The Nutty Professor (Comedy) (1996) © 2002 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters Sherman Klump/Buddy Love..................Eddie Murphy Sherman is a shy, lonely, loveable and very fat Professor of Genetics at Wellman University who is so desperate to be thin that he starts to take a powerful drug that he has invented. The drug turns him into Buddy, who is thin, but also sexist, overly confident and obnoxious. Carla Purty...............................Jada Pinkett A beautiful and sweet graduate student who is teaching a chemistry class. She admires Sherman, and then becomes attracted to Buddy, without realizing they’re the same person. Dean Richmond.............................Larry Miller The Dean (head) of Wellman University who strongly dislikes Sherman and who is obsessed with raising money for the school. Harlan Hartley............................James Coburn A rich alumni (former student) who is considering giving $10,000,000 to the school as a gift. Reggie Warrington.........................David Chappelle A nightclub comic who is perhaps funny, but also mean and abusive. Jason.....................................John Ales A graduate student and loyal laboratory assistant to Sherman. The Klumps (Mama/Papa/Grandma/Ernie).....Eddie Murphy Sherman’s wonderful, animated, loving, crude and ridiculous family, all of whom, amazingly, are also played by Eddie Murphy! Plot Summary This film is the story of Sherman Klump, a very sweet and shy Professor of Genetics (the study of biological material that is passed from one generation to the next). Sherman is very overweight, and after he meets the beautiful graduate student Carla Purty, he decides he must become thin if there is any chance for him to get Carla romantically interested in him. The good news for Sherman is that a powerful drug he invented makes people instantly lose lots of weight (just like it did on laboratory animals), and thus he becomes as thin as he could ever want to be. The bad news is that it also turns Sherman into "Buddy," a sexist and obnoxious guy, and the worst news of all is that the drug doesn’t last very long, and thus Buddy suddenly turns back into the overweight Sherman at very unpredictable and inappropriate times. Despite Buddy’s personality , Carla becomes attracted to him, and thus Sherman continues to take the drug in order to be with her. In fact, Sherman and Buddy look so different that Carla doesn’t realize that they’re the same person, but of course, there are great difficulties in trying to be two totally different people at the same time. In the long run, Sherman must face the fact that his wonder drug is far from perfect, and that if he wants to win Carla’s heart, it will have to be as the shy and loveable person that he truly is. Some Words and Expressions that You May not Know责任编辑:yechenglu
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