This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Murky Parody/Satire: From YKTTW
Don Quixote seems like it might belong here, but not sure. —Document N
- IMHO, Don Quixote is an Affectionate Parody, but values drift have left us considering the titular character as more of a hero than a fool. Perhaps Man Of La Mancha is a better example of an Indecisive Parody because it makes Don Quixote more of a tragic hero than the original material did.
Maso Tey: Now that Indecisive Deconstruction exists, a couple of the examples currently at Indecisive Parody seem to belong there. I've copied the Scream example, and moved the Hancock one outright.
- Scream was marketed as a Deconstruction of the Slasher genre, but for all it did to point out as many traits as it could, it just ended up being a straight entry of the genre with genre savvy characters that still fall into all the same traps.
- Hancock can't decide whenever it wants be a deconstruction or a tragedy.
Elihu: 300 does not give any implications of parody. At all. That people read various meanings and Unfortunate Implications is a completely separate issue, but we can't just put anything that we think might be parodying or satirizing something else (however subtly or subconsciously we think they may be doing it).
- 300 is either the most racist movie since The Eternal Jew or a satire on wartime propaganda's demonization of the enemy.
The Gunheart: What if the so-called "indicisivness" is in fact intentional?
