Sentences with phrase «through parody»

Wade through the parody videos, and you might be able to save a few bucks here and there.

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

The NEA also states that teachers bring lessons to life through parody, games, and comical voices.

In 1991, Saturday Night Live laughed at the idea through a parody commercial for a beer called Schmitts Gay.

This format, and frequently the pair's basic physical attributes, were endlessly re-circulated through parody and reference, from little - seen employee training programs for Blockbuster Video to sniveling caricatures in Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (the real - life Siskel and Ebert were mostly just disappointed not to see their fictional counterparts at least get properly squashed).

Mockery of heroes also takes place through parody, even self - parody.

Not exact matches

Porn parodies are making big profits through obvious copying and exploitation of intellectual property.

(The new moniker was an amalgam of a nonsense word Markoe and Letterman would say to each other — «melman» — coupled with a nod to one of the Watergate conspirators, Egil «Bud» Krogh Jr.) From the debut, DeForest became one of the show's leading lights of absurdity, a seemingly clueless every - schlub stumbling his way through new - product parodies («Toast on a Stick») or plugging the fictional «Melman Bus Lines.»

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.

Comedian Woody Allen often goes for an easy laugh by inserting various outrageous statements into a parody, such as his takeoff on Kafka's Journals: «Getting through the night is becoming harder and harder.

Okay, I'll give the Clinton campaign a reasonable number of cool points for announcing the winner of her campaign song contest through a video that very cleverly parodies the last episode of The Sopranos.

A parody of a political prostitute has instead been unleashed through the manipulation of online and mainstream media to give the impression that the man was desperate and consumed by the spirit of inordinate ambition.

The scientists decided to make a parody of a trailer for a Star Wars movie, but instead of showing starship cruisers hurtling through space towards the Death Star, they chose a biological process with its own built - in narrative: the fertilization of an egg by a sperm, in which millions of sperm race to be the one that succeeds and creates the next generation of life.

Voltaire parodied it through the character of Doctor Pangloss in Candide, who clings to his Leibnizian optimism despite endless torments.

BoF: Colette has always had a sense of humour and been able to engage with younger menswear consumers, especially through brand parodies on t - shirts.

This is a feat as we are put through babies making inappropriate hand gestures, a naked super-camp Chinese gangster and a Rain Man parody to name a few.

But its uninspiring, aimless plot is the film's downfall, in what, mid-way through, turns into an unintentional parody of TV's superior supernatural nail - biter «Les Revenants» (The Returned).

Liev Schreiber does an amusing through pretty standard LBJ parody, and James Marsden adds a New England warp to his vowels as Kennedy.

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You either see it as a rumination on art and the creative process through the prism of this kook who makes a bad movie, but at least he still makes something, or you can look at it as a flight of fancy where a bunch of famous people do a shot - for - shot parody of a bad movie and throw in some window dressing to make it seem like a fully fledged movie.

This was the first parody to caricature the actors as well as their roles, portraying a Montgomery Clift who stutters and stammers through his part, taking five word balloons to deliver a single line.

Jacques Rivette's dazzling 750 - minute Out 1 (1971)-- an eight - part serial in 16 - millimeter still unscreened in this country that remains one of the boldest experiments in film narrative ever attempted — was conceived as a kind of parody of Bazin's ideas in its deft mixture of documentary and fiction, its improvising actors working through a dense plot built around real and imagined conspiracies, and even its extended takes, one of which lasts 45 minutes as it records a theater group's exercise.

A purported Blue Velvet parody concentrates on the very idea of David Lynch's career as one great big indiscernible mindfuck (making detours through Dune, The Elephant Man, and «Twin Peaks»), while a goof on Dogville focuses almost exclusively on that film's chalk - outline backdrop.

If they haven't seen it, they either simply know about it (through cinematic and cultural osmosis) or have watched a parody such as in «The Simpsons».

League explained — through his fake and sometimes - dangling beard — that we were all there to celebrate the «sword - and - sandals» genre, and that David Gordon Green's film was an homage — rather than a parody — of movies like Dragonslayer, Legend, Krull, or The Sword and The Sorcerer.

A fine musician Dylan may be, but he's long - since completed the transition into outright parody of himself and here he mumbles and grumbles his way through a series of bizarre meetings with some even more bizarre characters.

Whether he's burning through dozens of flubbed takes in front of an exhausted crew (including Seth Rogen as the exasperated script supervisor), insisting on filming a sex scene with his leading lady (Ari Graynor) with all of the members of the cast present, or getting a personal toilet installed in the middle of the soundstage, Wiseau struts his private despotate of fake brick walls like a perfect parody of directorial hubris.

