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In October 2016, Netflix released the first teaser trailer for A Series of Unfortunate Events, where Warburton narrates the events of the series as Lemony Snicket. A trailer, featuring footage from the series and Neil Patrick Harris's character, Count Olaf, was released by Netflix in November 2016, [71] followed shortly by the first full ...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: With Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Pauli Weissman, Louis Hynes. After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets.
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Olaf is greedy and he is obsessed with the Baudelaires' inheritance. He is a stalker who has followed them to their new homes, and even kills most of their guardians. In the TV series, he claims money is the most important substance on earth, apart from applause and lip balm. This opinion may be the result of him growing up in a society where money...
Early Life
Olaf said that when he was a child he loved raspberries. In The Wide Window, it is revealed that as a child, Count Olaf would torture and kill ants with a magnifying glass, as he would set them on fire. This shows early signs of Count Olaf's psychopathy and arson. The video gamehas a portrait of this in his house. In the TV series, he attended a boarding school with Lemony Snicket and Beatrice Baudelaire. At some point, he was recruited into VFD. A young Lemony, in a letter to Beatrice, menti...
Adulthood
At some point in time, he met Kit Snicketand fell in love with her. He also became the acting teacher of Esmé Squalor. Duncan and Isadora Quagmire mentioned that they read about a man, with similar traits as Olaf, that strangled a bishop, escaped prison in just ten minutes, and threw a wealthy widow off a cliff. The Baudelaire children agreed that it sounds like Olaf and believed him to be the man mentioned in the articles (although this is never confirmed). In the books, Kit mentioned that s...
Role in the Schism
Olaf had something to do with the schism that separated V.F.D. This is hinted the most in a letter Jacques Snicket wrote to Jerome Squalor. The letter explained that a member which he only referred to as O was acting in such a violent manner that his actions have caused the organization to split in two. As the members of the organization often use the first letter of their names to talk about one and another, it is generally assumed O stands for Olaf. Many members of V.F.D., such as Widdershi...
Olaf's role is mainly the same as the books. However, the children are taken out of Olaf's care after he nearly hits them with a train (he parked on the train tracks and left them there, locked in the car), and Mr. Poe takes them out of his care because Olaf "let Sunny drive". When Count Olaf saves the children from the leeches they are placed back...
Olaf's role is mainly the same as the books. However, there are more details to his backstory, and he also uses more disguises than the books. It is revealed Count Olaf went to Prufrock Preparatory School with Lemony Snicket in his adolescence. Both of them were also part of their school's drama club. The school principal Ishmaelmade Olaf think poe...
Confirmed murders include: 1. Gustav Sebald 2. Montgomery Montgomery 3. Captain Sam(in the film) 4. Josephine Anwhistle(in the film and Netflix series, ambiguous in the books) 5. Jacques Snicket(in the Netflix series, he is beaten to death by Olaf with a crowbar) 6. Olivia Caliban(in the Netflix series, ambiguous in the books) 7. Larry the Waiter(i...
Olaf is described as very tall and very thin with bony hands and pale skin. His angular face is unshaven as he has a goatee beard and large sideburns. He has a long unibrow and gray-white receding hair. He has a prominent hooked nose. He has a little chest hair, as shown by one of the illustrations for The Vile Village. His eyes tend to gleam and s...
Olaf wears a new disguise and alias of someone who works under the guardians or works near the area, usually murdering the person who had the occupation previously, that usually fools everyone but the Baudelaires. One or two of his henchmen, also usually disguised, accompany him and aid him in executing his schemes. The following is a list of his p...
In the 2003 Multi-Voice Recording of The Bad Beginning, he is voiced by L.J. Ganser.In the film, he is portrayed by Jim Carrey.In the video game, he is voiced by Jim Carrey.In the TV series, he is portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris.Books
1. Part of the depiction of Olaf being such a bad person in the narration of ASOUEseems to be from Lemony Snicket's own personal dislike of Olaf. 2. Although he is mentioned to have a high, wheezing voice in the books, neither the show or movie go in this direction. 3. He was going to appear physically, and prominently in All The Wrong Questions, but this idea was scrapped early on. 4. ASOUE is often categorized as "children's literature", albeit a parody of it which adults can also enjoy. In...
Film
1. In a deleted scene, Olaf kicks the Baudelaires' dinner shouting 'BEEF! BEEF! BEEEEEEF!" because they did not give him roast beef. 2. Olaf may have knowledge of Italian. When the Baudelaires announce they are serving pasta puttanesca, Olaf replies, "What did you call me?" The name translates to "sauce in the style of the prostitute" or "whore's spaghetti". Italian legend has it that this dish was named as such because it was the everyday prostitutes signature dish, due to the affordability...
TV series
1. The production company and license used to film the series in Vancouver is called "Olaf II Productions Inc." 2. Neil Patrick Harris got a real tattoo on his ankle. 3. When Neil Patrick Harris asked Daniel Handler how old Count Olaf was supposed to be, Handler replied, "You know, however old kids think old people are." 4. Count Olaf sometimes makes fourth-wall breaks. For example, he says he prefers entertainment from the comfort of his own home, a reference to Netflix. Sometimes he occasio...
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Count Olaf, or simply known as Olaf, is the main antagonist of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events novel series and its 2004 film adaptation. He's greedy and will go any lengths to get what he wants, even if it involves murder. He appears in every book of the Series of Unfortunate Events, in some form or another.
Dec 17, 2004 · With Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman. When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents' vast fortune.
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The extraordinary Baudelaire orphans face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf in their fateful quest to unlock long-held family secrets. Watch trailers & learn more.
For the TV series, see A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series). A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of thirteen children's novels written by American author Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket. The books follow the turbulent lives of orphaned siblings Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire.
