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	Slapstick
		Slapstick is a type of comedy involving physical action.
		Slapstick is also common in animated cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner and, in homage, Itchy and Scratchy (from The Simpsons).
		However, as many modern films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Dumb and Dumber, Scream, and the works of the Farrelly Brothers combine violence and comedy, it appears unlikely that this traditional source of laughs will ever disappear.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/s/sl/slapstick.html (245 words)

	Slapstick (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut.
		The book was adapted into the 1982 film Slapstick of Another Kind.
		Film — Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slapstick_(book) (442 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Slapstick Encyclopedia
		Film historian Joe Adamson gives us brief textual introductions for each title and a twelve-page booklet that fills out our understanding of how these films and their makers fit into the grander scheme.
		The films here are shown at their proper projection speeds, in some cases for the first time ever on home video.
		Chaplin made almost three dozen films for Keystone in 1914 alone, and "The Rounders" teams up Chaplin and Arbuckle in a tour de farce that showcases Chaplin in a version of his renowned music hall "drunk act." The Hollywood cult of personality is skewered in 1916's "The Movie Star," starring future Chaplin heavy Mack Swain.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/s/slapstickencyclopedia.shtml (5762 words)

	The Film Tribune - Robin and Marian (1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Not surprisingly, the film was a box-office failure, as the new approach to a familiar theme failed to find an audience, but this approach, as explained later, was not entirely successful in dramatic terms either.
		The hero of a film on a swashbuckler topic has never looked this pathetic since Errol Flynn's last forays into the adventure genre in the early 1950's, but even then, it was the actor, not the character, who was the real has-been of the picture.
		That the film was not more downbeat than it is should surprise no one, considering who are the author of the script and the director at the helm of the project.
	www.filmtribune.com /robinandmarian.html (1919 words)

	Untitled Document
		From early slapstick to discussions of comedians and romantic comedies, there is a brief and clear introduction of the significant and important discourses in the chapter.
		An examination of the films in question, he argues, quoting Seidman, reveals that it simply isn't the case that: 'The comic figure 'must be made to conform to cultural values by divesting himself of his creativity, or else face rejection''.
		A film can be a parody of an individual film, a genre of films, the techniques or constraints of the medium, 'non-film specific items' like pop-stars, or even a number of different films, techniques, genres, and conventions at the same time, as is the case in the relatively recent scattershot mode of comedy.
	www.wallflowerpress.co.uk /publications/film/film_comedy.html (4647 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of "slapstick"?
		A slapstick is typically made of two thin boards fastened together at the base to form a handle.
		Slapstick thrived on the silent screen, where the lack of dialogue made subtler forms of comedy difficult, and slapstick's ability to cross linguistic barriers made early comedies accessible to viewers around the world.
		Because of slapstick's universality you don't need to speak Spanish to enjoy "La Escuelita VIP," in which buxom babes and aging comedians (including one who bears an unsettling resemblance to Saddam Hussein) dress as schoolchildren and make what I assume are off-color jokes in a classroom setting.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mslapstick.html (582 words)

	Slapstick Comedy in the 1920s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Slapstick, one of the earliest forms of comedy, poked fun at farcical situations of physical mishap and indignity, usually in pratfalls, practical jokes, accidents, acrobatic death-defying stunts, water soakings, or wild chase scenes with trains and cars.
		Every slapstick comedy actor knows how to portray their characters personality in the films.
		The Actor Buster Keaton was one of the best known and most respected of the silent film comedians.
	slapstick.lbox.org (155 words)

	The General (1927)
		The original tale (told from a Northern perspective) was reworked for the film - the tale was told from the point of view of the South and a Southern engineer, a second return train-chase was added, and a heroine named after Edgar Allan Poe's Annabelle Lee was also introduced.
		Another locale for the film was around Cottage Grove, Oregon alongside Oregon's Row River, where a half-mile stretch of narrow-gauge track was found for the two ancient, wood-burning, steam locomotives that figured prominently in the film (the General and the Texas).
		The film concludes with a climactic battle at a river gorge, with the dramatic crash of the pursuit train into the Rock River in the film's most spectacular scene - and the most expensive shot of the entire silent era.
	www.filmsite.org /gene.html (2383 words)

	Slapstick Encyclopedia Dvd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The style was explored extensively during the "golden era" of fl and white, silent movies directed by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach andfeaturing such notables as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy the Keystone Kops, and the Three Stooges.
		Slapstick is also common in animated cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner.
		However, as many modern films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Dumb and Dumber, Scream, and the works of the Farrelly Brothers combine violence and comedy, it appears unlikely that this traditional source of laughswill ever disappear.
	www.computeplaza.com /Help/2315-Slapstick-Encyclopedia-Dvd.Html (747 words)

	Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: Chaplin's Film Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In terms of craft, it invokes the English music-hall comedy style on which Chaplin was nurtured as a boy, and the silent film slapstick that made...
		...Later in the film the comedian is soliciting contributions in a pub for his band of street musicians, when he is recognized by an acquaintance who is about to drop a coin into his hat...
		...The film is full of amateur philosophy, mainly Chaplin's romantic naturalism, which regards desire as the source of all vitality and death as the end of desire...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V15I3P81-1.htm (1914 words)

