Just saw Knives Out—it’s amazing I can’t imagine a movie like that coming out a few years ago; it’s so clever and stylish, this very modern loving half-satire of the murder mystery genre
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It’s part of this pattern I’ve noticed recently in movies/TV—genre pieces that *know* they’re genre pieces, and mock the tropes of the genre, but therefore get to play the tropes up even more and end up being great examples of the genre itself
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Think Jane The Virgin—basically a satire of telenovelas, but because it does everything with a wink it gets to be even more ridiculous in its drama and plotting. And those are tropes for a reason—they work! JtV is basically getting telenovelas past your irony filter
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Princess Bride is the first example of this I can think of: makes fun of the swashbuckling adventure genre, but also is the pinnacle of that genre, *precisely because* it exaggerated that genre’s style
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Thor Ragnarok is another—Thor fighting to The Immigrant Song is very funny and also a great superhero fight scene
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Basically: Knives Out is simultaneously a great murder mystery movie, and a satire of the murder mystery genre and I love it
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feel like name of the wind and the last unicorn are the book versions of this. for fantasy & fairy tales respectively.
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