How Does Blackadder Create Humour
Blackadder
How is humour created and employed in episode 6 of Blackadder goes forth?
The media release thousands of programmes every day each with their own type to be placed within. Humour is just one of the many types of program there are and many people have the stereotypical view that a comedy has to be full of laughs. The comedy I will be looking at is Blackadder goes forth.
Humour must rely on several things, one of the most important things is the time of making if it is about a sensitive subject, as for example Blackadder goes forth clearly shows you the scenario is the First World War. If a program like this was released at to early a time after the event it could really devastate the lives of some of the people who were traumatized by that event.
Blackadder is mainly all black humour' as it takes subjects that are usually approached in a more serious manner and makes …show more content…
The background noise is again drums but in a heartbeat which cuts of at the end of the scene. The final shot shows a field of poppies signifying the spilt blood and the fact that the area is now all clear from the war. This gives the characters a final farewell as it cuts into the credits showing the end of the episode and the end of the series.
From this episode it is obvious to see what Ben Elton and Richard Curtis' opinions are on certain things, and how they have portrayed it in a way that makes the faults too obvious to ignore. They show that even the higher classes (George) with better educations were hardly more aware of the situation then the lower classes (Baldrick). They show George as a talking propaganda poster, fed with corrupt lies by the government that it was all the Germans fault and even Tho he has seen death first hand he still refuses to believe that his friends are
How is humour created and employed in episode 6 of Blackadder goes forth?
The media release thousands of programmes every day each with their own type to be placed within. Humour is just one of the many types of program there are and many people have the stereotypical view that a comedy has to be full of laughs. The comedy I will be looking at is Blackadder goes forth.
Humour must rely on several things, one of the most important things is the time of making if it is about a sensitive subject, as for example Blackadder goes forth clearly shows you the scenario is the First World War. If a program like this was released at to early a time after the event it could really devastate the lives of some of the people who were traumatized by that event.
Blackadder is mainly all black humour' as it takes subjects that are usually approached in a more serious manner and makes …show more content…
The background noise is again drums but in a heartbeat which cuts of at the end of the scene. The final shot shows a field of poppies signifying the spilt blood and the fact that the area is now all clear from the war. This gives the characters a final farewell as it cuts into the credits showing the end of the episode and the end of the series.
From this episode it is obvious to see what Ben Elton and Richard Curtis' opinions are on certain things, and how they have portrayed it in a way that makes the faults too obvious to ignore. They show that even the higher classes (George) with better educations were hardly more aware of the situation then the lower classes (Baldrick). They show George as a talking propaganda poster, fed with corrupt lies by the government that it was all the Germans fault and even Tho he has seen death first hand he still refuses to believe that his friends are