The 40 years old virgin!

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 not present in the arena of movie stars!

The strength of Andy was that he was not pathetic but quiet (in a stoic way of accepting life) in a situation you would think he should be pathetic and angry!

Although this got Steve in trouble in the first few weeks of shooting the film where the producers told him that he looked like a serial killer!!!

Andy just didn’t have the experience and that’s that!

On the other hand, the story at the time was fresh and new in an atmosphere that dealt with relationships mostly as one-day night-stands until it is not! Look at the movies at the time!

So it was a new idea!

The great shift in the movie is not in Andy getting his love-life together, but the fact that he made a great impact on his friends and got them to change their way of dealing with their own love-life, taking it more sincerely and seriously.
Which stresses on the fact that being different isn’t always bad, and instead of outcasting every different character we meet in our life, we should think may be they have something to say first!

I will end this by describing the look on Andy’s face in the poster, it is one of the most insanely true and hilarious posters that you could see for a movie. You could see in Andy’s eyes hope and naivety with a bit of childishness! And then you see the title of the movie, you think this is either a pure soul or an idiot one, but that halo around his head makes you decide it is mostly the former!!

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