• dwindling7373@feddit.it
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      1 month ago

      It’s a funny subversion, personally it tickle my brain to recast everything I know about Charlie and the Chocolate factory in a turnip twist with a Wanky being as flamboyant as always and the kids being WAY less into it. i like to picture the parent being there and being enamored with it.

      It says a lot about society.

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        1 month ago

        “Subverting expectations” is like jazz.

        A good jazz musician knows the rules of music. They choose which ones to bend and which ones to break. When a couple of rules are broken here and there it’s pleasurable and exciting.

        When too many rules are broken, it’s Yoko Ono.

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            The core of humor is doing something unexpected. “Willy Wonka makes turnips” is unexpected. The same is true with “Charlie doesn’t like what Willy Wonka makes”.

            The problem is that both of those things are telegraphed really early, thus defusing any surprise they could have delivered. By the last frame we expect Charlie to have a bad time at Willy Wonka’s factory, and he does.

            This comic is making animal noises into a microphone and Chuck Berry wants to slap the shit out of it.

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                  1 month ago

                  Have you ever seen like anything from Monty Python? i’m genuinely curious I know comedy is, obviously, subjective, but this comic has a distinctive quality and it’s hard for me to see it labeled as “shitty”.

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                    Yeah, I’ve seen all of Flying Circus and all of their movies.

                    Monty Python did absurdist stuff, but they didn’t violate core principles of timing and surprise. Jokes recurred or dragged at times without overstaying their welcome.

                    A piece of absurdist humor still needs to be humorous. Being weird doesn’t absolve something from being boring or pointless.

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        30 days ago

        In the second subversion, it’s still a chocolate factory but Charlie is allergic to chocolate

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      1 month ago

      It’s just funny (to me) thinking about if it wasn’t chocolate but instead something undesirable. Now if it was beetroot…