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The King of Comedy
Comedy, Drama
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate uncomfortable show-business satire about ambition curdling into self-invention, entitlement, and menace.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, bleak
- Payoff
- amusement, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- fame, obsession, delusion, entitlement, celebrity culture
- Setting
- contemporary early 1980s, urban neighborhoods and television studios
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