Yep. Just look at "Felix the Cat: the Movie", an animated feature commissioned from the Pannonia studio in Budapest in the 1980s by an American team gotten up by Don Oriolo, Joe Oriolo’s son. Felix is called upon to save an imaginary interdimensional European fairy-tale kingdom from the evil Duke of Zill. You can tell that this is a comedy because all of the secondary characters make a lot of silly faces while they go about being scared and menaced. Why? Because this is supposed to be a funny movie, that’s why! How will people know it’s a comedy if the characters don’t act silly all the time?
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Comedy is Serious Business, people!
Yep. Just look at "Felix the Cat: the Movie", an animated feature commissioned from the Pannonia studio in Budapest in the 1980s by an American team gotten up by Don Oriolo, Joe Oriolo’s son. Felix is called upon to save an imaginary interdimensional European fairy-tale kingdom from the evil Duke of Zill. You can tell that this is a comedy because all of the secondary characters make a lot of silly faces while they go about being scared and menaced. Why? Because this is supposed to be a funny movie, that’s why! How will people know it’s a comedy if the characters don’t act silly all the time?
More fodder for Crossaffliction’s Furry MST3K program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iutbBv5PEtc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_the_Cat:_The_Movie
Fred Patten