I will talk about his " The Cure" short film. It takes place in a spa- hotel. We have many many "subjects" here. Now, SUBJECT+OBJECT+VERB is the main structure of daily life. For comedy, every subject has the potential to create mistakes because of that, every subject adds more value for comedy in your films, stories or daily life jokes.
If you pay attention, in many comedy movies, short stories you will see, comedian uses one simple pattern " one s doing the job wrong or insufficiently" .. We see this all the time! Comedy is what is wrong, in my article " https://decodingcomedy.blogspot.com/2020/07/position-wrong-for-comedy.html ", I specify the quality of the wrong. Simply, you have to go for the wrong within certain parameters. Since jobs cover the most adult life, it is no suprise that, we see this pattern in most comedy structures, also in Chaplin's short film.
In this spa-hotel, who work here do their job very wrong. The person who brought Chaplin's luggage, drinks all of his liquor when his room was empty, other person who is responsible for health does the same, he tries to flirt with a customer in the hotel, other person who gives massages tortures his customers, beat them up almost under the name of giving massages....
This is spa where sick people come for their cure... What should comedian picture here ? Think about it .... Of course the opposite, the most wrong, a person who would not care about his health, keep smoking and consuming alcohol.. Again in my other articles, https://decodingcomedy.blogspot.com/2020/07/joe-rogan-funny.html & https://decodingcomedy.blogspot.com/2020/07/wrong-descriptions-of-comedy.html I briefly talked about how, the mistake, the wrong is naturally something coming against our expectation. This wrong is a funny set up totally, it is against the emotion& logic and will be more.
Why is this a funny set up.?.. Here is another basic= Mistakes are potent to create more mistakes. This is the nature of all mistakes, just pay attention to this fact for one moment. Since alcohol arrived to this hotel, this is a potential mistake for any other mistake...
Comedian uses this, the people who are working there ( subjects are potential wrong doers, remember), drink his alcohol and get drunk,,, What happens, their supervisor realises this and tell them to throw the bottles away... He mean discard them actually.... Mistake creates another mistake, since the person is already drunk, does not know what he is doing and throws bottle at spa water where people drink. This mistake will of course create a major mistake, people will drink this and all get drunk, starting to dance &flirt in whole hotel scale.
* All the examples used in my blog from various comedians are education purposes only.
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