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| Thought police on World Police |
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I'm looking forward to seeing Team America: World Police. I read an article about it over the weekend, which I'm pretty sure was in The Australian. Can't find a link for it. So maybe it's only in the print edition. Anyway, it was a pretty good summary of the reaction to the film. Of course everybody knows that Sean Penn didn't take too kindly to being pilloried in it. But apparently quite a few liberal reviewers thought that the satirical subtext beneath all the silly gags was disturbingly right-wing. I certainly hope it is. Ages ago, in my standup days, I would always try to have a bob each way and take the piss out of both sides of politics. But now I see no sin in being completely partisan. The left is forever mocking the right (usually not very well) and right wingers have been more than forgiving and good-natured about it. Go to any standup venue and you'll see just about every comic get up and spit bile about John Howard, while the audience (most of whom probably voted for him) are happy to go along with it. But if, as a comic, you clearly have a go at lefite icons you can be damn sure to get a snippy response from their supporters both in the audience and the comedy scene itself. Pinkos can dish it out, but they sure as shit can't take it. I sense that this is what is happening with World Police. I recall reading that the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone claimed to vote Republican (and they weren't joking!). If this comes through strongly in the film it will certainly buck the unwritten rule of comedy in the US, Australia and Britain, which is that it must lean leftward or be apolitical. Could be the start of a wider trend. I look forward to the day when right-wing piss-taking of the left becomes the norm and not the exception. |
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