a standard comedy

Antonetta 2022-07-26 13:32:35

The film "Hot Like Fire" is a comedy film directed by Billy Bader and starring Marilyn Monroe. When it comes to the birth of comedy, we have to think of the prevalence of expressionist films. Expressionist films are twenty A film genre that emerged in Germany in the 1910s and 1920s. They applied the expressionist principles of literature, drama and painting to film creation, using absurd and bizarre methods, tortuously and accurately reflected the extreme panic and confusion that the First World War brought to the German people, and presented on the screen. It is a highly exaggerated, deformed, and subjective world.

And comedy movies are just a medium for venting their repressed mentality, and the entertainment that people who were dissatisfied with the fascist rule and immigrated to the United States at that time enjoyed. As a result, the international resources of classic Hollywood talents are rich, the combination of German expressionism and the visual experience of early Hollywood has created a unique film type, the emergence and universal application of dramatic lighting effects.

These comedy directors such as Chaplin and Buster Keaton are particularly good at using time, space, and the process of fully visualizing people to create thrilling, dramatic actions to create comedy effects, combining the entire tradition of American cinema. Another scene beyond one's control, the special dramatic effect formed by the strange power of people, just like this film, putting the actors in an uncontrollable situation makes the dramatic plot lead to the story line, and a series of jokes are concentrated. , pulling the audience's emotions step by step, the laughter involves many reflections and reflections on various aspects of society, so that the audience has a personal experience rather than a sense of alienation. After all, the film serves the people, just like the society implied in the film. Sexual themes, twists and turns on social issues, reflections on class differences and reflections on gender concepts.

How comedy films tell stories Purely funny stories behind the thinking about the gender outlook on life at that time, the director uses his own language to subtly accept the life outlook and world outlook brought by the film, and the meaning of the film shows a lot of thoughts on life when the audience is happy Either positive or negative, it's a joke and a work of art.

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Some Like It Hot quotes

  • Joe: [trying to get Jerry to face reality regarding his engagement to Osgood] Jerry, Jerry, will you take my advice? Forget about the whole thing, will ya? Just keep telling yourself: you're a boy, you're a boy.

    Jerry: I'm a boy.

    Joe: That's the boy.

    Jerry: [coming around] I'm a boy. I'm a boy. I wish I were dead. I'm a boy. Boy, oh boy, am I a boy. Now, what am I gonna do about my engagement present?

    Joe: What engagement present?

    Jerry: Osgood gave me a bracelet.

    Joe: [takes it and inspects the stones with Beinstock's glasses] Hey, these are real diamonds!

    Jerry: Of course they're real! What do you think? My fiance is a bum?

  • Joe - 'Josephine': [to Daphne] . What are you afraid of? No-one's asking you to have a baby!