jobloffski
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Now HERE's a wild card:
Trey Parker and Matt Stone. If they will work for Disney, and if Disney will hire them, after some of the things they have had to say about the house of mouse (and, indeed, George Lucas).
You don't get to be so good at spoofing film genres without understanding how they work so intimately that you can be utterly in control of what you are parodying and how you do it. And if you can push the buttons to riff on genre. you can also choose to be straight down the line, and use the imagination required to take the mickey to find ways to push the buttons to play it straight. And over the years, they have used the backdrop of being mickey takers to get into an animated show some very hard hitting stuff.
And as far as handling the use of an ensemble, and giving individual characters their moment in the spotlight goes, whether for tragedy or comedy, they've been consistently doing it for years.
You simply don't get to be as good at doing what these guys do without knowing exactly what buttons you are trying to press and how to press them. Comedy has to fulfill every single structural/storytelling function that drama requires AND be funny enough to enough people to survive the hatred every comedy show/comedian/reputed to be funny thing attracts from those not amused by it. It's the hardest narrative form there is to be successful in at all, and it takes almost unrivaled brilliance to stay in the game for a long time .
And if they don't make it, you can be totally sure they'll be first in line to commit to the screen exactly what is weak or lame about whatever whoever does make it gives us
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 14/11/2012 2:07:36 AM >
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