The Mask
The Maskis a 1994 live - action drollery starring the legendary actorJim Carrey . It follows protagonist Stanley Ipkiss ( Carrey ) , a hapless banker who slip up upon a strange , ancient - search mask that he found float in the filthy haven . Upon putting it on , Ipkiss transubstantiate into The Mask , a gullible - head deceiver with ‘ animated cartoon - powers ’ who made all of Stanley ’s secret desires a world . The film was a hit in the ‘ XC and remains one ofJim Carrey ’s most belovedto this day . Too regretful it ’s nothing like the original comic .
Before it was a picture show , The Mask(by John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke ) was originally a miniseries trilogy published by Dark Horse Comics from 1991 to 1995 . The original trilogy consisted ofThe Mask , The Mask Returns , andThe Mask Strikes Back . In the year that follow , The Maskcomic serial became a cult classic , and even earned itself a few spin - off books , includingItty Bitty Maskand2019’sI Pledge Allegiance To The Mask .
In every translation , the story plays out more or less the same way . Someone find the Mask , they become Big Head ( which is the name of the living embodiment of the Mask no matter who it ’s inhabiting ) , and they are free to survive out their inner fantasies while wielding god - level top executive . This is even true in the film , which proves that The Mask always stays unfeigned to its core group tenets , no matter the iteration . However , when it occur time to compare and contrast the comic from the 1994 film , there is one major difference : the comic is so much darker .
The Mask made its first show in 1987’sDark Horse Presents#10 as “ the Masque ” before officially debuting as “ expectant Head ” in 1989’sMayhem#1 .
Obviously , there are a phone number ofstories inThe Maskcomic book population to pull from to highlight how much benighted and more tearing it is than the 1994 film . But , the picture show only deals with the storey of Stanley Ipkiss and his family relationship with the Mask and those around him , so the focal point of this comparison must be on the first story in the originalThe Maskcomic record book trilogy , as that is the only one where Stanley Ipkiss is the main character . While that may seem limit , sleep assured , it absolutely is not .
The Mask (Movie) VS The Mask (Comic): What’s the Difference?
Jim Carrey’s 1994 Film is Shockingly Comic Accurate (Minus the Horror)
The first major conflict between the film and comic versions of The Mask is how Stanley Ipkiss come to own the Mask . As antecedently bring up , flick - Ipkiss bumble upon the Mask as it was floating in the seaport . In the comics , Stanley in reality buys the Mask at a pawn shop as a present for his girlfriend , Katherine . Other than that , the respective portraying of Stanley are pretty similar . He ’s a down - on - his - lot guy who gets harassed by local bikers , gets exact advantage of by his mechanics , and hold a plenty of resentment and anger inside himself at all those who wrong him .
Then , when Stanley redact the Mask on for the first clip after giving it to his girl , thing take a major turn . Appearance - wise , the flick did a phenomenal job at bringing the seemingly unsufferable proportions of giving Head to life , but that ’s where the similarity between the comic and the movie end . As Big Head , Stanley cut through down the bikers who beat him up and brutally murders them . He uses his god - level ‘ toon - powers ’ to live getting beaten and tear by the rockers , while also using those same powers to summons arm of his own from thin atmosphere .
In Jim Carrey’sThe Mask , ‘ Big Head ’ also attacked bikers and machinist who wronged Stanley Ipkiss , but he did n’t pop anyone , and mostly just pulled pranks on them . In fact , his biggest crime in the moving picture was robbing the bank where Ipkiss mould , something his comic book similitude never did .
After kill the rockers , Big Head strike on to the mechanics who were ripping him off . He stuffed a silencer in one of their heads and murdered the other one by sticking random tool from the garage in his skull . Then , Big Head necessitate things even further by give chase down his old elementary school teacher whom he hated as a nipper , and essentially stomp her skull in front of a class of child . To make matters worse , Ipkiss did n’t regret any of it once the Mask was taken off , laughing at all the mass he murdered as Big Head .
The BIGGEST Difference Between Jim Carrey’s The Mask & Dark Horse Comics’ The Mask
1 Scene in Particular is the Same in the Movie & Comic, but Also Mirror-Opposites
The way Big Head gave Stanley the ability to take revenge upon those who wronged him in the past times is boundlessly more horrifically vehement in the comic than it was in the movie , but there ’s one scene in the comedian that was adapt in the 1994 plastic film that resist as the large difference between the movie and the comic .
In the film , when the police have The Mask surround ( as he was need for a bank robbery and a figure of outre assaults ) , The Mask used his cartoon - power to break out into a song and dance , and every law officer in the area who had their guns drawn on him was compelled to unite in . The Mask is then free to escape , as the rafts of officers beam there to cop him were bewitched by his carrying out . That ’s … not what happens in the comic .
Jim Carrey ’s The Mask makes light of one of the most heinously wild moments in the comic .
In the comic , two constabulary police officer reply to Katherine ’s flat after Stanley break in look for the Mask ( they had antecedently let on up , and Katherine sustain the Mask ) . Stanley put the Mask on before the police arrive , and when the officers enter the flat , Big Head killed them by hitting them over their heads with a lamp . After that , the entire area became swarming with cops - and Big Head did not do a song and dance . Big Head conjured bazooka , auto artillery , and grenade , and used them to slaughter the officers who respond to the call .
The Mask’s Comic Book Ending is Utterly Tragic, Where the Movie’s is Happy & Hopeful
Jim Carrey’s The Mask Would Have Been a MUCH Different Film if it Had the Comic’s Ending
gratefully , Big Head ’s heinous military action would n’t go unpunished . decently after his cleanup - spree , Big Head went back into Katherine ’s apartment , where Stanley took off the Mask to take his bags and leave town . However , Katherine was still there , and once Stanley had the Mask off , she shot him dead , thereby ending his sovereignty of terror incessantly ( though , unfortunately , not Big Head ’s ) .
In the picture show , Stanley Ipkiss ’ chronicle ends on a happy and hopeful preeminence . Stanley shoot down the scoundrel , gets the girl , and decide that he does n’t ask the Mask to be glad , so he throw it back into the harbor . In the comic , however , there is no such well-chosen finish for Stanley Ipkiss . Not only does he not ‘ get the girl ’ or ‘ overcome the villain ’ , but he ’s killed by ‘ the girl ’ and really is the scoundrel of his own story .
Fan creative person @bosslogic share a new opus show a darker side to 1994 ’s the Mask , in a glorious homage to the film ’s R - order comic origin .
It ’s clear thatJim Carrey’sThe Maskwould have been a much different film if it ended the way it did in the funnies , but truth be told , the whole movie would have been wholly different if it followed Stanley Ipkiss ’ original plot line . Indeed , Jim CarreymadeThe Maskfun , but the original story was so much darker .
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