Speaking of humourous action movies here is a great one. What starts of like a normal action movie quickly turns into spoofing hollywood death sequences.
The idea behind overacting bullets is that depending on the bullets that you load into your gun it will affect the dramaticness of the death of the person that you are shooting at. So after an anti-climactic first kill the overacting bullets come out and things quickly go from bad to funny. As the gun fight continues the humour only ramps up as the ammo supply grows short.
This film really know what it is doing and makes full effect of the increasingly silly deaths. Most action sequences in Hollywood movies will focus on the protagonist heroically fighting of wave after wave of faceless bad guys, with the enemies falling in droves at a distance, the camera still firmly focused on our square jaw hero battling through this grueling experience. Instead overacting bullets has focus predominately on the death of said faceless bad guys and in one particular sequence I enjoyed, simply cuts between multiple deaths, with the sound of gun fire on every cut. This works excellently as a quick fire (excuse the pun) way of showing multiple amusingly over done deaths. So sit back and have a laugh.
Enjoy.
I like gags like this. They can be really simple, once they audience gets the point you can play around with it, as they did with the variations.
ReplyDeleteThe English Si-Fi comedy Red Dwarf used it all the time. They would use a pseudo scientific device to twist reality a little, then play with the result.
I think it works because it exposes in how we accept things