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King of Comedy

1999 · 89 min · Director: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee, Lee Lik-Chi ★ IMDb 7.2 · 8,945 ratings

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A bar girl hires a struggling actor to give her acting lessons so that she can feign a greater interest in her customers. The longer they work together, the more they find they have in common.

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King of Comedy (1999) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 35%, Empathy 25%, Love 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

35%Humor
20%Love
  1. Humor35%
  2. Love20%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Empathy, Love. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Humor, Empathy and Love. Its IMDb rating of 7.2/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 72/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Humor
  • Hope
  • Love

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Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Tension

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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 13 %, then peaks around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityHumorHopeLove
2.5 %≈ 2′Humor52 %49 %20 %0 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Humor52 %45 %15 %0 %
12.5 %≈ 11′Humor51 %44 %10 %1 %
17.5 %≈ 16′Humor54 %51 %10 %3 %
22.5 %≈ 20′Humor59 %57 %18 %4 %
27.5 %≈ 24′Humor56 %52 %28 %9 %
32.5 %≈ 29′Humor51 %46 %25 %19 %
37.5 %≈ 33′Humor51 %46 %18 %21 %
42.5 %≈ 38′Humor57 %54 %13 %9 %
47.5 %≈ 42′Humor60 %55 %16 %2 %
52.5 %≈ 47′Empathy58 %41 %30 %17 %
57.5 %≈ 51′Hope61 %28 %44 %42 %
62.5 %≈ 56′Love64 %28 %48 %56 %
67.5 %≈ 60′Hope66 %27 %38 %48 %
72.5 %≈ 65′Empathy71 %20 %33 %42 %
77.5 %≈ 69′Hope69 %21 %40 %40 %
82.5 %≈ 73′Tension66 %30 %30 %18 %
87.5 %≈ 78′Tension72 %40 %19 %1 %
92.5 %≈ 82′Tension78 %48 %32 %19 %
97.5 %≈ 87′Love79 %50 %49 %51 %
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Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Karen Mok Man-Wai

Sister Cuckoo

JL
Jazz Lam Tsz-Sin

Hung

Tenky Tin Kai-Man

Hung's Man

LS
Lee Siu-Kay

Brother Kei

CM
Cheng Man-Fai

Hung's Man

SF
Steven Fung Min-Hang

Pui's First Boyfriend

JL
Johnson Lee Sze-Chit

Movie Director

JC
Joe Cheng Cho

Informer

DL
Dai Lung

Master Lung

HW
Hau Woon-Ling

Hung's grandmother

VC
Vincent Chi Mo-Chun

CIB

Jackie Chan

Stunt Double on Set (uncredited)

Details

Written by
Kan-Cheung Tsang, Stephen Chow, Erica Li, Tsang Kan-Cheong, Steven Fung Min-Hang, Cheng Man-Fai, Leung Ka-Kit
Type
Movies
Released
1999
Runtime
89 min
Country
Hong Kong
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.2 · 8,945 ratings
Feels mostly
Humor
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