The original idea and connotation of comedy films

The following content is taken from the Baidu Encyclopedia "Comedy Film" entry:

A comedy film refers to a film that uses laughter to inspire love and hate in the audience. Laughter with different meanings is often used to lash out against all the ugly and backward phenomena in society and praise the beautiful and progressive things in real life. The audience can receive enlightenment and education in the relaxed and joyful laughter, and feel happy. Most of them use ingenious structures, exaggerated techniques, light-hearted plots and humorous language to focus on portraying the unique personalities of comic characters. There are many types, common ones include eulogizing comedies and satirical comedies, such as "Fake Phoenix", "I'm Off Today", "Home Alone", the Taiwanese film "Scarecrow" and Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" ;gt;etc. As well as "Private Customization" and "Hands Up" from the Mainland, etc.

Comedies are also known as "crazy comedies" or "romance comedies". "It Happened One Night" (1934), shot by Frank Capra, was the original example of this type of film during this period. The two main characters described in the film are the daughter of an industrial tycoon (played by Claudius Colbert) and the other a cynical journalist (played by Clark Gable). The two men went on a long trip across the continent together during the economic depression. Due to their different economic status and social attitudes, when they had no choice but to sleep in a farmhouse together, they placed a symbolic blanket between the two beds. However, when their differences gradually collapsed in the ongoing conflicts, the blanket finally collapsed. Two representatives of different economic and cultural environments reunite in the final climax of the film. This kind of comedy often has an uncertain fictional space that functions as a narrative space. What stands out is the unique American way of courtship. The plot and characters begin to appear in a confrontational narrative layout, combining comedy and social satire to ultimately achieve thematic effect.

This type of work is more concerned with the integrity of the character. Sadur once noted that "It Happened One Night" established a new style, and its theme has become a model for hundreds of romantic comedies in the 1930s." Indeed, after "It Happened One Night", a large number of these films appeared Films of this genre, such as George C. 1940) and so on. Thomas Schatz once pointed out in "Old Hollywood/New Hollywood: Ritual, Art and Industry": Although their comedies are different, "Capra's is a crazy comedy, and Cukor's is a crazy comedy." 's is a romantic comedy, and Hawks's is a mad comedy - but all of these films are formulaic depictions of characters, social attitudes and narrative structures, which become a distinct genre." This genre although They lack similar iconographic symbols—scenes, costumes, and defined spaces—but they still have their “most basic stereotype elements: the pair of comic characters in any social situation. ”

Comedy is a type of film that is full of wisdom and vitality and is always loved by the audience. Comedy performance requires the actor’s temperament and sensitivity the most, and is the most difficult performance skill to master. As we all know, It is much harder to make people laugh than to make people cry; it is even harder to make people feel witty and deep in laughter, and it is even harder to look at the catalog of film history, such as Charlie, Chaplin, Mike, and Senat. After comedy geniuses such as , Bost and Keaton, there are too few excellent comedies. A major flaw in Chinese films is the lack of humor and high-grade comedy films. Comedies can be further divided into: comedies and light comedies. , tragicomedy and humorous elements in dramas. Our research on comedy is very insufficient. We can only briefly introduce the discussion about comedy:

The essence of comedy

The art of comedy works through laughter. Laughter mainly expresses the emotions of joy and satisfaction. However, the nature of laughter is also the most diverse. Laughter can be happy, depressed or tearful.