OP, liberals always work overtime to make reactionaries look good. Even in hollywood
why do you think 1/3 of zoomers worship serial killers lol
i do not concern myself with right wing readings of art whether "correct" or "incorrect."
Im now curious, is there an example of satire of leftwingers that we think is cool and try to co opt it?
There's that "Disfiguriing the face of man and woman" thing the Vatican put out years ago.
Also practice witchcraft, become lesbians, and murder their children.
Oh, and the meme where they show tons of apartments and are like "Is there anything more depressing than people not being homeless?"
Only thing I can think of Zhukov in death of stalin is portrayed as a chad.
If you don't like Zhukov in the death of stalin you simply don't have a soul.
Yes but he’s also portrayed as someone who likes palace intrigue
Killmonger in Black Panther is clearly leftwing coded and cool as fuck
When you’re rich and powerful and control half the county, you can hide your evilness behind a veneer of coolness because it’s cheap. Though liberals tend to fail at penetrating it at a meaningful level.
"The last capitalist will sell us the rope we will use to hang him"
You think Satan is supposed to be a portrayal of a Leftist?
That's interesting. It's my favorite piece of literature, never read him as a Leftist.
I think we're supposed to ultimately overcome the temptation to identify with Satan. And since Milton was an anti-monarchist, I didn't think he meant to portay the potential political aspect negatively.
not satire, but all those news articles of "China's military is SKYROCKETING" which are really just cries for more funding, could qualify
CHUDs are usually somewhat intelligent in this department and avoid this entirely, but the only thing I can think of is Amon from Korra. Although we should co-opt it for tongue-in-cheek reasons, we can do Big Brother from 1984.
It's not because they're intelligent, it's because their art production is exactly as brainless and surface-level as their art consumption.
Average satirical portrayal of your political opponents fan vs average "this but unironically" enjoyer
Fight club moment. I still can't really parse how that movie was supposed to be anything but pro what was happening. I really really can't see where the satire is supposed to be. Although its been a long while since I've watched it maybe I'm forgetting something.
American psycho is more on the nose but still easy to look past.
Cod world at war is an example of right wing media making communists look cool by accident though.
The book is much, much more grotesque. One of their big failures was casting Pitt, Norton, and the lady whose name I can't remember. They're all gorgeous and that's really not what fight club was. Basically nothing sexy happens in the book, it's just page after page of "Are the straights alright"?
Huh I've never considered reading it might give it a go. Does the same apply to American psycho?
Sort of, it is much more brutal in it's violence and there isn't anything 'titillating' in the book, while a couple of scenes in the movie have attractive nude people so it could be seen as a little sexy. You couldn't really do American Psycho any other way though, Bateman and the women he sees are all young and obsessed with beauty and social status, and the relationship between sex and violence is a key theme. The main difference IMO is that, at least in the movie, there aren't many instances where you laugh at the characters in Fight Club, while there are plenty of scenes of Bateman being a clown. I'd argue that, between the two films, it takes more effort to read Fight Club as satire than American Psycho.
Wait what? To me, fight club is about toxic masculinity, male loneliness, and how destructive they are. And how instead of being violent towards your fellow man, you should group together and blow up banks.
I mean, people miss the mark on movies like that all the time. But, Fight Club is in actuality, a based movie..... Right?
American psycho is more on the nose but still easy to look past.
Is it? I found it very on the nose, when I finally watched it I was shocked there were actually people out there who didn’t get it.
Fight Club 100% though
Is it? I found it very on the nose, when I finally watched it I was shocked there were actually people out there who didn’t get it.
Casting an attractive actor to play a character with a certain ideology, means you're supporting the ideology
A lot of people still don't understand this. Dunno why
Treyarch wanted(?) me to recoil at the horrors of war, meanwhile 12 year old me is like "haha they killin nazis
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Actually, I think I disagree with this premise. It's pretty often that there are progressive forces in fiction that are pretty cool. Whether it's the X-Men or the Rebels from Star Wars. Plus, there are many villains that are basically leftists like Poison Ivy or Killmonger, and to some degree, Magneto.
Like if super villains were real, you can bet Hexbear would give some of them critical support because they are, for all intents and purposes, fighting the good fight
The Boys becoming an endless stream of derivative drivel being pumped out by Amazon like the capeshit it was supposed to be satirizing is hilarious though.
This fuckin'
romanticising how hard the struggle of the Battle of Berlin must have been for the poor smol bean nazisBut not everything they co-opt is inherently a satire of them where they get to be a hero, unlike American Psycho or Fight Club. For example, Joker - objectively speaking, the shit that happens in the movie is more aligned with left wing criticism of capitalism. I think it was a generic movie, but are we not allowed to portray left wing ideas just because someone with billionaire presidents and millionaire governors think the movie supports him? What about Parasite? The movie portrays the poor as cunning and cutthroat - but that’s a surface level analysis, one that conservatives would no doubt agree with and identify with the generous, hardworking rich family.
You should be directing this towards specific examples of liberal critique. For example, the latest Civil War shlock from A24. It is based on 0 material analysis. Only vibes. It portrays conservatives as maniacal killers, and they will no doubt love it. Same with Far Cry 5 - although I’d argue they portrayed conservatives as heroes who are fighting against zealous cultists, but conservatives still got mad and tried to claim the stupid rifle song as “theirs”. None of these things have anything meaningful to say other than “thanks for the money.”
