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The Nutty Professor (known as Julius F. Kelp in the original film (1963) and as Prof. Sherman Klump in the 1996 remake, and by his alter ego Buddy Love in both films) is a fictional character portrayed by Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor and its respective sequel, and by Eddie Murphy in the 1996 version and its 2000 sequel Nutty Professor II ...
Jun 28, 1996 · The Nutty Professor: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller. Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
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Buddy Love is Sherman Klump's Alter Ego and the main antagonist of the films.
The Nutty Professor
He first started out as the result of Sherman inventing a formula designed for the user to shed weight instantly. At first Buddy was merely Sherman, only thinner, but due to Sherman hiding his identity in combination with the extreme rise of testosterone; Buddy became a separate personality all his own. Buddy behaves in a cruel and overly assertive manner, a complete opposite of the kind-hearted, loving and friendly Sherman.
The Nutty Professor II
Buddy becomes a completely separated entity from Sherman when he is extracted from his DNA after he periodically started taking control over Sherman's body by having the scientist act in a cruel manner, which causes him to upset Cletus Klump and Denise Gaines with his actions. After the extraction, Buddy accidentally combines with the DNA of Buster, a Basset Hound who caused a loose fur to to bring him back to life but also causing him to develop dog-like qualities to his personality. Buddy being split from Sherman causes the latter's brain cells to deteriorate. Sherman reduces Buddy to a baby and then a gel-like substance with an upgraded version of his youth formula in order to regain his intelligence. As Buddy, who rather die than going back inside him, evaporates into a fountain, Denise's tears reconstitute Buddy's genetic makeup and Sherman drinks the water, thus restoring his brain functions and whether or not it saved Buddy, Sherman is now in permanent control over him.
•Eddie Murphy’s second villainous role after “Vampire in Brooklyn”.
•Eddie Murphy said that even though he was playing an enormously overweight character, he had to keep himself in the best physical shape of his career. This was because he needed to look svelte and athletic as Buddy Love and also because he needed to be comfortable while wearing the heavy appliances and prosthetics for his scenes as the Klump family members.
•In the first film, Buddy attempts to desolve the life out of Sherman in the same body, which was motivated by his self-xenophobia. In the sequel, he attempts to capitalize on Sherman's youth formula and earn $150,000,000USD for himself, to ruin both Sherman's life and leaving him with a mental disability.
•While watching the original "Cape Fear" (1962), Eddie Murphy, playing Buddy Love, did an homage to the 1991 remake starring Robert de Niro. Murphy and DeNiro would later star together in "Showtime" (2002).
•Buddy crying like a baby after being forced to make out with Granny Klump is a foreshadowing of him transforming into a toddler when Sherman sabotages Buddy into taking the youth formula.
•Myles Mason, Jeffrey Michael Freeman and Maurice Colquitt played the toddler versions of Buddy on-set, then Eddie Murphy re-recorded the dialogue in post-production.
So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up , plumped down Don Juan. Director 1 Credit
Just like Julius Kelp from the original film, Klump's vigorous, charismatic, but evil alter ego takes the name "Buddy Love". Murphy plays a total of seven characters in the film, including Sherman and most of Sherman's family.
