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Encyclopedia > Slapstick film

Slapstick films are a type of comedy film that employ slapstick comedy with five main conventions: Airplane! is considered by some critics to be one of the funniest movies of all time. ... Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ...

  1. Pain with no real consequence
  2. Editing to turn a situation more unrealistic
  3. Impossible situations
  4. Zooms to confuse the audience
  5. Off screen use of sounds for impossible stunts and tension for audience


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Slapstick (245 words)
Slapstick is a type of comedy involving physical action.
Slapstick is also common in animated cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner and, in homage, Itchy and Scratchy (from The Simpsons).
However, as many modern films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Dumb and Dumber, Scream, and the works of the Farrelly Brothers combine violence and comedy, it appears unlikely that this traditional source of laughs will ever disappear.
Slapstick (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (442 words)
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut.
The book was adapted into the 1982 film Slapstick of Another Kind.
Film — Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
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