![]() ![]() In addition to being extremely neurotic whilst driving a bus full of school children, the Bus Driver also has a few hilarious moments with the titular Billy Madison. Farley is one of the biggest reasons why. Though he didn’t have much screen time in the 1995 film Billy Madison, Chris Farley absolutely stole the show with his performance as the “Angry Bus Driver.” This was, arguably, Adam Sandler’s best movie ever. This is mostly due to Farley’s own earnestness that he brought to every role he played.Ĥ) “Angry Bus Driver” – Billy Madison (1995) Beverly Hills Ninja somehow gets you emotionally invested in young Haru’s journey. Despite some mishaps, he ends up doing both. Haru goes on a journey towards Western Civilization in order to save the girl and find himself. He is still tasked with rescuing a young woman from California though. Despite his heart and earnestness, Haru isn’t a very good ninja. Farley starred as Haru, a bumbling (you’re going to read that word a lot) yet good-natured young man who was adopted by a secret society of Japanese ninjas who trained and raised him as their own. 5) Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)ĭid you know that you wanted to see Chris Farley in a Kung Fu movie? Nobody else did either, but that’s exactly what audiences got in 1997 with the release of Beverly Hills Ninja. Chris Farley gave us everything he had with his performances and those performances are how we choose to remember him. And because of his body of work, we will continue to laugh. Chris Farley should be remembered as the man who made us laugh, the man who made fun of himself and told us it was okay to laugh at the “fat man in a little coat.” We laughed. That is not and should not be what he is remembered for though. Fame, money, and deep insecurity led Farley down a dark path that ended with his untimely death. His self-deprecation made all of us laugh, but the cost was a great one. As a large man, Farley embraced his weight and used it to his advantage. He was a Saturday Night Live standout before embarking on a film career that produced some of the funniest movies the world has ever seen. Some of these people had a lot of pain behind their eyes, but they chose to laugh through the pain anyway, for our benefitĬhris Farley was one of these people. There was pressure to always be “on,” to always be “funny” or to always be our heroes. Drug overdoses and suicides claimed the lives of too many. Many of these artists succumbed to personal demons, mixed with self-medication. They died too soon and were gone too young. People like Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger, John Candy, John Belushi, Michael Jackson, and more were taken too quickly. ![]() In the entertainment world, there are many individuals that were sent to entertain us and were taken from the world way too soon. ![]()
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