4/07/2011

A Little Background On The History Of Comedy

By Lester Hersch


If we look towards the very beginning of film history we would come to know that at the very beginning movies were mostly all silent comedies.

As more and more time elapsed it was realized that these witty movies could be good tools of letting people of all ages have a candid look at their social lifestyles and politics.

Main concern of those films was to provoke humor in such a manner that equally amused young and old people at the same time. With the time passing by the films begun to be created in such a manner that their main purpose became to satirize the falsehood prevailing in both society and politics.

At that time, movies became more helpful to understand the happenings of society by dint of pure humor and charm. The films those became famous, for instances, 'comedy of manners', were entirely focused on the fact of peculiar way of doing something in the society. The most amusing fact is that, these things are represented through extremely polished dialogues. Some films are remarkably appreciated by the audience only because of involving different gender movements inside the scenes. As an example, we can talk about the film 'Tootsie' where besides using different gender an exquisite humor is provoked.

Film makers found that since there was a foundation that was already set by an earlier liked comedy they could then remake them in a way that they made fun of these hits and the crowds would love them.

When it comes to the subgenre of comedies called black comedies, they are basically those movies that are made to discuss issues in the society that are considered to be a taboo. They are done in a lighthearted manner so as to make sure they remain entertaining while still reinforcing the fact that the topic in question is not one that should be toyed with.

The audience gets to have a few laughs while watching the flick but as they do this they are warned that these taboos will always have dire consequences. War of the roses was one of the favorites back in the day.

By taking the combination of two genres there were many types of comedies that spawned like fantasy plus comedy to make fantasy comedies and drama and comedy to make dramedies.




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