Last updated on 2012-04-18, by Tony

Four Awards For Pranks In Movies Fit For April Fools’ Day

April Fools’ Day is a relaxing day in the year. It is not a national holiday, but it is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness. So this day needs your laugh and caution because you may be the target of next prank. For one thing you need to bear in mind in this day that you can’t be angry.

Though people prank every day, sometimes they go so far as to stir up the irritation of others, which can be especially reflected in some movies. This post has collected four movies for you where the stories begin with pranks. They are fit for the atmosphere of April Fools’ Day. So in this special day, you can watch those DVD or convert those DVD to mp4 files if you want to play in them in your portable devices like The new iPad.

Like Academy Awards, this post will try to give them corresponding awards: most influential prank, most intelligent prank, worst prank and most expansive prank.

Most Influential Prank: The Truman Show

Who can be more miserable than this guy? He has been a fool for over thirty years. His friend, his wife, his parents and his neighbors are all actors. His daily life has been arranged by others without his notice. The irony is that he is the only one in the world who believes all the things happen to him. He is forbidden to go outside because various weird things will happen on his way of leaving. All those originate from a prank of Christof, the creator of Truman Show, to make such a show, which makes Truman the biggest fool ever. Without his notice, his life is filled with lies. Every day for him is April Fools’ Day. However, prank, no matter how perfect it can be, won’t last forever. Truman suddenly realizes the prank and begins his journey to fight against the prank.
Comment: Christof’s prank not only last for over thirty years but also gets the support from the people all over the world in the movie.

Most Intelligent Prank: Catch Me If You Can

This movie is based on true story which means such liar really exists. The young hero of the movie starts his crime journey with a prank. As he is short of money, he decides to use false cheque and he successes. Since then, he decides to continue his prank. He gets millions of dollars in this way as well as the irritation from police and bankers because his action brings finance market turmoil. However, he takes his pranks to European and irritates people there. Of course, he pays for his prank: he gets caught by FBI in France. He is such a good liar that fools all the bankers in the world. If there is an award for intelligent trickier, he deserves one.

Comment: A young boy tricks the whole world with his prank and intelligence. He repeats his pranks in many countries, taking their money and leaving those people’s ange

Worst Prank: 88 Minutes

This movie begins with a phone call which tells Dr. Jack Gramm starred by Al Pacino that his life will end after 88 minutes. This is probably a prank. However, as our hero recognizes that it is not April Fools’ Day at that time, the story starts with the prank. Jack decides to take action and find out the caller but he just owns 88 minutes. The caller really chooses a wrong guy to trick. As his investigation goes further, the killer’s danger of being discovered raises. So this at least tells you that you shall not start your crime with such a bad prank.

Comment: The killer chooses a wrong guy as its target. This worst prank leads the killer to the final destination: death.

Most Expansive Prank: The Social Network

So in the movie, Mark Zuckerberg pranks too much that leads to the resulting lawsuits. In the beginning, he just intends to make a prank to all the girls in Harvard by posting their photos online and let viewers to compare and score those girls. Of course, he is punished. He then tricks Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss when they invite Mark to their final club. However, though accepting a job as programmer for Harvard Connection, Mark begins to build his own social community and leaves Harvard Connection alone. Then he is sued by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. However, this can’t stop Mark’s prank. Later he pranks his best friend, Eduardo again. He tricks Eduardo to sign a deal which allows Mark to dilute his share of the company. Of course, Mark is sued again. This film is nothing but pranks made by Mark and his way to build Facebook with those pranks. Obviously, Mark takes everyday as April Fools’ Day.

Comment: As a billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg pays millions of dollars for his pranks in the movie.