Category: Western ( genre ) comedy films

The first two films in the series are considered horror classics and are credited with spawning the " horror comedy " genre.

The comedy genre often humorously exaggerates situations, ways of speaking, or the action and characters.

Sci-fi comedy films, like most hybrid genre of comedy use the elements of science fiction films to over the top extremes and exaggerated science fiction stereotypical characters.

Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Category: Western ( genre ) comedy films

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Perhaps the most clearly formulaic plots characterize the romantic comedy genre ; in a book or film labeled as such, viewers already know its most basic central plot, including to some extent the ending.

In Europe the more restrained type of comedy was developed in substantial quantities in France, with the films of Max Linder for Pathé representing the summit of the genre from 1910 onwards.

Also considered Spaghetti Westerns is a film genre which combined traditional western ambiance with a Commedia all ' italiana-type comedy ; films including They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is STILL My Name !, which featured Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the stage names of Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti.

A more analogous case is that of the screwball comedy, widely accepted by film historians as constituting a " genre ": the screwball is defined not by a fundamental attribute, but by a general disposition and a group of elements, some — but rarely and perhaps never all — of which are found in each of the genre's films.

However, because of the diversity of noir ( much greater than that of the screwball comedy ), certain scholars in the field, such as film historian Thomas Schatz, treat it as not a genre but a " style ".

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

In 1940 Hawks returned to the screwball comedy genre with His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.

Harold and Maude was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the romantic comedy genre.

The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre.

These groups are not especially interested in comedy, either as a technique or as an effect, but rather in expanding the improv genre so as to incorporate techniques and approaches that have long been a legitimate part of European theatre.

After Clan Undead's 1997 work Operation Bayshield built on the earliest Quake movies by introducing narrative conventions of linear media and sketch comedy reminiscent of the television show Saturday Night Live, the New-York-based ILL Clan further developed the genre in machinima through works including Apartment Huntin ' and Hardly Workin '.

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.

* stock devices ( a comedy ends with a marriage, but a cowboy film can end with the hero riding off into the sunset )

The term " game " in improv can also refer to the Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre's concept of the " game of the scene " as a teaching technique and strategy for improv and sketch comedy.

The Reverend Jonathan Adams, one of the church's clergy, defended his taste in comedy, saying that it did not mock Jesus, and that it raised important issues about the hypocrisy and stupidity that can affect religion.

Alberti's Latin comedy, Philodoxus, aimed to teach that " a man dedicated to study and hard work can attain glory, just as well as a rich and fortunate man.

It can be noted that the doubling is a stock situation of Elizabethan comedy.

David P. Pierson treats Seinfeld as a comedy of manners: " he popular TV sitcom can best be associated with the modern comedy of manners dramatic genre.

The film set a style for war films to come and it can be considered the first comedy about war in film history.

However, there is a well-established tradition of double-meanings in British comedy, examples of which can be found in the work of Max Miller.

Comparisons can be drawn between Round the Horne and the American sketch comedy television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1968 – 1973 ).

Such a sketch can include footage of a " man on the street ", pioneered by American television personality Steve Allen on evening comedy television programs like The Tonight Show.

Examples of this can be found in his known comedy albums, Comedian, Delirious, and the soundtrack to the film Eddie Murphy Raw.

A more whimsical prototype of the mad scientist can be found in Aristophanes ' comedy The Clouds.

while it is difficult to know the motivation of the adapter, we can reckon that from his point of view an early staging of The Shrew might have revealed an overly wrought play from a writer trying to establish himself but challenging too far the current ideas of popular comedy.

It can be classified as a history play ( though it does not completely adhere to historical account ), tragedy ( though not completely in Aristotlean terms ), comedy and romance.

A film's writer may also offer a pastiche based on the works of other writers ( this is especially evident in historical films and documentaries but can be found in non-fiction drama, comedy and horror films as well ).

Older vehicles can be driven in reverse to subtract mileage, a property that provides the premise for a classic scene late in the comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but modern odometers add mileage driven in reverse to the total as if driven forward, thereby accurately reflecting the true total wear and tear on the vehicle.

Sullivan comes to realize that comedy can do more good for the poor than O Brother, Where Art Thou ?.

Today low comedy can be seen in almost any production.

The " Music Box " steps can be seen in the background of an earlier Charley Chase silent comedy produced at the Hal Roach Studios, Isn't Life Terrible?

: With few exceptions Lubitsch's movies take place neither in Europe nor America but in Lubitschland, a place of metaphor, benign grace, rueful wisdom ... What came to preoccupy this anomalous artist was the comedy of manners and the society in which it transpired, a world of delicate sangfroid, where a breach of sexual or social propriety and the appropriate response are ritualized, but in unexpected ways, where the basest things are discussed in elegant whispers ; of the rapier, never the broadsword ... To the unsophisticated eye, Lubitsch's work can appear dated, simply because his characters belong to a world of formal sexual protocol.

We can achieve the tragic out of comedy.

Meanwhile, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer concluded, " Witherspoon is a talented comedian who can perk up a scene just by marching in full of pep and drive and she powers this modest little comedy almost single-handedly.