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Film Appreciation

Film Appreciation. Notes – Comedy The Three Stooges Charlie Chaplin “City Lights”. What’s So Funny?. Over the next few weeks we will try to determine: What makes people laugh? Types of comedy in film “City Lights” starring Charlie Chaplin The Three Stooges

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Film Appreciation

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  1. Film Appreciation Notes – Comedy The Three Stooges Charlie Chaplin “City Lights”

  2. What’s So Funny? • Over the next few weeks we will try to determine: What makes people laugh? • Types of comedy in film • “City Lights” starring Charlie Chaplin • The Three Stooges • “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” • “Raising Arizona” • Project: Screenwriting/Write a comedy skit

  3. Influences on ‘Funny’ • What an individual finds ‘funny’ depends on many factors including: • Mood • Background / upbringing • Social group • Education

  4. What does this quote mean? • ”Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” - E.B. White

  5. Comedy Styles • Physical Comedy/Slapstick • Finding humor in the acrobatics and movements of people in unusual situations • Painful physical comedy such as falling, hitting, kicking, etc. played for humorous effect

  6. Duck Soup (The Marx Bros.)

  7. Styles of Comedy • Verbal Comedy • Wordplay, puns, sarcasm, telling jokes - paying attention to dialogue is rewarded • Sarcasm, insults • Characters trying to talk themselves out of humorous situations

  8. This Is Spinal Tap

  9. Styles of Comedy • Satire: Taking an existing person, place, news story, etc. and poking fun at them, trying to make a point with the humor (SNL, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report) • Parody: A ‘spoof’ of existing art, a movie or TV show that makes fun of another by imitating its style (Scary Movie, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles)

  10. Does this look familiar?

  11. Styles of Comedy • Dark Humor • Playing of a situation that would normally be very serious and finding humor in it • Is often used by a filmmaker to make a statement on the subject matter • Death, loss, inappropriate behavior

  12. Dr. Strangelove

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