WHAT IF THE ONLY WITNESSES TO A MURDER COULD NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR THE KILLER PROPERLY?
See No Evil, Hear No Evil is one of those rare comedies that makes you laugh so hard you forget it's actually a murder mystery. ๐ Released in 1989, this film paired two of the greatest comedians of all time: Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. ๐ฌ And the clip everyone keeps coming back to? The very first scene where their characters meet and stumble straight into a crime. ๐ฅ Let me take you behind the curtain of one of the most brilliantly absurd scenes in comedy history.
THE SETUP THAT SHOULD NOT WORK, BUT ABSOLUTELY DOES
Dave Lyons, played by Gene Wilder, is a deaf man running a small newsstand in New York City. ๐ Wally Karue, played by Richard Pryor, is a blind man desperately looking for a job. ๐ถ๏ธ On paper, these two should never be able to communicate, let alone solve a murder. ๐ But that's exactly the genius of the premise. One man can hear but not see. The other can see but not hear. ๐ฏ Together, they form one complete witness. It is the ultimate buddy comedy formula, executed with surgical precision. ๐ก
THE MOMENT EVERYTHING EXPLODES
In the opening scene, Dave is behind his counter when...
