During the Spring break week, I had time to watch some movies and i happen to find one that interested me. The movie is about a actor that is sent to research the comedy in the Muslim world and investigate what make them laugh.
First he goes to New Delhi. The actor performs in a theater that is lack of the basic needs to hold an audience and a well performance. The theater that all Americans know is laid out with certain basic but fundamental needs. Just to mention a few to illustrate a sample, bathroom. It has to be accessible to people and close to the theater. A store to buy snacks and/or beverages. Backstage rooms, for actor to take a break, change clothes, or just relax a bit before the function. But while in America this is the standard basic need in New Delhi, the nearest to the theater bathroom is 3 block away, also a key is required to have access to it. No store to buy snacks and/or beverages, and actors do no have a place out of the audience view to even change their clothes, so the audience watched whatever is happening on stage even what they are not suppose to.
The central comedy researcher, that happens to be American, start his show telling some of the funniest jokes of his career, but nothing worked. Now the information given in this movie says that New Delhi Muslims do not have sense of humor and lack of basic need in building theater for a successful play.
Then he arranges a secret meeting in Pakistan with some comedians, they look more like soldiers and the surroundings were very hostile looking. This raised the nervousness and concern for safety, but the actor found that this people were different, Pakistanis pull a joke on him and he was greeted with laughs and humor. The actor performs the same act in front of the hostile looking audience and his jokes worked. Everyone was laughing with their guns on hand but laughing.
This interesting fact made me think on the other side of this people projected as highly violent .
Why is this contrast in people?Violent ones had a good sense of humor while peaceful ones had none? Is it real information or just the movie plot? that will be the questions that I will ask my professor next time we meet.
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Thats really an interesting question to consider. Maybe the peaceful loving people have no sense of humor because they have been in a constant struggle for peace being abused by the violent people on a daily basis. The violent people may have a sense of humor because they are not brought down by any type of oppression since they are that presence in the world.
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