• happybadger [he/him]
    hexbear
    91
    4 months ago

    The choice to write it as a movie the Nazis would make about themselves backfires when Nazis watch it and think "I'd make this exact movie about myself".

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
    hexbear
    49
    4 months ago

    The inherent danger of satire is that in order to make good satire, you have to be prepared for people to take it seriously

    In Paulie V's case, that's basically his entire oeuvre

  • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
    hexbear
    40
    4 months ago

    I once showed a then-friend the 1970 movie adaptation of Catch-22. I was never going to convince him to read anything, and it's a good adaptation, so why not? Try to open his mind to something besides generic action movies. He didn't like it because there was too much talking and not enough bombing.

  • D61 [any]
    hexbear
    20
    4 months ago

    Don't be cute and make "inside joke" movies.

    • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
      hexbear
      36
      4 months ago

      All movies should just be a person staring at a camera and reciting the moral using words no longer than 6 letters.

    • @whoops
      hexbear
      28
      4 months ago

      deleted by creator

      • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead
        hexbear
        16
        4 months ago

        They're going to be fascist whether they see it or not.

        Yeah I think this needs to be said more here. I'm all here for Hexbear media crit but the way some people talk here, you'd think we'd all be living in FALGSC if it weren't for a couple of Netflix shows turning everyone fash. Media has power, but I don't think we can blame the rise of Nazism on the content of Berlin vaudeville plays. Fascists will find media to cling too no matter how hard you try to edit it against their tastes, might as well just enjoy what you enjoy and focus on bashing them in the streets.

      • D61 [any]
        hexbear
        2
        4 months ago

        Poor phrasing on my part I guess... I dig the movie, second one wasn't that interesting but the third one ( I think) was pretty good.

        The thought I had in my head was "make the movies, but if you're doing satire, understand that the people you're satirizing are probably going to think you're making something "for" them."

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
      hexbear
      22
      4 months ago

      i actually think its fine for a movie to not be thuddingly obvious. in fact i would say that interpretation is inherent to the experience of art.

      • Helmic [he/him]
        hexbear
        13
        4 months ago

        which is fine when the stakes of misinterpretation are not "fascism is cool."

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
          hexbear
          1
          4 months ago

          the fascist interprets everything to mean "fascism is cool." that's the advantage of a totalizing worldview. the average internet fascist's media diet is cartoons for babies. you do not have to make art that caters to the stupidity of people you hate.

      • D61 [any]
        hexbear
        5
        4 months ago

        When I watched this movie as a teenager when it came out, I didn't get it.

        It was just a standard big dumb military alien sci-fi action movie, had to learn about some things before picking up on the subtext (and the TEXT) on later rewatches.