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In the film 'Picture Perfect' -1997-Glenn Gordon Caron, the first seven minutes show typical motifs of the comedy genre and it clearly shows how the film's narrative might develop.
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Shama Lalji In the film 'Picture Perfect' -1997-Glenn Gordon Caron, the first seven minutes show typical motifs of the comedy genre and it clearly shows how the film's narrative might develop. Comedies are light-hearted dramas, designed to amuse and provoke laughter. In general there are two types of comedy, slapstick and dialogue based. Slapstick is comedy with broad, aggressive, physical action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and visual jokes. Dialogue based comedy is comedy of ideas. Dialogue including witty repartee and jokes is used to create the comedy. There are main conventions in the comedy genre which most comedies use these are: the use of stereotypes such as in the film 'Pillow Talk'-1959-Michael Gordon. He uses the stereotype of the virginal Jan. The use of puns, plays on words and jokes is another convention of comedy, this convention is present in the film 'His Girl Friday'-1940-Howard Hawks...
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