Word: slapsticking
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...That's how far they have reduced us," says a staunch communist neighbor when he sees Alex searching through trash cans looking for empty containers. Becker describes the film as a "sad comedy," in contrast to other films about the East such as the 1999 hit Sonnenallee, a more slapstick look at life under communism. "Comedy always has a serious basis," Becker says. "The people we're all laughing at don't feel like laughing, while we in the audience have to laugh." Becker says he searched for four months to find an East German actor who could play Alex...
Throughout the performance, which included slapstick comedy and a Titanic spoof, Stern and Murphy urged students to hold up red “stop” signs when they felt uncomfortable...
...direction has played up the comedic characters, making them somewhat more slapstick and exaggerated, while making the intense scenes wrought with a bit more pain and anger than is often seen in Fiddler,” she says...
...first Martin is a savior to Lewis, a teenager whose slapstick act is bombing in strip clubs. But the public comes to see Lewis as the real star, a source of tension that finally breaks them up. Whether you consider Lewis a genius or one more reason to hate the French, the movie makes his originality unignorable. Lewis' now dated antics were once too hip for the room: audiences used to simple jokes didn't consider eating saltines while lip-synching an aria from The Barber of Seville to be comedy. You can see the germ of physical shock comics...
...Slapstick or Just Sick...