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How does the screenplay handle the material? There are so many people out there who found the screenplay to be exceptional. {nm}

Posted by: goodvibe61 on Apr 30, 01:11 in response to Kirk Lazarus' post Performing in black face is never funny

Too bad Will Ferrell pussed out. We'll most likely not see many edgy comedies ever again; there's always somebody out there offended. goodvibe61 Apr 29, 21:53

Curious, do you have anyone in your family with dimentia? {nm} ~JPV~ Apr 29, 22:09

Yeah. Also, I doubt whether it would make much difference regarding the making of a good film. {nm} goodvibe61 Apr 29, 22:18

EXACTLY. {nm} goodvibe61 Apr 29, 22:22

It depends on how it's done. some Leslie Nelsons characters had dementia like defects. Oh and my mom has dementia.. sometimes laughter is Baron_Darcon Apr 29, 22:32

And that's the point, it's based on a real person. Heck, I wouldn't care if they did a satire on the Reagan presidency... ~JPV~ Apr 29, 22:37

Comedian Ruby Wax: What's So Funny About Mental Illness? Captain Obvious Apr 29, 23:20

And in some of these examples, it's those with the disease that's doing the comedy and thus bringing light to it. {nm} ~JPV~ Apr 30, 00:18

Hence coming from them, it carries far more weight. In the case of this movie, again, the point isn't to cause attention to dimentia ~JPV~ Apr 30, 00:20

What difference does that make? So, the only person that should make a film about a bank robbery is a bank robber. {nm} goodvibe61 Apr 30, 00:28

Nobody else with an imagination could bring any light to it. {nm} goodvibe61 Apr 30, 00:35

Apples and oranges. Mental disorder is not the same thing as bank robbery. I'm done. {nm} ~JPV~ Apr 30, 00:36

Comedian Joshua Walters: On Being Just Crazy Enough. Captain Obvious Apr 29, 23:21

SPLITSIDER:The Uneasy Relationship Between Mental Illness & Comedy. Captain Obvious Apr 29, 23:27

WOW: There's A Lot About Mental Illness That's Really Funny. Captain Obvious Apr 29, 23:32

Not sure if a comedy about or surrounding Reagan's dimentia was to "start a conversation." Seems like it's to mock him more than anything. {nm} ~JPV~ Apr 30, 00:16

Performing in black face is never funny {nm} Kirk Lazarus Apr 29, 22:52

How does the screenplay handle the material? There are so many people out there who found the screenplay to be exceptional. goodvibe61 Apr 30, 01:11

People seemed to dig Tropic Thunder {nm} numbersix_99 Apr 30, 03:21

did not SNL build their Reagan jokes in the 80s on dementia? {nm} mattep74 Apr 30, 00:08

Nope. {nm} TheEradicator Apr 30, 00:17

Nope a lot of their jokes were he was this sweet old man for the camera and sharp as a tack behind the scense {nm} Dorfman Apr 30, 03:16

I don't have a problem with comedy related to any subject, including dementia, in a general sense, shadowking Apr 30, 07:05

In other words - A fictional president with dementia, played for laughs = potentially funny, shadowking Apr 30, 07:10

I don't see Will Ferrel comedies as "edgy". Self-humiliation and potty humor are not "edgy", at least IMO. {nm} DTravel Apr 30, 12:23





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