Word: slapsticking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedy, a war picture of the hommes 40 chevaux 8 type, was above the average. Even the slapstick seemed funnier than usual. Another feature was an excellent display of football scrimmages in slow motion interspersed with explanations by Knute Rockre...
...NATIVE?Good example of the modern school of slapstick, starring Jack Oakie (TIME, Sept...
...Native (Paramount). In spite of hilarious moments of good slapstick, and the deft spontaneous playing of Jack Oakie, this is the kind of picture that disappoints its makers and audiences because neither can figure out why it isn't funnier. The trouble really is that it is a comedy built around a comic situation. That is a dramatic fallacy. Only the great geniuses of slapstick-and Oakie's talent is not for that-can make a funny situation funny. Laughter comes far more easily from a "straight" situation that has been turned comic by some attitude that makes...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling...
...FROM BLANKLEY'S-John Barrymore in slapstick...