JackbyDev comments on Anon watches The Whale

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 86 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I think people don't realize you're making fun of manosphere and alt right creators co opting the terms from the movies like red pill and others.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I think Flight Club is a better idea of the right people walking away with the wrong message.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

RoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Robocop’s message was pretty simple, I thought. If you do crime, you’ll get your genitals shot off by a cyborg.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

And if you're a cop, you're gonna work after death

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Also, Jesus.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Alt Right tried to claim They Live as an anti-Jewish alligory.

Carpenter ended up tweeting:

“THEY LIVE is about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism. It has nothing to do with Jewish control of the world, which is slander and a lie.”

It's the example I cite whenever someone tried validating a smooth brain media interpretation by claiming "Death of the Author!".

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[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Starship troopers's point was missed by the same people making the sequels to it, I was so disappointed by the sequels, and don't understand how they could have been so oblivious.

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[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not a movie, but RATM is my favorite example of this. Or the Punisher.

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[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Punisher badges on police equipment.....

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[–] AnalogousFortune@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

“Some of those that burn torches are the same that burn crosses!” Yeah!! Woohoo!! What fun music. Go GOP!!

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[–] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago*

Correction: "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses."

Zack's saying that the police aren't your friends, and if you're a certain ethnicity some of them are actively trying to eradicate you.

In that context, that MAGAts are championing that song is even more sinister than them just missing the point.

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[–] dingleberrylover@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fight Club is such a good movie. It seems like an awful lot of people don't understand it at all. The same with American Psycho. You definitely nailed it with the right people walking away with the wrong message.

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