The performers portrayed their characters to perfection. I can’t imagine the difficulty of having to act, sing and dance, especially when the chorography was so fast & complicated. I really liked Officer Krupke and Doc: like two opposite kinds of adults: Krupke who distrusts & dislikes the kids (but is pretty funny), and Doc who is sympathetic. Of the gang kids I liked Riff the best: the actor was really good & I like that character. He reminds me a bit of my brother (which isn’t necessarily a good thing) Anita was great: she brought a touch of humour to the otherwise tragic story.
As they are playing, they talk about all their bad memories and start to open up to each other. “The play brings laughs but also some gripping moments ‘that will rip your heart out’”(Bridges, Alex. http://www.nvdaily.com/lifestyle/2009/07/award-winning-the-gin-game-is.html). This movie shows comic and tragic moments which make it a piece of art. The comic part about this movie was the laughter and jokes they said throughout the whole movie.
Professor Dan Rebellato states that: “we laugh at something because we feel superior to it”. This is valid as the audience laugh at Frank not understanding the joke. However, we may also laugh at Rita not understanding Frank’s references. People in the audience may understand Frank’s references if read well which would be typical of people who attend the theatre. Andrew Edwards, a set designer for a production of ‘Educating Rita’ claimed that: ‘a lot of
The sense I got was that this is community directed theatre – people experimenting together, with various levels of rehearsal but consistently high levels of slap-stick humor. For example, the deeply-in-love stage duo of Esme Rodriguez and Hank the Heat included a disgusting yet hysterical set of false deformed teeth. The tactics that were used to achieve their goal of making us laugh included a raunchy scene where Esme licks Hank’s face while singing a cheesy 80s rock balled. I observed many performance elements at play. For example the characters primarily used inductive tactics, charming and seducing not only their performance partners but the audience as well.
Unquestionably Archer is primarily a comedy, its various other forms are all subservient to the main goal, to make one laugh. Archer relies heavily on parody, random gags and gross out humor, which are all common strategies among animated comedies. In the first scene Sterling is being interrogated in what appears to be an eastern European dungeon of sorts. Shortly after Archer makes fun of the interrogators accent-switching and under-powered torture device it is revealed that the torture is under the supervision of Sterling’s mother, Malory and is merely a practice exercise. Archer is introduced as a immature, yet capable and Malory is presented as a domineering executive/mother.
It was made for an older audience; it has quite a lot of crude humor that is why it first aired on Fox. Even though the show has an all-star cast, the fun does not stop there. Family Guy has many themes and ideas that make it the crude, hilarious show that it is. First of all, it makes absolutely hilarious parodies all through out the show. It makes parodies of just about any person one can think of.
They also show that when you experience change, you will most likely enjoy it and realise that it has actually helped you. In the movie Chocolat, there were many cases where the theme of change is evident. In each of these instances, the change is not welcome at first but later it makes people very happy. For example, before Josephine changed, she was a mess. She was stealing and getting beaten by her husband on a regular basis.
Almost everyone has sat through an episode of jackass and laughed hysterically as the crew hurt themselves and got into mischief in order to please the audience. The fact that shows such as these have gained so much popularity has led kids to try and attempt the same stunts for recognition from friends or even YouTube popularity. They believe it is acceptable to engage in behaviors such as these because they are seeing it on television daily. This mentality has led to a decrease in morality and an increase in senseless injury. While MTV has not just led to a change in socially acceptable behavior, it has also changed the way in which women, particularly teens portray themselves.
The mechanicals are important in a midsummer night’s dream as they introduce the comedy of the piece. Scene one is extremely dramatic “Full of vexation" and this is juxtaposed by the humour of the mechanicals in scene two "let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming". Until there entrance it seems a romantic tragedy on a par with Romeo and Juliet, in a way the introduction of the mechanicals reassures the audience that it is in fact a comedy and allows them to laugh. The mechinals are Peter Quince, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout, Robin Starvelling and Snug. Peter quince is one of the illustrious Mechanicals who puts on the play, Pyramus and Thisbe.
Satire is one of the key elements in any quality comical text. There are so many techniques involved in the broad spectrum of satire, including ridicule, irony and exaggeration, just to name a few. Satire (if understood) makes the text more enjoyable and worthwhile for the responder. This art of comicality has been lost through the years and it would benefit the audience to see a wider variety of texts using such a valuable perception on humanity. But there have been some excellent texts written and filmed that use this technique to its full extent.