However, from the first few pages of The Mask comic, Ipkiss is a vastly different kind of person. When it unleashes his inner wild child, he basically does what any young man - or repressed adult man - dreams of doing: he robs banks, pranks the people who bully him, andВ flirts with pretty ladies. In the film version of The Mask, Carrey plays Stanley Ipkiss as a hapless, shy, genuinely decent person whose id is released by the eponymous mask. Here's a look at how truly dark and twisted the source material for a beloved childhood comedy classic really is. The only way they could do that was to strip out the buckets of bloodВ andВ mayhem. Carrey's portrayal of the rubber-faced cartoonish lunatic is an amazing recreation of the character, but the tone of the comics is so much darker and more horrifying that it's a real shock any studioВ thought they'd be able to adapt it in the first place. Meanwhile, the Dark Horse comic it's based on is far different. It features some surprisingly risquГ© jokes and surreal imagery, but it's (mostly) a family-friendly action-comedy romp. With a hunger for mischief and a whole lot of charisma, Ipkiss as The Mask isn't afraid to breakВ the law for fun. It tells the story of a mild-mannered banker named Stanley Ipkiss who finds a magic mask that turns him into a living cartoon character. When The Mask hit theaters in July 1994, it became a massive comedy hit that helped launch Jim Carrey into the realm of superstardom.

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