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What defines satire in memes, and mis-en-scene oe props

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Anita W. answered • 01/29/25

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What is fair game when using comic themes using tropes, objects to satirize public figures?

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Anita W.

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When the "Little General" played by Charlie Chapman memes Hitler by grabbing the globe and Goosesteps, the audience laughed; we stop now and it is no longer a comedy, but a horror.
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Movies satirize bureaucracy, red tape, celebrity narcissism, corruption, evil, corrupt, misanthropic, conniving figures that are depicted as misfits of characters as shown in horror movies, slasher movies, Sci-fi fantasy movies like Jabba the Hut, or a monstrous plant that devours its prey--the Venus Fly Trap; thus, external features of abnormal, deformed, extremes in body mass, hairiness or baldness, height, dwarfism or giantism signal chaos, vice, abominations, discord as in the Michael Meyer knife and mask. Another meme is the purple design, and yellow background.
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01/30/25

Anita W.

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The most famous satire in British literature is Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" because it raises an absurd argument---eating Irish Catholic babies to profit from the colonization if the exploitation of Ireland in the support of the British Empire. Babies make the best flesh to cook, ideal for succulent, tender, and juicy dishes. However, the teenagers are problematic--the meat is like eating roosters--tough, unchewable, and unsavory! Trying to get adolescents to work is inefficient, because they are irrational, arrogant, and wayward.
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01/31/25

Anita W.

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Another example of 17th century satire that is portrayed in movies, plays, and even comic books the song "Mack the Knife," sung in the 1950's by Bobby Darren about a corrupt, transitional gangster who treats murder, rape, fraud, and betrayal of friends and family as a collateral damage , known in the military as "friendly fire." When good people must die because you have to kill one enemy, the unfortunate event is defined "friendly fire"; the gangster is cold-blooded and callous. He must kill, deceive, betray, and create chaos and mayhem, but in doing these crimes. This narcissistic thug must finish his personal vendetta no matter what it may cost, In German it is this mendacious, transparent mob-king that is seen in Kurt Weill's "Die Drei Grossen Oper" or "The Three Penny Oper" where the protagonist murders, plunders, rapes, and seizes property via deceptio
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Mack the knife is a flat character, for he does not CHANGE OR REALIZE HIS MISTAKES. In contrast, the round charact has a fully developed personality, and may start off evil, but he or he changes and after experiencing an epiphany, the person recognizes his or her faults in humble humility.
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