Sentences with phrase «culture parody»

Those rankled by pop - culture parody, for example, should run screaming, as that's pretty much the show's entire raison d'etre.

If [it] sounds like the usual preoccupations of pop - culture parody, what lifts it above is Rodriguez's ability to create a self - contained world all of its own restless, wacky, beautiful to look at and with a genuine emotional warmth.

Fans of South Park might appreciate this funny, offensive, bright and colorful, Elves Lives Matter PC culture parody ugly Christmas sweater.

Not exact matches

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.

Smosh, started by comedy duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, was one of the first YouTube sensations, becoming well known for the duo's slapstick comedy videos that parodied video games and pop culture.

It also has an aggressive culture and growth strategy set by a CEO who is so headstrong, so enthusiastic, and so combative in defense of his big idea that he is at risk of seeming like a parody of today's tech entrepreneur — up to and including having a thing for Ayn Rand.

The classic civil - rights movement was determined to reshape America through moral reason; distorted into a twisted parody of itself through the victim culture, it was followed by a moralism self - consciously detached from reason that would prove incapable of calling anyone, black or white, to the great cause of equal justice for all.

Oftentimes, The Babylon Bee has genuinely funny, Onion - style parody articles on church culture and news related to religion and Christianity.

Mike Judge's comedy Silicon Valley takes on the often self - serious world of big tech business, start - up culture and moonshot thinking with gleeful irreverence and sharp parody.

It was pop culture gold for Sagan, and added his much - parodied but genuinely awe - filled catchphrase «billions and billions» to the worldwide vocabulary.

The Sleaze offers an uncompromising, off beat and savage view of our world with British Political Satire, News Satire, Pop Culture Satire, Religious Satire, Royal Satire, Crime Satire, Weird Satire News Parody and Surreal Humour Frequency about 3 posts per month.

It's the first matchmaking app to hook deeply into our culture: creating a flirt scene between athletes at the Olympics, importing randiness to Coachella (traffic on Tinder spikes during big festivals) and spawning knockoffs like a Jewish dating app (JSwipe) and the parody video «Kinder» for kids» play dates.

Most importantly, Beatty seems eager to parody himself, including his status as aging loverboy and his giddy vision of pain and exuberance in black culture.

The Matrix has become such a touchstone of American pop culture - referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)- that it's hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.

Maybe the entire album is a meme itself, a grand existential joke critiquing the all - conquering rise of Internet culture by parodying its overwhelming randomness.

But his talent extends beyond parodying pop culture, as it turns out that he can orchestrate a traditional comic set piece with the best of them.

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.

Yet «Idol» has become so entrenched in pop culture that there was no doubt the film was a parody of the TV show.

Bankers invited by Guardian to watch film find it to be a parody while women among them say sector's macho culture persists

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.

Standout scene: So much about «Get Out» has already entered the pop culture vernacular, but despite being discussed and parodied for nearly a full year by now, the first descent into the Sunken Place is still powerful and terrifying.

Family Guy is known for flashing to seemingly irrelevant scenes that parody pop culture during an episode's story.

The latter isn't one of the better films the pair made, but it does feature a bizarre parody of the Best Picture - winner «Going My Way,» which makes one wonder how ubiquitous that movie was in 1950 and if the pop culture references in Judd Apatow's films are going to age this badly.

The humor is actually a bit better, and I found myself amused on a handful of occasions at the parodies and pop culture references that are sprinkled throughout the film.

The ultimate parody of Star Trek AND the fan culture surrounding it.

Airing on Cartoon Network's late - night Adult Swim, Robot Chicken has amassed six seasons of bite - sized episodes parodying pop culture and, in particular, genre movies and TV.

It starts off a big - laugh - a-minute affair — visual gags, pop culture references, satirical jabs at big targets, meta - fictional self - parody abound.

I suppose I should credit them for at least not targeting the two most ubiquitous media whores in mainstream pop culture - Britney Spears and Paris Hilton - but how is it possible that self - proclaimed purveyors of genre parodies like Friedberg and Selzter are so uninformed about actual disaster movies that they couldn't put together a movie that actually makes fun of them?

Based on the smash - hit British series of the same name and adapted for American Television by Greg Daniels (King of the Hill, The Simpsons), this fast - paced comedy parodies contemporary American water - cooler culture.

Indeed, not only is this movie a wonderful parody of all hero - quest stories, it is also an extremely sharp satire of contemporary popular culture, all the while being a super-enjoyable traditional three - act narrative with a cathartic climax and happy end.

At one point Rell makes a kitten calendar by dressing Keanu up to parody various Hollywood films, and there is more than enough jokes about pop culture, movies / music, race, rap, and drug stereotypes, sexual, vulgar and offensive material, and generally exaggerated dialogue.

Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.

I'll take an earnest, on - the - cheap parody movie over big budget Seltzer / Friedberg pop culture masturbation any day.

A detailed definition of a parody on the second slide precedes different examples of parodies in pop culture.

• A literary treasure brought to our attention by Open Culture: The British Library has posted a digital copy of Jane Austen's simply delightful parody, «The History of England,» which she hand - wrote and illustrated when she was just 15 years old.

Download a Complete, Cover - to - Cover Parody of The New Yorker: 80 Pages of Fine Satire (Open Culture) Just for fun.

The Sleaze offers an uncompromising, off beat and savage view of our world with British Political Satire, News Satire, Pop Culture Satire, Religious Satire, Royal Satire, Crime Satire, Weird Satire News Parody and Surreal Humour Frequency about 3 posts per month.

The Sleaze offers an uncompromising, off beat and savage view of our world with British Political Satire, News Satire, Pop Culture Satire, Religious Satire, Royal Satire, Crime Satire, Weird Satire News Parody and Surreal Humour Frequency about 3 posts per month.

Where games like Grand Theft Auto offer a parody of real life, Yakuza is sincere in its recreation of modern Japanese culture and society, and its slice - of - life portrayal is one of its biggest draws.

It's a hilarious parody of both E3 press conferences, and gaming culture in general.

The combination of platforming and combat with the assorted theme park spoofs and parodies are particularly fun to work on (as someone who's day job is linked to theme park culture).

It successfully parodies the likes of its timely pop culture and coherently incorporates a multitude of varying genres.

Where «Retro City Rampage» was a send up to video games and pop culture, «Shakedown: Hawaii» is a parody of mega corporations, white collar crimes, and the most comically egregious business practices that go alongside.

While the game's content is definitely aimed at a mature audience, the games are generally considered a nihilistic satire of modern life and parody of modern pop culture.

Luckily, it makes its statement without a heavy hand, with its tongue firmly in cheek through parody and the occasional pop culture reference.

A white postmodernist whose collaborations with Wade Guyton as Guyton / Walker seemed obsessed with Ketel One vodka ads — their Fraktur calligraphy no doubt a sign of the nexus between capitalism, Fascism, and strong drink — he parodies Modernism, right along with the culture of consumption, race in America, and the mass media that filter all of these.

As a corrective, Adam McEwen parodies celebrity culture with fake New York Times obits for Rod Stewart, Nicole Kidman, Bill Clinton, and Jeff Koons.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

Hye Rim has developed and evolved her animated character TOKI, which parodies the obsession with beauty created by phallic motivations in cyber culture and gaming, with the work referencing critical contributions from contemporary mythology, psychoanalysis, technology, cybernetics, aesthetics, plastic surgery, feminism, consumerism and eroticism.

Among all the parodies and homages dedicated to American Gothic in the US popular culture today, it's almost hard to recognize the original painting, created by Grant Wood in 1930.