monyet.cc
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
CoolerOpposide [none/use name] to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish • 8 months ago

Next I want to watch that movie about those guys with the cool business cards

hexbear.net

message-square
23
fedilink
135

Next I want to watch that movie about those guys with the cool business cards

hexbear.net

CoolerOpposide [none/use name] to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish • 8 months ago
message-square
23
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • MF_COOM [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    47•8 months ago

    IDK I think it’s important to acknowledge a lot of these types of movies also significantly glamorize the protagonist. It’s not typical that the film is 100% critical of the character and dumdums just completely misunderstand it, usually they’re also given cool lines, cool music underscores their actions, cool aesthetics, they’re shot in flattering ways, played by beautiful movie stars, etc.

    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      31•8 months ago

      definitely worth mentioning. fight club succumbs to this to the point of just being really bad satire. you gotta think if that many people missed the point it might be a problem with the nature of the work. still love american psycho though.

    • Barx [none/use name]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22•8 months ago

      Honestly just the music probably makes all the difference. Is the protagonist walking down the hall getting upbeat 80s music? They’re doing a cool thing, positive vibes. Some unsettling music, or unexpected silence? Uh-oh, this is bad. What a bsd guy.

      • Krem [he/him, they/them]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        24•8 months ago

        nightcrawler was a fun example of a creepy guy doing creepy stuff creepily while upbeat inspirational music plays. almost feels like a parody of both this type of movie guy as well as bootstraps type movies

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    44•8 months ago

    bateman-business-card

    • burgermeister
      link
      fedilink
      English
      31•8 months ago

      “I told them it was just Batman, not THE Batman. What am I going to do with 5000 of these?”

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    40•8 months ago

    The tragedy of these movies is they are so good at reflecting back a critique of your existing social condition, a person can mistake that reflection as the only interpretation. I’ll add The Matrix to this list too.

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22•8 months ago

      And miss the idea that it’s critiquing at all.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]OP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      7•8 months ago

      Zizek moment

  • 2812481591 [any, it/its]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    34•8 months ago

    ummmm, he’s literally the protagonist of the film which means he’s the good guy. Like, hol’up isn’t the point of every movie that the protagonist is a cool person, and the audience should act exactly like them to be cool too?

    • @Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      24•
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      deleted by creator

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    28•8 months ago

    Man, Starship Troopers is so cool! I want to be a Citizen!

  • xXShadowXx [none/use name]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    28•8 months ago

    What does ‘deterritorialise’ mean?

    • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      26•
      edit-2
      8 months ago

      Since no one gave the serious answer yet: term used by philosophers Deleuze and Guattari

      In critical theory, deterritorialization is the process by which a social relation, called a territory, has its current organization and context altered, mutated or destroyed.

      In the meme it’s how the characters in these sorts of stories have become so alienated by capital that they need to resort to extreme violence to change their social relations (usually in a self-destructive way, because revolution is precluded by the material conditions in the imperial core in these narratives).

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22•8 months ago

      It means to stop being a tortoise; hence, detortoise

      • xXShadowXx [none/use name]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        19•8 months ago

        ❌🐢

        • osmosis4493 [any]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          16•8 months ago

          deleted by creator

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    25•8 months ago

    now let’s see paul allen’s accidental propaganda play

  • Carnage Sleuth
    link
    fedilink
    English
    24•8 months ago

    The one thing Adornoid theories are good for: yapping about movies

  • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    21•8 months ago

    over-your-head

  • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    14•8 months ago

    And this is why i read books instead of watching movies.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]OP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      5•8 months ago

      Books >>>>>>> movies

      • r3dw4re [null/void]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1•8 months ago

        Frfr, books are awesome.

        I don’t read books that often, but I recently picked up book about quitting smoking that I saw mentioned by some guy on lemmy. I read it through in 11 hours straight no sleep and the effect was immediate, I quit smoking lmao. Idk what magic was that but now I fucking love books 🤩

  • ihaveibs [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    12•8 months ago

    Satire is popular under capitalism because it reinforces the system. The idea that we need to abstract our critiques instead of making them explicit serves no one but the ruling class.

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    5•8 months ago

    leftist meme .jpg

chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

!chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Slop posts go in c/slop. Don’t post low-hanging fruit here.

  • 595 users / day
  • 1.5K users / week
  • 2.57K users / month
  • 5.15K users / 6 months
  • 13.9K subscribers
  • 21.1K Posts
  • 308K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
  • MiraculousMM [he/him, undecided]
  • Nakoichi [they/them]
  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
  • ZoomeristLeninist [they/them, she/her]
  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
  • sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them]
  • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
  • khizuo [ze/zir]
  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]
  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
  • Infamousblt [any]
  • Sulvy [he/him, comrade/them]
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org