As probably one of the more popular types of movie genre out there, the style of comedy have been around for centuries. Since far back as the Greek culture, Comedy is just as old as playwriting. Most of the plays that were performed were comedies, just people acting goofy, but it wasn't until the time of Shakespeare when he added the aspects of love, hatred, and drama into the style of Comedy. In one of his plays, A midsummer's night dream, Shakespeare tells the story of two couples whose love is basically controlled by fairies, who cause mischief in the humans lives. Aspects to his comedic plays involved the comedic individual whose misfortune and the characters ability to act in a funny manner through his lines, and the comedic action, where crazy things make the audience laugh made Shakespeare's style of comedy popular.
Comedy through film still carries that same aspect, but these days, comedy movies deal with real life situations that the audience may find funny. Comedies such as Dumb and Dumber where two men travel cross country to return a briefcase to a beautiful woman, its usually the actors who make a movie a comedy such as that one with Jim Carry and Jeff Daniels act has the two men who are basically dumb and go through some goofy times.
One of the classic comedy films of all time though is Ferris Buellers day off. A high schooler named Ferris tricks his parents of letting him stay home from school, by faking sick. And while his parents are out, he spends the entire day with his girl friend and best friend traveling the city of Chicago. As a true comedy, Ferris Buellers day off is all about timing. The lines and actions are right on key to make the audience laugh. Ferris's antics provide us a hilarious movie full of funny lines that may be inappropriate to some, but in this present day of film, inappropriateness is what makes the audience laugh the most
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