A spagettiburleszk. A burleszk hatásai és a humor mechanizmusai Bud Spencer és Terence Hill komédiáiban
The Spaghetti Slapstick. The effect of the classic silent slapstick comedies and the mechanisms of humour in the films of the Bud Spencer and Terence Hill duo

Summary/Abstract: The 'spaghetti burlesque' or 'spaghetti slapstick' is a non-official genre that refers to the films made by the Italian comedian-duo who are still enjoying a high popularity in Hungary and Europe-wide. Bud Spencer (whose original name is Carlo Pedersoli) and Terence Hill (whose original name is Mario Girotti) ascended from the shadows of 'spaghetti western' and Sergio Leone. The violent and dark sub-genre was turned into a parody as a result of their work. Leaving behind the world of westerns, they created their own series built on the comedians’ duo which rather showed the influence of silent slapstick comedies from the early 20th century America. From this point, artists like Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton could be considered as the idols for the duo. The impact of slapstick comedies on their film-making and the cultural-historical origin of the comical opposite pair they represent was barely studied before. This paper would fill this gap by amongst others observing analogies between Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote and their films, as well as the analysis of their comical tools based on the definitions from Henri Bergson’s philosophical work, Laughter.

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