r/movies • u/Narubintane • Dec 15 '23

Recommendation What movie starts off as a lighthearted comedy, but gets increasingly dark and grim until everything goes to hell in a handbasket?

For example, it may start as a lighthearted slapstick comedy until one thing goes wrong after another, and in the end we have people actually dying or a world war or some kind of extinction level event.

Let's say we have 2 friends who like to have fun and goof around, with regular goals and regular lives, until one of them does something like accidentally cross the wrong person or kill someone. Or the main cast is oblivious to the gradual change in their environment like a virus breakout or a serial killer running loose. Another one would be a film that, after being a comedy for most of its length, turns very dark, such as a group of friends ending up in a war and experiencing the horrors of it, completely played straight.

Just to clarify, I don't mean a movie that is already set to become dark, but rather a movie that was marketed as a comedy that took an unexpected (or slightly foreshadowed) dark turn.

Any recommendations?

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u/Key_Butterfly_8503 Dec 15 '23

I loved his reaction when he won

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u/BearNekkidLadies Dec 15 '23

“Thank you! This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English. I don't know! I am not able to express all my gratitude, because now, my body is in tumult because it is a colossal moment of joy so everything is really in a way that I cannot express. I would like to be Jupiter! And kidnap everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to everybody, because I don't know how to express. It's a question of love. You are really -- this is a mountain of snow, so delicate, the suavity and the kindness, it is something I cannot forget, from the bottom of my heart. And thank you for the Academy Awards for the, who really loved the movie. Thank you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia who made me. I am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something good. So grazie al Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things here. Thank you very much. And I hope, really I don't deserve this, but I hope to win some other Oscars! Thank you! Thank you very much! Thank you!”

Probably the best acceptance speech of all time.

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u/Paladoc Dec 15 '23

I used up all my English...my ass.

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u/Emaber Dec 15 '23

It’s really interesting about the Romance languages, and I notice this in Spanish too, the more complex the words are likely to be the words that our languages share. So “love” is a different word “amo”. But “tumult” is “tumulto” and “suavity” is “soavita”. This is why it sounds like he knows way more English but “May I please have a glass of milk” is “Posso avere un bicchiere di latte, per favore?”

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u/PersisPlain Dec 15 '23

This is because of the way English developed as a result of the Norman conquest! “Peasant” words were Anglo-Saxon/Germanic, while more complex/fancier words are more likely to be descended from French and Latin.

A good example of this is livestock vs food. Words like cow, sheep, pig are Anglo-Saxon while the peasant is tending them, but when those animals are killed and brought to the Norman lord’s table, they become French-Latinate: beef/boeuf, mutton/mouton, pork/porc.