Solicitr
Mithlond
Jun 18 2020, 5:05pm
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"You don't earn the pathos if you don't make people laugh"
Yeah, I'm sure that was what was in Shakespeare's head while writing King Lear. And Schindler's List wouldn't have had nearly the emotional impact without Spielberg writing in all those pratfalls and zany chase sequences. {/sarc}
Even when we concede that Tolkien was not without humor, and there's good bit of it in The Hobbit, it was a droll, donnish humor. Not PJ's clodhopper Three Stooges idea of "humor." The one appeals to intelligent readers, the other to mouthbreathers.
(This post was edited by Solicitr on Jun 18 2020, 5:06pm)
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