- Seventeen years after "Bad Boys II", Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return to service as crazy cops.
- Their duo is part of a tradition of famous cinematographic binomials, buddy movies or movies of friends.
- The opposition between two accomplices is a recipe that has proven itself.
What would Will Smith do if he didn't have Martin Lawrence in the Bad Boys saga whose third installment, Bad Boys For Life by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah is coming out this Wednesday? The cinema buddies are a sure bet and this thriller who prances at the top of the American box office since this weekend demonstrates it once again.
"It's wonderful to be back after all this time," says Will Smith, who had already replied to his accomplice twice in 1995 and 2003. From L'Arme fatal to La Chèvre via Men in Black or La Grande Vadrouille , the 7th Art has multiplied what the Americans call "buddy movies" or "buddy movies". Mismatched duos united, often in spite of themselves, by circumstances that they do not control, must be friends to get out of it. Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello are a good example of this complementarity in the adversity often designed to provoke the spectator's hilarity.
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The most famous duets like the Bad Boys of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence resume their roles squarely for several films to the delight of their fans delighted to find the same characters for new adventures. Like them, Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte for 48 hours or Mel Gibson and Danny Glover for the saga L'Amme fatale have set the scene. Or Will Smith (still him) for the Men in Black who had for partner Tommy Lee Jones. Each time, the spectator has the pleasure of finding the actors as much as their characters.
Friends whatever the role
Another solution is to use the same performers but in other roles in order to take advantage of the alchemy between the actors and the complicity that the public feels towards them. This is the method used in particular by Francis Veber, bringing together Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard for La Chèvre (1981), L es Compères (1983) and Les Fugitifs (1986) or by Gérard Oury who offered the tandem Louis De Funès / Bourvil for Le Corniaud (1965) then La Grande Vadrouille (1966). Eric & Ramzy have more recently continued this tradition.
Solo for duets
Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman immortalized Rain Man for Barry Levinson. Thelma and Louise alias Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis have been inseparable for moviegoers since 1991 thanks to the film by Ridley Scott. For these duos, no need to double the bet to mark the spirits. The Bad Boys, meanwhile, already have a fourth installment in their planned adventures.
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