After reading today's lesson, especially this part "But another way to think about "exaggeration" is to consider, as does film scholar Don Crafton, how "the gags of early slapstick serve as a source of narrative 'excess'—the pie in the face, the slip on a banana skin, the burst of digressive violence--…impedes narrative development and resists the storytelling logic of classical Hollywood cinema. "(Slapstick Comedy, 7) In this formulation, the gags are so exaggerated and so excessive, they literally stop the movie and any forward momentum of the plot. It is definitely a thesis to consider as w