Essay on Satire and Black Humor in Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick’s sexual parody, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, illustrates an unfathomed nuclear catastrophe. Released in the midst of the Cold War, this 1964 film satirizes the heightened tensions between America and Russia. Many sexual insinuations are implemented to ridicule the serious issue of a global nuclear holocaust, in an effort to countervail the terror that plagued America at that time. Organizing principles, such as Kubrick’s blunt political attitudes about the absurdity of war and the satirical genre, are echoed by the film style of his anti-war black comedy, Dr. Strangelove.

The film Edward Scissorhands is a contemporary archetype of the gothic genre exploring themes such as unrequited love, social rejection and human creation as defined by Tim Burton. Feature films explore different ideals that can be categorized into different genres that create expectations among audiences about characters, settings, plots and themes. Edward Scisscorhands directed by Tim Burton in the year 1990 is described as both a dark romantic fantasy and a gothic horror film. The film tells a story about Edward Scissorhands, the creation of an elderly inventor who dies before he can give Edward his normal hands in place of his scissor hands. Edward is taken from the mansion he lives in by a suburban family in an attempt to live a

In usual fairytale movies, filmmakers intend to make films that give happy endings with simple miraculous entertainments. However, in the fable movie, Edward Scissorhand, the director, Tim Burton, positions the viewers to understand the significant meaning of particular issues. “E.S” is can be seen as a story of stereotypical suburbia with social criticism. In this essay, starting from analysing this film and providing dominant discourse, the use of characters will be discussed followed by debate of technical and symbolic codes which help to put up the discourse. In particular, this essay will consider the technical code of camera angle and symbolic codes of colour which emphasize the dominant discourse.

“How to poison the earth” by Linnea Saukko can be seen in two different aspects. The first one would be by looking at it in a literal way, in which it will make it a very harsh, inhumane and cold text. On the other hand, it could be seen as a satire, sarcastic and ironic text in which Saukko expects to catch the reader’s attention. Saukko exaggerates the sarcasm, and satire in her writing in order to make the readers realize and understand the main purpose of her essay, which is to warn readers about threats to the future of our planet.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail satire is used quite often to make fun of the Catholic faith. One of the most noteworthy moments is near the beginning of the movie when the monks are walking through the town chanting. Monty Python may use rather ludicrous humor to get their point across; however, they do a good job conveying the faults in the Catholic Church and display them on film. The movie does this through setting, characters’ costumes, and music.

The aim of a film is to evoke a response from the audience and depending on the individual spectator's background this response will vary. In this presentation, I am going to be focusing on how directors such as Alfred Hitchcock , David Fincher and David Lynch have the ability to make the spectator feel uncomfortable through subliminal messages and film language such as mise en scene and sound. As most film fans know, the idea of social discomfort in films was pushed into the mainstream by the 'Master of Suspense', Alfred Hitchcock. His breakout film, 'The Lodger' (1926), which follows the story of a protagonist who is falsely accused of a crime, shows his early efforts of upsetting the spectator. Despite 'The Lodger' being considered his

Research Question: How does His Girl Friday stay within the bounds of the Hays Code while challenging the culture of censorship in United States?

Coventry by Helen Humphreys and Days of Significance by Roy Williams have a number of sexual interactions. The only problem with all but one of these sexual interactions is that the importance of sexual acts is missing. When the gravity of the war has sunk into Harriet in World War Two her sexual interaction with Jeremy is not special. In Days of Significance the war in Iraq has many influences on sexual interaction, non of which are positive. Also, Overlord and Execution display the lack of importance and some aspects of objectifying woman. I argue using these sources that in times of war sex loses its importance and turns into a casual interaction as well as being prevented all the while objectifying females.

As for the the sex in the film, it seems like the director just brought in all the sex just to sell the movie. Liked he got lost

Morality and Foolery In times where earnestness is priority, foolery ensues to escape societal pressure and morality takes a back seat. Oscars Wilde’s play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ highlighted this fact with satire. In the Victorian Age of London, outward appearance of seriousness, respect, and societal conformity are of the utmost importance. Citizens of this age were expected to uphold those standards, even above their own happiness and health.

Second, the films slapstick humor goes beyond many Western slapstick movies. This film exaggerated literalness which seems surreal

Victor Koo P.3 Satires are a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. Authors for many novels use satire to criticize or make fun of society. In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde uses satire to mock marriage, money, and death throughout the play. Wilde satirizes these issues, believing that the society should pay more attention to unimportant matters as opposed to issues that society regarded as important. Marriage, although it should be an engagement between two people who love each other, is regarded as a engagement between relations and money for many people.

For my future essay, I have chosen Tarkovsky “Stalker”, a cult movie of my generation. I realize that volumes were written, and I probably won’t be able to add anything new but my own personal reflection, and yet I dare to write on this subject since “Stalker” became a special landmark in my (and not only my) spiritual development. Although at this very moment, I do not have a strong compositional arrangement for my essay, first, I would like to explore the combination of reasons why “Stalker” along with other Tarkovsky’s movies had such a profound effect on me and my peers. While the movie itself, its language and questions that it raised was a major reason, the historic context and country where we all grew up played its role: in spite

I am also familiar with a couple of characters connected to Dr. Strange's comic. They are both featured in the film. One is fellow sorcerer named Mordo. The other is powerful god-like figure named Dormammu. I won't say what happens with them. But during the film, Strange comes into possession of that signature cloak that he wears. Which turns out to be a magical item that helps shield him from an attack and allows him to levitate. Also by the end of a film, he becomes the defender of the realm that Dr. Strange known to be. He starts doing that from a place called New York Sanctum. The movie wasn't an accurate portray of comic book character Dr. Strange. It pays homage to the character Dr. Strange by having him be pretty much the way

Because metaphor is used frequently in the movie, it offers audiences a space to think over. In spite of the fact that Kubrick has dead, the film still has current value such as the marriage, love and sex. Most of his film works are worth to analyzes deeply; therefore, what the essay analysis is just a small piece of Eyes Wild