HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoWhat parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?message-squaremessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down12
arrow-up191arrow-down1message-squareWhat parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squareCrewman@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoFunnily enough, I looked up self awareness vs parody, and the first movie based article specifically addressed those two movies. https://slowburnhorror.com/2024/11/27/self-aware-but-not-self-conscious-how-tremors-and-maxxxine-write-love-letters-to-the-horror-genre/ To summarize, parodies show why those things being parodied are dumb, while self awareness is embracing the tropes while not taking itself seriously. Which answers my question.
Funnily enough, I looked up self awareness vs parody, and the first movie based article specifically addressed those two movies.
https://slowburnhorror.com/2024/11/27/self-aware-but-not-self-conscious-how-tremors-and-maxxxine-write-love-letters-to-the-horror-genre/
To summarize, parodies show why those things being parodied are dumb, while self awareness is embracing the tropes while not taking itself seriously. Which answers my question.