Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves

 

For the 36th week of 2021 as part of Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks. We go into the subject of actors and actress who play themselves. It’s one thing for an actor to play someone else but it is a bigger challenge to play a version of themselves whether it’s in an exaggerated version or a version no one expects. Here are my three picks as they star the legendary Bill Murray as himself:

1. Space Jam

Michael Jordan is helping out the Looney Tunes face off against aliens who had stolen all of the talent of other NBA players of the 1990s. Yet, when Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and others are a player short as they had gotten their asses kicked by the Mon-Stars. Who do they need to help them? Why Bill Murray of course.

2. Coffee and Cigarettes-Delirium

As part of Jim Jarmusch’s collection of black-and-white short films where two people have conversations smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. One segment featured the RZA and GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan talking about the dangers of nicotine and caffeine where they’re joined by a waiter who is none other than Bill Murray himself. Murray becomes the example of those dangers with some hilarious results as it is one of the stand-out segments of the film.

3. Zombieland

A zombie apocalypse is wreaking havoc in the world where a cowboy, an uptight young man, and two sisters are trekking throughout the country as they stay at a house to hide. It is there they meet Bill Murray disguised as a zombie as more hilarity ensues as well as ideas of what to do when dealing a zombie.

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