The actors of the film "Without Feelings" in 1998 woke up famous. No one expected this black comedy filmed by Penelope Sfiris ("Hollywood Moral Police", "Wayne's World") to become so popular. In many ways, the success of the film was ensured by the lead actor - Marlon Wayans.
“Without Feelings”: actors and roles
The comedy “Without Feelings” was not crammed with stars. Rather, it was a film of one actor - Marlon Wayans, against which everyone else looked just a gray mass. This dark-skinned “charm” with his grotesque game and even melodramatism in some moments simply struck the spectators on the spot.
And yet there was another memorable actor in the picture. “Without feelings” is impossible to imagine without Matthew Lin Lillard, who played the role of Tim - a friend of the main character. The most memorable scene with Tim is when a young man, all pierced by a piercing, guessed to attach door keys to his belly button. After a comical dialogue, Marlon Waynes, forgetting that the keys are directly connected to a friend’s navel, wrests them from his hands. It looks harsh, but the whole film was shot in this spirit, so by the middle of the action you get used to everything.
Matthew Lin Lillard is a fairly well-known actor who starred mainly in youth comic films: "Scream", "Scooby-Doo", "Hackers", "13 Ghosts", "Punk from Salt Lake City."
“Without Feelings”: the main actor and his character
Marlon Waynes himself played the role of Darryl Witherspoon in the film. Darryl grew up in an incomplete family, where his mother, in addition to him, still has a whole horde of children. Darryl is the eldest child and feels his responsibility for the well-being of his mother and for the well-being of his brothers and sisters. Therefore, a young man, despite the fact that he is in college, is trying to earn extra money in all possible and impossible ways.
In search of good money, Derryl even agrees to become an experimental “rabbit” and take part in trials of a drug that has not yet been studied enough. The essence of the drug is that after administration it enhances all 5 human senses to the maximum.
Darryl, using his new superpowers, adjusts his affairs, becomes mega-popular in college and even wins the heart of a girl he likes. Only for how long?
It’s hard to imagine if another actor could handle the role of Darryl so well. “Without Feelings” remains one of the best works of Marlon Wayans.
Marlon Lamont Wayans: A Short Biography
July 23, 1972 is the date when another talented comedian came into being. "Without Feelings" is a film in which Wayans partly played himself. He was born in New York in a large family. Almost all of his brothers work in show business and they all hold on tightly to each other.
Wayans is an educated actor. In addition to graduating from the art school, the guy studied cinema at Howard University. Wayans began his career in show business with an easy presentation of his older brothers, who continually called the guy into their projects.
It was simply impossible not to miss the young man's comic gift, and Marlon migrated from television projects to cinema. One of the important starting roles was performed by Wayans in 1992 in the film “Money, Money, More Money”. In this picture, the actor was thanks again to his older brother Damon. After this work, Marlon could claim more serious roles in well-paid projects.
Popular films with M. Wayans
In 1994, Marlon took part in a project called “Above the Ring”. In this sports drama, he got a supporting role - a friend of the main character Bugalu, who recently got out of prison. This picture paid off at the box office and even collected something in addition.
Good luck for Wayans was the role in the sensational film Daren Aranofsky - "Requiem for a Dream." And again, Marlon plays a friend of the protagonist, who is not distinguished by good behavior. Together with the hero of Jared Leto, Marlon sells drugs.
“Scary Movie” is another popular black comedy in which Marlon Wayans took an active part. The film “White Chicks” 2004 was a good success at the box office, in which Wayans and his brother Sean played the main roles. With a budget of 37 million dollars. the picture was able to bring its producers an income of 113 million dollars.
Based on this, we can say that for the public of the 90-2000s, Marlon is a fairly well-known actor. “Without feelings” is not the only good picture in his track record.
Recent Wayans Projects
Wayans is also actively filming these days. In 2009, the fantastic action movie “Cobra Throw” was released, in which the actor played Ripcord - a member of the elite special squad Ji-Ai-Joe. The company Marlon in this film was composed of stars such as
Sienna Miller and Channing Tatum. Charges from the rental of paintings amounted to 302 million dollars. with investments of $ 175 million
The following year, Marlon voiced one of the pets in the comedy about animals - Marmadyuk.
In 2013, the actor again starred in a comedy entitled "House with the Paranormal." Moreover, Marlon himself wrote the script for the film. The comedy, as you might guess, is absolutely “black,” black humor splashing a fountain from the very first seconds of the picture. But Marlon and his team managed to do the incredible. With a budget of 2.5 million dollars. the film "House with paranormal phenomena" earned at the box office 40 million dollars. Therefore, in 2014, the continuation of the film was released, but the project was not so successful. For 2015, the actor has no premieres planned.