COMEDY BOWFINGER

Comedy (from the latin - comoedia) is a kind of drama, distinguished look

forward content, drawing funny side of human life and the people making fun of
their shortcomings and weaknesses. The comedy and tragedy were developed in
ancient Greece. In the beginning it refers a group of young men who are in open
spaces performed jokes at the expense of their fellow citizens.
Themes and characters were taken from everyday life. In the end wins sense,
justice and honesty. By subject that comedy is dealing with, we divided it into:
The comedy of character which makes fun of the individual defects. Type of
comedy that the comic situation is subjected to criticism and ridicule of human
character traits: greed, avarice, selfishness, hypocrisy, envy, pride, etc.
The comedy of intrigue based on misunderstandings. Type of comedy based on
branched plots and sudden twists in dramatic actions, with harmless and benign
consequences.

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misunderstandings, disguises, confusion and so on. The characters are typed.

Examples are comedies of Plaut.
Social comedy which pokes disadvantages of the whole society.
According to the way in which realize a comic impression, comedy is divided into
comedy of

character, comedy of intrigue, situation comedy, comedy of

conversation.
Types of laughter in a comedy with regard to access to the writer, object or
person that makes fun:
Humor is the mildest form of laughter, and is characterized by a sense of
sympathy (laughter through tears).
Irony is a discreet reproach, which consists in telling a word whose meaning is the
opposite of what he really thought. Ironically covert way of derision and mockery;
often used in comedy, especially in satire.

Satire is laughter that is used in situations where the negative characteristics of a

personality are strong enough to destroy humanity. By using this form of laughter
author completely negates the character who makes fun.
Grotesque is extremely unnatural expression. Caricatures fantastic and distorted
image of reality, causing comical reaction, but it can intimidate. A piece of
theater or theatrical production, which exaggerates and caricatures relationships
and characters in the drama plot to fiction. It is used in all forms of theatrical
expression (drama, opera, ballet).

Bowfinger is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Frank Oz. It depicts

a down-and-out filmmaker in Hollywood attempting to make a film on a small
budget with a star who does not know that he is in the film. It was written by
Steve Martin, and stars Martin, Eddie Murphy, and Heather Graham.
It is a plan of audacity and madness. Bowfinger, a low-rent movie producer, will
make a film with a top Hollywood action star, and the star won't even know he's
making the picture. "He doesn't like to see the camera, and he never talks to his
fellow actors," Bowfinger tells his trusting crew. "We'll use a hidden camera." The
movie, to be titled "Chubby Rain," will be about aliens in raindrops. The big star,
named Kit Ramsey, is an ideal choice for this strategy, because he's crazy
enough to believe in strange encounters. He's a member of Mind Head, a cult
that recruits insecure Hollywood types, gives them little white pyramid hats to
wear and pumps them full of new age babble. And Bowfinger's actors and crew
want to believe him, because this is as close as they'll ever get to being in a
movie.
"Bowfinger" is one of those comedies where everything works. Where the
premise is not just a hook but the starting point for a story that keeps developing
and revealing new surprises. Like a lot of Steve Martin's other writing, it is also
gentle and good-natured: He isn't a savage ironist or a vulgarian, and when he
makes us laugh, it's usually about things that are really funny. Shell-shocked in
this year of gross and grosser comedies, we can turn to "Bowfinger" with merciful
relief. This film is a parody a parody of Hollywood filmmaking.