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Young Frankenstein is an example of?
traditional comedy
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Three Basic Elements of a Joke?
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Rules of Comedy?
- Never make fun of the weak and helpless
- Sex is always funny NEVER erotic
- No one ever gets seriously hurt
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Comedy Thrives on?
- Contrast
- Entrances and exits
- Left to right camera movement
- tag line
- the chase
- running gags
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Contrast?
Young Frankenstein EX: Blind monk with a mute monster
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Entrances and exits?
Seinfeld EX: Someone is always coming and going in/out of Jerry�s apartment
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Try to get at least 3 jokes out of the set-up and bridge?
- Each should be increasingly funny
- Physical element is important
- Tag lines are used at the end of a scene to enhance the humor
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Types of Comedy?
- Character or Situation: there should either be a funny character or a funny situation to make a film funny
- It�s great to have both
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Litmus Test?
- Main test of comedy: Is it funny or not
- Something usually isn�t funny if it violates one of the three rules of comedy
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Treating Adults as Children?
- Another main form of comedy
- In-class EX: Blues Brothers
- The Chase?
- An Element of Traditional Comedy
- The clip used from Raising Arizona illustrates the rule of comedy that no one ever gets seriously hurt
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Running Gag?
- Something humorous used continually throughout a film
- In-class EX: Splash
- John Candy drops coins in order to look up women�s skirts
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Two Extremes?
- Comedy uses a long shot in order to give the audience a good view of the surroundings (in general)
- Dramatic films thrives on close-ups
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Example of a Funny Character and Situation?
- Clip from Night on Earth illustrates a funny character and situation
- Taxi driver confesses to a priest that he had sexual relationships with multiple pumpkins and a sheep. As a result, he can no longer eat meat or vegetables.
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Young Frankenstein Inciting Incident and type?
- stealing the body from the graveyard
- situational
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Young Frankenstein 1st major plot point?
giving the body life
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Young Frankenstein 2nd major plot point?
transferring personalities from the scientist to the monster
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Young Frankenstein theme?
true love will overcome
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what does the monologue do?
pushes the envelope of comedy
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Annie Hall is an example of?
transitional comedy
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Annie Hall inciting incident and type?
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Annie Hall 1st major plot point?
alvy and annie go out and hit it off
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Annie Hall 2nd major plot point?
alvy breaks up with annie
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Woody Allen uses ____ in his filmmaking and example?
- subtexts
- scene where annie and alvy are talking on the balcony
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Annie Hall set-up?
dwayne is crazy
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Annie Hall bridge?
its suggested that dwayne drives annie and alvy to the airport
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Annie Hall pay off?
dwayne driving them to the airport
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In ____ comedy, ___, ___, and ___ are usually in the same scene?
- Traditional
- set up
- bridge
- pay off
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What violates the rules of comedy and deals with serious topics?
Black comedy
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Man Unkind is an example of?
Black Comedy
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Man Unkind inciting incident?
car goes into parking garage
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Man Unkind 1st major plot point?
guy runs over the dog
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Man Unkind conflict?
guy mourns and asks for a miracle
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Man Unkind 2nd major plot point?
he leaves the dramatic arena
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Man Unkind twist?
dog comes back to life and is killed again
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Most comedy before ___ was traditional and politically correct?
SNL
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There's something about Mary Inciting incident and type?
ted supposed to go to prom with mary, action
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There's something about Mary 1st major plot point?
mary moves away
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There's something about Mary conflict?
ted searches for mary
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There's something about Mary 2nd major plot point?
mary decides she loves ted
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There's something about Mary ending?
- they end up together
- happily ever after
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Farrelly brothers often use ___ as contrasts in their films and example?
- cultural preconceptions
- mary lives in a white suburban neighborhood
- her stepfather is black
- he answers the door and ted gets confused
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Does There's something about Mary violate any rules of comedy?
NO, marys brother beats up ted
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There's something about Mary genre?
romantic comedy
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There's something about Mary theme?
true love will overcome
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Psychiatrist joke(set up, bridge, pay off)?
- setup: rest areas are hangouts for closet homosexuals soliciting sex
- bridge: ted picks up hitchhiker
- pay-off: ted gets caught in homosexual orgy
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Interrogation bag joke(set up, bridge, pay off)?
- set up: ted gets arrested
- bridge: he gets questioned for murder but he thinks its for picking up the hitchiker
- pay off: detective beats up ted
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Dramtic Irony in There's something about Mary?
detectives have information that ted doesn't(dead body)
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Suspense in There's something about Mary?
- they're talking about two different things
- ted thinks he's confessing to picking up a hitchiker and the cops think he is ocnfessing to murder
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Mystery in There's something about Mary?
detective beats up ted
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Who directed passion of martin?
Alexander Payne
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Passion of Martin is an example of?
Black Comedy
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Passion of Martin 1st major plot point?
- they hook up
- martin falls in love and wants a sommitted relationship
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Passion of Martin 2nd major plot point?
martin rolls the boulder down the hill
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Passion of Martin conflict?
she doesn't want a committed relationship
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Passion of Martin inciting incident and type?
- martin meets a girl at the wedding
- action
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Passion of Martin theme?
true love will overcome on martin's side of the relaitonship
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Passion of Martin genre?
romantic black comedy
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Black Comedy?
takes morbid events and makes the humorous
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Why flashbacks in Passion of Martin?
allows the audience to roam into marin's childhood
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Why voiceovers in Passion of Martin?
martin seems too sensitive and the voiceovers help to show that he's not just being creepy and stalking the girl
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Generic Left wing?
- boring content
- the world is in perfect harmony
- uses peaceful analysis to solve problems
- 20%
- EX: kramer vs kramer
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Generic Right wing?
- the world in chaos
- violence used to solve problems
- 80%
- ex: fatal attraction
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Horror films are ALWAYS ____ wing?
right wing
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Three Types of films?
- Filmes that entertain: purpose to make money: jackass, hangover
- Films that Enlighten: schindler's list:ex kramer vs kramer
- Films that do both: usually oscar winning: ex king's speech
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Last Kiss inciting incident and type?
- when michael has sexual relations with kim
- situational
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Last Kiss 1st major plot point?
michael's girlfriend finds out
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Last Kiss conflict?
girlfriend kicks hiim out
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Last Kiss 2nd major plot point?
girlfriend lets him back in the house
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Last Kiss theme?
true love will overcome
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Who directed Annie Hall?
Woody Allen
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Annie Hall theme?
- That's life
- alvy and his girlfriend don't end up together
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What does Annie Hall begin with?
comedic monologue
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Who directed young frankenstein?
Mel Brookes
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What is Annie Hall's intended audience?
Urban, Sophisticated
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Example of Contemporary Comedy?
There's somthing about Mary
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