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Zakura Since: Aug, 2011
2024-07-31 00:10:51

Regardless who's right here (I have not seen the movie), the approach you suggested (a differing opinion, like "On the other hand,..." slapped underneath it), is very much Conversation in the Main Page and should generally be avoided.

Also, I'm not sure if that example write-up fits under Narm, even if your interpretation is totally correct. Narm is finding a moment that is meant to be serious and dramatic to be unintentionally funny — I don't really see that in the example you provided.

Edited by Zakura
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2024-07-31 00:19:54

The example doesn't sound like Narm.

Also, ~NOYB

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FlashSteps Since: Aug, 2014
2024-07-31 00:38:34

Ok, so when restoring it I could reword a little to reflect the fact that I find this moment to be weird, out of place and thus humorous because there's quite rightly abject pandemonium (thus it's serious and dramatic) going on in the scene and yet the Jenkins patriarch's mind is all of a sudden somewhere WILDLY else. Fine. Now you see why it's Narm (plus I figured the YouTube videos would help illustrate that point, too). And isn't there a way on a YMMV page (note: not the main page as you suggested, Zakura, outside of maybe Ambiguous Situation) to show a differing opinion, even if it's as an example under a different YMMV trope to show that NOYB thought it was in fact anything but Narm?

Edited by FlashSteps
NOYB Since: Sep, 2009
2024-07-31 07:16:55

I removed it because it seemed so obvious when you look at that clip that he is feeling intimidated and smiling awkwardly to cover it as he realizes this woman he hit on before is dangerous, rather than him feeling horny, that I thought surely the person who put it in must have been the only viewer of the movie to ever think that, and surely even they would go "oh" and realize they misread it after having it pointed out what the real intention was. Even the passage itself said it was "weird" and "out of character" for him to be horny in that scene, and that explains it: he wasn't.

In the event he was meant to be horny, it wouldn't be Narm because making him act that way in the midst of pandemonium can only be an intentional gag as part of the comedy of the movie. He's already portrayed as a comedic, smarmy and blustery character. Narm has to be *unintentionally* funny, not just a contrast to what's going on around the character. Making characters act in contrast to their surroundings is a classic form of intentional humor, in fact. Even everyone in the restaurant freaking out as people turn into mice is probably supposed to be more goofy than dramatic. The trope namer for Narm was what's supposed to be the heart-wrenching cry of "Narm!" by an injured person being unintentionally funny/silly. This is a comedic fool being a comedic fool. Mood Dissonance, Dissonant Serenity or something similar would be a better fit. It could only be Narm if the actor had been trying for a serious face and looked goofy instead *by accident*.

Edited by NOYB
ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
2024-07-31 08:57:31

We also specifically have a Narm cleanup thread for this sort of thing.

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