This movie is a comedy, right? Cause it came across to me as a comedy. Or is it just a comedy as in the way Forrest Gump was? Kinda silly just in some parts but mostly a drama/period pick.
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kinda like a fantasy/comedy version of the old west, not serious at all.
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It's a comedy AND a drama. Some parts are hilarious, others are heartbreaking.
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I think it used comedy to great effect. The comedy is what creates the empathy with the characters, so that by the time it turns dramatic we are invested in them and care about them.
I don't think audiences can truly care about a group of characters unless they can also laugh at them and with them.
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I'd say it's a comedy covering a serious and rather tragic episode in U.S. history . If there was no comedy i think the shameful aspect of the subject matter may have been too much for 1970's cinema audiences .
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Arthur Penn managed to change tones so gracefully throughout the film it has just about a bit of everything. Ultimately it's a tragedy, but happily avoids the *needed* heaviness associated with that sort of melodrama, ala "Dances".
One minute you'll be wiping tears from your eyes during the river massacre, and suddenly we're transported an unforeseen amount of time into the future - Penn handles these transitions with such a light touch.....it's the editing that is the real star of "Little Big Man".
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I watched it as a sarcastic comedy like Strangelove or Starship troopers.
(I deliberately picked one movie that I think is better and one that is worst, but to me all of them were very efficient sarcastic comedy)
It is not a comedy like "The Hangover" or "Old School" are comedies. Those movies (and others like them) are pretty much a series of comedic vignettes loosely tied together by a bare bones plot. "Little Big Man", on the other hand, is a drama with a real and real interesting plot that, obviously, uses humor to great effect throughout. Point being, while "Little Big Man" IS very funny, it would still be a good movie without the jokes.
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