As I watched Yojimbo the other day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen its style of humor somewhere before. It wasn’t until I was driving home after class that it hit me: it’s the exact same style of humor as is in the movie Army of Darkness.
What’s interesting about this style of humor is that it is more than just scene after scene of severed limbs and pools of blood. Like most films, they both feature a core-group of characters that the viewer is supposed to care about. Were this not the case, there would be no one (save perhaps the protagonist) with whom the audience could really connect.
In both films, the ability to elicit a humorous response from the violence hinges on the director’s ability to convince the audience that those being killed are utterly devoid of value.
In Yojimbo this is accomplished by depicting […]
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