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Peter Bart: It’s Satire Season, When Doctors Maim, Professors Become Fugitives & Barbie Gives Mattel The Business
“Satire is a dangerous game In Hollywood,” Billy Wilder once observed. “It invites self-immolation.” Still, the satiric spirit looms large in many of this year’s buzzworthy movies: American Fiction…
“It invites self-immolation.” Still, the satiric spirit looms large in many of this year’s buzzworthy movies: American Fiction, Poor Things, Saltburn, Air, The Holdovers and even Barbie. As a genre, satire has profoundly frustrated many filmmakers – witness the successive failures of Mike Nichols and, later, George Clooney, in turning Catch-22 into an accessible story, even though the U.S. Army seems like an easy target. “We knew we were plunging into too many danger zones but that was the challenge,” says Jeffrey Wright, the witty actor who stars as the film’s novelistic wannabe Thelonious “Monk” Ellison.
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