How is time used to create humor?
Time can be used to create humor because time is something that always changes. I think that time is mostly used in comic when one is referring back to something that happened, or something that is going to happen. Also, since time is something that always changes, it could be funny to make fun of the people 100 years ago. Another example is that it is funny when things happen really fast or really slow, but this applies more to film. It is funny when someone goes really fast, because this is the use of an overstatement. On the opposite is slow motion, which understates the speed of something.
How could this be viewed as dark comedy?
Black comedy is when the plot employs morbid, gloomy, grotesque or calamitous situations. All in all, this means that black comedy is when something is mad funny even though it is actually supposed to have a negative emotion. I think that time can be viewed as black comedy; depending on what time period is referred too. For example if you talk about the future and u see a ice bear wearing sunglasses, then that is funny however, it is actually not funny because it refers back to global destabilization. Another example is when one talks about WWII as a small thing and nothing special thing. However, many people died making the plot suppose to be gloomy.
3 comments:
Virginia, good ideas and good examples, seems you have thought a lot about the topic. I must add though that i am a little confused about your first paragraph.
Good job Virginia! Very very nice! It seems like you thought a lot about this topic and you took a lot of time to do your homework. Maybe you should have uses more examples to support your argument ;)
The definition of dark comedy is really good and complete. But I think the example with the white bear in sunglasses doesn't fit to dark comedy, because it doesn't realated to death or other tragedy (global destabilization) is too abstract. Second example at my opinion fits better to dark comedy
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