the screwball

常见例句

Originally I wanted to make it a musical with the feel of a 1930s screwball comedy.
起初我想将它制作成一部带有二十世纪三十年代怪诞喜剧色调的音乐剧。
In an age when movie dialogue is dumbed and slowed down to suit slow-wits in the audience, the dialogue here has the velocity and snap of screwball comedy.
在现在这个年代，电影对话一般被刻意地愚蠢化和放慢节奏，以便适应低智的观众，而这部电影里面的对话则有着神经喜剧里面的速度和撞击。
The girl was a bit crazy, a real screwball, and one of the other salesmen persuaded her to tell her boyfriend.
于是，一位推销员就说服她给他的男友开了一个愚人节玩笑，说她怀孕了。
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That's really the classic American screwball romantic comedy formula I was trying to find the middle path where people who understand classic romantic comedy would really respond to it, but it would appear fresh and new enough to appeal to a younger audience."

Maybe this CEO is too much the screwball dreamer, like the previous CEO who flushed your money away.
FORBES: Been There, Done That
Ilsa had thought the film was a return to the screwball romantic comedies of the nineteen-thirties, but Mrs.
NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian
The writer-director Cameron Crowe is attempting a modern screwball comedy—the kind of thing that, sixty years ago, would have been a swiftly paced romantic farce—but he has scaled the movie as an epic and turned his heroine into a font of New Age wisdom.
NEWYORKER: Elizabethtown