	Film Radar: Specialty Film-going in Los Angeles and Beyond
		FILM YOUR ISSUE, an unprecedented "issue film" competition inviting young Americans 18 to 26 to add their voices to the public dialogue on contemporary issues via 30- to 60-second films, announced its Call for Entries for 2006.
		Film Intelligence's article, "Slapstick 2006" announced: "The second Bristol Slapstick Festival was a revolutionary event above all proving that it is possible to create a new audience for films made 80 or more years ago...
		BBC News' article "What Happened to Slapstick" (Fri., 24 Feb 2006) announced: "Slapstick is making something of a comeback, with two film seasons already this year celebrating silent comedy and a BBC series about the genre scheduled for the Spring." Click HERE for more information.
	www.filmradar.com (798 words)

	Miyazaki interview: why no more slapstick // Hayao Miyazaki Web
		But these are happy endings typical of an action film-- made to make you feel happy to have been born and to be alive-- regardless of whether the scale is large or small.
		In making a slapstick action film, one must employ a story structure in which there are initially various plot complications but, after a certain point, the action becomes the main thing.
		To make it so that a film is enjoyable without overt theorizing, the initial problems of motivation and identification-- such as sympathizing with the villain or the hero's hesitance at firing a gun-- must be solved, or the ensuing action just becomes pointless.
	www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/interviews/slapstick.html (1980 words)

	UCLA TV Violence Monitoring Project: Showtime
		This film probably could not be edited sufficiently to appear on broadcast because violence is too central to the theme and makes up too much of the entire movie.
		There are several unpleasant scenes in this film including one in which a man's eyes are burned with acid, he accidentally chops off his own arm and is killed by falling on a chain saw.
		There are 15 scenes of violence in this film including one in which a wife, possessed by the VCR, stabs her husband with scissors.
	www.digitalcenter.org /webreport94/ivc2.htm (935 words)

	Film - Slapstick Violence
		In this sequel to the smash film, Shanghai Noon, Wilson buddies up with Jackie Chan as a couple of off-kilter denizens of the Wild West.
		For a comedy, the film has some very serious plot elements, laced with murder and mayhem; the first fight is incredibly vicious.
		And that's good news, because with their improved chemistry and the requisite happy ending (along with the big money this film is going to make), there's no doubt that Part III is in the works.
	www.inlander.com /bigscreen/338682860874391.php (740 words)

	Comedy Is a Man in Trouble
		Comedy Is a Man in Trouble presents the legacy of physical humor from the performances of vaudeville actors and circus clowns-who coined the term "slapstick" by playfully and noisily beating each other with wooden paddles-to its ongoing popularity today in the films of Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers.
		A decade later the Marx Brothers exploited the new technology of sound film in their fast-paced verbal exchanges-and, in doing so, invented a verbal form of slapstick later exploited by directors such as Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks.
		In Comedy Is a Man in Trouble, Dale seasons his weightier theories about slapstick in film with engaging opinions and witty asides.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/D/dale_comedy.html (681 words)

	The Johns Hopkins News-Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the case of film, viewers enjoy lifestyles so different from their own, and because of that and the artistic enjoyments ascribed to the films, viewers love them.
		In spite of everything associated with smoking in film, Hollywood filmmakers live in a state where it is illegal to smoke in restaurants and in several cities in California, in front of public buildings.
		Second, the continual inclusion of smoking characters in film suggests a state of affairs removed from the U.S. reality (in which people aware of the impending physical evils contingent upon this habit can avoid smoking), while still being attached to an old lifestyle when smoking wasn't assumed to be so dangerous.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/02-22-01/Features/7.html (863 words)

	Slapstick of Another Kind (1984)
		Like most Vonnegut screen adaptations, the film misses the unique essence of Vonnegut - Vonnegut specializes in a kind of sadly ironic pessimism, his is a comically absurd outlook where human endeavour seems foolish in the face of an uncaring universe.
		Whatever the case, the film is so far removed from the joyous absurdism of Vonnegut's universe that one finds Vonnegut's involvement hard to believe.
		The film occasionally rises to create a certain degree of bathos for the two separated twins in its latter half, but mostly it exists down at the level of custard pie fights - its major set-pieces involve no more than the twins running about causing chaos.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/slapstick.htm (479 words)

	Filmtracks: Shrek (Powell/Gregson-Williams)
		The storyboards of the film had already been synchronized with several songs, and the job of the composers was to work in enough original underscore and thematic material to connect the spaces between those songs and, in a few scenes, carry the musical load by themselves.
		The film, outside of an excess of toilet humor, is a delight, and the music is a rocking (in every way) part of its success.
		With a slapstick film that moves at a fast pace, you don't notice that Shrek's cues are choppy and incohesive until you hear them apart from the film.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/shrek.html (1844 words)

