Crewman@sopuli.xyztoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?
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2 days agoI watched the original Scream years after seeing Scary Movie, and realized Scary Movie is just Scream on cocaine. A lot of the jokes are the same or just slightly different.
What’s the line between being self aware and a parody?
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.