Sunday, April 4, 2010

Examples of visual puns

I found a website that I need to share! It has over 80 entries from people who came up with visual puns for a contest, here it is! (Keep clicking the pages for more visuals)

http://fx.worth1000.com/contests/4476/visual-puns/1#entries

Also, I found the exact definition of a visual pun and a list of places in the entertainment world where they have been used, it is interesting!

1. In The Muppet Movie (1979 film), when Kermit and Fozzie are driving somewhere. Kermit is looking at the map and says they need to turn at the fork in the road. At this point he lowers the map at which point we see a giant fork in the middle of the road.

2. In Spaceballs (1987 film), Dark Helmet orders his troops to comb the desert for the heroes of the film. In the next shot there are a bunch of troopers with giant combs, combing the desert

3. In Super Mario Brothers, when Mario picks up a "fire flower", he becomes fiery. "Fire flower" in Japanese is literally hi-bana; fire-flower, meaning spark, hence he is picking up a "spark".



Also, this short you-tube clip has some of the visual puns from the previous website, but it explains what they are incase you were unsure of a few- check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ZRJQuUE4E&feature=related

No comments:

Post a Comment