Sentences with phrase «element of comedy in»

There would be an element of comedy in this were it not so obvious — to Katz and to nobody else — that all that is worthwhile in life is bound to the outcome of this game.

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In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

As You Like It would not be an authentic Shakespearean comedy without the element of identity confusion, in this case created by Rosalind's decision to dress up as a boy in order to protect herself and Celia.

Locus Corporation wishes to apologize regarding the first elements of our marketing campaign (in the form of a Cannes billboard and a trailer) which we realize has had the opposite effect from that which was intended... Our film, a family comedy, carries a message designed to challenge social prejudices related to standards of physical beauty in society by emphasizing the importance of inner beauty.

I can be on when I'm doing a comedy bit in front of a a crowd of 600 but I feel most in my element at home.

There are elements of tragedy and comedy in this character and in this performance, and in that regard, Mendelsohn and Gerry are the heart of this film, which plays out as a tragic comedy in one moment and comic tragedy in the next.

First - time director Fisher Stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and the large cast is solid — especially Marisa Tomei, who in an extended cameo as a merry dominatrix rarely has been more convincing.

It effectively mixes cheeky comedy with dramatic elements; the end result feels a lot like Adventureland, not necessarily in terms of plot particulars but in terms of tone.

However, Caruso and screenwriters Landon (Another Day in Paradise) and Ellsworth (Red Eye) aren't exactly setting their sights too high, employing a mixture of teen comedies, romance, and paranoid thriller elements solely to deliver escapist cheap thrills.

Named for the frozen treat that appears in each film, the two comedies feature British actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost combining comedy with elements of the horror and action film genres.

First time director Jeff Baena tackles the zombie movie with a different kind of twist in Life After Beth, and the result is a comedy that mixes in dramatic elements alongside the impending zombie apocalypse.

While not a home run, this comedy / drama might still be worth a look for fans of any of its charismatic stars (especially Slate and Kazan) and for those looking for a comedy that at least attempts to infuse darker elements in with its awkward laughs.

It has elements of a serious comedy, «Lost in Translation» style, but also silliness to try and equal it out.

Linklater's film has elements of a Last Vegas / Going in Style-esque comedy about older men behaving badly, mostly whenever Cranston's heavy - drinking bar owner is on screen, but instead, the film settles into a pedestrian and often mawkish groove, events purely functional, conflict or drama never really arriving.

There's real potential in this premise for a ripping screwball comedy anchored by two likeable actors, but the filmmakers simply don't trust the material, stirring in constant elements of action mayhem that don't work at...

Beta House, as a standalone film, isn't much more than a completely raunchy regurgitation of story elements found in other frat comedies, such as Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.

The non-horror elements of the film are uneven in general: The score, so effective in the fright scenes, suddenly evokes eye rolls when things start to get sentimental, and there's one scene of unintentional comedy where the film's retro»70s setting — another element downplayed in the first film but foregrounded here — collides with its demonic imagery in an honestly pretty silly way.

Both appear to be agents» packages first and movies second, so that even though they're trying hard to recapture the feel of Hollywood standbys — the heist thriller and the satiric screwball comedy — they seem to proceed from the premise that all that's required is to throw the right number of «talented» elements in the same direction.

He seemed to be moving towards a more personal cinema (there were autobiographical elements in The Hairdress's Husband), but now with Tango (15) he has done something of a U-turn, with a selfconsciously outrageous black comedy about what used to be called «the sex war», before anybody had given the subject much thought.

No word on what the tone of the film will be as of yet, although from the sound of things it'll share quite a bit in common with the rest of his work; a combination of morbid and absurdist comedy with the occasional heavy dramatic element... and plenty of foul language.

It's great fun, and a true comedy in which elements of drama occasionally surface to enrich the laughs.

In the grand scheme of things, comedy has become a crucial element in Disney's Marvel movie formulIn the grand scheme of things, comedy has become a crucial element in Disney's Marvel movie formulin Disney's Marvel movie formula.

I can't help but wonder if this is in part because subsequent comedies (not least those directed by the Coens themselves) have incorporated elements of Raising Arizona's humor — consciously or not — essentially rendering it more conventional after the fact.

In this gritty crime thriller, laced with elements of black comedy, Donal races against time to repair the damage he's done to his estranged family while trying to avoid being killed by his enemies.

For two seasons, FX's Fargo has managed to make its voice heard in a crowded TV landscape by not only expanding the mythology of the Coen Brothers» original 1996 film Fargo but by expertly blending elements of drama and dark comedy in each and every episode.

Although the film's nomination in the «Best Comedy» category at the forthcoming Golden Globes left some scratching their head — due to the strong dramatic / horror elements at play — there's no denying that Jordan Peele's Get Out was one of the best of the year regardless of the genre.

That's not to say that Frances Ha dispenses completely with structure, plot and theme — it's just that Baumbach treats those elements with more insouciance than is usual in his films, which have tended of late to be hyper - verbal, slightly sadistic drawing - room comedies (Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg).

Westrate's delivery does not sound like a forced impression of the way actors talked in those films, but instead comes across rather naturally, while capturing all the elements which made the speed and style of speaking unique during the screwball comedy era.