	IMDb user comments for What's Up, Doc? (1972) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This film is full of visual humor and one liners; Madeline Kahn screaming and taking on all comers while dragging the doorkeeper across the ballroom floor; the hotel crook using his "charm" to drop Mrs.
		All of its humour is based on slapstick and a terrific script full of one-liners that you never tire of viewing.
		This is a terrific film for admirers of slapstick-styled comedies of the 1930's.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0069495/usercomments (1835 words)

	7 • Movies & More
		Director of the 2001 film "Shaolin Soccer," the 42-year-old, Shanghai-born Chow has been around for a while, though he’s still relatively unknown to American film fans.
		At its most basic, the often-slapstick film is about people being forced, sometimes against their will, to live up to their true natures.
		At the heart of the film is Sing (Chow), a petty, not-too-successful thief who, with his best buddy (Chi Chung Lam), try to sign up wit h the murderous Axe Gang.
	www.spokane7.com /blogs/moviesandmore/archive.asp?postID=1490 (346 words)

	Dark Star: The First Carpenter Classic
		Comedy is not the first thing that jumps to mind when one thinks of John Carpenter, but back in the early 1970s, it was a science fiction slapstick film that first got the young director noticed.
		Part meditation on life, part silly slapstick, the film pulled off an impossible trick by creating a legitimate-looking low-budget science fiction universe, populated by friends and decorated with tin foil and metal cans.
		The film ends with the astronauts arguing philosophy with an existentially challenged and self-aware nuclear bomb.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/movies/dark_star_000718.html (1051 words)

	Movie Review - Around the World in 80 Days (2004) - eFilmCritic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While Fogg rescues an Indian woman from being burned alive as part of an outlawed ritual in the novel, the film's love interest is a gratingly perky French woman who is along for the ride from near the beginning.
		The film's various slapstick sequences at least afford a few cheap laughs, but nothing ever rises to the level of inspired.
		The barrage of cameos, intended to ape the 1956 version of the film, grow tiresome, as do the cutesy historical references (the Wright Brothers selling bicycles, for example - and what were they doing in the Arizona desert anyway?).
	www.efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=10010&reviewer=385 (819 words)

	TV / Film / Video Document - (radioland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the case of "Radioland Murders", the knowledge that Industrial Light and Magic was behind the film's special effects (hardly a surprise for a Lucas film) still has served to heighten anticipation that this might be a very special movie.
		On the other hand, the film could have done without even the relatively brief appearances by Bobcat Goldthwaite, who played the "wild writer" with his usual obnoxious mannerisms.
		It seems that in many cases filming was done on only partial sets, with areas of walls, ceilings, and other elements either partly or completely missing.
	www.vortex.com /tv-film-video/radioland (864 words)

	2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
		He has been involved in some of the best slapstick films of all time, yet somehow, when he plays the same role with the same gags in another film, it just isn't funny anymore...why is this the case?
		Sadly, not all slapstick films are successful using this method, and therefore, I guess we cannot blame Leslie Nielsen for delivering bad films, it is more the writers and directors that deserve most of our wrath.
		As is the case with these films, the plot really does not matter too much as it is the frequency and quality of the gags that makes us watch the movie.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=1954 (1116 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on A Nous La Liberte at Epinions.com
		The film closes with Louis and Emile having reclaimed an idyllic life as aimless hobos.
		The political message of the dehumanizing effect of mechanization is so little heavy-handed that the film is likely to be enjoyed as much by those of conservative political persuasions as by their left-leaning counterparts.
		This is not a film for everyone, but will delight those with a taste for films of the silent film era.
	www.epinions.com /content_129912180356 (1080 words)

	IMDb user comments for Sleeper (1973) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Never a film to be taken seriously, it has all the elements of a cult film, with the exception being that because it's a Woody Allen film, it's been pushed more into the mainstream.
		The film's only problem is that after an hour and a half, it doesn't seem to know what to do with itself.
		When one speaks of Woody Allen films, it is common to talk of his `early, funnier films' and his later serious work (although that is beginning to change back recently).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0070707/usercomments (2526 words)

	Telugu Cinema Etc - Idlebrain.com
		The other film that made waves at National Film awards from Andhra is Sekhar kammula's unique slapstick film on typical SR Nagar-Amirpet belt USA aspirants 'Dollar Dreams'.
		This film is being produced by Suraj films and directed by SV Krishna Reddy.
		This film is a comedy flick with underlying message for the male chauvinists.
	www.idlebrain.com /news/2000march20/news22.html (476 words)

	Woody Allen: A Life in Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Allen had initially intended to make a nearly silent slapstick film set in a futuristic society where the underclass is forbidden to speak.
		Allen is more forthcoming about his later work, though he continually insists that very few of his films have lived up to his expectations or even come close to turning out as he imagined they would.
		Allen professes the new comedy to be one of his few films that lived up to his expectations, though this may be a hint of pre-release hype from a filmmaker who has lately shown more and more willingness to shill his work in the public eye.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies4/WoodyAllenDoc.htm (605 words)

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