Do you think the genre of the Western is slowly dwindling? Are the Western's conventions showing up in other genres? Be sure to support your answer with specifics. 100 words I would wager to say that what sold movies those old John Wayne movies were American values and manly characters.  With that in mind, and closing in on almost a century later, has anything changed since Wayne's time?  Aren't the box office hits still selling audiences on American values and manly characters? When considering your response, consider any of the box office hits of 2014 and 2015, how do they sell audiences on American values and manly characters? 100 words  Class Isn't comedy relative?  Let's be honest here, the humor of  The Three Stooges  variety... not really funny.  It is funny if you like your comedy being physical and simplistic and "innocent".   A movie like  Legally Blonde  is humorous because it is the story of the simpleton beating the "better" people at their own game.  Comedy does not have to be of the Stooges variety all the time or of the Andy Griffith variety, either.  Yes, there are plenty of examples of that sort of humor from  Dumb and Dumber  to  Father of the Bride .  But, then there is also dark humor like  Heathers  or stoner humor like any of the Cheech and Chong movies or there's obnoxious sophomoric humor like this is the End .  And then there is Queen Latifah in  Taxi  and  Last Holiday ... hilarious! Not all people will find all sorts of comedy humorous.  Luckily, there all types of comedies to pick from.    So, comedy... relative?  Ideas?  Thoughts? 100 words .

1. Do you think the genre of the Western is slowly dwindling? Are
the Western's conventions showing up in other genres? Be sure
to support your answer with specifics. 100 words
I would wager to say that what sold movies those old John
Wayne movies were American values and manly characters.
With that in mind, and closing in on almost a century later, has
anything changed since Wayne's time? Aren't the box office
hits still selling audiences on American values and manly
characters? When considering your response, consider any of
the box office hits of 2014 and 2015, how do they sell audiences
on American values and manly characters? 100 words
Class
Isn't comedy relative? Let's be honest here, the humor of
The Three Stooges
variety... not really funny. It is funny if you like your comedy
being physical and simplistic and "innocent".
A movie like
Legally Blonde
is humorous because it is the story of the simpleton beating the
"better" people at their own game. Comedy does not have to be
of the Stooges variety all the time or of the Andy Griffith
variety, either. Yes, there are plenty of examples of that sort of
humor from
Dumb and Dumber
to
Father of the Bride
. But, then there is also dark humor like
Heathers

2. or stoner humor like any of the Cheech and Chong movies or
there's obnoxious sophomoric humor like this
is the End
. And then there is Queen Latifah in
Taxi
and
Last Holiday
... hilarious! Not all people will find all sorts of comedy
humorous. Luckily, there all types of comedies to pick from.
So, comedy... relative? Ideas? Thoughts? 100 words