Fairly typical fantasy fluff then, but whereas you might be picturing some stuffy RPG in your mind right now, Gryphon Knight Epic is actually a side - scrolling arcade shooter that takes those RPG elements and expertly blends it in with a hefty dose of comedy and enough retro charm to make you forget that polygons ever existed.

Streep's portrayal of Florence contains elements of broad comedy, as in the scene when we first hear the atrocious pitch, pronunciation, and timing of her singing.

Putting the terror into The Comedy of Terrors is relatively simple when you have a cast that features Price, Lorre, Karloff and Rathbone all together in a plot that involves an undertaker, a debt and murder, but the comedy element is the more difficultComedy of Terrors is relatively simple when you have a cast that features Price, Lorre, Karloff and Rathbone all together in a plot that involves an undertaker, a debt and murder, but the comedy element is the more difficultcomedy element is the more difficult sell.

It certainly plays half of the time as a coming - of - age drama with war elements, but in the mix we also find rebel - punk angst, teen romance, quirky comedy, and, perhaps most oddly, a fantasy element involving telepathic connections between characters.

The premise of Ghost Town falls somewhere between the elements of the recent «Over My Dead Body» and the older «Heart and Souls» and this movie manages to capture the comedy aspects that «Over My Dead Body» failed to live up to and yet match the reaffirming warmth found in «Heart and Souls».

The Father's as mentioned above played by both John Lithgow and Mel Gibson add another element of comedy to the mix and it was nice seeing Mel back in an acting role where not the villain across from Stallone.

The Barnes brothers and Snider have a great understanding of how to break the «fourth wall» creating an extra layer of authenticity in it's doc - elements or empathize the comedy in it's fictional elements.

The humor can also be overly silly at times, more befitting a cartoon than a subtle independent comedy with melancholy beats, and the action elements toward the end, including car chases and destruction, feel like they belong in a spoof of 1980s blockbusters more so than in a poignant story about two misunderstood and withdrawn characters finding ways to come together.

The addictive 1987 hit guides every «step» of the prospective lovebirds» evolution in Chaumeil's film: the discovery, the groundwork, the bonding moment, the physical connection, the eventual coming clean — elements common to romantic comedies.

Tiffany Haddish's breakout role as wild card Dina in the summer comedy smash Girls Trip is one of those supporting performances that often seems to be operating on its own plane within the movie — it's of the film, but it's so distinct from everything else that it becomes a discrete element, too.

He did so again with 2012's brilliant black comedy Sightseers, blending elements of horror and dark English satire, and once more in 2013's wildly experimental, black and white historical drama / «horror» film A Field in England, though to lesser effect.

Also valuable and worth noting is «La Vie En Rose» which of course featured a spectacular turn by Marion Cotillard that was unexpectedly celebrated by Oscar, Zoe Cassavetes «severely underrated, wry and sweet, «Broken English,» which includes a very winning and charming turn by Parker Posey; Susanne Bier «s Danish drama, «After the Wedding» and perhaps surprisingly equally engaging, her underrated survival and recovery drama, «Things We Lost In The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedyIn The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedyin spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedy).

One of the strangest elements of Anchorman director Adam McKay's goofy 2010 comedy The Other Guys was the inclusion of some credit sequence infographics about corporate fraud and capitalist corruption that seemed to have been crowbarred in from another movie.

Recently, he's branched out and done some comedy in Logan Lucky, which means his take on Thor would have been a perfect blend of all the hero's best elements.

And Tropic Thunder may strike some as a better summer comedy than we usually get in August, but I for one would have liked it a lot more if so much of the film's elements — the domineering studio boss, the greedy agent, the actor who's «funny» because he talks «like» an African - American, etc. — had not seemed so familiar from past movies.

So it's no shock that Lanthimos» latest film, titled The Lobster, combines elements of both those earlier movies to present us with yet another eerie black comedy that takes place in a sealed - off existence and places a higher affirmation on living unhappily with someone rather than being happy and alone.

That should tell you that you're in for very perverse and macabre hour plus of the most sensational elements in comedy, with homosexuality, S&M, gangbangs, incest, suicide, animal cruelty, and one of the most surreal endings you're likely to see.

This comedy can be easily explained by comparing it to a certain Best Picture winner in the 70's (I won't say which for fear of ruining the entire film), but certain elements take it from lighter fare into an inferior Coen Brothers-esque crime caper.

This is a rare case where all of the elements work in harmonious fashion to become a work of true craftsmanship of the highest order, from Alfred Hitchcock's perfect pacing, Cary Grant's consummate romantic comedy leading man persona, Bernard Herrman's (Citizen Kane, Journey to the Center of the Earth) sumptuous scoring, and perhaps most impressive of all, a stellar script full of quotable lines delivered by Ernest Lehman (The Sound of Music, West Side Story).

Take away the morose elements of the story (suicide, kidnapping, a lead character dying of cancer), and the premise of a childless married couple taking in a young boy and learning to be a family sounds exactly like a cheesy»80s primetime comedy.

This year's Joe had a Southern Gothic tinge to it; there's no reason to think he couldn't push those elements further the way he toyed with the boundaries of the buddy comedy in Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and Prince Avalanche.

However, no one wants to see pity or grandstanding on equality in the middle of their dumb racial comedy anyway, so by trying to go the noble route in the end, both elements tend to cancel each other out.