Screwball Comedy Puns

Recently rediscovered “Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines” which got my thinking about “The Great Race”

Any movies similar to those I should be on the lookout for?

So while my wife and I have been trying new genres and exploring the collection we discovered something in common with all her favorite movies. The backs described all of them as "Screwball Comedy". After reading up about the genre on Wikipedia I grabbed a list of all the movies I could find in the collection that I think would count. Any that I missed? Any recommendations for films maybe outside the collection that we would love if we like these ones?

• My Man Godfrey
• The Lady Eve
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Awful Truth
• It Happened One Night
• The Philadelphia Story
• His Girl Friday
• Holiday

Edit:

• The Palm Beach Story
• Sullivan's Travels
• Some Like it Hot
• To Be or Not To Be

My second feature I have written. Any feedback would be welcome!

Title: The Ex-Pastor's Club

Format: Feature

Page Length: 89

Genres: Screwball Comedy

Logline: When a group of ex-pastors sneak to Vegas for a weekend of partying, they are mistaken for an international hit squad, and are forced to take on the job to survive the trip.

Here's is the link.

Summary: Three ex-pastors going through the process of restoration back into the ministry are invited to a secret club that gives them a free trip to Vegas for a week to have fun. Pretending to be "Boomslang" in order to get a free limo ride and presidential suite, they discover the man they are pretending to be is actually an international hitman hired by the mob. The ex-pastors must now find a way to escape the mob before they are expected to shoot the person who has been skimming millions from their money laundering operation.

Feedback Concerns: I am very cognizant of the fact that I'm a white screenwriter telling a story where 2 of 3 main characters are black and have to fake an African accent at times in order to pretend to be someone else. Being a screwball comedy, I want to make sure I am treading on the right side of the comedic line without crossing over to completely offensive. ***Caveat - I know anything can be perceived as offensive these days. Just want to make sure it doesn't sound like David Duke wrote this... or would be the only one laughing at it.***

Looking for a good Screwball Comedy or two but can't seem to find anything.

This is a book I read about 30 years ago I think. I recall enjoying it. Many years later when I read a bit of Elmore Leonard, it seemed like the same tone, but I don't think it was him.

The main character uses the abbreviation "graf" for paragraph. That's very specific, I know, but it's all I can remember.

I’ve recently been on a kick rewatching a number of great Screwball Comedies and Comedies of Remarriage from the 1930s and 40s. While there are a number of very interesting examples in the genre, my experience has been that there are a few that stand head and shoulders above the rest and sort of transcend the formulaic tendencies of the genre.

In particular, I’m thinking of Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story as the truly great entries in the genre. Those familiar with these films will note that both pair Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in the lead roles, which certainly has significance for the charm of these films, but there is undoubtedly something more—something especially wild in these films that recalls the magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and other Shakespearean comic romances, despite the fact that the dynamics between the characters are decidedly very different in the two movies.

Since it seems slightly less known to most people, I’ll do a quick read of Bringing Up Baby to discuss its various merits. The film opens with an exceptionally bawdy double entendre for this era. Dr. Davis Huxley (Cary Grant) is examining a large brontosaurus bone and trying to fit it into a giant skeleton in his lab. He turns to his self-serious assistant and fiancée, Alice Swallow (Virginia Walker) and brandishes the bone, saying “Alice, I think this one belongs in the tail,” to which she replies, “Nonsense, you tried it in the tail yesterday and it didn’t fit.” The sense of subverting our normal expectations of what is permitted in people’s behavior in such films is immediately set.

The film has an incredibly antic energy, particularly once Susan Vance (Katherine Hepburn) makes her appearance as a madcap heiress who is both bemusing and incredibly charming. The film has a wonderful sense of the the importance of varying the setting in these kinds of comedies. There is high speed wit mixed with physical comedy in an upscale hotel ballroom, an idyllic county house, on a golf course, in cars and on the road, in a jail cell, on top of a giant brontosaurus skeleton, and most memorably, in the woods at night as our two protagonists run through the brush and trees with a butterfly net and croquet mallet attempting to catch both a leopard and a small terrier by singing a popular song that the leopard enjoys.

I really can’t describe how much I enjoy the madness of this film. If there is a central journey, it involves Dr. Huxley letting go of a careful

So one of my favorite movies of all time and probably my favorite ROMANTIC movie of all time is the Katherine Hepburn/James Stewart/Cary Grant classic The Philadelphia Story.

