DRAM 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Court Jester, Henri Bergson, Jousting
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Farce- take two opposing world views and mash them together. Anxiety fear we all have about ourselves embarrassing disappointment. "the mechanical encrusted on the human" - henri bergson. Farce- tiny moment and then things getting disrupted and then chaos. We now there are real life consequences to those inner feelings. 1990s snl episode- "matt foley : motivational speaker (1993) Farce: exaggerated comic , antisocial, laugh at characters that are suffering -> comic fuel fuel. Jack pretends to be a guy name ernest outside of the city. Algernon has a "sick" friend name bunbury so he can go "visit" him whenever he doesn"t want to do anything. Characters don"t really make jokes characters are serious. Distance between what they say and what they actually do. People who live a proper life and want to come see light entertainment. Unbeneficial values and matter that they uncritically adopt. Keeps attacking the blindness and selfishness // comedy as basic median.
