Anticipation

When I saw Balls of fury I thought this part was a great use of anticipation and then changing up the result. I was super lucky to find the clip on Youtube and thought that I would share it. Notice how Fogler gets upset in the begining of the clip and starts messing up the plant. From the tone of his voice and that action of slapping the plant, we get a sense that he is upset but in a comical way. He's slapping a plant for cying out loud! If it were more serious, he might have thrown something or would've been more violent to the plant or to Lopez. Notice how we have a nice build up of comedy from him slapping the plant, then the plant falls and he has to readjust it. (If he were really pissed he wouldn't think twice of fixing the plant. He obviously wouldn't slap the plant either) The next thing he does, I thought was great. He still tries to be pissed off and quickly opens the door wide and he anticipates a big slam closed. What does Fogler do? He does a big anticipation then does something we didn't expect. He slowly closes the door. This is a great comedic tool and a good way to throw the audience off. When the audience expects something to happen, it doesn't do much for the entertainment value. When the character does something unexpected, the audience is put into a different mind set. (This is probably what the brain is thinking when watching this clip. "ok, he's a silly man slapping the plant. Oh, now he's going to slam the door really loud. Whoa....what? Oh snap...I didn't expect that to happen.") Ok, maybe this is just what my brain was thinking when watching this clip. I just felt that we don't see that style of comedy in films today. Fun! Fun!! Now use this tool in your animation! Word.