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dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoRoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.
Alt Right tried to claim They Live as an anti-Jewish alligory.
Carpenter ended up tweeting:
“THEY LIVE is about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism. It has nothing to do with Jewish control of the world, which is slander and a lie.”
It’s the example I cite whenever someone tried validating a smooth brain media interpretation by claiming “Death of the Author!”.
Starship troopers’s point was missed by the same people making the sequels to it, I was so disappointed by the sequels, and don’t understand how they could have been so oblivious.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Robocop’s message was pretty simple, I thought. If you do crime, you’ll get your genitals shot off by a cyborg.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
And off you’re a cop, you’re gonna work after death
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also, Jesus.