Sherlock Jr.

          In the movie Sherlock Jr. there are multiple different types of comedy used throughout. The main types that I found that were used were situation comedy, ironic comedy, and slapstick comedy. Throughout the movie Keaton found himself in many situations that could be found comedic. For instance, when Keaton is first trying to make a move on the girl in the beginning of the movie and is awkwardly touching her hand, and then shying awake quickly. In this scene Keaton is almost acting as if he is afraid of the girl rather than actually interested in her. Another type of comedy used throughout the movie is ironic comedy. For example when the antagonist and his partner are trying to kill Keaton's character but all of there attempts keep backfiring, the axe, the poison, the exploding number 13 pool ball even backfires when it is used against them to blow up their car. The third main type of comedy seen in the movie was slapstick comedy. In the scene where Keaton's character jumps into the movie screen slapstick comedy is used multiple times as he falls off of crates, and almost falls off cliffs and other things of that nature. These three types of comedies are widely used throughout television today. The television show "the Office" is a situational comedy all about office life that uses all of the same types of comedy.
        
         Throughout the movie Sherlock Jr. there are many modern concepts and cinematographic tricks used throughout the movie. One event in the movie that encapsulates both of this concepts can be seen when Keaton's character falls asleep in the camera room of the theater. In this scene the protagonist has an "out of body experience" and the viewer watches as the spirit of the protagonist exits his physical body. The viewer watches as the protagonist's spirit goes around interacting with the world around him as the protagonist's physical body can still be seen sleeping against the camera. This is an impressive cinematographic trick, showing the protagonist's "spirit" and his physical body simultaneously on the screen. Also, the concept of an "out of body experience" is something that can be widely seen throughout modern cinema.
        The "out of body experience" isn't the only example are modern cinematographic tricks seen in this film. Many other impressive tricks can be seen throughout the film. For example when the protagonist does a quick-change, and jumps through a window coming out on the other side fully dressed as a woman. Another impressive moment is when the protagonist slams on the brakes of his car and the wheels stop but the body of the car itself continues rocketing forward straight into a lake. These are just a couple of the many impressive tricks that Keaton used throughout his film Sherlock Jr.