Not exact matches
The director may have
intended to draw the
audience into complicity with the lovers» selfishness — and in fact, I was surprised at how long it took for the
audience to stop
laughing at Ernest, to lose their edgy sympathy for the lovers — but the ultimate effect was simply to make the lovers» erotic demands seem further from our own.
The real
laugh is that the film's ostensible moral is to act your age while virtually every joke is stolen from a genre
intended for stars and
audiences ten - plus years younger than anyone involved, meaning all the sexual insecurity and juvenilia is infected with considerably more than the usual touch of the pathetic.
The
audience didn't really dig this film *, at time
laughing in moments I'm certain the filmmakers didn't
intend.
Confronted with challenges in the form of a horrific protagonist, horrible deeds and heightened presentation,
audiences can do little but
laugh — and that's the appropriate, expected,
intended reaction.
Assuming the character of a black transgendered comedian who delivers a routine to a
laughing audience, Bradford does not
intend for his performance to be funny though humor is, in his own words, his way in.