Word: slapstick
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...film is enjoyable alone for its astounding visuals (stunning for 1930) and rampant slapstick. Like Jean Renoir’s La Regle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), also recently screened at the Archive, L’Age d’Or works on two levels: it’s a knee-slapping farce, at the same time deeply wrapped up in a scathing social commentary aimed squarely at the upper class. The targets of the latter film’s satire are Buñuel’s usual suspects: the Church, bourgeois society and other institutions...
...moment, at last, he clearly pitches a slapstick theory of cinema...
This handy little history lesson has its moments. Silas P. Howland ’08 played his various roles—soldier, can-can girl, and George W. Bush spoof Buzzy Polk—with a relaxed slapstick style that the audience responded to, harmonizing with a script that didn’t take itself too seriously. Though at times the actors came across as uncomfortable with this lack of seriousness (the history genie was subject to some tense over-acting), everyone had their moments, so that at worst the audience response came out as an even mix of laughter...
...business and sold aluminum siding for 12 years. But in 1967, he returned with a new stage name and earned his first big break on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dangerfield's hard-luck shtick made him a TV staple in the '70s and '80s, and he starred in the slapstick screen comedies Caddyshack and Back to School?hits that brought him much respect...
...make a musical based on the 1975 film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But Spamalot--scheduled to open on Broadway in March--could give the tired old genre a happy jolt. The movie, after all, seems a challenge from the get-go: an unwieldy hodgepodge of slapstick, splatter film, absurdism and animation, not to mention a grubby, mud-caked re-creation of medieval England. This is material for a Broadway musical...