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rogbngp
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Where do we draw the line with this? I’ve posted numerous times the Wikipedia link for all the sources and analogs that George Lucas himself said he was consciously and intentionally drawing from to cobble together Star Wars. Zack is taking the same idea and doing it more self-consciously which normally happens as a genre evolves. The films become increasingly self-aware and self-conscious about the genre’s themes and conventions, and the genre itself more intentionally comments on those elements in a dialogue with the audience that is becoming more mature in their appreciation of the things at the heart of the genre—or at least so familiar that they’ll easily get bored if they just keep getting the same standard fare. They need to feel some novelty to the stories they’re watching. It often shows up in a self-parodying way, e.g., Space Balls. And sometimes in an elegiac way, like with a kind of sadness and sense of loss that we’re not innocent anymore about how and why this entertains us, like The Unforgiven.
It’s interesting to me that Zack Snyder has referred to Sucker Punch as a satire of the feminist themes that film is dealing with. Like he was making a film that was at its core extremely cynical about those issues and themes. Again, there’s an almost Asperger’s-ish disconnection quality to it. Or there’s a strong analogy to whatever is going on with him to that. There’s more I could say about that, but it gets into theoretical territory that I realize will sound pretentious to many folks. So I’ll just leave it there for now. Stuff that by its very nature very hard to either prove or disprove.
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