WHAT IS TRAGICOMEDY IN FILMS? (In the Entertainment industry.)

Fargo Tragicomedy / Photo Credit: Coen Brothers – Fargo – No Film School

WHAT IS TRAGICOMEDY IN FILMS? (In the Entertainment industry.)  

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What is Tragicomedy in Films?

Tragicomedy Films

Tragicomedy is a genre that blends elements of both comedy and tragedy. A tragicomedy can either be a serious play with a happy ending—which is not the case with a straightforward tragedy—or a tragic play interspersed with moments of humor in order to lighten the mood.

The definition of tragicomedy was first used by the Roman playwright Plautus. He was a comic writer, and his only play with mythological implications was called Amphitryon. Generally, comic plays did not feature gods and kings, but Plautus was only accustomed to writing comedies. Therefore, in the prologue to Amphitryon, Plautus announced, via the character Mercury, that this play would inhabit a new form of genre.

There is no complete formal definition of tragicomedy from the classical age. It appears that the Greek philosopher Aristotle had something like the Renaissance meaning of the term (that is, a serious action with a happy ending) in mind when, in Poetics, he discusses tragedy with a dual ending. In this respect, a number of Greek and Roman plays, for instance Alcestis, may be called tragicomedies, though without any definite attributes outside of plot. The word itself originates with the Roman comic playwright Plautus, who coined the term somewhat facetiously in the prologue to his play Amphitryon. The character Mercury, sensing the indecorum of the inclusion of both kings and gods alongside servants in a comedy, declares that the play had better be a "tragicomoedia".

Common Examples of Tragicomedy Film

There are many films which can be considered examples of tragicomedy, as they combine both tragic and comic aspects. Here is a short list: 

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Juno
• Big Fish
• The King’s Speech
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Lars and the Real Girl
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Sideways
• Amélie 

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Fargo Tragicomedy / Photo Credit: Coen Brothers – Fargo – No Film School