Cowboy Bebop is a title which many anime fans are familiar with. Arguably, it is one of the best anime series ever made, but nonetheless can be recognized as a great piece of art created by the show’s director; Shinichirō Watanabe. Truth is, this is not Watanabe’s only spectacle. Although it first aired in 2004 (about five years after Cowboy Bebop last aired), Samurai Champloo can also be recognized as another one of Watanabe’s “masterpieces”. Even though he uses the same style as a basis to craft both Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop, each show brings a completely different experience. What makes them unique from other anime is an element that can be known as “genre mixing”. How Watanabe mixes genres between Samurai Champloo and Cowboy …show more content…
Slowly the scene becomes more and more intense as we keep getting surprised to what Spike endures to survive right until the moment where both Vicious and Spike face off. The spaghetti western genre can be seen through how the fights feel, never giving the viewer a chance to even be able to guess what will happen next before and after that first shot or move is made.
The show is also a brilliant comedy. Though the show wouldn’t necessarily be placed under comedy for its genre, the clever use of it gives the audiences a form of relief that makes sure the show does not fall into taking itself too seriously. After the shootout is over and Spike wakes up on a couch completely covered in bandages, he listens to Faye hum a smooth tune. He then signals her to come close to be able to whisper to her, “You sing off key”. After having that ruthless shootout finally conclude, there is wiggle room to add a joke and give the viewer a better feeling of relief. There is also episodes that are meant to be completely comedic (Mushroom Samba), but would never be as funny if we hadn’t had the chance to get to know these characters before. Most of the use of comedy is by placing the characters in ridiculous situations which you haven’t seen them in before.
Cowboy Bebop is also influenced by Bruce Lee and the Martial Arts. Spike’s fighting style is the same as Bruce Lee, which is called Jeet Kune Do. One major piece of evidence behind this is when Spike
I wasn’t expecting there to be much comedy in this play when I first sat down. I expected the play to be a serious play with a lot of fight scenes (Which there were). The monster fight scenes were nice and all, but the fight between Chase (Miles Moore) and Ashley (Agnes Evens) were very explosive and action packed. Chase made all of his attacks tense, fast motions that seemed like they really did connect. Saying that, Ashley and Chase did just as well of a job reacting to the hits at the perfect time. In the fight scene where
When was the last time you experienced a good laugh? Maybe you were watching a show, reading a book, or even hanging out with friends. Either way you were probably observing, comedy. Which in literary terms is a genre of literature that is created in a humorous nature for a purpose of making people laugh. A television show that can be categorized as a comedy is Parks and Recreation. The show is about a crew members that work in a parks department for the government in a small town called Pawnee, Indiana. The main characters consist of Leslie Knope who later in the show marries Ben Wyatt. April ludgate who later marries Andy. Ron Swanson, Donna, Tom, and Garyy. They all work together trying to make the city of Pawnee a better place. They play pranks on eachother, but also have strong friendly bonds.
A film genre is a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film. While films have at least one major genre, there are a number of films that are considered crossbreeds or hybrids with three or four coinciding genre or sub-genre types that they can be identified with them and most can be filed into categories that are easily recognizable to audiences (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 1998, p. 4.1). However, ever so seldom a film comes along that breaks free of its invisible bounds of genre and it leaves the audiences confused about the actual existence of genre. One such film is a film that most are familiar with Steven Spielberg’s classic Saving Private Ryan.
The tone is consistently light-hearted. Good visual and physical comedy is used, as well as some fun dialogue. There are solid themes about grieving, healing, learning to survive on one’s own, and respect.
