Farce Is a Basic Genre of Comedy Genres

When I decide to research comedy, I choose the comedy genres. According my research, I understand the definitions of every comedy genres. Among them, I am interesting Farce. By my investigation, I found that, farce is a basic genre of comedy. First, let’s me read the definitions of comedy and every comedy genres:

Comedy is a kind of drama, it with exaggeration, amusing form and technique of expression, ingenious structure, witty lines and the comedy character portrayal, to produce effect of comical and jocose, and let people laugh at the ugly, funny things, to make sure the positive life and perfect ideal. (1)

Happy comedy is usually perfect and positive, the aim someone wants to get is strange people's value, promote the liberation of personality, even some of them against asceticism. According thing they did to express freedom of life, the sweet life, the happiness youth and comfortable enjoyment. Comedy of humors'is that aim someone wants to get always is right, rationality, even very noble and positive. But the thing they do is always opposite, run counter to their aim. Satirical comedy is a effect that use the failed object in living, in normal circumstances, someone’s ambition is that stale, outdate, without rationality, or the thing which to do for finish the ambition is not true, no really. The thing they do is losing truth of history and realistic significance. Dramedy change the negative part to positive part in living. Laugh is not belittling and sarcastic people's disadvantage, bad habit and humble. The laughter in dramedy is praise confidence, talent and virtue of people. Absurd comedy according to distort the most deep suffering and death in life, and put them into reverse comic kingdom (2)

This is the definition of farce:

Farce has no the profound meaning, rich personality and psychological analysis, it only use funny action and stupid playing to let audience laugh. (2)

From these evidences, I can get the conclusion, although farce does not have ‘the profound meaning, rich personality and psychological analysis’, but it has the most model features: exaggerate, funny, stupid. These features are included the features of comedy film. So my point is, farce is a basic genre of comedy. And in the process of these evidences I found, I discover that there are some argument about farce and comedy. Many people despise farce, they think that farce is coarse and vulgar, and farce is not comedy, for example:

‘… only monotone imitate, imitate, and again, the wisdom elements of comedy film are disappeared, if there is a new genre in film—farce, it is a good choose.’(3).

“Most of comedy in China is just farce, audiences want to watching the films that stupid them”—said by China director Zheng Xu.(3)

‘Farce challenge the IQ of audiences again and again, can make comedy film so unprofessional?’—Many audiences’ question and points.

‘Hoping comedy film does not become farce”—said by a <Famous Cooker>’s magazine editor.(06/07/2013)

And another people against these points:

‘…Farce is one of the few forms that is pure comedy.’—Said by the famous comedy actor in British--Rowan Atkinson.

‘Comedy is the development of farce. It keep the whole important elements in farce, even more perfect, and it has its own style.’—said by a Doctor Qijia Chen in someone university.(4)

In conclusion, comedy is a basic genre of comedy.

Reference:

1. Longzi Jiao. (2008). Comment: should exaggeration, , Actress Na Pei is Perfect. Film Entertainment. 4, 21.

2. Xiaozhi Lv & Jianzhong Gao. (2006). Talk The Feature Of Comedy—E.g. The comedy film of Chaplin. Modern communication. 4, 33.

3. Haoyue Han. (2009). Comedy was dead, farce growing. Modern communication. 8, 40.

4. Qijia Chen. (2010). Stephen Chow: From Nonsense Farce develop to people comedy. Modern communication. 9, 32.