I've long maintained that satire as a film genre is dead because:
1/ Irony has become the default voice of our culture. Satire needs a sincere baseline to subvert. When everything is a joke, nothing is.
2/ Satire needs a filmmaker who is ahead of the audience. That's impossible today because the audience is already ahead through a hundred-thousand tweets, reels and hot-takes published and consumed everyday about everything that can be parodied and satirized.
Danny Boyle Says ‘28 Years Later Part 3’ Will ‘Have a Lot of Cillian Murphy in It’ and Backs Jack O’Connell as the Next James Bond https://t.co/HcW5UBLYqh
If anyone wants to know how the outrage machine gets fired up:
1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell”
2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender
3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets Schmitt talking points
4. Schmitt steps in it
5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
TV on the Radio stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Brooklyn to dust off "Wolf Like Me," delivering a massive performance of the beloved track from their 2006 album Return to Cookie Mountain.
https://t.co/yMfzUMLXc9