Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ferrell not only doesn't chafe under the demands of popular taste--"I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot," he says--he has reduced movie stardom to a series of unpretentious, unthinking decisions. "Will's stand is, If it's good and it makes us laugh, I'm doing it," says Adam McKay, Ferrell's co-writer and director on Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Judd Apatow, director of The 40-Year Old Virgin and a producer on three Ferrell films, says, "Most comedians are neurotic and needy, but Will is unique in that his process...
...just a guy-gal thing, though that's part of the equation. It's more about the satisfactions you seek in entertainment. A belly laugh? A virtual blast? A story whose noble sentiment makes you feel all warm inside but makes your friend's eyes roll? I call this kind of movie the liberal weepie...
...elevated sentiment as real people are. They love a movie that makes them cry, especially for what their politics tells them are noble reasons. Well, I'm a critic, predictably progressive and a pushover for movie sentiment. (An Affair to Remember, wipe me out one more time.) Audiences may laugh at an Adam Sandler movie, but that doesn't make it good. The same applies to a film that cozies up to an audience's political beliefs. You're welcome to cry, but don't feel good about it in the morning...
...play beyond their own limits. Nonetheless, his tricks were in full effect when he played. “So that’s basically just off-the-cuff sort of playing,” he said as he put down his drumsticks after a complex drum solo, drawing a laugh from the audience. Viglione insisted that his theatrical style does not come from the ego, but from an effort to be free to the present. “I try to think beyond normally expected boundaries and be open to whatever is coming in,” he said, citing...
Don’t worry if you miss any of those punch lines: the show is complete with a laugh-track to remind you that the Nazi and angry lesbian references are supposed to be funny...