@[email protected] to Microblog [email protected]English • 10 months agoWhat other movies wouldn't work today?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square386fedilinkarrow-up11.28K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish102•10 months agoYou couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetlinkfedilinkEnglish30•10 months agoNone of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoA man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy. Mel Brooks
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•10 months ago“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•10 months agoEh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•10 months ago24 (TV series) is like this if I remember well. The daughter would have had a cellphone now.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•10 months agoThat scene where he calls the phone in his stolen car would still be funny
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•10 months agoThat’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.
You couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
None of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
A man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy.
“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.
I think both are true.
True of literally every sitcom.
Eh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
24 (TV series) is like this if I remember well. The daughter would have had a cellphone now.
That scene where he calls the phone in his stolen car would still be funny
That’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.