Dan's Pizzeria Analysis

Dan’s Pizzeria embodies the characteristics of a situation comedy. The overall premise of the story including the background of Dan’s Pizzeria with the exaggerated death of the Dansanzo father entertains the audience with humor. This film is purely “escapist entertainment” meaning it provides the audience with a brief escape from their everyday lives. The audience receives the opportunity to enter the world of Dan’s Pizzeria and experience joy and laughter through this comedic film. Tony and Vinny’s attempts to obtain the best pizzeria in the world and the complications they encounter produce laughter from the audience. This is why plot falls into the position of primary in the elements of drama. The hilarious characters of Dan’s Pizzeria entertain …show more content…
To ensure the authenticity of the Italian heritage of Dan’s Pizzeria and provide humor the Dansanzo brothers have an extreme emphasis on being Italian. Throughout the film, the brothers have a strong connection with their mother and use language to show they’re Italian by referring to her as Mama. Their mother has a strong connection to the foundation and success of Dan’s Pizzeria just like a mother is the foundation of a classic Italian family. Also the general appearance of the Dansanzo brothers, black hair all over and large from eating plenty of Mama’s cooking, further emphasizes the Italian in them. The beginning of the film shows the importance of Mama to Tony with him staring at the photo of their grand opening. The blanket the Dansanzo brothers use is, of course, an Italian flag. Within the first minute of the film, the audience realizes that the brothers are Italian but then by further exaggerating how Italian they are and falling into many stereotypes adds a bit more fantasy into the mix for the sake of humor. While the overall place of Dan’s Pizzeria is quite lifelike, the action of Vinny brushing his teeth with pesto toothpaste bring the film back down the scale to being in between absolutely real and fantasy. Also, the gruesome exaggerated action of the father’s death strays from realism to arouse joy in being so …show more content…
The main motivation behind the health inspector was a combination of a few movies and tv shows I’ve enjoyed. The first major influence was the movie Ratatouille. While there were no health inspectors in this movie, I took the theme of destroying someone’s dream for one’s own personal gain. This movie has a chef who loses his job to a new chef then attempts to regain his job by making the new chef fail. I added to this concept with another food-related film, the tv show Bob’s Burgers. This show contains health inspectors that have a personal vendetta against Bob causing them to want to shut down his restaurant. Combining concepts from these two humorous restaurant related movies/tv shows I formulated the health inspector antagonist with a plot for revenge. The Italian nature of the characters came from my mother’s background. She had a mostly Italian mother that exposed me to Italian-American lifestyle. For the humor of the film I just drew from ideas that I found funny and comedies I