Wijnaldum: Klopp Believes In Us
"Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime."
Rupert Pupkin, King of Comedy
In Martin Scorsese's King of Comedy, the central protagonist, the splendidly monikered Rupert Pupkin, is a quietly unhinged man with delusions of grandeur and dreams of celebrity status. Pupkin, whose dark psychopathology eventually sees him resorting to kidnap and extortion, is fuelled by the kind of impervious self-belief that others find ludicrous.
The film is an unsettling masterpiece and its prescience about the …
