Slapstick

culture. Comedy has but one rule: it must be funny. Other than this, humorists can take any and all liberties to fundamentally change the affect of their art; resulting in a wide array of comedic styles. The “comedy” umbrella somehow shelters the slapstick fun of Laurel and Hardy, the deadpan observations of Steven Wright and the surrealism of Monty Python. These comedians, along with all of their colleagues, do much more than simply make us laugh though. In accordance with Alain de Botton’s…

But when Keaton apprenticed himself to Arbuckle… he wanted to know everything” (Austerlitz, 2010). Keaton would write, direct, produce, and star in ten feature length films in the 1920s, each one with his signature deadpan facial expression and slapstick humor. Keaton was also the first filmmaker to innovate with the camera in order to subtly enhance his physical humor. For example, in an online article for film monthly, Chris Wood…

than spoken theater to make the concept more happy and enjoyable. Plautus’s younger contemporary was Publius Terentius After, otherwise known as Terence. Terence has followed his lead and wrote comedies as well. However, his comedies involved less slapstick and music. Once of his best pieces was called “The Brothers” (Kirby). Tragedy was first introduced by a man by the name of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Seneca was known as a tutor to emperor Nero. A tragedy is the opposite of comedy. It is a more…

represented by the article of clothing they wore. For example, Capitano would where a military outfit. The set wasn’t too fancy but they had a lot of props. They had sound of effects, such as Arlecchino slapping two sticks together (the birth of “slapstick”) Commedia dell’Arte was…

For the assignment, going retro, I chose to watch several episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. This was an American sitcom that ran from 1962- 1971 on the CBS network. The show was created and written by Paul Henning and produced by Filmways Television. Both Al Simon and Martin Ransohoff were executive producers for this series which began in black and white but was switched to color in 1965. The shows had several main characters that came in and out of each episode, some of the most prominent…

Abhimanyu Rajshekar (Block F) Context: Theatre of the Absurd has its roots set in the avant-garde experiments in art in the 1920’s-1930’s. It was strongly influenced by the horrors of World War Two, where the impermanence of values and morality, validity of conventions and the meaninglessness of human life and its social conventions were questioned. These beliefs were stimulated by the constant threat of nuclear annihilation in Europe in 1945, and played an important role in its rise in Europe.…

Mindless and Maniacal, Is This Truly the Life of an Adolescent? Parties, drugs and alcohol, the vital ingredients for the perfect recipe to create teenage recklessness. Well done Australia. Once again you’ve molded and influenced a toxic depiction of innocents through the media. We adolescents, as a whole, have become victims of a so called ‘party animal’ reputation forced upon us. Simply contemplate any high school movie or mere news story about teenagers and their message will scream…

Based on this theory, humor is used to generate a feeling of superiority over the target or butt of the joke whereby the butt loses face; therefore, it could contain disparagement and hostility. This view of humor is believed to be developed by Plato and Aristotle at the beginning (Reimann, 2010; Kochersberger, 2012). Since, Aristotle and Plato admitted that people got pleasure from others' misfortunes, inadequacies, and incapacities, because they were not suffering the same problems; in other…

In regards to ‘The Godfather’, not unlike the other two films, the story revolves around a male hierarchy. The male characters are dressed in smart, expensive suits, which could suggest that they are highly respected and that they are confident and paramount. Additionally, fashion is regarded important in Italian families. After Michael Corleone becomes the head of the Corleone family, he says ‘women and children can be careless, not men’ which could suggest that the men in the family are…

which are tragedy and comedy. Tragedy is a part of drama that leads to death, destruction,and suffering; while comedy’s purpose is humor and make the audience laugh. Each comedy and tragedy will use elements in it. Comedy will use elements like slapstick,or physical acts that are funny ; puns,or plays on words that may have double meaning;and mistaken identity, or mistaken one person for another ,which creates a funny situation. Tragedy on the other hand uses elements such as: foreshadowing,…