The Popularity Of Humor In Comedy Movies

Humor is absolutely necessary for our life. Humor helps us by replacing distressing emotions with pleasant feelings, promoting an optimum balance among conflicting motive and assisting us to view the world with perspective eyes. A scholar named Chaya Ostrower has given a relatively general idea of humor that humor is a complex phenomenon, a quality of perception that enables us to experience joy even when faced with adversity.
It's comprised of three components: wit, mirth and laughter. Wit is the cognitive experience, mirth the emotional experience, and laughter is the physiological experience. And there is one thing which deserves to be mentioned that we often equate laughter with humor, but there are many instances of laughter (tickling, nervousness, etc) that clearly have little to do with.
In recent years, many comedy movies and comedy TV Series permeated with the atmosphere of humor are springing up over the world, such as We Love Our Family, A Chinese Odyssey, Big Movie, The Journey to the West and Forbidden City Top in China and Friends, Bruce Almighty, Rush Hour and Big Momma's House in the US, and they all bring us countless joy and pleasure.
All the while, comedy movies and comedy TV Series have been considered the best films and TV plays to please the audience. Though the purposes of the comedy movies and comedy TV Series in China and America are both for fun, their expression techniques of humor are still worth a contrast study.

It is generally known that China is a great oriental country with a civilization of five thousand years, and our culture runs a long course from a remote source. According to the quartering, it belongs to Chinese Confucianism. However, America is an economically developed and newly-emerging nation, whose history is only more than 200 years. Moreover, its leading culture is European culture belonging to European and American Christianity cultures.
According to cultural determinism, the expression techniques of humor in Chinese and American comedy movies and comedy TV series distinguish from each other based on their social cultures.