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。

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Sparks fly as the "straight" one reveals his true feelings for the other in this screwball comedy.

在这个怪人的喜剧里，当“正常”的一个对另一个表露出他的真心感受时，火花碰撞出来了。

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They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.

为了抢得一家时髦餐馆里的预定位置，菲尔和克莱尔冒充了一对订位后却没来的夫妇，而两名杀手以为他俩就是订位的夫妇，因此使他俩卷入了一场神经喜剧。

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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."

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But George Clooney attempts something a little more sophisticated in "Leatherheads": a screwball comedy set during the early days of professional football in the mid-1920s.

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"Lady By Choice" (1934) was released five months after Howard Hawks's "Twentieth Century, " a defining screwball comedy in which Lombard goes mano a mano with the great John Barrymore.

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Frustrated that his cast couldn't fit the dialogue into a single shot, Mr. Eastwood took a cue from Howard Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedy to punch up a brooding Boston-set crime melodrama.

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