Jim Carrey never shied away from odd content, which was part of what made his performances so memorable. He honed it during his first rise to national attention on the sketch show In Living Color, with characters like the hilariously incompetent Fire Marshall Bill and randy televangelist Carl Pathos. It helped put him on the map and remained a core part of his appeal, even during his periodic forays into straight drama. That included everything from the surreal mindscapes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Ace Ventura climbing out of a rhino’s sphincter. The actor announced his retirement in 2022 after four decades of television and movie. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is likely his last onscreen appearance. That effort feels of a kind with the plethora of weird roles throughout his long career, which have come to define his unique star persona.But the strangest moment in one of his films came well before he became major movie star. It was 1988’s The Dead Pool, the fifth and presumably final entry in Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry franchise. Carrey appeared in a small supporting role that turned out like nothing else yet put onscreen. Much of it entails context after the fact, but even so, it’s something very different, even for an actor who made his name by being different. The movie is strange in and of itself, and better than it has any right to be. The original Dirty Harry was a searing (if problematic) examination of violence in law enforcement, and its array of sequels always took their content deadly seriously. The Dead Pool, on the other hand, flirts with open self-parody as an older, slower Harry Callahan hunts a serial killer targeting local celebrities. The “dead pool” of the title refers to a betting pool created by Liam Neeson’s sleazy director Peter Swan, speculating on which celebrities will die before a given time. The winner is the player who picks the most dead celebrities; the murderer starts picking off the names on Swan’s list as a way of getting even. Harry finds himself on the list when he makes the headlines after putting a mob boss behind bars. Besides Neeson and Carrey, the film also features a pre-fame Patricia Clarkson as a newscaster following the story who develops a romantic interest in Harry.
Jim Carrey never shied away from odd content, which was part of what made his performances so memorable. He honed it during his first rise to national attention on the sketch show In Living Color, with characters like the hilariously incompetent Fire Marshall Bill and randy televangelist Carl Pathos. It helped put him on the map and remained a core part of his appeal, even during his periodic forays into straight drama. That included everything from the surreal mindscapes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Ace Ventura climbing out of a rhino’s sphincter. The actor announced his retirement in 2022 after four decades of television and movie. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is likely his last onscreen appearance. That effort feels of a kind with the plethora of weird roles throughout his long career, which have come to define his unique star persona.
But the strangest moment in one of his films came well before he became major movie star. It was 1988’s The Dead Pool, the fifth and presumably final entry in Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry franchise. Carrey appeared in a small supporting role that turned out like nothing else yet put onscreen. Much of it entails context after the fact, but even so, it’s something very different, even for an actor who made his name by being different.
The movie is strange in and of itself, and better than it has any right to be. The original Dirty Harry was a searing (if problematic) examination of violence in law enforcement, and its array of sequels always took their content deadly seriously. The Dead Pool, on the other hand, flirts with open self-parody as an older, slower Harry Callahan hunts a serial killer targeting local celebrities. The “dead pool” of the title refers to a betting pool created by Liam Neeson’s sleazy director Peter Swan, speculating on which celebrities will die before a given time. The winner is the player who picks the most dead celebrities; the murderer starts picking off the names on Swan’s list as a way of getting even. Harry finds himself on the list when he makes the headlines after putting a mob boss behind bars. Besides Neeson and Carrey, the film also features a pre-fame Patricia Clarkson as a newscaster following the story who develops a romantic interest in Harry.
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