Patch Adams (as portrayed) is a jerk.
I don't know about the real Patch Adams, but I thought that the character played by Robin Williams was a real jerk.
There was something a little disturbing about him sneaking into the room full of children and acting like a clown. I was wondering if he was going to play "tickle monster", and start attacking them one by one, if you know what I mean.
Carin flat out told him to back off many times and he refused to do it. Of course, in movieland, if you pester someone long enough, they will fall in love with you.
Both Carin and Mitch showed that they were willing to work their butts off to get their degree, but all PA did was clown around and try to distract them.
Excuse me. I am trying to learn about how to operate on someone and possibly save a life someday. Could you please quit playing with that skeleton and try to grow up a bit!
Anytime someone would try to set PA straight about his goofing off, PA would get in a huff about it and claim his acuser is just a homurless jerk. Awww! I can't imagine why people would take the medical practice so seriously.
His jokes about the gynecologists and open graduation gown were very juvenille at best.
Let's have a free hospital! Everyone gets treated for free! Yay! Oh, we ran out of supplies. How did that happen? Don't worry, we will just steal some from a real hospital.
As portrayed, Patch Adams reminded me of the crazy, obnoxious, drunkard, bully of an uncle who makes jokes at others expense, while parents do everything they can to keep him away from their children.
A patient is a little upset from the fact that he is slowly dying of a terminal disease, and he lets PA know, in no uncertain way, that he wants to be left alone. Does PA take a hint? No, like a bully, he decides that since he now knows what buttons to press, he just annoys the terminally ill patient even further.
The late Phillip Seymore Hoffman really outshined Robin Williams especially in that one scene where he said that a dying patient would rather have a doctor who is a prick rather than one who is a clown, but there was one thing wrong with that statement. The clown is the prick.
The only scene where PA actually wasn't being a jerk was that one scene where he asked what that patient's name was.
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