LLCSE
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A1MW001 - D - CREATIVE WRITING - Parody
Linguistique
Definition
PARODY
Also called: send-up /spoof/lampoon depending on the level of seriousness. The
goal of a parody is to mock or poke fun on an original work that is famous, so
that people can recognise the original work through parody.
1/ HISTORY OF PARODY
Back to Aristotle days => Hegemon of Thasos invents the burlesque-style parody, as in making a sublime text ridiculous through his imitation.
- SAMUEL RICHARDSON - Pamela (1740, virtue rewarded and moralizing) => Henry Fielding's Shamela (1741) and Jospeph Andrews (1742)
- HOMER - The Odyssey => James Joyce's Ulysses (1918-1920)
- DANTE - Inferno => T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland (1922)
- SHAKESPEARE - Hamlet => Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) => Movie: 1990 With Gary Oldman and Tim Roth
- MEL BROOKS:
- CHARLIE CHAPLIN - The Great Dictator (1940) => The Producers with "Hitler on Ice" play-within-the-film (1968)
- STAR WARS films => Blazing Saddles (1974) and Spaceballs (1987)
- MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS:
- ARTHURIAN LEGEND => MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1974)
- JESUS CHRIST => THE LIFE OF BRIAN (1979)
- TEEN SLAPSTICKS: Scary Movie, Spoof Movie, Romantic Movie
- CARTOONS:
- BUCK RODGERS : Daffy Duck => Duck Dodgers
- DANIEL DAFOE: Robinson Crusoe => Bugs Bunny's Rabbitson Crusoe / Humphrey Bogart : Carrotblanca
2/ JK. ROWLING - HARRY POTTER => MICHAEL GERBER - BARRY TROTTER
Barry Trotter and the Ynauthorized Parody (2001) and also: Barry Trotter and The Unnecessary Sequel => // And the Dead Horse
- Quite successful for a slapstick and off-the-wall parody
- A parody writer must somewhat love the story he pokes fun at, because he needs to know it well enough to be able to criticise it cleverly
- People who buy parodies are usually unconditionnal fans of the original work: paradox
- Harry Potter is painted as a spoiled, lazy and arrogant celebrity who enjoys his fame.
- Characters are all mocked through name changing and temper/personnality contrast
- A huge plot twist occurs with the radical change of some key charachter's main goals./intentions
3/ GEORGE LUCAS - STAR WARS => STEVE TYMON & BRUCE BALMOUR - STAR BORES
Unconventional and slapstick, silly parody of Star Wars. Most of the mockery is made through some creative name changings. However, some plot twist adds up to it.
- Plot Twist: Oatmeal Streetwalker (Anakin Skywalker) discovers that Dark Lord (Dark Vador) is his father and falls out of laugher from the plateform where they fight.
- Slapstick: Dark Lord has a high pitched girly voice, vs a deep, grave one in the original story. It makes him loose credibility.
- Rules: Onomastics, plot twist and slapstik events to lower seriousness.
A retenir :
Parody is done for mockery and humorous effect.
Wainscoting : vertical boards or panelling used to cover walls: lambris
Breaking of the Mimesis: The author steps out of the fiction and jumps into realit, either by quotiding people/things from real world, or by taking us
into the reality of the writer/producer/actor.... even the reader sometimes.
LLCSE
1ère année
1ère année
A1MW001 - D - CREATIVE WRITING - Parody
Linguistique
Definition
PARODY
Also called: send-up /spoof/lampoon depending on the level of seriousness. The
goal of a parody is to mock or poke fun on an original work that is famous, so
that people can recognise the original work through parody.
1/ HISTORY OF PARODY
Back to Aristotle days => Hegemon of Thasos invents the burlesque-style parody, as in making a sublime text ridiculous through his imitation.
- SAMUEL RICHARDSON - Pamela (1740, virtue rewarded and moralizing) => Henry Fielding's Shamela (1741) and Jospeph Andrews (1742)
- HOMER - The Odyssey => James Joyce's Ulysses (1918-1920)
- DANTE - Inferno => T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland (1922)
- SHAKESPEARE - Hamlet => Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) => Movie: 1990 With Gary Oldman and Tim Roth
- MEL BROOKS:
- CHARLIE CHAPLIN - The Great Dictator (1940) => The Producers with "Hitler on Ice" play-within-the-film (1968)
- STAR WARS films => Blazing Saddles (1974) and Spaceballs (1987)
- MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS:
- ARTHURIAN LEGEND => MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1974)
- JESUS CHRIST => THE LIFE OF BRIAN (1979)
- TEEN SLAPSTICKS: Scary Movie, Spoof Movie, Romantic Movie
- CARTOONS:
- BUCK RODGERS : Daffy Duck => Duck Dodgers
- DANIEL DAFOE: Robinson Crusoe => Bugs Bunny's Rabbitson Crusoe / Humphrey Bogart : Carrotblanca
2/ JK. ROWLING - HARRY POTTER => MICHAEL GERBER - BARRY TROTTER
Barry Trotter and the Ynauthorized Parody (2001) and also: Barry Trotter and The Unnecessary Sequel => // And the Dead Horse
- Quite successful for a slapstick and off-the-wall parody
- A parody writer must somewhat love the story he pokes fun at, because he needs to know it well enough to be able to criticise it cleverly
- People who buy parodies are usually unconditionnal fans of the original work: paradox
- Harry Potter is painted as a spoiled, lazy and arrogant celebrity who enjoys his fame.
- Characters are all mocked through name changing and temper/personnality contrast
- A huge plot twist occurs with the radical change of some key charachter's main goals./intentions
3/ GEORGE LUCAS - STAR WARS => STEVE TYMON & BRUCE BALMOUR - STAR BORES
Unconventional and slapstick, silly parody of Star Wars. Most of the mockery is made through some creative name changings. However, some plot twist adds up to it.
- Plot Twist: Oatmeal Streetwalker (Anakin Skywalker) discovers that Dark Lord (Dark Vador) is his father and falls out of laugher from the plateform where they fight.
- Slapstick: Dark Lord has a high pitched girly voice, vs a deep, grave one in the original story. It makes him loose credibility.
- Rules: Onomastics, plot twist and slapstik events to lower seriousness.
A retenir :
Parody is done for mockery and humorous effect.
Wainscoting : vertical boards or panelling used to cover walls: lambris
Breaking of the Mimesis: The author steps out of the fiction and jumps into realit, either by quotiding people/things from real world, or by taking us
into the reality of the writer/producer/actor.... even the reader sometimes.