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Kevin Smith and Cop Out
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Kevin Smith always leaves his audiences laughing with films like Dogma and Clerks. With his latest flick, Cop Out, Smith leaves some audiences laughing and some disappointed. Starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, two raunchy New York cops on the search for a valuable baseball card that Willis’s character hopes to sell to pay his daughter’s wedding. Also starring in Cop Out is Sean William Scott, who help makes the movie as funny and hilarious as it is, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollack and Jason Lee.
What I personally liked about this film was that unlike most white-black cop buddy films, Cop Out didn’t show any white-black comedy bits. However, there was one comment in the trailer where Tracy Morgan’s character made a racial comment about President Obama, but it was eventually cut from the film. But besides that, Willis and Morgan kept the laughs going with their hilarious routine bits of interrogating criminals while quoting movies, staking out a 10 year old car thief, trying to speak Spanish to a Latino witness, etc.
Willis chose to star because he says that he hates playing cops. In an interview, he stated, “There’s only so many times you can do a scene running down the road with two guns in your hand, screaming and take it seriously. You just start laughing in the middle of the take. I’m sick of playing cops, that’s why I wanted to do Cop Out that was just about funny cops.”
The movie also had a lot of talks in Hollywood because of the numerous title changes that the project had to undergo. The original title was a choice between A Couple of D**ks and Cop Suckers. However, due to the controversial title of the movie, Smith later changed it to A Couple of Cops. As a result of the negative reaction from the title change, the movie was finally titled to Cop Out.
In its opening weekend, Cop Out placed second over Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island with receiving total earnings $18.6 million in box office revenues.
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