Week 13: Duck Soup

I enjoyed the screening of Duck Soup last monday. It was a nice change of pace to have watched a more linear narrative feature. I thought that it was incredible that the entire movie was a string of jokes that never stopped. It's interesting to me that there must have been a huge thought process of coming up with and implementing all of these jokes and gags. I was also intrigued by the character's relationships with each other. I couldn't understand how the lead woman in the movie could be so infatuated with Firefly's character when all he did was make fun of her and be rude to her. However, the relationships are what keep the movie flowing. The chemistry between characters is vital when you are trying to be funny because that can add a lot to the jokes and make them even more powerful and even meaningful.