Alice Comedies

Matt Roche and Jaimie Warren Too are a duo which created the show “Whoop Dee Doo!” This show is a live show for kids. The show “Whoop Dee Doo!” balances art, humor, and entertainment while providing those involved a creative outlet. The show utilizes its space to create a different world which is what the content of the show is based on. In the specific segment I watched, the duo picked a space and had ten days to transform it into their vision. They collaborated with high school students to create a set which transformed from a winter theme to spring. They not only create their own sets, but they use up every ounce of the space to interact with the performers and the audience. As for time, their show originally would last up to 4 hours and…

Back in the 1920’s multitudes of inventions and discoveries in many areas helped build the base for businesses. One of these businesses was entertainment, specifically the film or movie industry. Now back then film technology was not only expensive but had many restrictions because of the level it was at. They would focus on feature-length films instead of shorts. Yet one man started to change that, Walt Disney. His first profitable series was Alice Comedies, which was a girl in an animated…

Keeping The Faith To The Screwball Genre? The screwball comedy genre was first popularized in the 1930s and considered one of the most successful genres. The genre typically follows two characters, one of which is a screwball and the other is a more serious character. The genre also involves a romance between two characters. The relationship is defined by the women being in a position of control and usually involved some sort of pretending or a lie. The actors are often fast talking and witty.…

The Importance of Being Moderate: Why Brutus Fell The rule of attachment between light and dark is constant. Without sadness, there is no happiness; without comedy tragedy loses impact. A genre so potent with sorrow surrounding the main character could be reduced to nothing if not for lighthearted comedy. The law of necessary contrast has been true for all of history, both in reality and literature, and has been captured through the works of remarkable authors such as William Shakespeare. He…

audience members were dressed in the proper 20s attire. The lobby was lit by twinkle lights and exposed light bulbs while the sounds of the roaring 20s filled the room. There a piano on the stage by the bar and many other antique knickknacks. When the stage was finally exposed and the screen was lifted inviting the audience in, I felt that I was transported into the 2013 movie version of The Great Gatsby. There were champagne bottles displayed on beautiful golden trays, a garden terrace…

appearance and the comparisons between her and other famous female figures. At the start of Rebecca, the narrator describes herself as a “little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect” and had a “youthful, unpowdered face” which shows how young she was when she was working for Mrs Van Hopper. It is safe to say that Maxim, not unlike the reader, sees the narrator as a child despite them being married. For example, he insists three times that the narrator dress up as Alice in…

‘You must leave Wonderland immediately, the great and powerful Queen of Hearts is after you. When she finds out you are here she will not stop until you are her prisoner.’ ‘Why what is wrong? What has happened that she needs me.” A worried look came across my face. ‘Please help me get home before it's too late.’ A tear ran down my cheek. The Mad Hatter hugged me and said ‘he would never let her take me.’ I hugged him back harder and the rest of the animals at the table all hugged me too. At…

play to be a little vague. The scholar never critically analyzed the ironies in the play. He just told the readers where and what type of irony they are. I didn’t feel there was a strong enough point in this analysis. Foster, Richard. "Wilde as Parodist: A Second Look at the Importance of Being Earnest." College English 18.1 (1956): 18-23. Web. 5 July 2015. Foster’s journal entry focuses mainly on Wilde being a comedian and how he incorporates such ideas in in plays, especially The Importance…

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Shakespeare’s comedies have always had a distinct subtext of tragedy as shown in Twelfth Night. It teeters on the brink of tragedian literature similar to his tragedies, such as Hamlet, through the ambiguity of the main characters and unfinished resolutions. Comedies are generally morally clear- the villains and heroes are clearly defined. Twelfth Night’s characters have a layer of ambiguity stemming from their use of illusion in the form of mistaken identity. A central theme of the…