Does an Auteur have to make serious films to be philosophical?

Is it permissible for an Auteur to make comedies and still stay something meaningful?

Don’t we, as audiences, deserve better?

Office Space has prepared me more for life than any 3 hour long epic could ever do.

All films are comedies. Some just aren’t funny.

@Leaves: :)

Tati is an auteur, hands down. I guess there just aren’t enough.

I’m sure Woody Allen would answer in the negative.

Depends, I guess, on what you mean by meaningful. I’d agree about OFFICE SPACE, which contains as meaningful a picture of contemporary office drudgery as is possible, until the film kind of weenies out toward the end.

I’d add Jones’ DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24th1/2 CENTURY and Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE to the mix, two of the ugliest pictures of gung-ho militarist personalities out there.

The big lebowski is a hilarious and philosophically deep film from my point of view.

South Park has humor that’s very physical and very scatalogical, and it can be very philosophical.

Silly question. But let us see which member can stretch out this simple answer into something unnecessirly drawn out.

Permissible?

@Malik

Is that a challenge?

These are RUS’s giggle threads.

I Heart I Heart Huckabees, complete with Tomlin-Russell rant and all..

Chaplin