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British should be staid and conservative. Of course, the British football hooligans and fire Except for the spicy entertainment industry. Most British movies have this feeling. Strangely, it is really interesting that the old-fashioned British filmmakers can make good black humor films. The three black humor films that I have watched recently are all British films, including "The Killer Has No Holiday", "Keep Silent" and "Two Big Smokers" by grandfather or ancestor of "Crazy Stone".
Perhaps we can explain this phenomenon with the contradictory and dualistic viewpoints that have been instilled in our brains for n years, and why the stodgy British can make a series of beautiful black humor films: the world is contradictory, and humor and staidness are opposites and unity. Yes, people without humor and society are inharmonious and cannot develop sustainably. A staid person in life is not necessarily stodgy in bed; a serious leader on the podium may be as colorful and rotten in his bones as you and me. British filmmakers may also follow this great law, making humorous movies from time to time to balance it out, but traditional inertia makes it difficult for them to play freely when making comedy movies ("New Oolong Girls' School St. Trinian's" etc. American comedies without taboos and spoofs are not common), but the paranoia derived from conservative can also bring different comedy effects.
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talk about humorous comedy movies, and you can’t help but mention old American movies. Americans want to come to call themselves humorous, and comedy movies are the most and the most abused. I have watched "The Onion Movie" and "Superhero" recently, but I don’t seem to have watched any American black humor movies. There are no taboos in the comedy of the old and the United States. Religion, politics, human rights, ethnicity and traditions are only unexpected, and there are no spoofs, but if you watch too much, you will be humorous and tired. After watching this kind of movies, you rarely think about it. Think about its plot. Just like Coca-Cola, you can hiccup at most after drinking it, and it won't have a lingering fragrance like mellow wine.
A black humor movie should be a simple movie that allows you to watch more than just a simple movie. If you want to fight, you have to hit several times, or hiccup after thinking. In fact, what is black humor (black humor is also translated as Sick humor), I don’t know much about it. No, I don't understand at all. A search on the Internet seems to be a literary genre, born in a specific historical period, mainly through the use of absurd plots to reflect on society, and humor contains pain and tears. I think the meaning of black humor in black humor films should be different from that of black humor in literary genres. Movies are originally a product of human entertainment, so too many social functions should not be added to it (except for our Chinese movies). The black humorous movies I watched have never been "cry in laughter". They were all "laughing after watching" or "laughing after thinking about it."
Keeping Mum (2005) poster
The black humor film in my mind should be inseparable from the following elements:
1. Paranoia,
whether it’s in "The Killer Has No Holiday", Harry played by Ralph Fiennes and Ray played by Colin Farrell on "Killing a Child" The killer principle is unconditionally abided by, or the old lady's horrible care for her never raised daughter in "Keep Silent" reflects the paranoia.
2. Staying power
= a bland or even tasteless start is especially obvious in "Two Smoking Guns". I have recommended this movie to many people, and most of them still can't get through the boring opening stage after recommending it...
= The more funny it goes in the future
3.
The beginning of the syllogism is ordinary or even tasteless + wonderful plot development + unexpected ending. The first 20 minutes of the three movies that started to improve were dull and unattractive. According to my previous habit of watching movies (it takes about 15 minutes to decide whether I should finish watching a movie), it is impossible to finish watching them. Fortunately, I can see film reviews on the Internet, and I added a common four-letter word that starts with F in English accent, which is especially accommodating to my vulgar ears, and I haven't missed the three great films.
4. Suspense
When you watch a lot of movies, you can guess the plot at the beginning or in the middle, but you can't guess the result of suspense films and black humor movies anyway. Just like Fairy Zixia said, I guessed the first, but wrong the ending.
5. Strong Contrast
. The beautiful and graceful heroine who began to appear in "Keep Silent" has just killed her husband and packed his body in a large suitcase on the peaceful tower to travel on the train. The depressed killer played by Colin Farrell in "The Killer Has No Holiday" saw a beauty on the film set and wanted to have an exotic marriage. The two discovered that this beauty turned out to be a small drug dealer when they had a tryst at the girl’s house, and from time to time they cooperated with her unlucky boyfriend to grab tourists... The
poster of New Oolong Girls’ School St. Trinian's (2007)
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most important thing is to be happy after watching it. It 's better to be able to turn your brains (to hell those who resist "Kung Fu Panda"!!). Although it is a wonderful movie with a good plot, there are also first-class actors and directors. After watching it, I discovered that the few black humor films I had watched turned out to be British films. I got a hot mind and wrote a few silly sentences.
Finally, I recommend watching these three movies (plus "New Oolong Girls' School" is four), be sure to keep watching them~
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