![]() ![]() The irony, of course, is that even though he works at a place called LIFE, he hasn’t lived. Stiller, who also directed, plays Mitty as an absentminded, socially awkward nebbish who works in the photo department at LIFE magazine. ![]() But his new film, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” despite all of its visual razzle-dazzle, never locates the beating heart of its hero. ![]() Ben Stiller’s no stranger to such clown-crying-on-the-inside gambits (see: “Permanent Midnight” and “Greenberg”). Not only has CGI made it relatively simple to turn Walter Mitty’s daydreams into Technicolor tapestries of digital eye candy, it’s also the kind of emotionally textured role that can be a springboard out of the banana-peel slapstick ghetto. It’s easy to understand why comedians like Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Sacha Baron Cohen have flirted with adapting James Thurber’s 1939 New Yorker story about a timid man with a vibrant fantasy life. ![]()
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