"Insulting the director who is making a documentary about you might not be the most diplomatic of choices. Then again, Chevy Chase has never been very diplomatic. The comedian gets snarly at the top of filmmaker Marina Zenovich's I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, which airs Thursday on CNN. During their very first meeting, he warns her it isn't going to be easy to figure him out. She asks him why. You're not bright enough, how's that? he replies."
"That the exchange made the film says a lot about Zenovich and also about Chase, a gifted physical comedian who starred in classic 1970s and '80s comedies like Fletch, Three Amigos, Caddyshack and the National Lampoon's Vacation franchise. He's one of those people everybody thinks they know, says Zenovich. He has a reputation that precedes him and there's something underneath that you want to get to. So it was a great challenge to try to get there."
A documentary titled I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not captures Chevy Chase's confrontational behavior and the difficulty of understanding his personality. The film opens with Chase insulting the filmmaker and warning that he is hard to figure out, exemplified by his line, "You're not bright enough, how's that?" The project frames Chase as a gifted physical comedian known for films like Fletch, Three Amigos, Caddyshack and the National Lampoon's Vacation series. The filmmaker views Chase as someone whose reputation precedes him and believes there is something deeper beneath that public image, making exploration challenging.
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