What’s gone difference between satire and parody?
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Great answers so far but I want to give some examples. Scary Movie (by the Wayan brothers) is a parody. It’s intentionally mocking horror films by using exaggerated forms of some of the tropes of the horror genre. It’s a comedy that is set in the same world as a horror movie. Starship Troopers is satire. On the surface it seems like a regular action sci fi movie. But if you pay attention it’s a satirical view of modern society. Satire is often not directly referring to the thing it’s critical of. Starship Troopers was making commentary on present-day Earth, but it was set in the future so you never actually saw the things they were criticizing. You had to connect the dots between what was happening in that setting to our world. Parody often references what it’s making fun of directly. One more point: satire typically mocks human behavior while parody is usually art that mocks other art or artists.
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