Corrupt Country Makes You Fun - The 50 Best British Comedies (Part 1)

Have you watched a lot of comedy seen the following films listed for you? As we all know, the of American comedy has been well known, compared to their vulgarity, although British comedy will always have some silly characters, but or introverted or ironic connotations, it will be more charming to watch. Recently, the British film magazine "Total Film" selected the top 50 British comedy films, which can give us a better understanding of the various laughs of the people of Great Britain:

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Director: Robert Hammer

Starring: Alec Kenneth/ Valeria Hobson

What to watch: After watching the film, if you summarize the plot synopsis, this is almost a standard tragedy, but in the film's extremely ironic interpretation, we will always laugh out loud when Louis takes revenge.

Life of Brian (1979)

Director: Terry Jones

Starring: Graham Chapman/John Chris

What to watch: British filmmakers prefer to use some absurd coincidences to make satires. This film is to arrange an ordinary man to become a Saint of Judaism, using a series of vicious bridges to spoof the legendary Bible story.

3. [I'm with Long Nails] Withnail & I (1987)

Director: Bruce Robinson

Starring: Richard Grant/Paul McGaine

Highlights: Director Bruce Robinson's autobiographical films, which take neuroticism and indulgence to the extreme, are relatively exaggerated interpretations of british student society in the 1960s.

4.[奇爱博士]Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Peter Cyrus / George W. C. Scott

Highlights: The film and [2001: A Space Odyssey] and [Clockwork Orange] constitute a "future trilogy", which can represent the highest level of cinema at that time to a certain extent.

5.[波拉特]Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan(2006)

Director: Larry Charles

Starring: Sasha Byron Cohen / Pamela Anderson

Highlights: This film tells the story of a Husseke TV anchor who went to the United States to learn the scriptures, using extremely exaggerated bridges to interpret the story of the countrymen entering the city as crazy and funny, and also combining satire with vulgar and just right.

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

Director: Mike Neville

Starring: Hugh Grant/Andy McDowell

Highlights: Charles, played by Hugh Grant, and Carey, played by Andy, are entangled until they have experienced four weddings and a funeral, and the two finally have the courage to be together.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Directed by: Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones

Highlights: This film is set in ancient Europe, telling the story of a group of unreliable knights attacking France, absurd and spoofy.

The Ladykillers (1955)

Director: Alexander McKendrick

Starring: Alec Kenneth / Sissel Parker

Highlights: This film is a good choice for comedy crime films, especially the old lady who can't help the wind and dresses strangely, casually cleans up the gang of thieves, such a bridge is often imitated and paid tribute to in subsequent comedy films.

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Director: Edgar Wright

Starring: Simon Peggy / Nick Frost

Two idle idiots can actually lead several people to kill in the zombie tide that sweeps the city, and the Cult elements such as plasma and human limbs in the film are bursting, thinking about it is a funny story.

Four Lions (2010)

Director: Christopher Morris

Starring: Kevin Novak / Ritz Ahmed

Highlights: Telling stories related to religion playfully is one of the characteristics of British comedy. The film tells the story of Muslims living in the United Kingdom who try to act as human bombers and start a holy war.

11. Brazil (1985)

Director: Terry Gilliam

Starring: Jonathan Press/Robert De Niro

Highlights: This film is a classic film of the "dystopian future", but fans are mostly critical of the cold humor and low storytelling in it, and they have not realized that the real irony of this film is the mechanical labor of human beings.

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Director: John Landis

Starring: David Norton / Jenny Eggart

Highlights: Limited to the production age and investment scale, the makeup, special effects and even the "wolf" found in this film are not satisfactory, but behind such a rough production, it is the cult spirit that people talk about.

13. [Guess the Train] Trainspotting (1996)

Director: Danny Ball

Starring: Ivan McGregor /Evan Bryner

Highlights: In this film, we see the protagonists constantly squandering themselves, covering up everything in life with drugs, alcohol and sex. Life goes on, and when they look back after adolescence, it's just a distant dream.

