Timeline for Is the opening break-up scene in The Social Network intended to be humorous?
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| Dec 14, 2011 at 21:24 | comment | added | NGLN | I also think you hit the nail by saying it's not only humorous. If a writer sees the opportunity to put something in that might be experienced as funny then he sure will, provided it fits. But like you say yourself: the film is no comedy, and even so isn't the opening scene. | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 21:17 | comment | added | NGLN | I suspect the StairMaster joke was not Sorkin's contribution, but the advertiser's/invester's. But that put aside, both examples you gave I experience as being dead-serious; I simply like to empathize with characters and both are clearly not intended being funny by them. But like I said, that's just personal taste. Now, in comparison to The Office: that certainly is with no doubt intended to be funny, although some might not find it so. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 9:12 | history | answered | Mark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |