Week6 – short comparative analysis of two comedy movies.
Genres is the catalogue of movies. When we divided movies into genres, it is easier for audience to expected what elements will they see in the movies, as there are certain amount of elements in common within a single type of genre. Nowadays, the boundaries between each genres of films are quite vague, and it can be further defined as “sub-genres”.
In this analysis, the following two movies demonstrate what comedy genre is, as a general genre for audience to expect.
Cambridge Dictionary defines comedy as
“a type of film, play, or book that is intentionally funny either in its characters or its action”
Ted
June 29 2012 (United State)
106mins
| Directed by | Seth MacFarlane |
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| Starring by | Mark Wahlberg Mila Kunis Seth MacFarlane Joel McHale |
Meow (Cantonese Title:喵星人)
20 July 2017 (Hong Kong)
100 mins
| Directed by | Benny Chan |
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| Starring by | Louis Koo Ma Li Jessica Liu Andy Wong |
Storyline
Ted
Ted is a teddy bear, who John Bennett wishes to come to life in his 8 years old. They have grown up together, smoking weed and watching tv, until John met his girlfriend, who wanted to end their brotherhood. John faces a dilemma between choosing friendship and romantic relationship.
Meow
A alien cat, Xixili, was being sent to the Earth for a mission of destroying human being’s society. He accidently arrived a family which welcome him so much that he might change his mind a lot and get use to live with human as family member.
Similarity
Unexpected and unusual story backgrounds
Ted came to live by a 8-year-old boy wish. And Xixili came from the Planet of Meow.
Happy and warm ending
Ted and John remained to be brother together. And Xixili came back to his own planet with his evil plan abandoned. Both made audience laugh with tears.
CG figures as main characters
With appealing character design, both animal-oriented figures gain audience’s love, and make them feel comfy.
And both vfx aesthetic remained consistency, did not supplant or overshadow the main idea of stories.
Hilarious, exaggerated plot
Ted and John sang Thunder Song to deal with their fear of thunder, even when John has already being an adult in his 30s. And Xixili pretended to be the daughter’s mother in a parent-teacher meeting for school, but still acted like a cat with his natural reaction to catch a bird in front of school teacher.
Starring by well-known actors
Starring by Mark Wahlberg as John Bennett in movie Ted. And in Meow movie starring by Louis Koo as Lung, the father.