GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoRidley Scott Defends 'The Martian' As a Comedywww.indiewire.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·4 days agoThe book was a comedy as well. Tons of great dry jokes. The two are not mutually exclusive.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoThere’s a chasm between being funny and being a comedy. Comedy is a genre, and I’d argue doesn’t strictly even need to be very funny, if at all.
minus-squareBobby TurkalinolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoYeah the old timey definition of a comedy is a story that starts sad but gets better, while a drama is the opposite
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoOr the Shakespearian definition: Comedies end in a wedding. Tragedies end in a funeral.
minus-squareBeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI thought one ended in a marriage and the other a death.
minus-squarefrayedpickles@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoJust shove it in sci-fi/fantasy, easy
The book was a comedy as well. Tons of great dry jokes. The two are not mutually exclusive.
There’s a chasm between being funny and being a comedy. Comedy is a genre, and I’d argue doesn’t strictly even need to be very funny, if at all.
Yeah the old timey definition of a comedy is a story that starts sad but gets better, while a drama is the opposite
Or the Shakespearian definition:
Comedies end in a wedding.
Tragedies end in a funeral.
I thought one ended in a marriage and the other a death.
Just shove it in sci-fi/fantasy, easy