Gregory's Girl (1981)

Director: Bill Forsyth

Starring: John Gordon Sinclair / Di Ho Puben

What to watch: This film is a different way to put women's football, which everyone pays less attention to. However, football is certainly not the point, and the male protagonist is like Mr. Bean, which is very interesting.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Directed by: Charles Cricketton

Starring: Alec Kenneth / Stanley Holloway / Audrey Hepburn

What to watch: As a well-designed and well-structured crime suspense story, with comedic elements, it is more pleasing, and even covers up some small flaws. And this film is Audrey Hepburn's screen debut, although it is only more than 30 seconds, but it has been glamorous.

16. Hot Fuzz (2007)

Highlights: This film is in the same vein as [Shaun of the Zombie] and is the second part of the "Blood and Ice Cream" series. In this film, the spoof is doubled, and they are no longer facing zombies, but dictators trying to control the town.

The Full Monty (1997)

Director: Peter Catanniu

Starring: Robert Carlisle/Mark Artie

Highlights: If you look at the stripper, this film can be regarded as a "realistic" version of [Magic Mike]. A group of losers in life go to nightclubs to become striptease men in order to survive. These people have no body, no looks, and what they play is no lower limit and gag.

18. [Killer No Holiday] In Bruges (2008)

Directed by: Martin McDonald

Starring: Colin Farrell/Braidan Gleason

Highlights: A standard "master-apprentice" killer combination, but in the film's black humor, they are more regarded as "comic" groups, and their scripts are also well received by the Oscar jury and nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Award.

Billy Liar (1963)

Director: John Schlesinger

Starring: Tom Contenell / Ethel Griffiths

What to watch: For a loser, fantasizing about a wonderful world is the best way to escape reality. Billy in this film is not only a liar, but also a utopian, and he has been unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

20.[百鸟嬉春]Carry On Up the Khyber(1968)

Directed by: Gerald Thomas

Starring: Sedley Jones/Kenneth Williams

Highlights: This film combines the bottoms under the Scottish skirt and the British war of aggression against Afghanistan, so that the protagonists named "Diamond" and "Pee" use a stupid and silly image in the film to express the supposedly serious and terrible war in a relaxed form.

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Starring: John Chris / Jamie Lee Curtis

What to watch: This film tells the story of a few stupid thieves who steal diamonds. In British comedy, "stupidity" is a must-have, characterized by unusual persistence in doing things and no way out. As long as this stupid person is properly shaped, the comedy is more than half successful.

Local Hero (1983)

Director: Bill Foss

Starring: Bert Lancaster/Peter Riggett

Highlights: This film uses this theme to tell the story of the local people against the people who come to negotiate with foreign oil companies. In the midst of absurdity and humor, the unique ruins of Small Villages in England contrast strongly with the beautiful scenery, which is evocative.

23. [Tourist] Sightseers (2012)

Director: Ben Vitelli

Starring: Alice Lowe / Steve Orram

Highlights: A typical black humor film, the male and female protagonists from acquaintance to love did not take long, not long after the two embarked on a honeymoon trip, they turned this trip into a murderous journey. The strong Cult style is another feature of the film. The ruthless dismantling of human nature, of hidden evil, is one of the characteristics of British comedy.

24.[两杆大烟枪]Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels(1998)

Director: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Jason Fleming / Dexter Fletcher

Highlights: This film uses a comedic style to tell a suspenseful story with one link and one link, bringing together elements such as drugs, gunfights, psychological warfare, etc., and even surpassing the early works of the ghost Quentin Tarantino in some aspects.

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

Director: Steve Box/Nick Parker

Starring: Peter Salis/Ralph Fiennes

Highlights: As the protagonist of the "head dog", there is no line in the whole film, but he is so deeply loved by people. Stop-motion animation is hard to survive, the film won the 78th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and Aardman Studios deserves our praise.