GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoRidley Scott Defends 'The Martian' As a Comedywww.indiewire.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareJerkface (any/all)linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-25 hours agoThere’s a chasm between being funny and being a comedy. Comedy is a genre, and I’d argue doesn’t strictly even need to be very funny, if at all.
minus-squareBobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoYeah the old timey definition of a comedy is a story that starts sad but gets better, while a drama is the opposite
There’s a chasm between being funny and being a comedy. Comedy is a genre, and I’d argue doesn’t strictly even need to be very funny, if at all.
Yeah the old timey definition of a comedy is a story that starts sad but gets better, while a drama is the opposite