I was not aware that the Farrelly brothers were planning to film a Three Stooges movie, but I guess I'm not surprised. After all, Moe, Larry, and Curly were the original Dumb, Dumber, and Dumberest.
An article in this week's New Yorker explains the creative process behind their efforts, both Farrellys' and Stooges', as well as this demographic thesis,
Peter has a theory of Stooge appreciation, based upon his own changing allegiances: “Growing up, first you watched Curly, then Moe, and then your eyes got to Larry. He’s the reactor, the most vulnerable. Five to fourteen, Curly; fourteen to twenty-one, Moe. Anyone out of college, if you’re not looking at Larry, you don’t have a good brain.”
and pyschological anlysis,
“We decided that Moe’s anger has to do with the fact that the three of them were put in an orphanage and Moe had a chance to go out and make it on his own, but he thought, I can’t leave these knuckleheads behind. He comes back and he feels that he gave up everything to stay and be the leader of these Stooges—because as bad as they are with him, in his eyes they’re sunk without him.”
Now, if only someone could deconstruct "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk," then one question for the ages would at long last be answered.
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