Slapstick film

Gene Kelly’s and Stanley Donen’s 1952 American musical comedy film that changed and made a mark in film history for his film techniques and is one of the greatest films of the sound era. It is a classic film for its joyous and cheerful musical numbers that burst with energy. The film blends a variety of genres such as musical, period and historical, romance, family, drama and comedy all into one. The storyline really captivates the audience’s attention and wins it way into your heart with it…

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…

Swedish film directed by Felix Herngen, based on the international bestseller novel written by Jonas Jonasson with the same name. Set as a fast paced film with a Forrest Gump-esque approach switching between the present and past of Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson). On his 100th birthday, just as the title says, he climbs out a window and disappeared. This film is an an intriguing, comical and eventful twist of world events. Based on a best selling-novel and the highest-grossing Swedish films…

B-52 jet carrying the nuclear bombs, the military personnel are reading Playboy and playing cards. These are not necessarily the actions that should be occurring on a plane carrying nuclear, humanity-destroying bombs. Therefore, the props in the slapstick comedies were simply used for comedic effect while the props in dark comedies started to have more meaning and significance regarding the theme in their uses. Despite the comedic differences in Duck Soup and Dr. Strangelove, many of the…

place where people all over the world came to make their dreams come true. Hollywood in the 1930’s was surprisingly hit very hard. It was surprising because that’s not what it looked like from the outside. Hollywood in the 1930’s introduced women to film, made the depression less depressing all while extending itself to a higher length. People in the Great Depression struggled to make ends meet everyday. “Despite that fact 60-70 million Americans still packed into theatres each week”…

Hammersmith 1 Film Research Paper Andrew Hammersmith COM 320, Sec. 1. Dr. Neuendorf 10/15/15 Outline Introduction Marx Brothers were a major early 20th century comedic force Among the people inspired by them was Mel Brooks. (Use quote from book). Both served to promote a specific style of comedy filmmaking. Thesis: The extent of the Marx Brothers influences on Mel Brooks lies within their roots in vaudeville, emphasis on multiple forms of comedy, and overall anarchic attitude…

was changing the direction of the film industry. In her review on the movie, Kale also states, “It is a kind of violence that says something to us; it is something that movies must be free to use. We must also defend the legal rights of those filmmakers who use violence to see tickets, for it is not province of the law to deice that one man is an artist and another man a no-talent,” (Kale). Pauline Kale in fourteen-page review on Bonnie and Clyde explains that a film director should not be…

Michael Hoffman's 1999 film interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare is quite different than the original play, most noticeably in regards to style of reading and character representation. The film turns characters such as Duke Theseus of Athens and mischievous fairy Puck into less complicated versions of themselves in order to appeal to the larger audience. This did not come without backlash, as many would argue that this in fact took away the deeper meaning…

the homonymous manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, "Death Note" is the most commercially successful title of the list having spawned video games, light novels, an anime series, a two-part film, a spin-off movie, while a new film is scheduled to screen this October. This entry is for the first two films. The story follows Yagami Light, a student who discovers a notebook, that when someone writes a name of someone in it, this individual dies after a few days. L is world renowned detective,…

the era of silent films which extends from the late nineteenth century, with the earliest work by the Lumière Brothers in France and Edison in America acts became much bigger, crazier and widely spread. Here 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…