1. Sherlock Jr. displays a wide variety of visual gags and stunts. How effective are they and how they relate to contemporary comedy.
The
stunts in Sherlock Jr. are classics now and have become repetitive to
everyday society there is still no doubt with the right music they can at least
get generate a smile. Though in the early days of moving pictures there wasn’t any
other way. Keaton I believe shows his comedic skills in numerous ways from the
banana peel to scene jumping to the runaway vehicle. Depending the amount of video
games you have played the banana peel gag is still relevant if you want to finish
well in Mario Kart. The peel has become the icon of slipping so much so that
there is even Mythbusters episode busting the myth. The other gag was scene
jumping, while not used as much by today’s standards it is a Looney Tunes classic,
from jumping out of paintings in Looney Tunes: Back in Action to Bugs
changing the background on Daffy. Though not done in this century the gag of
changing scenes on Daffy I think was the best Tune. The changing of scenes on
the actor makes it easy to bring up new or different material which give the
creator comedic freedom. Lastly there is the runaway vehicle scene with well
timed clearing of obstacles and one of the most recent uses is in Anchorman 2.
Though there was a bit of a twist with thinking its cruise control, laughs were
still had at the rampaging van that had a mind of its own veering across
traffic.
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