Adam Sandler deserves a critical re-evaluation as a great American artist working in the low- and middle-brow. In recent years, critics have begun to recognize Sandler as a great actor, due to his work with the Safdie brothers, Noah Baumbach, and P. T. Anderson. However, we believe in the future film critics and historians will reflect on his filmography and see him for what he is: a great comic artist, an auteur, even a poet, for the working class and average American concerns, especially for the '90s and '00s but with continuing relevance into the '10s and '20s.
In this, part two of our analysis of what interests Adam Sandler, we pick right back up where we left off in part one, beginning with a discussion of "Mr. Deeds." We feel this re-imagined Capra film is central to understanding Sandler's message. While stopping here and there to mention some key elements of other films, we focus the rest of our discussion on "Spanglish" and our underdog pick, "The Cobbler." The latter was key for our guest, Ethan McGuire, in his own re-evaluation of Sandler.
Follow Ethan McGuire on Twitter @AHeavyMetalPen. For links to his various writings check out his website, TheFlummoxed.com. For his film and culture essays for The Dispatch, click here.
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