the screwball

常見例句

Originally I wanted to make it a musical with the feel of a 1930s screwball comedy.
起初我想將它制作成一部帶有二十世紀三十年代怪誕喜劇色調(diào)的音樂劇。
In an age when movie dialogue is dumbed and slowed down to suit slow-wits in the audience, the dialogue here has the velocity and snap of screwball comedy.
在現(xiàn)在這個年代，電影對話一般被刻意地愚蠢化和放慢節(jié)奏，以便適應(yīng)低智的觀衆(zhòng)，而這部電影裡麪的對話則有著神經(jīng)喜劇裡麪的速度和撞擊。
The girl was a bit crazy, a real screwball, and one of the other salesmen persuaded her to tell her boyfriend.
於是，一位推銷員就說服她給他的男友開了一個愚人節(jié)玩笑，說她懷孕了。
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That's really the classic American screwball romantic comedy formula I was trying to find the middle path where people who understand classic romantic comedy would really respond to it, but it would appear fresh and new enough to appeal to a younger audience."

Maybe this CEO is too much the screwball dreamer, like the previous CEO who flushed your money away.
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Ilsa had thought the film was a return to the screwball romantic comedies of the nineteen-thirties, but Mrs.
NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian
The writer-director Cameron Crowe is attempting a modern screwball comedy—the kind of thing that, sixty years ago, would have been a swiftly paced romantic farce—but he has scaled the movie as an epic and turned his heroine into a font of New Age wisdom.
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