HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoWhat parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 days agoFor my wife Spaceballs is the original and Star Wars is the spoof. But more seriously, too many people didn’t register that Scream was a parody. That way it managed to surpass older slashers.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 days agoI wouldn’t call Scream a parody. Scary Movie was the parody. Scream was just self aware that it was a scary movie in a universe where scary movies exist.
For my wife Spaceballs is the original and Star Wars is the spoof.
But more seriously, too many people didn’t register that Scream was a parody. That way it managed to surpass older slashers.
I wouldn’t call Scream a parody. Scary Movie was the parody. Scream was just self aware that it was a scary movie in a universe where scary movies exist.