A television drama/comedy that has influenced my own work is actually ‘Chucklevision’. Silly though this may sound, Chucklevision has some very similar Features to The LadyKillers, and is a program designed for children but enjoyed by both adults and children. The satire comedy style relates very much to The LadyKillers and I would like to exaggerate this satirical element in my own adaptation.
Scenes like when Mrs Wilberforce steps onto Professor Marcus’ scarf are similar to the style of Chucklevision. Its very straight forward, in your face humour. The humour expressed in the program is also quintessentially English, and has even become part of our culture. I’m sure everyone living in England who has helped someone else lift furniture has uttered the phrase "To me, To you”.
The episodes never fail to deliver this humour that I could enjoy as a child and adult. ChuckleVision has the ability to make you laugh at those everyday mistakes that you, yourself can make and add humour to it. Chuklevision is slapstick comedy at its finest. Paul and Barry deal with every day situations and manage to spoof them, completely making a mockery of everything they do. The acting is poor, and the show looks like its been filmed with a potato on a low budget. Its perhaps this raw, low budget comedy style that I actually like, given that I too will be shooting on a low budget. Despite this, they are still successful in producing funny content thats enjoyed by the masses.
Another inspiration I have taken from Chucklevision is the ‘parody element’. In many episodes they parodies original films or television shows, which are humours for episode ideas, and they become even more funny if you realise what films or television shows they are imitating. They have even made a parody of another Ealing film directed by my chosen director Alexandre Mackendrick, The Man in the White Suit. This episode is called 'Well Suited'; in this the Chuckle Brothers buy a suit each from a second hand shop in order to smarten up their image and find something highly unusual about Barry's suit. It is impossible to stain - any marks on it just wipe off instantly without leaving a trace of anything. In The Man in the White Suit, protagonist Sidney Stratton creates a formula to building a indestructible suit which doesn't rip or tear apart, its material is indestructible. In Well Suited Paul decides to claim the un-stainable suit as his invention, and takes it to garment manufacturer Harold Stone, to sell to him. However, it becomes clear that Stone wants all the credit for himself and wants to cut the brothers out of the deal. Similarly in The Man in the White Suit big clothing businesses want to buy the suit and rights to it from Stratton in an attempt to stop production. Its value is priceless, and they realise that if he manufactures the suit, people will have no need to buy any other clothes at all. In the end of the film and chuckle brothers episode the suits become worthless when the problems occur. In 'Well Suited' all the stains that had been left on the suit suddenly re-appear. Likewise, the material on the suit in The Man in the White Suit falls apart completely, leaving that suit worthless.
I have used inspiration of the idea parodies a film for my own adaptation of The LadyKillers; I enjoyed the idea of almost poking fun at other films to create humour. In doing this, I want to recreate the shot used in ending of Oceans 11. I liked the tracking shot across the characters which in this film is quite emotional. However, in recreating this iconic shot I would be making it satirical; something Alexandre Mackendrick endorsed himself. Because this shot is iconic and well known, my audience will find it funny; then with the additional line of "dear god' from the Major at the end, the humour becomes even more satirical.
The satire style comedy shown in Chucklevision is actually relatable to The LadyKillers. Though it seems weird to relate the two, there are elements they both share. Fr example, the stepping on of he scarf when professor Marcus and his gang are leaving is the sort of thing you would expect to see in Chucklevision. I am filming the scene in which this happens and really want to exaggerate the yanking of the scarf in the same style. This will include having a close up shot of the scarf and then Marcus almost falling over when released.
The sound design in Chucklevision is to exaggerate sound to create an element of comedy. I have also been inspired by the ways their sound foley is actually sound effects. These are comedy sound effects. For example, if one of them got hit with a plank of wood, it would make an unrealistic, animated, exaggerated 'donnggggg'. Comedy sound effects like this, I too would like to implement into my piece to create humour. A place I could do this is with the monkey picture hanging on the wall, that no matter how much Marcus tries to adjust it, it goes back into place. I would like to introduce a sound effect similar to this:
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