If there was any popular storytelling notion that I could blow up, it would be the belief that funny things can't be serious and serious things can't be funny.
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Apparently some think this thread is an attempt to justify only consuming childish things. Good granola is it not and I hope that's obvious. But trying to respond to that critique with a declaration like..
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"This list of serious adult dark existentially terrifying films are my favorites of the year!" only helps reinforce the false notion and back up the notion that the other movies ARE childish or somehow lesser, and ultimately just proves my point so *insert shrug ascii*
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Do you feel this insecurity is all on the filmmaker or is it also within the audience member too? Do you think some insecure viewers have a hard time taking the whole piece of art seriously if there's a part that makes them giggle?
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But it can feel a bit overdone, right? Like, I feel that in some live action Marvel movies the comedy seems too constant and intrusive, while at the same time I LOVED all the comedy in Spiderverse and it never once made the more dramatic parts feel lighter.
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You're making the wrong deduction. The problem with those movies isn't that the comedy is too intrusive, it's that the drama can't punch the same weight because most of those movies aren't actually about anything.
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Hence the overused phrase ''this movie had sooooo much tonal issues'' when most of the time they mean ''this scene was supposed to be serious and ended up being kinda goofy, so I assume something went wrong and it wasn't the director's intent''
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I feel this way about Agatha Christie and John le Carre! They're so good about infusing humour in grim subjects! But it's lost in some adaptations - they want those to be dark and gritty and blah blah blah blah
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What was in CS Lewis said? As a child he hid his fairytale books so his brothers wouldn't mock him for enjoying them, but as an adult he read them openly with no fear. He wasn't afraid of being seen as childish anymore.
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This rings true to me. Also reminds me a lot of something I learned studying Shakespeare in college: the two can exist side by side, even line to line, and probably should.
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