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Great Satire Writing:
Oh shit, I bit that onion a tad too hard. What has the world come to?
I ate the onion. This is on point.
Uh, brb, I’m off to write & submit a movie script…
I ate it too. In China, they do this with their cinema, and I partook heavily of that product for many years, so it felt familiar.
I legitimately expect there to be something negative about unions in it. Whether it's a "corrupt union boss" or a union strike blamed for something bad happening.
I feel like they might be more clever than that. They will make it organized crime, make them incompetent mooks being manipulated by some fake humanitarian that is funneling charity into evil. Then a tech oligarch will help Bond at a critical time, and they'll be like "It's a good thing this small business owner happened to have a billion dollars that he earned through legitimate, moral effort."
Think about this; "Thunderball" and "Goldfinger" where Bond assaults women with impunity were considered fine for kids to watch, and even generated children's toys.
Heck, there was a toy Xenomorph for 1979's Alien too! And that was even weirder because Alien was R rated and theoretically no children should have been allowed to watch it.
We had that toy as kids. We never saw the movie (still haven't to this day), we just thought it was cool.
Ah, you got me. It was just cartoon villain enough.
lmao I would absolutely watch a satire like this.
Does anyone know if any series ever satired itself? Especially with the same actors?
Ian Fleming crated the characters in "The Man From UNCLE" Napoleon Solo and April Dancer. The UNCLE shows were pretty tongue-in-cheek.
There are a lot of things close to that in scifi. The Starship Troopers movie is a satire of the book it's based on, and the Orville is a satire of Star Trek with a lot of Trek actors taking part.
The pinnacle of self-parody though is, of course, Star Trek: Lower Decks
They're going to modernize plots of old unionization climaxes where they were like "if you won't acknowledge our union we're going to fucking blow up the factory and you will have nothing" and they'll twist it in to a sob story about how the unions are terrorists and how the factory owner has a family and children and :'(. Surprised more of it hasn't already happened lol.
Almost ate the onion with this one 😅