l Like parody and satire, slapstick is a mode of comedy, a mode that can be found in forms as diverse as the sketch, the double-act, the short, and the feature film.
l Slapstick: Literally, a comic weapon, originally called a batte, comprised of a pair of lath paddles or long, flat pieces of wood fastened at one end and used by comics to create a great deal of noise with minimum danger when another person is struck.
l It is obvious that the literal slapstick was translated into a term to describe physical or broad comedy.
l As we shall see the physical--- and therefore visual -----qualities of slapstick were of crucial importance in the early comedy of the silent era in the cinema.
l Indeed, in many ways the film is about there modes and forms, in particular, the values they each embody.
《A Chinese Odyssey》is an example.
l It is a film which in other words constructs and works out its ideological and thematic concerns in terms of comedy’s various , modes and forms.
l Centre on characters of a lower social class.
l ~~is a comedy. It is played mostly for laughs, and it has a happy ending. Its story and setting allow for parody, slapstick, and a degree of satire as well. Its romance plot, meanwhile, allows the film to explore the relationship between comedy and melodrama.
l It is this obstacle which leads to what begins as one of the most melodramatic scenes in the film
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