Sentences with phrase «as a parody of»

So it was with Dogecoin, originally created as a parody of...

Anyone familiar with the more intellectual forms of pop criticism (whether of music or film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:

As this parody of what she really was, she inspires great art, but she also stands as an obstacle to female social equality by helping perpetuate a stereotype which, whether it is shamed or glorified, demeans womanhood.

Also, she has been featured in countless Asian movies (some serious ones and some as a parody of the more somber versions).

The various groups banter with one another, with insults hurled back and forth, as a parody of the Mommy War status quo.

HornyManatee.com is set up as a parody of a porn site, with sections devoted to solo action, manatee - on - manatee, fetish, man - on - manatee, mature, teen, etc. — all featuring photos of a guy in a manatee suit.

Now he records a song a day for his Daily Reckless website which he started in 2000 as a parody of Scotland's then best - selling daily the Daily Record.

As a parody of the drama «Prison Playbook,» the cast o... Profile.

Intended as a parody of B - movie fantasies from the»50s, this satire more directly lampoons kiddie thrillers like «Captain Video,» putting it perilously close to the pop - culture trash it aims to mock.

And then let us add that movies which try to spoof the porn industry are as tiresome by now as parodies of bad «50s sci - fi.

All I can say is that if someone had told me that Mr. Nobody was actually produced by the Onion as a parody of precious, whimsical, «indie» flavoured cinema, I probably would've appreciated it a hell of a lot more.

As a parody of method acting excesses, Francos performance is an exuberant study in excess.

I'd disagree with the Time Out reviewer that this isn't about anything, I took it as a parody of the «Benefits Street» media culture; using that stereotypical image and amplifying it to the nth degree highlighting it's ridiculousness.

The wistful naturalism of the performance makes the melodrama easier to swallow, but the film as a whole comes across as a parody of those war films where you hear a wide - eyed private proclaim how much he's looking forward to seeing his wife and unborn child before embarking on a mission code - named «Total Annihilation».

The plot exists nearly as a parody of rarefied 1970s - era art films about troubled, privileged white people: Catherine (Elisabeth Moss), the daughter of a legendary artist, retreats with Virginia (Katherine Waterston) up to the latter's remote family cabin somewhere in upstate New York when her boyfriend leaves her in the wake of her father's death.

He is designed as a parody of a Kurosawa warlord, so naturally there will be think pieces comparing him to President Trump.

So full of self - aware speechifying, howlingly bad verbal pissing contests, and audacious bulls ** t plotting that it almost flies as a parody of itself.

«Keanu» works best as a parody of action movies and takes jabs at «John Wick,» «True Romance» (1993), «The Boondock Saints» (1999), «Bad Boys» (1995), and a million other action movies.

Re-Animator (1985) is Stuart Gordon's loose contemporary adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's 1922 short story Herbert West — Reanimator, which was written as a parody of Mary Shelley's most famous work, the 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Despite all the ghastly and bloody moments in the film, when Chopper cuts his ears off or stabs his hard - core rival enough times that he «bleeds» sufficient shoe polish to make it look like Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the film comes across as a parody of the criminal world.

So often are «odd engravings» solutions to puzzles that I wondered now and again if the game was intended as a parody of the entire survival horror genre.

It's been described as a parody of a poorly translated film / game.

Of course, the aforementioned Goat Simulator started off as a parody of banal simulator games before going into mocking other game genres through ragdoll goat physics.

After being released as a parody of Grand Theft Auto, THQ's Saints Row has gained its own loyal following!

It even feels like it's intended as a parody of the RPG genre at some points, even right at the beginning of the game, where the hero spends all his 9,999,999 in gold coins over trivial goods, money that obviously would've been better allocated elsewhere.

Its industrial - scale foam blocks could serve as a parody of Donald Judd's boxes, modular furniture, or the maze of lower Manhattan.

In their own way, these painted brushstrokes become one with the pattern of the fabric, thus the painting can also be read as a parody of abstract painting.»

Following Baldessari's seminal statement «I will not make any more boring Art», he conceived the work The Artist Hitting Various Objects with a Golf Club (1972 — 73), composed of 30 photographs of the artist swinging and hitting with a golf club objects excavated from a dump, as a parody of cataloging rather than a thorough straight classification.

Département des Aigles (1968), for which the artist assembled images and objects related to eagles as a parody of exhibition practices.

These works could be seen as parodies of the heroic — they consist of acts, inhabited moments, rather than portrayals of dandyish poses.

In this carnival, the Waggis is excluded from the community and this is played out as a parody of social relations and groupthink.

Written as a parody of pornography, one whose heroine undergoes physical and emotional transformation, O explores the boundaries of her own will, desire and self - possession.

Not exact matches

In a sketch that parodied the real - life events of Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s recent proposal on the ABC reality show, McKinnon as Mueller sat down with contestant Becca K. (Cecily Strong) to tell her he couldn't give her everything she wanted right now.

But ABC's Kimmel — Letterman's heir as the laid - back ironist of late - night — has weighed in with some surprisingly strong political bits, most notably a parody of The Producers last February in which Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are gobsmacked when their «sure loser» candidate Trump turns into the front runner.

This could take the form an actual agreement with Vivid, or it could be an extraordinarily progressive attitude — Lucas might consider a porn parody as another step toward his goal of total pop culture domination with Star Wars.

While «The Daily Show» skewered nightly television news and «The Colbert Report» directly parodied the «O'Reilly Factor» in the same medium and format as the show, the universe of the media on the far right online isn't as coherent or visible, and the mediums for activism are ever - changing.

«The Peter Bradley Show» has long been speculated to be a parody of «The Charlie Rose Show,» as its black backdrop and Bradley's mannerisms strongly resemble both Rose and his show.

In a sketch that parodied the real - life events of Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s recent proposal on the ABC reality show, McKinnon as Mueller sat down -LSB-...]

Last year, it seemed as if Tronc was the most memorable word of the news year, a new media name seemingly invented as self - parody.

Known to the crypto community as the creator of Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, product manager at Adobe by profession and coder by passion, told Cointelegraph how he sees the future of the cryptocurrency, started as a parody and broke the $ 1 bln market cap in the beginning of 2018, shared his thoughts on the cryptocurrency community, and disclosed some plans for the future.

Falstaff at war is a parody of the other knights: too fat to be hoisted onto a horse, he spends the battle as a tubby suit of armor, waddling from tree to tree, justifying his mid-battle feint of death with «the better part of valor is discretion.»

It is too easy for orthodox Christians to parody and dismiss the more sensationalist popularizers of «creation theology» such as Rosemary Ruether, Matthew Fox, and Thomas Berry.

This paraphrase is, I know, a parody that is both unfair and unnuanced, but it serves well enough to make the point that to espouse as one's purpose the promotion of the knowledge and love of God is, in our time, an act that runs against both theological fashion and the spirit of the age.

Hamann critiqued this as a pathetic, prideful parody of God's fiat in creation: «For what is the highly touted reason with its omnipotence, infallibility, effusiveness, certainty, and evidence?

Regarding your moniker, as it is brought up, it reminds of and I actually believe it is a parody of one of the «Beatitudes» the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of.

Consumption as spectacle is — in parody form — the anticipation of a Utopian situation.

Not only did the Church believe that these gods had been shown up as shadows and parodies in light of the true God's self - revelation.

Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender studies, and both their style and content seem ill at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»

Another way, as with the South after the Civil War, is to identify with the aggressor and parody the worst aspects of the dominant system.

Using true history as a parody, the Gospel writers called into question all the central beliefs and practices of Roman life and worship.