Comedy of menace

The cold metal felt nice, my headache softly pounding behind my eyes almost in time with the steady engine of the zeppelin as it lit through the cloudy sky. We’d reach Agona soon and we knew that. An involuntary sigh left me at that, the quiet of my cell resonating the melancholy ache and looming fear that fact brought about in me. A rehabilitation camp, the place where people go and when they leave they aren’t people anymore. It was like an unspoken rule that everyone knew except me and laughed…

Slapstick comedy in films started around 1915 when the famous Keystone Cops silent movies were made. The silent era saw the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton who starred in some of the more memorable films such as “The Tramp” and “The General”. Slapstick comedy is an extreme form of comedy normally involving forms of physical acts by the actors, such as being poked in the eyes or pulling one around by his ears. In the 1930s slapstick was dominated by “The Three Stooges” and Laurel and…

to clowning had moved over and become big in the silent films. One such name that rose to the top during this era is Charlie Chaplin who took the world by storm with his slapstick comedy. During the Silent movie era, comedy was big and people loved it because it was slapstick comedy which is exaggerated physical comedy and sight gags. People liked watching this because they enjoyed seeing comedians pushing the boundaries such as jumping off moving trains or falling from moving cars and this was…

considered to differ all types of comedians. There is an ample amount of different qualifications for the various types of comedians. Everyone loves to enjoy a good laugh, but he or she probably does not realize that there are all kinds of different comedy genres. One of the many types of comedians can be classified as the physical comedian. The physical comedian has a form that uses various body gestures and also involves any physical movement. This type of comedian likes to clown around and…

The sandlot Have you ever heard of the sandlot ? This movie is a good movie. Because of the director David Evans. There was a new boy that moved into the town. His name was Scotty Smalls but they called him smalls.When they got on the baseball field Smalls was trying to prove his stuff but he had never learned how to play catch. So he failed everyone of them started to laugh. Except for one person Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez or Benny for short and that is how it all got started. Smalls…

Hey guys, I was assigned as a dog, so I will argue that Griffith is wrong that the jokes he’s been reading in Iliad and Odyssey aren’t really there. Griffith provided several passages in the Iliad that involved humour to exam the humorous in Greek Epic, however, these jokes seem not exist if we interpret them in another aspect. The scene in Book Nineteen, lines 380b-424 that when Achilles returns to the battle after the death of his best friend. Achilles blames the horses for his own failing…

In the modern movie White Chicks, it demonstrates characteristics of a Shakespearean comedy, which include attributes such as mistaken identities, complex plots, use of puns, and happy endings for everyone involved in the work. The story of two brothers, Kevin and Marcus Copeland fulfilling their job as FBI agents easily demonstrate all of these qualities in the movie. Shakespeare’s hard work and dedication is shown throughout numerous books and movies, and will continue to live on for many…

The Italian Renaissance Theatre was from 1400 to 1620. It housed many operas and plays. The most popular performance was the Commedia. This was Farce, or low comedy. It was also known as slapstick for in some of the plays and actor would beat up another with a stick. The stage was designed to be disassembled easily, and was decorated with paintings. In many of the plays mask would be used such as ones you would find in a masquerade ball. Famous characters are categorized as The servants of…

Living ironically is as problematic as Wampole says. One of Wampole's objections to ironic living is how with this new technological age we create a distance between ourselves and those around us. Wampole has us to question whether we are sincere about our actions or words when we interact with people. "Do I communicate primarily through inside jokes and pop culture references? What percentage of my speech is meaningful? How much hyperbolic language do I use?"(Wampole) I believe most of the…

The Bad Boy, the Troublemaker, the Rebel, the young delinquent with a heart of gold; all undoubtedly some of America’s favorite tropes. Americans have a soft spot for the Bad Boy who is really a Good Guy. Such characters are prevalent throughout America’s entertainment culture and history. From Johnny Depp’s Cry-baby Walker, to Judd Nelson as Bender in The Breakfast Club, and Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, Americans swoon at the first sight of a brooding glare, and go weak in the knees at the…