#slapstick comedy

Erin Austen as Mary and Constance Bechdel FACKHAM HALL (2025) dir. Jim O'Hanlon

Army of Darkness

Oliver Hardy born January 18, 1892 in Harlem, Georgia

🎞️ American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1926 to 1957.

so then, why is it okay to bully other characters for the same reason? gravity falls expects us to sympathize with mabel when she's being bullied by pacifica, but then it's okay when thompson is being bullied by his friends because he's a loser and he deserves it?

similarly, we're expected to side with luz when she feels like an outcast among her peers, but we're supposed to laugh when everyone treats hooty like shit, because he's just “too weird”?

how can these shows say that it's okay to be weird and you need to just be yourself, but then miss the point so bad just for a few laughs?

and the thing is, there are ways to make slapstick comedy work. my favorite example of this is lightning mcqueen from cars. when he first gets stranded in radiator springs, there are a lot of jokes at his expense and the other cars constantly make fun of him. he is constantly being belittled and humiliated by everyone.

however, this makes sense because lightning is a huge jerk. he is arrogant, he is classist, he treats all the residents of radiator springs as lesser than him, and he is unwilling to do community service in order to clean up the mess that he made.

this is a character who isn't bullied for being “too weird” or “too much of a loser”. lightning had what was coming for him. and in the end, it serves as character development when he slowly becomes more humble and realizes that there's more to life than fame and stardom. and guess what? as he becomes more humble, the residents of radiator springs also warms up to him and stops making fun of him.

ATLA also does this well with sokka in the first season. suki beating him up is comedic but also well deserved because sokka was a huge misogynist who thought too highly of himself. again, this is a situation where sokka needed to be humbled and once he changes for the better, suki softens up.

The best way I can describe this movie without spoiling it (not thy you can actually spoil anything in this movie cause it’s just that weird and amazing) Is it’s like metroidvania finally became a film genre

100/10 This is a much watch movie!

Pai Chang-tien (Simon Yuen, aka Yuen Siu-tien) trains young Chien Fu (Jackie Chan) in Snake-style Kung Fu in the 1978 film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow.

This film was the directorial debut of Yuen Woo-ping, who go on to have a long career as a film director and fight choreographer, most famously for The Matrix trilogy and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

When searching for an actor to play the older sift in the film, Woo-ping ended up casting his father, Siu-tien.

This film also marked a change in direction for Jackie Chan. He was being groomed as the new Bruce Lee in previous films, but without much luck. However, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow showcased Jackie's comedic side, and ended up being a huge success.

In fact, the film was so successful that both stars and director reunited later the same year for the film Drunken Master. The second film played even more to Jackie's slapstick comedy strengths, and his career took off like a rocket.