Lots of great examples of the alternative superhero movie genre in my twitter feed. I won't RT them all, but it's interesting how many.
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@HeerJeet It's a silly genre. But serious things can be done with it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The current turn towards "dark and gritty" superheroe movies is attempt, understandable but wrongheaded, to hold parody & dada at bay.
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@HeerJeet "Dark and gritty" is pretty easy to parody, though.
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@HeerJeet This is true not of comics but of most mass entertainment. The TV show started out as a meta-satire of the TV show. -
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@HeerJeet (Remember, the first successful TV shows -- Milton Berle, Lucy, etc -- were all satires of the culture of making TV shows). -
@DougSaunders Absolutely. And lots of parallels in other forms of pop culture. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet (Mind you, one could easily point out, per Rabelais, Laurence Sterne et al, that the novel started as a satire of the novel). -
@DougSaunders@HeerJeet Cervantes too, thoroughly. - Show replies
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