Imagine a film so bad that the lead actor had every copy destroyed before it could be released. This actually happened in 1972… and now I discovered it’ll be released in 2024.
The film is called “The Day the Clown Cried,” the actor was Jerry Lewis, and the plot revolves around a clown in the Holocaust. Yeah… That’s all I know and it already sounds really bad. Apparently one copy was held by the Library of Congress and the copyright runs out in four years… So the ban ends.
What I know from the Star Wars prequels is that the longer you wait for something, the more disappointed you’ll be when it actually comes out. There is no way this film is as bad as I’m expecting. Besides, I’ve seen this plot before – it’s called Jacob the Liar with Robin Williams and… It’s got its moments, but it’s still trying to make an upbeat film about the Holocaust!
If there’s more than… let’s say 10 years from the previous film, there’s so much build up for a film that it can’t possibly match your expectations. The Zorro film comes to mind.
Of course, you can transfer this to many things in life – there are so many empty vessels that we pour our expectations and hopes into and find them… well, empty. It’s part of our modern outlook on life. I’m not a great fan of watching bad films, so as much as I’ve heard about this Jerry Lewis film, I’m probably not going to watch it.
Am I alone in this? Is there a better example you can come up with? Let me know if the comments section below!
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I had never heard about that film… and I’m sure I won’t watch it
I wonder if their goal had been to make something along the line of the Italian made film, “Life is Beautiful”? I don’t know why, but that’s what it made me think of right away. I can’t imagine it was going to be humorous?
I’ve never been fond of his brand of humor anyway, plus I had a bad experience with him, when I was a flight attendant, so I’ll pass. However, it is interesting to learn that the destruction came shortly after my bad experience. Perhaps he wasn’t feeling well and a bit cantankerous?