1649: Comedy Film Nerds

[PoorGradStudent]

Originally Posted by Astigos

**I'd also love to add Amelie to that list, one of my favorite movies

Amelie is also one of my favorite movies. I don't consider it a romantic comedy, I think of it more as a drama. Yes there are some funny parts but it's main intent is not to be lighthearted and romantic. It is simply trying to tell the story of a girl who doesn't know how to help herself. The other movie I would put in that category is Anne Hall. I think of that as one of the most honest movies about a relationship I've ever seen. Again, it has funny parts, but it is certainly not a rom-com.

[Rommorwen]

Originally Posted by PoorGradStudent

Amelie is also one of my favorite movies. I don't consider it a romantic comedy, I think of it more as a drama. Yes there are some funny parts but it's main intent is not to be lighthearted and romantic. It is simply trying to tell the story of a girl who doesn't know how to help herself.

I just wanted to say... That's exactly what I was going to say. You beat me to it.

[Bucho]

Originally Posted by PoorGradStudent

Amelie is also one of my favorite movies. I don't consider it a romantic comedy, I think of it more as a drama. Yes there are some funny parts but it's main intent is not to be lighthearted and romantic. It is simply trying to tell the story of a girl who doesn't know how to help herself. The other movie I would put in that category is Anne Hall. I think of that as one of the most honest movies about a relationship I've ever seen. Again, it has funny parts, but it is certainly not a rom-com.

Amelie is also one of my favourite movies. It may not have "jokes" in it but it is too light-hearted for me to see it as drama. It's also far too optimistic and uncynical not to be considered wildly romantic. It's a film intended not to make you laugh out loud (or "lol" as the scientists say) in a comedy sense or to make you feel the heaviness of existence in a dramatic sense but to delight you by letting you journey for a while through the world with a person who sees that world through wide and hopeful eyes.

It's not whacky enough to be comedy and not po-faced enough to be drama. It is beautiful enough to be Amelie.

[Jo_Culprit]

Originally Posted by WSEIII

Fuck you, I am content not having a woman in my life and it's cheaper too. I would like to find one, but sometimes quality is hard to find.

You are hardly any woman's definition of quality. Let's not pretend you're holding out for some prize and knocking back women in the meantime.

[PoorGradStudent]

Originally Posted by Bucho

Amelie is also one of my favourite movies. It may not have "jokes" in it but it is too light-hearted for me to see it as drama. It's also far too optimistic and uncynical not to be considered wildly romantic. It's a film intended not to make you laugh out loud (or "lol" as the scientists say) in a comedy sense or to make you feel the heaviness of existence in a dramatic sense but to delight you by letting you journey for a while through the world with a person who sees that world through wide and hopeful eyes.

It's not whacky enough to be comedy and not po-faced enough to be drama. It is beautiful enough to be Amelie.

QFT

[BrianAlt]

Super enjoyable episode. Everyone had good one-liners.

[Astigos]

With regards to Amelie:
The word comedy has meaning beyond causing laughter.

As a rule, tragedies occur on the battlefield or in a palace's great hall; a more likely setting for comedy is the bedroom or bathroom. On the other hand, it's not true that a film or literary work must involve sexual humor or even be funny in order to qualify as a comedy. A happy ending is all that's required. In fact, since at least as far back as Aristotle, the basic formula for comedy has had more to do with conventions and expectations of plot and character than with a requirement for lewd jokes or cartoonish pratfalls. In essence: A comedy is a story of the rise in fortune of a sympathetic central character.

Source:Comedy and Tragedy

Amelie most certainly is a romantic (screwball) comedy because it contains all the elements of the subgenre. Here's the most basic formula to make a screwball comedy:

1. Boy meets Girl
2. Boy loses Girl
3. Series of wacky events
4. Boy gets Girl
5. Profit

Every one of those major events happens in Amelie, but I do see why one might question its genre because it also draws heavily from the Coming of Age subgenre. Much of the film places importance on Amelie's childish whimsy and wonderment and concludes with her becoming more of an adult by her speaking with her neighbor and meeting Nino.

[Keith]

Did you see the comedy The Shawshank Redemption? It wasn't as much of a comedy as Shindler's List, but I enjoyed it very much.

[Astigos]

Art knows no bounds. One can only hope to keep up.

[Keith]

Now is that a comedy or a tragedy?