martes, 31 de agosto de 2010

The English, And Their Peculiar Humor

Since the beginning of Fawlty Towers, everything is a joke, normally it starts with the hotel sign with letters moved so as to say something completely different (e.g: Watery Fowls). Instead this one starts with Basil's wife in the hospital with an ingrown nail. Just the fact that it's an ingrown nail is funny, but it gets funnier as we get further in, watching Basil obey his wife, muttering insults under his breath. It all looks very spontaneous, coming out randomly, as any normal English couple would do. When Fawlty returns, and starts talking to the major, things start getting funnier and more interesting. For some reason, the major's lack of memory is altogether very funny, it also brings some kind of crude humor into the scene. And in the end, the moose apparently talking to the major is also funny. The part that Fawlty Towers incorporates what looks like anthropomorphism, and the fact that the major falls for it hook, line, and sinker is also quite funny. Hearing the moose with an accent adds to the spontaneousness and crudeness of the subject.

lunes, 30 de agosto de 2010

You Can Be The Hero!

I think this part is anti-climactic because he's given a whole supporting speech, the movie's put into slow motion, and he jumps high with the punch coming straight at the other guy's face. And then, the guy dodges the punch, and strikes back, throwing him down to the ground again.

domingo, 29 de agosto de 2010

Our Farce In Short

Our farce starts in Canada, where a kid, that just broke up with his girlfriend, arrives at Vancouver intl. airport. His uncle picks him up, and they set course to a skiing village nearby. As they are driving, someone starts shooting at them, but since the car was armoured, nothing happened. The uncle tells the kid that he's in the drug trafficking business, and the kid thinks it's very cool. When they get to Whistler (the skiing village), the kid's father is dead, with a note by his body saying: "let this be a warning." The uncle tells him to ski this grief off, and that's what they do. As they're skiing down, a chopper comes overhead with a spy on board. The spy knocks out the uncle and takes the kid with her.
And that's as far as we've gone.

miércoles, 25 de agosto de 2010

Mr. bean and his farces

Mr. Bean has always looked like an improvisation skit. He never fails to include buffoonery, in ridiculously improbable situations, for example playing around with his lifejacket inside the plane, when already received strict instructions to use only in an emergency. Mr. Bean always does crude shows, making people laugh with what is in the scene.

Vice City (Hyperbole in The Simpsons)

The Simpsons is a big hyperbole by itself, as it is a satire on American society. All we see are hyperboles of what Americans do wrong. In this case it's something of a vice city (grand theft auto; a video game), Americans can buy weapons really easily, and in some latino infested cities, there was a lot of violence with said weapons.
In this clip from The Simpsons we see Homer trying to buy a gun, because he's angry. And as he starts horsing around with it, the clerk offers him some accessories: silencer, loudener, and an 'rpg' to shoot down police helicopters. Just in this sentence there is Hyperbole, as one can see with the 'rpg'.