Hot Fuzz takes things very serious yet does things in a comedic way. for example the film is about a cop who transfers from downtown London to a small town in the country, not necessarily the greatest plot for a comedy. yet Hot Fuzz implicates Slapstick, Witty Writing
In this Problem Solution essay, they were asked to write about the theme of “image”, pertaining to Asian-American studies. Students were to come to class and discuss the assignment, developing problems. The topics or problems chosen for the assignment had to be from the “class generated pool of topics”. The students are supposed to brainstorm for a related topic to the theme of “image”, chose a topic to submit to the instructor for approval, forming their ideas to create a rough draft, lastly properly organizing the ideas into a final draft. Also as part of the assignment they are asked to compose a viable and thoughtful solution which addresses the problem they specified. Constructing this assignment allows the
Post-war Japanese society is a world where High and Low art is blurred together by otaku, such as anime, and social class. However, Takashi Murakami straddles the line. Murakami spills a mix of Nihanga and Otaku into the canvases, plastic toys, handbags, shoes, etc; endorsing his own theory/style named “Superflat”. Using strategical subject matter such as popular Japanese comic figures combined with ukiyo-e(traditional Japanese block prints), and addressing these contrasting qualities to outside cultures; Murakami intensifies what Pop Art accomplished, art versus material. On other feelings, one could argue that “Superflat” isn’t a unique, Japan-identified style, that “Superflat” is a humiliation to the Contemporary Art world because of its commercialism. Lastly, that is a continuation of the already well developed Pop Art. On the supporting side, Murakami’s “Superflat” is a high-energy, cross-culture style that serves as a new way to represent the high and low of art that is considerably unique to Japan. To support this, Murakami’s past and present artwork will have to be established chronologically to illustrate how the timeline affects his work.
The characters usually have a lot more to say and humour comes just from the dialogue instead of actions. However, in Friends, a couple of the characters are actually portrayed as being very childlike and the humour is much more slapstick and easy to understand because of this. Also the lines given to the characters are much shorter which means each character has something to say in one scene and some of the humour heavily relies on the actions of the characters as well. These short lines make it easier for the viewer to settle into the programme from the beginning. There
In this situational comedy, all of things that happen appeal to something that everyone can relate to. Between the bumps of being a parent, and the crazy dating life of everyone, there is always something that you can relate to. This show has a charming factor to it that reals you in for every second of the
There are several aspects of a film that will make a good comedy. A good comedy needs well-rounded characters, adventure, and a love story. If a film has well-rounded characters the viewer can relate to them in some way. If a film has adventure there is never a dull moment that will lull the viewer to sleep, and it’s packed full of crazy obstacles the characters have to pull through. If there is a love story of some kind, serious or funny, it will keep the viewer interested throughout the entire film, and keep the viewer wondering what is going to happen in the end. When a comedy has these things it will surely be a good comedic film.
The show is quite abundant with meta-humor; in fact, there is an entire episode in which the characters engage themselves in watching T.V. shows featuring themselves in an alternate universe while they discuss the possible consequences if those realities had been their realities. There is some semi-dark humour in display as well as one of the many inventions turn the entire population of the globe to become fatally obsessed with Morty and they get eventually transformed into deformed beings prompting the titular characters to enter a universe where they are dead and replace themselves with the dead versions and completely enter into a different reality.
As a kid friendly show, I could indulge in the silliness of the story line and some of the jokes, but it had a strong enough message that I felt I left the theater with something to think about and debate. It was relatable and really made me think about when I was Bruce and Violet and didn’t feel like I fit in. I really wish that this was something that my parents could have taken me to when I was younger. This is a show that I would recommend to anyone who wants to laugh but also be able to reflect on the world around
Even since the released of the first ARG, Ong’s Hat, in 1993, the genre is emerging, evolving and reaching the public as promotional devices, entertainment, educational purposes and some other are studded with factual information and serve as works of
Elements such as, the exhibition and portrayal of various Asian fighting styles like kung fu and drunken boxing, and the variation of them in brawls, substantial use of sound effects when receiving and delivering blows, to both enhance and intensify the severity of the fight are all evident in these films. In particular, one of the most well know Asian martial arts films, Lo Wei’s Fist of Fury starring the legendary and iconic Bruce Lee employs all mentioned conventions. Specifically, a scene in which Bruce Lee fights a conglomeration of adversaries utilising mixed martial arts and kung fu (2) a heavy use of mouth noises and diegetic SFX are used in conjunction with extremely fast paced fighting. This is evident in The Matrix scene when Neo and Mr Smith are forced to fight hand to hand rather than using their weapons. Neo exercises the Asian fighting style, Kung fu.
Anime, is a term that is used to represent Japanese animation (Lamarre 1). It is a combination of both form of content and form of expression. However, there seems to be more emphasis on form of content rather than expression when discussing anime. Form of content includes the genre, story and narrative while form of expression includes the animation and the style. Form of content can be described as what the audience is being shown and the message that is conveyed. On the other hand, form of expression emphasizes how the animation is shown and as a means for the animation to be shown. In this paper, the first episode of the television anime series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (also known as Bishōjo Senshi Sērāmūn in Japanese), will be