Film Studies:
Film Comedy Genre
Comedy films are the films of “make them laugh” films, which are made to generate laughter from the present audience. Comedy films are mostly light-hearted, easy to understand, were filmed to do some entertainment for enjoyment provoke. The Meta of comedies is to exaggerate the situation, action, language or character as humorously as possible. Comedies mostly have happy conclusions, but sometimes the humor may still be a pessimistic or serious enough ("Comedy Films", 2016).
Comedy usually comes in two formats: situational comedies (told within a narrator) and comedian-led (gags, jokes, sketches). There can be also comedy hybrids: horror comedy, action-comedy, thriller-comedy, and musical comedy. Comedies can also be made in various subgenres: teen comedy, gross-out comedy, military comedy, crime comedy, social class comedy and so on. ("Comedy Films", 2016)
Home alone is a classical slapstick comedy. The comedy is primitive and universal, fulfilled with mostly aggressive, visual, physical and broad action, which includes cruelty and harmless violence. This movie is all about a young person, who is stuck home alone against two thieves. As the movie begins, it introduces Kevin’s family to us. Kevin gets frustrated and wishes his family to disappear.
Next morning, when overslept Kevin wakes up he sees that there is no family in house, his wish came true. He eats chips and some other junk food like there is no tomorrow, orders pizza and watches TV all day long – he does everything “restricted” to him. However, the “fun” of permissiveness ends right away when two burglars get in sight with their thievery intentions. Moreover, there real fun begins – Kevin tries to outmaneuver and outwit the criminals, using traps and some “Indiana Jones’ things”. At the end loving family comes back, thieves got busted, and everyone is happy, until the next part of “Home alone”.
This film is a mixture of cartoonish violence and some family homilies, film sells the idea of family, which matters, and Kevin learns some lessons from “Snow Shovel Murderer” – a mysterious neighbor. The movie is enjoyable because of actors having played their roles well; Pesci and Stern are nice comic team, with their frightening and funny moments.
WORKS CITED
Comedy Films. (2016). Filmsite.org. Retrieved 10 April 2016, from http://www.filmsite.org/comedyfilms.html
Columbus, C. (Director), & Hughes, J. (Writer). (1990). Home alone [Motion picture on DVD]. United States: Twentieth Century Fox.
