• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      I know so. Many. People. That took the entire movie as “military cool, drill sergeant is funny man, too bad that fat idiot killed him before killing himself.”

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        3 years ago

        It really does put some basis around the theory that it is impossible to create a media product critical of fascism, because the fascist will simply glorify the parts they want and ignore the rest. I really do believe in the ‘death of the author’ for media analysis because of this tendency.

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          3 years ago

          Lindsay Ellis’s shit takes aside, she makes a very good case for parodying fascism (Nazism in particular). Fascists haven’t appropriated Mel Brooks’s lampoons of fascism. They unironically love American History X and sing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”. Nazis do not love “Springtime for Hitler” in the Producers or Jojo Rabbit because it makes them look silly and dumb. Fascists don’t have a coherent ideology and build their ethos around telling themselves they are badass warriors, so parodying fascism by making them sing and dance like clowns is good.