Animal House Essay

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Animal House: Slapstick at its Finest One of the greatest pioneer comedy movies of all time is Animal House. When it was made in the late 1970’s, it completely changed the comedy movie genre for the rest of time. Its comedy was slapstick at its best, filled with hilarious low humor, and contained one of the best comedy actors of all time. Animal House was a complete hit that is considered by many to be the funniest movie of all time. When I think of the best slapstick moment of the film, I think of the food fight scene. Bluto, who’s played by John Belushi, piles up his tray with food and sits down with his friends and enemies for lunch. He squishes green Jell-O into his mouth which causes one of the girls to insult him by saying, “That boy is a P-I-G, Pig.” Bluto responds by saying,” See if you can guess, what I am now.” He puts a rice ball into his mouth, puffs up his cheeks, then spits it on everyone at the table and says, “I’m a zit, get it”. This scene quickly turns into a food fight which shows all the attributes of a slapstick joke. Showing violent action to demonstrate humor such as food fight, or spitting food at people represents slapstick hilarity at its finest. The scene also includes low comedy from the joke made at Bluto for being a pig and the energetic horseplay of the food fight. Another classic scene in Animal House is when Dean Wormer calls some of the students from the Delta fraternity into his office to read off their grade point averages. In this scene the element of low comedy is noticeably present. The classic line, “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life,” is manifested here, along with Blutos sight gag of having pencils up his nose after receiving his GPA of 0.0. Another comical line is when the Dean addresses the character D-day, and says that he has no GPA, all classes incomplete. This scene shows low humor because
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