There are films whose main purpose is to make the audience laugh. These films are designed to put people in a good mood and bring a smile to their faces.
Unlike drama, horror and even science fiction, it is comedy that is considered one of the main genres in cinema.
- Elements of the comic can be present in every movie. Only, in each of them they are presented in different ways.
- For example, parody is when some other genre is mocked. In this film, it carries a humorous connotation.
- There are also comedies about love. They are called “romantic comedy”.
- The combination of tragic episodes with comic ones is called a tragicomedy.
- More recently, they have begun to shoot situation comedy, where each individual episode shows a different situation and the life of each individual character.
- In horror comedy, comic episodes are intertwined with horror episodes. These movies are also called horror comedy, where there is a parody of the horror movie itself.
- In a movie with a lot of music and songs is necessarily a musical comedy. These subspecies of comedy are many. They all have their own meaning and symbolism in the film. Without them, the film seems boring.
Indeed, it is known that in ancient times in the theater played either tragedy or comedy. In comedy, they made fun of everyday life or showed a comic side of a famous person. The earliest comedies were shown without sound, but they were never out of date. They continued to be popular with audiences even after the advent of sound. Thanks to sound, there were new opportunities in movies to create new styles. Modern comedy is characterized by its unusual humor and its ability to put the viewer in a good mood for a long time.
Outstanding comedian who managed to win the hearts of many, considered Charlie Chaplin. His movies, though they were physical comedy, but they always had the goodness in them. His silent comedies were able to last until the 1930s. Chaplin was succeeded by new comedians who were not inferior in their jokes. Gradually began to enter such a genre as the comedy series. Currently, these series can be reviewed several hundred times a year.