PPT-The Humor of Star Wars

By Don and Alleen Nilsen As an overthetop melodrama Star Wars is a parody of science fiction as well as a Comedy of Humours The exaggerated characters are sanguine bilious or phlegmatic ie named after the . Flashback: Pranking Ethic. be safe . not damage anything . not damage anyone, either physically, mentally or emotionally . be funny, at least to most of the people who experience it . GABYP – Get Authorization Before You Prank. What Makes Something Funny?. Three Levels of Comedy. Low comedy. Based on the physical. Often includes crude or “potty” humor. Doesn’t take much thought to “get it”. Sometimes referred to as “dumb humor”—gut centered. Humor. Humor. Humor. Humor. Humor. What makes people laugh?. Humor. What makes YOU laugh. ?.   . What . do you find funny & why?. Humor. Why do a humorous speech?. Humor . is pervasive . and . universal (all cultures & languages laugh). With more terms!. Superiority Theory. The notion that all humor involves some play with the dichotomy of superior vs. inferior.. Either we are made to feel superior to the butt of the joke or we see that one’s sense of superiority makes them flawed (think Colbert). Flashback: Pranking Ethic. be safe . not damage anything . not damage anyone, either physically, mentally or emotionally . be funny, at least to most of the people who experience it . GABYP – Get Authorization Before You Prank. . Genius Hour. . Why I Chose This Topic. I chose to make a website about the making of Star Wars because I want people to see how hard it is to make a movie. I chose to study the making of Star Wars because the trilogy is creative and amazing.. By Don and Alleen Nilsen. As an over-the-top melodrama, in which everything is exaggerated, . Star Wars. can be seen as a parody of the science fiction genre.. It is also a “Comedy of Humors,” in which the characters are sanguine, bilious or phlegmatic. The “humors” used to be seen as the liquids of the body, and they could become out of balance.. Chris Osborne . Can’t Define Humor. Superiority – Don . Rickles. . Incongruity – Jokes . Tension Release – Oscars . The Theories of Humor. . Jokes. S. arcasm. S. atire. M. imicry. I. rony. E. The aqueous is the thin, watery fluid that fills the space between the cornea and the iris (anterior chamber). . It is continually produced by the . ciliary. body, the part of the eye that lies just behind the iris. . Humours. By Don and Alleen Nilsen. As an over-the-top melodrama, . Star Wars. is a parody of science fiction, as well as a “Comedy of . Humours. .”. The exaggerated characters are sanguine, bilious or phlegmatic, i.e. named after the “. Aristotle defined comedy as one of two main forms of drama—comedy and tragedy. Most contemporary views see comedy as a form of humorous text. Why are we amused?. Relief theory. Reducing physiological tension caused by the self-censoring of the baser instincts (Freud). They were a series of conflicts which occurred during the 1860s and 1870s between Maori and British settlers/government.. These conflicts primarily centred on the issue of land and sovereignty.. Overview. Teaching “Star Wars” and Classical Mythology Tom Sienkewicz Monmouth College tjsienkewicz@monmouthcollege.edu http:// department.monm.edu/classics/swpaca.starwars.pptx http://department.monm.edu.classics/courses/CLAS230/StarWars Results. 2,797 games were played over the week. , for a total of . 5,594 minutes of gameplay. . This constitutes 68% of the total time that both shopping centres were open – incredible levels of engagement!.