For anyone who hasn't seen it (DO!), I'd say the key characteristics are:

• Smart, funny, rapid-fire dialog and banter

("A man wants his wife--" "To behave herself. Naturally" "To behave herself naturally.")

• Explorations of class divisions

• heroine who has been put on a pedestal but wants to be seen as a full woman

It's also spectacularly well-performed (shout-out in particular to Ruth Hussey who plays James Stewart's girlfriend who has to watch him do a whole infatuation for Katherine Hepburn--she manages to quietly steal scenes from all these screen legends) but that part's less relevant to book recs!

It has some sour notes viewed today--the opening is a little goofy slapstick domestic violence, and the scene where the heroine's father basically says it's her fault that he constantly cheats on her mom is...a thing. But in spite of those things it's a lot of fun.

The closest I feel like I've seen to the crackle of the banter is in some of Tessa Dare's work. But as noted I'd prefer something set in the 20th century or contemporary.

One of the things the hubs and I are trying to do to stay sane right now is watch great examples of different genres - currently we're in the middle of what we have termed the "screwball" comedies. Think in the vein of "Loaded Weapon 1," "The Three Amigos," and "Wayne's World."

What great movies would you recommend in this vein?

Hey everyone,

I’ve recently decided no collection is complete without some old Hollywood screwball comedy. I’m currently looking at the Awful Truth and His Girl Friday. Friends have also recommended Holiday. It seems as though I can’t go wrong with Cary Grant for this sub genre, but thought to check with you all as well!

https://www.bitchute . com/video/GoCelEQv47yc/

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In the first episode of this new series, we find Jemima lazily dreaming of saving the entire galaxy from the evil Lightbulbians. Meanwhile, Pod has come up with a number of interesting ways to celebrate their third glorious year travelling across the solar system together. So they’ve decided to reboot things a little. Starting by redesigning the Pod, buying a little cute nanobot and in five seconds they’re going to install a new DLC voice pack! This isn’t going to end well, is it?

This third series was supposed to have started earlier in the year, but I’m sure like a lot of people; Covid19 threw a pretty big spanner in the works for us. However with the support of the team, we’ve managed to keep going without (hopefully) any loss in quality.

If you’re a producer, has the current situation presented you with any problems and how have you overcome them?

Also as this episode talks about the ‘Pod To Pluto: Action Figure Playsets’, have you seen how much an original Jemima Belafonte figure goes for on ebay these days?

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to clarify, perhaps "befuddled" and "emasculated" would be more precise than "schlubby"

With hours at work slashed in more than half, I decided to finally sit down and write another feature. It’s a dark comedy satire about a pandemic hitting the world (and most importantly, America).

Here’s the google drive link if you’d like to read it!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19HvaOmPBqjUXl_hCQcb8Ak-8GEt-8HYt/view?usp=drivesdk

I've been living in Australia for the past several months, and while the country hasn't been hit as hard with the coronavirus as some other places, hours at my job were cut substantially. I've been trying to use my free time to work on some writing, so I ended up doing a feature comedy about a pandemic. It's my third screenplay, but the one I am the proudest of thus far.

If anyone is interested in taking a look, let me know! I'm prepping for another draft; the one I have is pretty much a second draft (I tend to edit and rearrange a fair amount as I write the first one).

First off, I have no idea which one is Screwballs or Loose Screws but I have seen both and I think one was far superior to the other. I guess at the best is probably Weird Science but I don't even know if that's even on the same genre as the others. Same with Risky Business...

So the finest is Weird Science, then probably ROTN, then there's a Tom Hanks movie or two there, then there's a Rodney Dangerfield movie in there, then Screwballs/Loose Screws, then Porky's.

Does that sound like a good order? If not, what other fucking movies are there?

EDIT: Isn't there a movie with Ted Cruz, too?

Totally new to Plex but curious if there's this kind of content out there in mass volume. Would be stoked to find out. Feel free to DM. Cheers!

I have to write a paper for my Screwball comedy class, and I'm considering on writing about Punch Drunk Love. Basically, I have to choose a recent film that seems to be a screwball comedy or that clearly draws on the traditions of screwball comedy and analyze if or how it is similar to and yet different from the films of the classic period of screwball comedies. I thought about PDL mainly because of how the film views the relationship between Barry Lena, and the situation Barry gets in with Dean, and the overall tone of the film compared to other "rom-coms." It's only a consideration but what do you guys think?