Comedy

If done right, this genre can be easily the best in film, this is because humour is the best way to get an audience's attention. My favourite comedies include 'The Cornetto Trilogy', 'Airplane', and Bruce Almighty'. So I was thinking, what makes these films so funny?!

The opening to Shaun of the Dead
This film is just pure brilliance. Directed by Edgar Wright and featuring the hilarious comedy duo of
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, it is easily one of my favourite comedies there is. The film starts with repetitive movements of average people such as playing football and at tills in shops. They are doing this to a quiet, not very attention grabbing tune. Their slow repetitive movements and the music makes them act like zombies and instantly brings in some humour because it is ironic that they are acting like zombies when we all know that they will very likely all become zombies. The opening then follows to Pegg's character Shaun yawning like a zombie and sitting down with Ed (Frost) to play on a video game. This simple opening with not much humour is a very good example of showing that a comedy does not necessarily have to be funny to start but will still be funny.