the screwball

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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.
在現在這個年代，電影對話一般被刻意地愚蠢化和放慢節奏，以便適應低智的觀衆，而這部電影裡麪的對話則有著神經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.
FORBES: Been There, Done That
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.
NEWYORKER: Elizabethtown