Posted by Jan den Breejen on November 22, 1998 at 03:51:36:
In this Americanized version of Francis Veber's Le Chevre, Danny Glover plays a hapless E6 fobic detective (showing sometimes counterfobic agressive actions), assigned to a bumbling counterfobic E6 accountant (played by red haired Martin Short) who seems to be trying to prove to himself he 'can do it' all the time. Their project is to locate the worlds most accident-prone E9 heiress. The watershed between the fobic and counterfobic can be seen clearly when an sleazy E3 pilot wants to take the two on a small airplane without parachutes (E3 self confidence; 'nothing will happen; no problem etc.); the fobic evades and the counterfobic wants to step into the plane immediately on his own. Also a good counterfobic scene is the one in which Short attacks Glover in a blind manner; Glover is so much stronger and he has no chance of being succesful (kamikaze must have been an E6CF invention!). Biblical David (against E8 Goliath) must have been an E6CF action hero; ancestor of the Tom Sellick/Bruce Willis/Mel Gibson tradition.