Lead Blog Post- Deadpool

The movie Deadpool is one of the funniest movies I have seen in awhile. When I am looking for a good laugh, I usually turn to this movie. I mean who couldn’t like it, its a superhero movie and it is a comedy, and come on who can’t love a good movie with Ryan Reynolds in it. The movie follows the character Wade Wilson, who works as a mercenary. He is just a man living his life, finally he is happy in a long time he even has a girlfriend and he finds out that he has Cancer. He starts to give up in life, and turns to an evil scientist named Ajax who says he will cure his cancer, but he actually tortures him. He becomes a guinea pig and is an experiment. This is how he is transformed into Deadpool. He receives his superpowers through this experiment. You may ask to yourself, what is his superpower, being ugly? Well, his superpower is being able to heal very fast, so pretty much he is indestructible. He also has a twisted sense of humor. With Wade’s new superpowers, he transform into Deadpool to hunt down Ajax. Pretty much the man who ruined his life. Throughout the movie he gets help from some of the X-men superheroes. By far one of the best parts of the movie is Deadpool's sense of humor. It can be quite inappropriate and holds no punches.

One of the most humorous things about the movie, is that the main character, Deadpool, talks to us, the viewers. He refers to us multiple times throughout the movie using a third person view. He tells us all about his problems and his thoughts throughout the movie. It is so funny because he turns it on and off throughout the movie. One of my favorite scene in the movie is the “Maximum Effort” Highway Scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy8nPI85Ih4). This scene is him just sitting on the side of the highway, just singing a song and coloring a picture of him saving the day. He then proceeds to talk to us, the viewers, because he realizes that we are following along with him. He explains that he is waiting for his friend Ajax, the one that turned him into his ugly self, and is trying to kill him and his friends. Pretty much the whole scene is him fighting the “bad guys” in trying to find Ajax.  Most of this scene contains Benign Violation because the scene is very funny, the fact that he is just blurting these phrases out without realizing how inappropriate it is. But it is not too inappropriate or too offensive that they should have left it out of the movie. It is a happy medium. It pushes the boundaries enough to where is it extremely funny. One of my favorite moments in the scene is when they are in the middle of fighting each other, Deadpool says, “Shit, Did I Leave the Stove on”. It is moments like this that really show the humor within the movie. Most of the movie contains Benign Violation, because it is constantly testing the limit of being too inappropriate and too weird where is could be taken out of the movie, but it is the right happy medium where is works. The movie also contains many moments of Incongruity theory. You are constantly laughing at things in the movie that seem like they wouldn’t go together. Many of the punchlines or the jokes that Deadpool says in the Scene “Maximum Effort” have the incongruity theory. Overall, the movie Deadpool contains many scenes of Benign Violation and Incongruity Theory. I highly recommend the movie if you are looking for a good laugh!