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Romance & Comedy Genre

Romance & Comedy Genre. What are comedy Films?. Comedy Films  are designed to elicit laughter from the audience Light-hearted dramas, crafted to amuse, entertain, and provoke enjoyment. The genre humorously exaggerates situations, language, action, and characters.

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Romance & Comedy Genre

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  1. Romance & Comedy Genre

  2. What are comedy Films? • Comedy Films are designed to elicit laughter from the audience • Light-hearted dramas, crafted to amuse, entertain, and provoke enjoyment. • The genre humorously exaggerates situations, language, action, and characters. • Comedies observe the deficiencies, foibles, and frustrations of life, providing escape from day-to-day life. • They usually have happy endings, although the humor may have a serious or pessimistic side.

  3. What are the different types of Comedies? • Slapstick • Deadpan • Verbal • Screwball • Black or Dark • Parody or Spoof (Satire, Lampoon, Farce)

  4. Slapstick • Slapstick was predominant in the earliest silent films • The films didn't need sound to be effective • Popular among non-English speaking audiences in metropolitan areas. • The term slapstick was taken from the wooden sticks that clowns slapped together to promote audience applause. • Universal comedy with broad, aggressive, physical, and visual action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags. People to Remember Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin

  5. Deadpan • A type of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or body language. • Usually speaking in a casual, monotone, solemn, blunt, disgusted or matter-of-fact voice and expressing an unflappably calm, archly insincere or artificially grave demeanor. Important People Buster Keaton, Ben Stein, Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray

  6. Verbal • This was classically typified by the cruel verbal wit, sexual innuendo, or the verbal absurdity • Marx Brothers films tend to be the favorite for the earliest types, and later Woody Allen's literate comedies would be seen the same.

  7. Screwball • Screwball comedies, a sub-genre of romantic comedy films • Predominant from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. • The word 'screwball' denotes lunacy, craziness, eccentricity, ridiculousness, and erratic behavior. • These films combine farce, slapstick, and the witty dialogue of more sophisticated films. •  In general, they are light-hearted, frothy, often sophisticated, romantic stories, commonly focusing on a battle of the sexes in which both co-protagonists try to outwit or outmaneuver each other.

  8. Black or Dark • These are dark, sarcastic, humorous, or sardonic stories that help us examine otherwise ignored darker serious, pessimistic subjects such as war, death, or illness. Important People Tim Burton The Coen Brothers Stanley Kubrick (M*A*S*H*)

  9. Spoof & Parody • Usually a humorous take-off that ridicules, impersonates, punctures, scoffs at, and/or imitates (mimics) the style, conventions, formulas, characters (by caricature), or motifs of a serious work, film, performer, or genre. Important People Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen, Mike Meyers,

  10. What are romance films? • Romance films are love stories, or affairs of the heart that center on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady) • Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus. • Oftentimes, lovers in screen romances face obstacles and the hazards of hardship, finances, physical illness, racial or social class status, occupation, psychological restraints, or family that threaten to break their union and attainment of love.

  11. (continued) • As in all romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. • Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. • Romantic films serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if the two people finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience life "happily ever after" - implied by a reunion and final kiss.

  12. Famous Actor/Actress pairs • Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart • Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn • Woody Allen & Diane Keaton • Patrick Swayze & Demi Moore • Julia Roberts & Richard Gere

  13. Romance in a new sense • Often times, romantic movies may not have anything to do with lovers coming together.

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