Slapstick
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And the sharp humor we find everywhere in this work will never die, the only thing I don't care for is the
slapstick
, but that just comes with the era I suppose.
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It's about how our brain is tricked into seeing a persistence of vision that creates a motion picture, and one of the things I had to do is, we — Sasha Baron Cohen is a very clever, very smart guy, comedian, wanted to basically do an homage to the kind of the Buster Keaton sort of
slapstick
things, and he wanted his leg brace to get caught on a moving train.
So as much as my machines can seem like simple engineering slapstick, I realize that I stumbled on something bigger than that.
Hailed by some scholars as the father of comedy, his fingerprints are visible upon comic techniques everywhere, from
slapstick
to double acts to impersonations to political satire.
For instance, the Knight’s tale of courtly love, chivalry, and destiny riffs on romance, while the tales of working-class narrators are generally comedies filled with scatological language, sexual deviance, and
slapstick.
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