merari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoWhat other movies wouldn't work today?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square132linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
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minus-squareSpaceballstheusername@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoYou couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoNone of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
minus-squareSnowclone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoA man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy. Mel Brooks
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoEh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
minus-squareNuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThat’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.
You couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
None of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
True of literally every sitcom.
A man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy.
Eh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
That’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.