Parody Review Thread

Mountain Valley Wolf · Nov 3, 2015

One thing I occaisionally have a lot of fun writing is parody. And who doesn't like reading the Onion? Not to mention that a fair amount of truth gets shared through parody (For example, the fact that Donny and Marie Osmond, despite being brother and sister, insisted on having a shared dressing room, could not keep their hands off of each other, and more than once tapings of their show had to be stopped while Marie was secretly whisked off to have her brother's baby aborted. ...What, that's not factual? ...Your saying I just now made that up??? Ok, well, never mind that example then).

I started this thread so everyone who enjoys writing satire, or reviews, or wants to get that lucrative 6-digit income writing reviews for the New York Times (I mean, surely they pay a 6-digit income right?) has a place to share their reviews. So here it is, you can parody whatever you want in a review: movies, music, restaurants, art, society, your mother's sexual techniques.

Now, I can see what you are thinking, your wanting to say, 'MVW, that sounds great, anybody can start a parody review, but the problem is, how can I stop it? Let's say I start parodying the Mona Lisa, and three days later, with no sleep and not a bite to eat, I am still writing?

Well let me share some advice I found many years ago in a National Lampoon article on how to be an author. The writer said that if you don't know how to end your story, then just have everyone get run over by a truck.

To begin this thread, I will share a post I did at 3:00 am this morning, when I should have actually been working on my book. I parodied the Disney Movie, Frozen. And while it wasn't a review per se' it was written in a review style.

I have watched the Disney film, Frozen, more times than I care to, being that one of my grandchildren is still very young. Kids love this movie, even those so young that they have just learned their very first word.

This has caused me to wonder more than once about the metaphoric lessons this movie has for the youth of the world, especially little girls who relate more closely to the main characters of this film.

Frozen is written in a fairy tale style, which is important to children because it relates to them at an archetypal level, communicating metaphoric messages which enables them to make sense of situations and realities in their own lives, and to thereby overcome obstacles, challenges, and problems. Because the real life lessons presented by myth and fairytale are processed at a subconscious level, the lessons are really very subjective and interpreted in individual ways, but nonetheless, in ways that are aligned with the overall context of the story. Such lessons are especially important for younger children who are not really ready to grasp complex life lessons at a conscious level.

Frozen is a story about two sisters, the daughters of a King and Queen in a mythical version of Norway. The older sister has a magical power of being able to generate ice and snow, and to be able to freeze things. As children, the two sisters enjoy experimenting and playing with this fun power. But then the younger sister, Anna, gets hurt, resulting in the castle being closed and locked up, with its occupants, namely the sisters, being forced to live as prisoners (one freer than the other), until an event symbolic of achieving adulthood (the older sister’s coronation).

Anna, locked up in her parent’s dwelling, if you will—you know, the father’s castle (and I say castle with all the authoritarian domineering father connotations) until that one day when she is finally able to express her freedom, as a teenager.

And wouldn’t you know it, the first guy she meets sweeps her off her feet and proposes to her. She gets engaged to a guy she doesn’t even know (a point that is brought up several times). And what is marriage, but simply a grandiose ceremony in the mundane world, which leads to the deflowering. After all, without the consummation, there is no marriage. In other words, this is really a story about Anna’s virginity. The fact that she is about to give it up to the first guy she meets, creates tension between her and her sister resulting in a catastrophic series of events and an ecstatic release of the magic they played with when they were younger. In fact it is so ecstatic, that the whole town and all the surrounding areas receive the bountiful discharge of the older sister’s (Elsa’s) magic.

We are talking about sex here. And quite possibly, the sisters are alternate egos of the same person: Anna, the younger, more playful ego who innocently and happily enjoys her own sexuality. And Elsa, the older more mature and serious alter-ego, who is sexually very powerful, but will not just give it up to the first guy that comes along (even if she might give it up for the whole town and its local forests, mountains, and seas; and who in fact, is fully capable of expressing (enjoying) it all by herself. (This would make the ending so much better where the true love Anna must find to gain healing, is to love and accept herself (as alternate ego) rather than an incestuous lesbian thing that could otherwise be deduced.)

In this light, we must then question, should Anna have not been willing to give up her virginity to the first guy that came along? It would have saved the whole town and province from the fallout of her (as her alternate ego sister), letting go in total sexual freedom.

On the other hand, can she be blamed? It was because of her parent’s, in an act of shame, repressing the girl’s sexuality, so severely that not only was she locked away in her father’s castle, but Elsa (representing the alter-ego with the true sexual power) was even locked away further—within her own room away from Anna. There would be no more playing; no more experimenting. Perhaps the real lesson is one of parental authority, and the prudent shame that induces its dominant expression, which creates hang ups and sexual dysfunction—even long after the parents are gone as we saw them disappear early on.

But then on the other hand, there is that song that is the most popular and best known aspect of the movie---not the Beatle’s ‘Let it be.’ No, Disney had to create a whole new song------‘Let It Go.’ Could the message of sexual abandon be any clearer? After all, those rock creatures told her that fear is her enemy—and they are, as we were told, the love experts.

In fact, it is when Elsa finally overcomes her fear, and after having truly mastered her magic, that she is able to come home, and entertain the whole town, much to all their enjoyment, with her magic (tricks, sexuality, kinks...).

And what is up with that snowman, and its blatantly phallic nose?

Or is this just a joke—satire on my part, at the expense of Walt Disney. How could any of us ever really know…?

But then if you argue, well what about all those messages of empowerment, respect for oneself, and overcoming obstacles and so forth? Well to that I say that by failing to even acknowledge such possibilities I direct most readers to accept, hook, line, and sinker, my completely sexual interpretation.
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So there you have it----let's have fun. Then everyone got runover by a truck!

outhaboxx · May 18, 2016

well you just ruined it for me, if i should ever see it i will undoubtedly be thinking "whips and chains".

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