It sounds like you've written a satire and there are
plenty of examples of satires out there from the
absurd like "Airplane" to the more serious like
"Natural Born Killers." I wouldn't change it, just
say it's a satire instead of a comedy.

Barb
bscreen2000@...

--- Benjamin <babruzzo@...> wrote:
> I have been working on a script about a war in a
> desert nation and it
> was a comedy. But the humor was subtle and based in
> certain events
> that were more on the absurd and not likely to
> happen. Then the war
> in Iraq took place and all those "funny" moments
> that would never
> really happen in real life happened in real life.
> Now the comedy
> seems to read like a psuedo-documentary about the
> war on Iraq, except
> that the names are obviously jokes (the name of the
> county is Ramil --
> arabic for sand) and the motivations are silly (the
> cheif export of
> the counrty is sand for glass and such because
> environmentalists are
> against mining sand in the US -- now protestors are
> against a war
> because the dodn't want "blood for sand").
>
> Is there an example of a "serious" style movie that
> seems real but is
> totally fiction? Or do I need to highten the
> comedy? I don't want a
> silly or slap-stick comedy, but I don't want a drama
> either.
>
> Benjamin Abruzzo
> b_s_abruzzo@...
>
>