When people say that something is a deconstruction of its genre, what does that mean?
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Basically, that it analyzes the tropes and concepts of that genre and takes them more seriously, in a way that breaks from tradition. A superhero movie where the entire story is about how the main character wearing a mask and hiding his identity destroys his relationships with his loved ones because they realize he doesn’t trust them once they discover who he really is as it turns out that simply wearing a mask doesn’t do a lot to protect your identity would be a deconstruction of superhero tropes.
It tells a story that approaches that genre from a different angle and the challenges the tropes of that genre, showing how they might be flawed or unrealistic.
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