3 of my favorite comedy films

Comedy, when people do things to make people laugh. Comedy movies, when filmmakers do the craziest things to entertain the audience and make them laugh themselves to the point of peeing their pants. Comedy has always been a part of the world since the early days of civilization. Comedy movies have been around since films started. This is a look at three of my favorite comedy films and how they compare to each other.
My first comedy film is the 2011 film that won Best Picture, The Artist. The 2011 French romantic comedy-drama is an homage of silent films from when they first started all the way to the late 1920s when sound was introduced, as the film itself is black-and-white and silent. It's all about a successful silent film actor, played by Jean Dujardin who won an Oscar for the role, who refuses to switch to sound films even when every other studio does and struggles in a changed world, while also falling in love with a young actress, played by Oscar nominated Berenice Bejo, who is succeeding in the sound era. In the end, Dujardin's character finally decides to act in sound films with him saying one of the last few words in a thick French accent as they work in a scene together. The film was an absolute joy to watch as it was an homage to the films of the past and showcasing what many actors of the time struggled with.
My second film is the Charlie Chaplin classic, and the last silent film he worked on, Modern Times from 1936. According to IMDB.com, Charlie made the film with some sound added as a metaphor for both the changing in films to sound and the increase of industrialization during The Depression. In the film, Chaplin's character, the Little Tramp, is at first working on a assembly line but is soon fired for causing trouble and goes to various places for jobs which is hard to find while also meeting a young orphaned young woman who he falls in love with. All throughout the film, the Tramp gets various jobs, gets sent to jail more than once, and has a good time with the girl, until he works at a cafe as a singer who when he sings is the first time he's heard but it's all gibberish although it's praised. At the end of the film, the Tramp and the woman escape the police who are there to arrest the woman and when they're in the middle of a road walking down it to an uncertain but hopeful future. Modern Times was both hilarious and very moving at the same time, especially as it shows the full effects of The Depression, which Chaplin could relate as he grew up in poverty.
For my last comedy film, I choose another 2011 film that was also nominated for Best Picture, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. It's a romantic comedy fantasy that's set in Paris, France and taking place both in the present, or rather in 2011, and the 1920s. Midnight in Paris is all about a successful but creatively unfulfilled screenwriter, played by Owen Wilson, vacationing in Paris with his fiance and her parents. Wilson's character, Gil Pender, enjoys Paris, especially in the rain, that he'd like to move there when he's married. It gets more fantastic as every time Gil is alone in the streets at midnight a 1920s car arrives and takes him to Paris in the '20s where he meets various famous 1920s artists that he idolizes, like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others. There he learns how to be more passionate about his work while also falling in love with the 1920s but realizes he has to stay in his own time as nostalgia he loves a lot but the present is his home. Even though Gil and his fiance break up, Gil decides to stay in Paris and falls in love with a woman who has the same love for the Lost Generation as he does and as well for the rain in Paris. The film was both funny and, as the film is all about, nostalgic as it looks at what many artists where like in the 1920s. It's a film that perfectly captures the love of art from both the past and the present while also making you laugh at the artists behind them.
All three films-The Artist, Modern Times, and Midnight in Paris- have a few similarities between them, especially what they represent. The three films are all about how times change and how that change affects the entire world with it. All of them are metaphors for how art changes over time both in the movie and outside of it. The Artist and Modern Times are silent films made at a time when they're not made anymore, with the first showing the rise of sound and the fall of silent while the second was a metaphor of how new technology, like sound, was changing the world and how Charlie Chaplin learned to accept sound and have his character speak near the end for the first time ever. The similarity between The Artist and Midnight in Paris is that they're both about nostalgia as it deals with the love of art all the way back from the 1920s with the first one an homage to silent films going to sound and the other about the love of art and the people who made them back then, whether by novels, movies, paintings, or other things. All three movies have a main character who must accept the changes going on, with the silent film star accepting sound after being poor from only doing silent and The Depression, the Tramp finding new jobs and taking care of the woman he loves during the Depression, and Gil accepting how art has changed and deciding to move to Paris. This is how these movies are very similar to each other, other than their comedies and are considered the bests worldwide.