Marx Brothers

A modifier that seems to modify the wrong part of a sentence is called misplaced. Not only can misplaced modifiers change or distort the meaning of your sentence, they can also provide unintentional humor, as illustrated by the following excerpt from the 1929 Marx Brothers movie Coconuts ... 

Reservations are essential at the Marx Brothers Cafe (627 W. 3rd Ave., B 907-278-2133), one of Anchorage s essential upscale dining experiences. Seafood is the specialty, but there s always at least one vegetarian entree on the menu, such as the penne pasta with sauteed chanterelle mushrooms. 

Before considering this question, it is important to note once more that most short films or tapes work best with a single protagonist there simply is not enough time for an audience to identify with more than one. The exception is with certain kinds of comedy—slapstick, parody, or satire, for example— where a writer may not want the audience to identify with the main character but to maintain a psychological distance from all the characters. (Think of how one views W. C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, or the main characters in... 

Although particular filmmakers have been affiliated with hyperdrama— Luis Bunuel throughout his career, from Spain to Mexico to France—the genre is more often affiliated with humorists, such as Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers. Modern Times (1936) is a fable about industrialization and its explicit tendency to mechanize and dehumanize. The many set-pieces in the film have an internal logic, but they are so fabulist in their content that realism is actually beside the point. A similar quality infuses the majority of Chaplin s work. 

Racheli Yes, sometimes we must have looked like the Marx brothers. .. It was fun ... 

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