It was the only movie directed by the creator Sinfeld Larry David is an absolute catastrophe

In the 1998 comedy bomb, “Suritan Grapes”, Richie Maxwell (Craig Perco) ends a holiday in Atlantic City with his cousin Ivan (Stephen Weber). Richie has almost ran out of money, after he gambling his budget. It reaches a quarter. On his way out of a casino, Ivan asks for an additional 50 cents so that he can throw it into a 75 -hoop. Ivan agrees. One withdrawal on the device, Richie wins 436,000 dollars. This immediately leads to a long argument about who has the legal and moral right to profits. Richie was the person who decided to gamble the money and the person who pulled the handle, but Ivan was the person who lended to him to make him possible. Ivan argues that at least two -thirds of the grand prize.

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This leads to a series of dark scenarios that prove how wonderful both men are. Richie keeps all the money while the oncology scientist Ivan, who is trying to deduce panic, lies on Richie, saying that Richie is dying of cancer. comedy? The dilemma will also lead to a cancer patient accidentally. Double comedy?

“Sour grapes” was highly deleted by critics, who described it as unjust, unfamiliar, and otherwise it depends on getting rid of a toxic person to be fun. Roger Ebert Zero Stars has given badlyI write, “I cannot easily remember a movie I enjoyed less. In general, “sour grapes” contains only 27 % on approval Spoiled tomatoes (According to only 15 reviews) and made $ 123,000 at the box office.

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It is strange that David made “sour grapes”, as it had previously proven the internationally popular comedy slices of the successful series “Sinfield”, which was still being broadcast at that time (Although David left the series in 1996). What happened?

This may be a complaint of NERDY, but “sour grapes” until its title is mistaken. David seems to believe that the phrase “sour grapes” indicates that it is a painful losing. This phrase, in fact, comes from one of the AESOP myths, where the fox cannot reach some grapes grow on vine. Instead of continuing to try and get it, the fox, and the logic of the grapes is acid anyway. It is a story about justifying a person’s failure, not being a painful loser.

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Despite David’s involvement, everyone has moved away from “sour grapes”, where the general consensus is that it is bitter and cruel to raise laughter. This may be the result of a wider misinterpretation of “Seinfeld”. The series, which one might remember, arose with the spirit of monitoring humor of Jerry Sinfield, who observed from jokes from the daily events that most people can be associated with. It also benefited in elements of the Pettuess Quotidian that we are all falling prey. “Seinfeld” TV increased feeding, making sure of each of its four threads (They themselves on the basis of real people in David’s lifeThey were all shallow, and terrible individuals. However, Sinfield presented it, “It may be connected, so some may have made a mistake in thinking that they were loved and human.

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“Suritan grapes”, in being a feature film, cuts the darkness of David’s ethics, and avoids “Seinfeld” the ability of relativity and give the masses only shallow shallow. It is similar to “Sinfield” only in his philosophy. Without a certain degree of self -consciousness, “sour grapes” plays like a tragedy. Everyone can only see how clear and hateful characters are clear.

On one of the DVD audio comments for David’s HBO series “curb your enthusiasm,David (who plays his role in the show) explains that the light designers are logically putting a “sour grape” poster on the wall of his office. David requested that the poster be dropped. He did not want to remind him of the technical and commercial failure in which he participated.

It goes without saying, David has not made a movie since then.