Insight into Humor in English Movies

Humor expressed in English movies poses more difficulty since not only language but also culture forms a barrier to its understanding.This paper explores different situations where humor most likely arises to help understand humor in English movies.The most likely situations involve where wordplay,pretending,taboo breaking,face,striking contrast,understatement are made use of and the maxims of cooperation in conversations are broken.Implications about learning through movies are inferred.