Ecapism In Screwball Comedy Film

The Oxford English dictionary defines escapism as the “tendency to seek, or the practice of seeking, distraction from what normally has to be endured”. This definition could help explain why musical artists in the 1920s were more prone to focus on escapist themes such as privacy and romance rather than on political and social views of the time.

The screwball comedic element of this introduction to Peter is that when he is quitting his job over the phone he is drunk with a group of friends around him. When he is talking to his boss he is acting like he is “the boss” and controls the conversation to make himself look good. Through the other side of the phone his boss has already fired him and hung up but to avoid embarrassment, Peter acts like he is still on the phone with his boss and “quits”. This classic screwball scene is entertaining to the viewers as the audience knows what is going on but his friends do not which makes it an odd and humorous situation. These characters come from opposite social and economic classes which makes it seem as though they would never cross paths or get along. There affection for one another is formed through the journey these two strangers share with one another and this develops their relationship and attitudes towards each other over time. Through the course of the film, these characters show a sense of disheartenment and lack of caring towards one another but their opposites are brought together and their views are changed through screwball comedic elements.

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.” Some kids play sports to have fun whereas others play sports to become elite athletes. The youth playing in the Texas Youth Football Association have no choice but to play and train like elite athletes. The film, Friday Night Tykes, illustrates how the youth are pushed passed their limits to become successful football players and successful teams.

The movie “Wit” is a great educational tool for healthcare professionals in terms of dealing with terminally ill patients. It teaches that nurses and medical professionals should always remember that their patients are not a case nor illness nor experiment but rather human beings with souls and pains. Palliative care is one of the most disputed issues of worldwide importance. While bureaucrats in different countries are making laws on the use of palliative drugs, patients with excruciating pains learn how to “take deep breaths and be strong” (Nichols & Brokaw, 2001). That is what nurse Susie Monahan from “Wit” advises her dying patient Vivian Bearing suffering from unbearable pains due to stage IV ovarian cancer after eight painful rounds

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

To show satire in Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, director Stanley Kubrick uses parody, exaggeration, and incongruity. One effective method Kubrick uses is parody. In the movie, Kubrick plays on actors and typical stereotypes. Major Kong, as played by Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. or Slim Pickens, is a play on the American Cowboy. When Major Kong goes down to the bombs to open the doors he gets dropped with the bomb.

The movie Blow is the story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970s. The film starts with George as a child, showing what his childhood was like and what his relationship with his parents was like. As it progresses George grows up and moves to California. While there he become caught up in the marijuana scene and eventually starts selling it for money. George expands his market and eventually becomes very wealthy. But, George becomes too complacent and gets caught by the police and sentenced to prison. While there he meets and makes friends with Diego Delgado and learns about the drug Cocaine. Together they find a way to traffic it into the United States and again George becomes extremely wealthy.

Between 1970 and 1980 there was a cultural film explosion, there were over 200 films released by major and independent studios that hyped major black characters and themes. Prior to the Blaxploitation era black actors had been relinquished to playing small parts that usually presented stereotyped images of the black race with roles such as waitresses or shoeshine boys. This however all changed when in 1971 when the first successful black film "Sweetback's Baadasss Song" showed a black man coming out on top over the white establishment. The term blaxploitation both helped and destroyed the genre. While many blaxploitation films were box office successes, they also fueled the public's perception of blacks as cold-hearted heroes, gangsters,

The escapist fantasies for females pertain to living a life of fantasy, some place where aging does not occur; where they will escape reality and enter a world of their own desires. For male escapist fantasies, Sady appears to describe their’s to be more laidback, they’re ‘unilaterally sophisticated, complex, or forward-thinking’; she compares Tom Clancy and Dan Brown novels to their fantasies as a summary. Regardless how her faulty conginitive thinking works: She is no mind reader, nor any telekinetic like being. I greatly disagree with this, as it is seemingly bias to obviously contrast minds by their genders, and stereotype them in her

My second week in the class, I was introduced to sexualization and parents priming their

Tanner Dime is a 22-year-old student currently studying criminal justice at UC Davis. Dime, suffers from major depression. Tanner was born in the United States from American and Asian parents. His father was born in Asia and his mother was born in Texas. He is the youngest of three. Tanner has two older sisters named Ariel, 29 and Sandy, 33. Tanner says ever since he can remember he always felt neglected by his family especially from his father. Tanners father Mike was a very strict man who showed no affection towards him. Despite having a strict image, his father was an alcoholic who would let his frustrations out on his mother. He experienced watching his father beat up his mother while he was growing up. His mother Teresa was an obsessive woman who cared so much of her image that she would cover up and justify everything her husband did. She pretended to play the perfect wife who had the perfect husband and the perfect family.

“Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.” Stella and Blake. The film Patch Adams directed by Tom Shady is a fact-based biography and comedy based on a physician named Hunter “Patch” Adams. The film was produced in 1998 in Asheville, North Carolina. Patch Adams is the main character who believed that doctors should incorporate happiness and laughter when taking care of sick patients. He believes happiness and laughter is the best medicine because joy is a gift from the holy spirit. This film is an eye opener to the audience, especially people who are studying to work in the medical field. After watching this film, the intended audience would agree that doctors who use Patch Adams theory, laughter is the best medicine for ill patients will provide a better health care system, and cause the patients to enjoy and have a better perception of life.

Escapism describes the desire to circumvent the circumstances of one's current reality and is one of the major appeals of television in the modern age. Wilbur Schramm, an scholar of mass communication, “lists escape as one manifestation of the entertainment function of (mass) communication” (oxford). Escapism can be centered around any number of fantasies, however each one caters to some desire or shortcoming in our everyday lives. Escapism is directly tied to ideas of a paradiscal existence through the Pollyanna principle, which is a behavioral theory that states people seek out pleasant stimuli and avoid unpleasant ones (Matlin 1). The theory applies itself to both memory, perception, and imagination all of which are crucial to constructing

The film Jack and Jill directed by Dennis Dugan is a comedy film starring Adam Sandler who plays both identical twins, Jack and Jill Sadelstein. As kids, Jack and Jill were very close, practically inseparable; however, as they grew older, Jack becomes successful while Jill stayed in their hometown to take care of their mother. Due to the distance, Jill goes to visit Jack and his family once a year and longs for that twin time with Jack like when they were kids. On the other hand, Jack doesn’t want Jill to stay for long and wants to get over the visit as he finds his sister obnoxious and needy. Despite all of this, Jack’s patience and love for his sister is put to the test when Jill decides to extend her visit. According to the Internet Movie Database the movie Jack and Jill had a budget estimated to be seventy-nine million of dollars yet had a rating of 3.4 out of 10. There is a reason why this film has been called “ A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement” (Travers 2011), I personally do not find Jack and Jill funny not only because it has dry, cheap laughs or juvenile humor but also because it degrades the female character, relies heavily on stereotypes, and gender role is an issue throughout the film.

The Gay Shoe Clerk is a 1903 short film, directed by Edwin S. Porter. With only about a minute and 15 seconds in length, this piece begins to develop an early language of cinema. Specifically, a cut is used to pin the viewer on a particular aspect of the scene, and yet maintains a sense of continuity. Narrative wise, a shoe clerk fits a shoe on a woman, and she begins to be flirtatious toward him, he begins to kiss her, only for another woman to beat him.