Having sat through Cold Creek Manor, I can't help but wonder if Figgis wasn't actually making a parody of thrillers, as the film contains every cliche of the genre and plays them to a ridiculous hilt.

I do love Mancini's excitement for the filmmaking process, but I wish he would have followed through with that parody of domestic drama he keeps harping on instead of the rambling diatribe against the entertainment industry he eventually made.

Only Kate Hepburn and (at least so far) Meryl Streep can boast of careers with comparable virtues of longevity and seriousness (poor Joan Crawford slipped into self - parody after her career - reviving «Baby Jane» while Davis maintained her dignity even through substandard roles).

«As he's walking through a very Halloween-esque white suburb, he goes, «Man, I feel like I'm in a hedge maze out here,»» Peele pointed out in an interview with V.F. Devoted Key and Peele fans will also recall that Peele has parodied this film before, in the sketch «Continental Breakfast.»

There are cameos from Kenan Thompson as a wisecracking retail manager, and Matt Dillon, who smirks his way through his role as the cop, and Christopher Lloyd, embarrassingly hung out to dry in some cruel parody of dementia, and Peter Serafinowicz, in a perplexing role as the simpleton stoner deadbeat dad to Caine's grandchild.

One sitting through any batch of previews proves the formula extends to trailers as well, cunning exposed in a new video parody.

• Scavenger hunts which guide students through exhibits on Wood and his paintings, the parodies and the house's history

The Tudor gardens of Britain; the African savannah; a haunted Tim Burton wedding in some spooky alternative South America; and on through Mexican badlands, American cities, mystical interludes in Japan and India, and a devious parody of a Siberian villain's lair.

As you make your way through the various decades, you are introduced to handheld gaming consoles like the Gameboy and PSP, parodies of the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, N64, Sega Dreamcast, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and eventually the PS4 and Xbox One.

Game Dev Tycoon is not a serious experience and is light - hearted which shows through in its visuals and funny parodies of console developments.

By paying tribute and playing parody to the great horror games and films that came before it, Streets of Red: DDD balances lighthearted comedy against tension so thick that you could cut through it with a knife, axe, or even a chainsaw!

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.

The Waste Land is a logistical nightmare, spiraling through numerous histories, miming and parodying lines and legends that frequently disorient and frustrate its reader.

Innovative and dynamic spellcasting system Up to four - player co-op in all game modes, as well as a single - player option Fight your way through a dozen different campaign levels Explore an expansive realm of adventure to defeat the evil wizard Find and unlock challenges, items, and powerful Magicks Experience the parody and satire of a clichéd fantasy world

Noemi Smolik examines latent parody and absurdism in the work of Kazimir Malevich, on the occasion of the exhibition Malevich at Tate Modern, London, on view through October 26, 2014.

Tropicália is thus a sort of parody of Brazilian stereotypes for a Brazilian audience, an in - joke in which viewers traverse sand and gravel paths through favela - like cabins called Penetráveis [Penetrables], encounter a couple of live macaws, brush past potted tropical plants, and listen to Caetano Veloso's canonical song «Tropicália» — itself a parodistic and sharply critical invocation of Brazilian mulatas, Carmen Miranda, and soaring paper monuments rising above the corpses of children.

The painting is often referenced in popular culture, movies, television, music, theatre and opera, and it is often parodied through artworks by other artists.

Using methods like parody, satire, interventions, and tactical obfuscation, he created fake organizations and corporations (including counterfeiting sites, media hoaxes and fictional characters) through imitating real corporations and political organizations.

At one point in the evening, Belott staged a parody of an art auction in which paintings by major artists (Joe Bradley, Katherine Bernhardt, Jamian Juliano - Villani, Eddie Martinez, etc — all friends of Belott) were destroyed on stage and run through a paper shredder.

Through a mixture of parody, and a sensuous use of paint that calls touch, taste and smell into play, a carefully considered point is made.

Hoffmann organized the 2010 Max Wasserman Forum the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, titled Parody, Politics, and Performativity, a forum to address critical issues in contemporary art and culture through arts professionals and which included presentations by artists Tino Sehgal, Tania Bruguera, Joan Jonas, and Claire Fontaine as well as art historians Dorothea von Hantelmann and Frazer Ward.

A must - visit is the combined rare - books shop and contemporary art gallery Harper's Books, featuring work by Irish painter Genieve Figgis, whose dark, witty parodies of Old Masters and 18th - century paintings are on view through August 10, followed by a group show featuring abstract and near - surreal paintings by Katherine Bradford, Sarah Braman, Al Freeman, and Adrianne Rubenstein (August 13 to September 25).

Pop artists made something of a habit of lampooning the bravura brushwork of this previous generation, parodying their lofty aspirations to achieve authentic and unique artistic expression through the liberating excess of their painterly marks.