I want to watch a funny movie but I feel like compared to TV shows, movies rarely make me really laugh. I've cried laughing watching shows like I Think You Should Leave but most movies I can honestly say I've only ever mustered a chortle or snort every now and then. What is the funniest movie(s), to you? For me, just off the cuff, I'd probably have to say Airplane!
Oh man I also have this hazy memory of having seen this movie twenty years ago. The premise of a guy from an African tribe assuming that white people are gods is definitely racist, but then again the movie frames tribal culture as obvious and correct and city culture as ridiculous :anprim-pat:
iirc the San people think the coke bottle was dropped by some god or other, rather than white people being gods directly. The idea that San people had never seen a coke bottle is racist, but it does make a good critique of society and I like the idea that something extremely useful, but extremely scarce, might cause more trouble and division than it's worth. I can't think of another story where people get their hands on something extremely useful, but there's only one, and they decide to get rid of it because even though it's useful it's causing too many problems.
Crucially though, the San people thought the premise was hilarious, which is why they agreed to the movie, because of the moral dimension to it. The thing they thought was weird was specific behaviors, like hugging and raising your children up when you get back home (something they did not do).
Lord of the Rings?
Yeah, that was the closest I could think of, too. Right down to a dude having to carry the thing all over the world then huck it off of the edge of a mountain to resolve the plot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C7%83xau_%C7%82Toma