The spoof movie couldn’t survive in the modern day, and this is why.
As somebody who grew up with a young, single dad, I ended up watching a lot of spoof movies. I watched almost every era of a spoof from the golden age of the ‘70s and ‘80s and continue to enjoy the genre with modern-day elevated spoofs like The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
But one glance at the genre will show you that spoof movies don’t exist in modern mainstream cinema. Even if they are made, they ultimately don’t perform at the box office.
When the news broke that Airplane! and Naked Gun filmmaker David Zucker is creating a new noir spoof series called The Star of Malta, the film world paused, looked, and questioned the decision. Spoof movies can’t survive in modern cinema, right? If so, why?
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
