I'm having a hard time thinking of blockbusters mocking yuppies lately but maybe they exist. Also I don't watch pop movies as a yuppie so
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I feel like, No, but also that I don't consume enough broad pop culture lately. But I think that's also part of the answer
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... meaning the fragmentation of pop culture means a lot of what you'll see is by and for the upper middle class
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why would HBO, AMC, NetFlix make shows where their target demographic
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(who are the popped-collar college bound of an 80s movie) are the villains?
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Plus, diminishing of visible and aspirational distinctions b/w lower and upper middle class?
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e.g. "everyone" goes to Starbucks, has a comparable smartphone, college-bound "nice" girls likely to have visible tatoos
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If anything, the dynamic is reversed- villains are likely to be the truck-driving, Walmarting, McMansioning exurbanite
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The super-rich industrialist tycoon is still tediously likely to be the villain- that never changes.
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VILLAINS FOR THE VILLAIN GOD
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