Fletch quickly became a cult film after it's release in 1984. With Chevy
Chase fully embodying the role of Irwin M. "Fletch", great one liners, the
cyinical tone that Fletch imploys in solving his case, clever disguises, a
somewhat interesting plot, and even a reference to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Alan Stanwyk: Do you own rubber gloves?
Fletch: I rent. I have a lease, with an option to buy.
In 1989, 5 years after the original came to the big screen "Fletch Lives"
was released. It received similar praise for the similar tone of cynical
comedy driven by a somewhat interesting plot but at the end of the day it
was just the same thing in a different time and in a different place.
That's not to say anything was wrong with it, it still made a lot of money
and was appreciated by the majority of their audience. But to me it lacked
the qualifying characteristic that the first film gave us with the on your
toes humor, it made an attempt it just didn't feel as genuine.
So I'm going to do what Chevy Chase and Michael Ritchie couldn't. I am not
going to give you a sequel of what happened while I was in Gbegamey.
Different people, similar experiences, but at the end of the day I was
still with Elder Legall and our last 4.5 months together felt like a whole
lot like the first. I have a new companion who is from the Democratic
Republic of The Congo, in a new area called Calavi-Universite, and should
hopefully in the coming weeks be able to crank out some entertaining and
uplifting content. For today I've just included some of my favorite
pictures from the last couple months.
