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FYW Blog Week 12: Lead Blog - The Hangover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I9TApNosOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOSWPFONEIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwJ_jwR1yT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVLYJrLkeI0 The Hangover movies are some of my favorite comedies out there. The situations in which the characters find themselves are absurd and hilarious, never failing to provide humor for the audience. For a multitude of reasons, The Hangover movies have garnered a large fan base. One of the main reasons is that they utilized the incongruity theory, and others, to make it so funny. Like most movie series, the first movie is probably the best out of the three, yet all three are full of funny content. Alan Garner, played by Zach Galifianakis, is ultimately what makes the movie as funny as it is, because just about everything he does is funny in some way. His eccentric behavior is never ending throughout the three movies. Alan is also the reason things go wrong in each of the movies. In the first two, he drugs...

FYW Blog Week 11: Response to We're the Millers

Although I have never seen We’re the Millers , I have heard it is very funny. After watching those scenes, I think that has been confirmed. It seems as if every theory of humor is utilized throughout the movie, and that usually makes for a funny film. All the scenes are even funnier after being put in context, once I read that they aren’t a real family and they were struggling drugs back from Mexico. The concept itself is incongruous, and pretty humorous as well. Out of the scenes in that video, I’d have to say my favorite is the campfire scene when they are playing pictionary, especially after reading that the other people there were a random family. Rose’s guesses are so off-kilter and inappropriate, I can’t imagine what the other family was thinking after everyone realizes it was just supposed be a skateboard. I can relate though, because my drawing skills are absolutely horrible. No one would know I was trying to draw a skateboard either. This scene is a solid depiction of the inc...