an intersection without stopping, and collides with an oncoming vehicle. Carl awakes some hours later in the hospital, only for an irate Bundley to tell him that there really wasn't any covenant, and that he wasn't supposed to take saying yes so literally. The point of the covenant was only to open Carl's mind to other possibilities, not to take away his ability to say no when he needed to. Freed from this restraint, Carl borrows a Ducati motorcycle from a male nurse who bought it with one of Carl's loans. He rides the motorcycle to Allison's morning class, wearing nothing but a hospital gown. He apologizes, admits that he does not want to move in with her just yet, but tells her that he genuinely loves and wants her—and has been with her not just because he is compelled to say yes. The couple kiss passionately while the amateur photographers capture the moment.

At the end of the movie, Carl and Allison make a rather large donation of clothes to a local homeless shelter. Cutting to the scene of the Yes! seminar, Bundley is surprised when he walks on stage to several hundred naked audience members. It is implied that the participants have said Yes! to donating their clothes to charity.

In a scene during the credits Carl and Allison try on a new body skating outfit designed by a man he had previously denied a loan early in the film. They zip down a large hill at high speeds laughing all the way.