Duck Soup

Can a comparison be made between Duck Soup and The Way Things Work? These movies are entirely different the only similarity that would stand out is that they both can be considered to be narratives. Duck Soup was quite a silly movie. The title seemed to be strange at first and then after seeing the characters the movie got even weirder. While watching duck soup I realized that the story behind all the gags may have had another message behind it. In the movie, war was started over a simple insult at a tea party. Even after trying to make amends war was started. The war in the movie seemed to be similar to World War I. Duck Soup told the viewers how silly war was and how it was started for stupid reasons. Becuase of an insult at a tea party, peace was broken in the country and lives were being lost. The Marx Brothers used humor to convey their narrative while the story had an underlying meaning that commented on war.
After watching How Things Work I found it hard to realate and compare Duck Soup to this. These seemed like two completely different films. Only after thinking about these films for a while was I able to come up with a way to compare these films. Although How Things Work doesnt have a flat out anti war message, there are similarities with the narrative of Duck Soup. How Things Work was a chain reaction of events that led to one explosions and various mixing of chemicals. The viewer has to look at this as a chain reaction process and go back and remember what actually started it; the spinning garbage bag. This is how a comparison could be made with Duck Soup. They are both a series of events that snowballed and started a chain reaction that couldn't be stopped. In Duck Soup it was war and in How Things Work it was chemistry and physics.