Steve Carell

Why was Steve Carell the best choice for this movie?  This movie was his first break-out in cinematic roles, his first reach for the stardom level. But why was he the best fitted, certainly not because he was the 40 years old virgin, he already had two kids by the time!! It was because despite being on the show business for so long, either on The Second City stage or TV shows (mostly cancelled after few episodes), or as a TV correspondent and sometimes host on The Daily Show, he never really experienced this Hall of Fame sense in terms of being a top star, and while that to most people either happens at once or after a while, he took literally too long to reach it. He was the 40 years old virgin to fame! This is may be because his approach was different than most of the famous recipes at the time. He was combining wit with silliness, while most of his characters were nervous -like himself at the time- they were also pathetic in nature, and that combination was no...

The Daily Show played a very important part in shaping the Steve Carell we know, first off, he was called Steven before it and chose to shorten it to Steve after! He was shining in the Second City sketches and later in The Dana Carvey Show, but in the Daily Show he started to use the more subtle technique of comedy, where you use your poker face while saying the most absurd things you can figure, before that he used anger and increasing his voice pitch more, like in the Germans who say nice things! He started to master another form of comedy which is the self-tortured-whining in public kind, where he expresses all his vulnerability in front of a live audience! Also he tried a lot of different awkward situations each night, which resulted in a Michael Scott-ish situations! Here Michael Scott was born!!! As of acting, he acted hate, anger, love, but most of all self-ignorance or blindness to how he affects others thinking he is a genius while actually he is a buffoon!! He had...

Can we just stop for a moment to appreciate the despicable me franchise, these animated charcaters that took the world by storm!! First by introducing a villian with a complex persona and heart of gold!  And creating the world's greatest blebs of yellow joy with gibrish strangely understandable language that took the life of its own! Yes it is Steve Carell behind all that magical world!  Well!  At least the voice of our english version of Gru and Dru! Kristen Wiig joined the team in different characters, first the malicious manager of the orphanage Miss hattie! Then as the lovely super agent spy Lucy, then as the wife of Gru and the protecting mother who has no clue on how to raise a raisin not a child!! What a family!!! and to add to this bundle of joy a lost brother who just wants to be a villain to continue his family legacy is just over the top!! Well!  I won't mention over the top if you don't mention it! b...

I have some glimpse of Steve's personality just from seeing him talking in interviews, and watching his movie choices, I kind of formed a vague idea of who he really is. He is a very private person, I don't think we will ever see the whole personality of Steve Carell just because he is so insanely-attractively hiding it! A loving doting father, a fascinated by his wife husband, a loyal person to his family and friends (just the close ones! Just kidding!), and a marvellous most versatile actor who can also play the Baritone Horn and Five , who could have possibly been a lawyer or a historian! What do you think of this picture, every bit of it is true, so he really is a nice person! Yes he is, but a nice person with an edge! He was very shy as a young gentleman around women and married his wife through agony-like courtship, with a lot of metaphorically asked questions: if I would go out with someone, it would be someone like you! And fortunately his wife s...

Michael Scott is the heart and soul of the office! and that is apparent by the quick aching demise of the show after Steve Carell left the building!! In the first season, I wondered what an ugly, irritating , annoying, unfunny, egomaniac and self centred this boss is. I decided that may be this show was a mistake in the first place to watch.  Oh! I didn't watch it when it aired, just recently binge watched all the seasons, I was just searching for an old high rated TV show and this was the remaining one I had on a list after Cheers, Frasier etc. So I just regretted having all the seasons! Then after finishing season one achingly, I started season two just to test the waters, and thought if it is going the same way, then I will dump the rest of the episodes. Here when I saw the direction they took, they made Michael human!!! He is irritating and annoying because he can't understand others, he is self centred because he believes he is loved by those around him like ...

He has two sequels; Anchorman 1 and 2, along with   Bruce and Evan Almighty! As you can see both show how much he had grown in his career! If we take Bruce almighty first; it was his first movie ever to have a nice part in his opinion although he did Melinda and Melinda before! , he even didn’t believe himself because he thought   that director would cut his part, and to his full surprise he was in it!  And to our surprise he overshadowed Jim Carry himself, the only one who can do so!! Evan Almighty was a different direction, and I think people didn’t expect that, they thought he would be given divine powers like Bruce and fail, instead he was given a mission to build an Ark. With him growing in months what should have been in years!  So people didn’t expect that, I think it was an intended philosophical movie that ended with a bang, the flood is not a flood just a broken dam, the point of having the ark what just to show obedience!  Because those wh...