Multiple people are telling me, quite indignantly, that such works as SCHINDLER’S LIST, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO are also humorless.
Maaaaaybe not quite the selling point I would have gone with, granted, but noted.
Maaaaaybe not quite the selling point I would have gone with, granted, but noted.
https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1453547237259235331
DUNE: It’s funnier than SOPHIE’S CHOICE!
Honestly, I find this argument fascinating. Almost everyone agrees that yes, the books are also deeply humorless, yes, the movie is true to that, but many people seem annoyed if anyone mentions that fact.
And if you say “there was one joke in the movie” then it is clearly proof that what you really wanted was a quip-a-minute MCU movie by Joss Whedon.
There is apparently no middle ground between these two. All movies are either comedies or DUNE.
There is apparently no middle ground between these two. All movies are either comedies or DUNE.
Now, one of my favorite movies of all time is THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. Not exactly a laugh riot, I would have said, but as it is funnier than SOPHIE’S CHOICE, it is apparently considered a comedy.
(Who among us can forget that memorable comedic scene, where the prisoner choir sings to cover the sound of the warden savagely beating a man? Truly a high water mark in film humor. I believe Mel Brooks cited it as inspirational.)
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