Nikoleta FYW 1213

I remember one night after an outing with my friends, we were all sitting in my basement watching TV looking for something to watch. While flipping through the channels, Superbad comes on. The movie was already partway through, and we so happened to stumble upon the scene where Fogel tries to buy alcohol at the gas station. As my friends have already seen the movie, they insisted to keep it on and watch through this scene, as they claimed it was really funny. Myself, having never seen it before, decided to go along with what they said. While watching the scene, I was overwhelmed by how funny it was. We watched that whole scene until my friend took the remote and changed the channel, and that was that. I have never seen Superbad fully but was reminded by Faith's blog by how good the movie is and how I have wanted to watch it. The incongruity theory is heavily present in this movie, specifically the gas station scene. The combination Fogel's lack of confidence with the horrible f...

Jennifer’s body: I never thought about the movie Jennifer’s Body as a comedy, but after reading the lead blog post I can see how it is actually a parody of comedic films centered around high school relationships. The iconic movie Mean Girls, because it focuses on the cruelty of teenage girls and high school dynamics, displays certain tv/movie tropes which can similarly be found in Jennifer’s body. The classic popular, pretty, and mean teenage girl is displayed through Megan Fox’s character, Jennifer, who turns into a man-eating monster after the night of the concert. Megan displays the characteristics of an Alpha- bitch or queen bee of the high school as almost all the male students within the movie are extremely attracted to her and her as a less adored and unassertive sidekick. As the classic queen bee usually has a friend who obeys whatever they say and is non-confrontational, the movie uses Needy’s character to display the mean girl's passive friend. Her name adds to ...

The show Tom and Jerry has always been a favorite of children everywhere despite the fact that it was released and created in the 1940s. This cartoon classic has been making the audience laugh and giggles for centuries because of its use of incongruity theory and the slapstick form of comedy it presents. Tom is a cat usually enraged and out to get Jerry, a tiny mouse that lives in a hole in the wall of Tom’s house. While Tom is a cat much larger than Jerry, Jerry always wins their brawls and fights with ease and cleverness. Jerry will go to great lengths to make sure that Tom gets off his back and leave him be. The mouse is often depicted using weapons such as dynamite, cannons, guns and much more in order to get Tom off his back. This where incongruity theory comes into play as the audience is not expecting either of the two to have such an arsenal of weapons nor the intelligence to use them. In addition, Jerry always wins these fights which adds to the incongruity of the si...

Even though I am almost 19 years old, I was only introduced to superhero movies this past May. More specifically, I was introduced to the world of Marvel this past May. The first Marvel Movie I ever watched was Avengers Infinity War, and while I was a little confused with the backstory at first, I fell in love and proceeded to watch every movie related to the Avengers (in the proper movie timeline, of course.) After I finished that, my best friend told me about how Deadpool was created by Marvel but just in a different universe. Since I loved all the Marvel movies so far, I decided to give Deadpool a try. I absolutely loved it. While Deadpool has all of the characteristics of a great Marvel movie, it has other qualities that make it stand out on its own as a masterpiece. One thing that makes it different from the other Marvel movies is how it is more comedic and breaks the fourth wall. Right from the beginning of the movie, Deadpool is talking to us, the viewers, directly. He frequentl...