Keeping_The_Basics_But_Changing_For_Society

Keeping The Basics But Changing For Society Keeping the Basics but Changing for Society Throughout cinematic history, despite all advancements and mutations, comedy has remained the most untouched of all genres. While the early Godzilla films had to endure a modern remake in order to regain the earlier fear factor and movies like Gone With the Wind (1939) have given way to sappy love songs and pretty faces in order to keep modern movie-goers interested, slapstick humor, as seen in Charlie Chaplin’s timeless comedies and again, years later, in the stupid-humor films like the Farrelly Brother’s, Dumb and Dumber (1994) has remained the most untouched form of entertainment. Someone falling down a flight of stairs or hit by a pie is always funny – whether done in black and white or watched in a surround sound multi-screen theater. What technology and time have done for comedy, however, was to introduce the “talkies” and make “bathroom humor” a socially acceptable form of entertainment. In Stanley Kubrick’s dark comedy, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), few laughs were injury-induced but instead were results of absentminded authority, sexual innuendoes and impeccable comedic timing. The names alone suggest so much of this film, their films, chaplin’s, strangelove, same, much, dr, comedy, years, society, social, while, time, technology, someone, sexual, seen, laugh, issues, humor, dumb, untouched, quality, physical, off, modern, made, funny, form, elements, earlier, dumber, comedies, because, audiences, way, war