Only a madman can make a good comedy

Kianna 2022-01-12 08:01:08

After watching this film, I really want to have a big hug with the old Sturges who has already entered the soil. This is a sincere and warm embrace among comedy fans.

From Qi Sidong to Liu Bieqian, and Disney, in this movie, Si Tekis paid his highest respect to these great people who used to spare no effort to make people laugh. Then count mine, I really love you. Anyway, thank you for making me laugh.

This world always makes me laugh. People are so boring and depressed. Fortunately, we have comedies to help us escape from the gloomy life and fight against desperate boredom. Therefore, those who can make comedy must have a childlike heart with great love and of course wisdom. Wisdom allows them to see through the boring and absurdity of life. Childlike innocence is their weapon to resist the oppression of society on people. Only with the great love of idealism in all life can these comedy masters be willing to devote themselves to comedy and bring the world. Come and be happy.

Think about Chaplin, how Qi Sidong’s silent film brings the only joy in life to those distressed foreign laborers, which can not help but make people bitter and moving. I think Sturges must also be deeply impressed. The same feeling. The ordinary people who laughed at the end of the film saw my eye sockets moist.

Billy Wilder inherited the beautiful traditions of Liu Bieqian, relying on lines, plots, and performances to create comedic effects. Everywhere in the picture is creative. Sturges is obsessed with the once glorious American silent comedy. I am surprised at Sturges’s perfect inheritance of the silent film tradition. In the age when sound films have dominated the world and have produced mature and effective audiovisual languages. , Some people have picked up the brilliant and mature language of silent films, which is really surprising. Those crazy chasing, constant wrestling, arrogant characters, those laughing with tears, and those clear and concise picture composition, The arbitrary reduction of time and space (fast, slow motion and montage), the charm of silent films is actually impossible to disappear and has never been inferior to sound films.


Sturges does not play cards according to common sense, and despises the rules and rhythms. The ridicule also made me admire. This is the best embodiment of his great childlike innocence. Only in this way can a maniac who does not follow common sense can make a good comedy. A film that hits the end five minutes after the start of the film is not something to watch What's more, there is also a beautiful blonde Miss Lake in the film.

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Extended Reading
  • Nicklaus 2022-01-12 08:01:08

    Just when you think this is a road romance comedy full of superficial views of realism and the plot of the movie is not convincing enough, the movie suddenly takes a sharp turn and enters another plot. And it is this plot that still looks anti-traditional at present that makes this film profound.

  • Melissa 2022-01-12 08:01:08

    How to stare at preference porn has an answer here, because the paradox of this concept is that you cannot kill yourself by yourself.

Sullivan's Travels quotes

  • Policeman at Beverly Hills station: How does the girl fit in this picture?

    John L. Sullivan: There's always a girl in the picture. Haven't you ever been to the movies?

  • Miz Zeffie: He seems very strong. Did you notice his torso?

    Ursula: I noticed that you noticed it.

    Miz Zeffie: Don't be vindictive, dear. Some people are just naturally more sensitive to some things in life than some people. Some are blind to beauty, while others... Even as a little girl you were more the acid type, dear, while I, if you remember...

    Ursula: I remember better than you do.

    Miz Zeffie: Well forget it. And furthermore I have never done anything that I was ashamed of, Ursula.

    Ursula: Neither have I.

    Miz Zeffie: Yes, dear, but nobody ever asked you to.