{"id":182812,"date":"2015-06-02T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/02\/this-is-the-best-parody-of-a-genre-that-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time\/"},"modified":"2015-06-02T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T22:41:00","slug":"this-is-the-best-parody-of-a-genre-that-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/02\/this-is-the-best-parody-of-a-genre-that-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Best Parody of a Genre That I Have Seen in a Long Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw <i>Kung Fury<\/i> on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Doing a parody of a genre, in this case 80s Kung Foo movies, particularly if you are going a high cheese, is dancing on the knife edge.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not cheesy enough, it doesn&#8217;t work.&nbsp; If you are too cheesy, the audience loses the ability to suspend its disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>The director and writer, David Sandberg gets the balance almost perfect.&nbsp; (Laser Raptors and David Hasselhoff)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bS5P_LAqiVg?rel=0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw Kung Fury on YouTube. Doing a parody of a genre, in this case 80s Kung Foo movies, particularly if you are going a high cheese, is dancing on the knife edge. If you are not cheesy enough, it doesn&#8217;t work.&nbsp; If you are too cheesy, the audience loses the ability to suspend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,1065,1011,1064,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-entertainment","category-history","category-media","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}