A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical based on the book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart and written by Stephen Sondheim. It is a farce comedy that first premiered on Broadway on May 8th 1962 and eventually won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Author. The comedy is set in ancient Rome around three neighboring houses and a slave named Pseudolus. Throughout the play Pseudolus attempts to win the heart of Phelia‚ who is a virgin‚ for Hero‚ the son of Senex. In the pursuit
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Why Bob Clark’s Baby Geniuses Should Be Hailed as a Modern Masterpiece What is a masterpiece? One might come to ponder. Cinematically‚ one might point to films such as Orson Welle’s Citizen Kane‚ or Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey‚ both of these have‚ of course‚ their own personal merits‚ but might I suggest a different approach‚ a film oft overlooked: Baby Geniuses. The premise of the film is a simple one‚ a faculty of scientists have uncovered that babies are born with vast knowledge
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Los Angeles. The beaches of Los Angeles can be breathtaking‚ but it is the personality of Los Angeles that keeps a person around. A story based on a life of a Los Angeles native portrays the city as a land of opportunity. L.A. Story is a romantic comedy set in the city of Los Angeles which “tells the story of Harris K. Telemacher‚ an L.A. weatherman who falls in and out of love with the aid of a talking freeway sign”(wiki). The city is portrayed to be as a character itself with the ideas of the two
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sometimes these two must be partnered together. Based on the texts of Aristophanes‚ Menander‚ Plautus‚ and Terence we learn the earliest forms of humor used in comedies. From there‚ we explore the kinds of verbal humor in films from Chaplin‚ Mae West‚ The Marx Brothers‚ Frank Capra‚ and Bob Hope and what elements are still occurring in today’s comedies. Verbal humor uses the sounds of words together‚ play on words-such as puns‚ our knowledge of words‚ and our expectations in conversations. Obscenity is
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stimulus illuminates‚ or amuses‚ or elicits the reflex of laughter”. It is‚ though‚ not just a one-dimensional phenomenon but has rather many facets which have to be differentiated‚ e.g. comic wit‚ sentimental humour‚ satire‚ sentimental comedy and comedy (Speck 1990). This rather large amount of terms standing in context with humour already indicates that there cannot be one single definition but rather a whole field concerned with this topic. Semantically‚ Attardo (1994) has built up this
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Our five senses are not enough for ideal living. We need to use our sixth sense: our sense of humor. Humor is not merely telling jokes; it is the way we view the world. We can be sincere about life without taking it so seriously. We can laugh about our mistakes and pain. Louis Kornenberger explains: Humor simultaneously wounds and heals‚ indicts and pardons‚ diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain.Yet‚ we humans laugh an average of only 17 times a day. Biologically
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this drama of social closure‚ of exclusion and inclusion‚ with some of the Melvillean power of tragedy. The House of Mirth begins as a social comedy about the marriage market; it’s wicked irony irresistibility reminds us of Pride and Prejudice. But by the time of Lily Bart’s death‚ we’re more likely to think of ritual sacrifice than of Shakespearean comedy.” (Dickstein‚ 2005:
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13. How do Victorian attitudes to marriage and respectability underpin the comic elements of the importance of being Earnest? Plan: Jack and Algernons alter egos‚ Wilde and his social rebellion through his characters. Marriage is loveless‚ wealth and background takes priority over most things‚ Algernon supports this with a quote (once again hes the rebel) Marriage is the end of freedom‚ Cecily wants to break free‚ very curious woman who looks at society differently. takes a liking to
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Dramatically‚ the two scenes in which the friends of Beatrice and Benedick deceive them into believing that the love of the other is whole-heartedly directed towards them‚ is very appealing‚ and on of the reasons for this is the dramatic effects. Shakespeare delves into the deeper and more continuous themes of the play in this scene‚ both through the language and the visual actions‚ and one of the themes explored is the emerging of true emotions from behind a mask. When Don Pedro‚ Leonato and Claudio
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Raquel Fortuna LEH 301-Humor: A Symptom of American Culture May 18‚ 2013 Humor in Advertising When you are watching television how many times do you stop and wonder how humor influences your desire for the newest‚ latest‚ and most improved gadget? And why do some commercials elicit humor in us while others deserve to be banned? Well the television advertisement provides the perceiver with a form of communication in which a complex‚ mental stimulus illuminates‚ amuses‚ and elicits the reflex
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