Parody film
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A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films. The main conventions for this genre are:
- Sarcasm
- Huge stereotyping, e.g., the dumb blonde, the hardboiled detective
- Mocking other films or scenes from serious movies
- Violence with no consequence for characters' actions
- Obvious meanings to characters' actions
- Joking around with no purpose
- Random scenens, many layers
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[edit] Examples
[edit] 1970s
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- Silent Movie (1976)
- High Anxiety (1977)
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
[edit] 1980s
- Airplane! (1980)
- History of the World, Part I (1981)
- Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- Top Secret! (1984)
- When Nature Calls (1985)
- Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
- Spaceballs (1987)
- Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
- UHF (1989)
[edit] 1990s
- Hot Shots! (1991)
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
- Fatal Instinct (1993)
- Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
- CB4 (1993)
- Airheads (1994)
- Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
- The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
- A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
- Spy Hard (1996)
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- Mafia! (1998)
- Galaxy Quest (1999)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
[edit] 2000s
- Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
- Scary Movie series (2000-2009)
- Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
- 2001: A Space Travesty (2002)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
- Date Movie (2006)
- Man of the Year (2006)
- Hot Fuzz (2007)
- Farce of the Penguins (2007)
- Epic Movie (2007)
- The Comebacks (2007)
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Meet the Spartans (2008)
- Superhero Movie (2008)
- Disaster Movie (2008)
- An American Carol (2008)
- The World's End (2010)
