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Viral Violence
Amir Shoucri | September 19th, 2008
“…the comic mask is ugly and distorted, but does not imply pain.” –Aristotle Most of us who work on computers will watch at least one funny or outrageous video a day. Sometimes more like 10 or 20. They usually come out of nowhere, dropped in the form of an IM or e-mail link — a little gift of levity or extreme violence to help you through the day. Perhaps a flaming-shot-gone-wrong video like this one. It makes you feel like a champ watching bad things happen to someone else. It lets you ignore the bad things that are happening to you. In a way, comedic and violent videos (the line is fine) are similar to the puns and pratfalls of vaudeville days. You used to go pay to see a man fall on his ass on a stage. Now, you can watch a baby kicked for the same effect. Or a remix of a baby being kicked. The key difference, you might say, is this one really happened (if it wasn’t faked) whereas physical comedy in vaudeville or a film is staged. There’s a quote from a magician character in the Christopher Nolan movie The Prestige: “If people actually believed the things I did on stage, they wouldn’t clap, they’d scream. Think of sawing a woman in half.” The implication is we should be upset about a baby being kicked, not laughing. That is, if it were real. Without getting too intellectual about it, I think it’s probably because the Continue reading…
Tags: comedy, funny, humor, hurt, violence, viral, viral video
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