Word: send-up
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...obtuse Good Soldier Schweik, whereas in terms of plot Voltaire's Candide might have been a Gump pilot. Yet Schweik is not so much a defense of dumb optimism as an argument against militarism and a celebration of sly peasant smarts. And Candide may be literature's most ferocious send-up of cheeriness in the face of the world's cruelties. By its end, its battered hero has abandoned his opening premise that everything happens for the best in this best of all possible worlds...
David Souter finds for 2 Live Crew's send-up of Roy Orbison...
...form that has long suffered in copyright limbo. Normally, artists are entitled to payment for use of their words, tunes or images. A 1976 law lists some exceptions to this rule, including scholarship and commentary, whereby unpaid excerpting (known as "fair use") is allowed. Parody, however, goes unmentioned. Should send-up artists, whose ranks have included everyone from Lewis Carroll to "Weird Al" Yankovic, be included too? More specifically, can Campbell, best known for his group 2 Live Crew's 1990 victory over obscenity charges, appropriate Orbison's famous bass intro, his drumbeat and his first line without permission from...
...former relied on such quaint thing as acting, good music and good cutting to produce something genuinely pleasurable, "The Chase" makes half-assed attempts to replicate the same gestures--cop cars piling up down a hill and flipping over, cars driving through road blocks. Our culture needs a "send-up" of "The Blue Brothers " about as badly as it needs, well, special press screening of movie like this...
...send-up" of [adjective] thing = [same adjective]. So a cool jokey advertisement that makes fun of stupid manipulative ads is, surprised, stupid and mainpulative. A TV show that tires to give us some distance from the mind-numbing banality of music videos is, you guessed it, mind-numbingly banal. A movie which attempts cleverly to poke fun at the genre of bomb chase movies will be hard-pressed not to end up as a dumb chase movie. The same with "The Player:" for all its inside jokes and self-affacement, it ended up seeming too much like the kind...