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Example sentences for: slapstick

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Opening with a slapstick sequence of agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) doing kung fu, the film shifts to a scene in which he meets Mrs. Peel (Uma Thurman) while sitting naked in a sauna with only a newspaper to cover his private parts.
In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.
Most movies about science aren't as lucky as October Sky , which features failures more hilarious than the slapstick set pieces of any 10 Jerry Lewis pictures.
The movie's slapstick and brutality inhabit the same psychological landscape, and Harry's acts of violence are viewed in stroboscopic flashes, held long enough to convey their garishness but so fleetingly that you might giggle at your own uncertainty: Did he really do what I think he did?
But the real trick isn't bringing disparate groups of people into slapstick alignment, it's figuring out what to do with them once they're all assembled.