To: Antoninus
Dear Antoninus,
Satire is a powerful tool, when the targeted audience understands that someone is being mocked.
However, if you were to write a short treatment with the satirical premise of how unjustly maligned were Nero and Caligula, and send it to Hollywood, it might become the basis for a rather serious dramatic made-for-TV movie, with the straightforward premise of how unjustly maligned were Nero and Caligula.
Satire IS powerful. And dangerous. Especially in the hands of imbeciles.
sitetest
56 posted on
08/03/2003 8:25:10 PM PDT by
sitetest
(You mean marrying your sister doesn't make you... differently-abled??)
To: sitetest
However, if you were to write a short treatment with the satirical premise of how unjustly maligned were Nero and Caligula, and send it to Hollywood, it might become the basis for a rather serious dramatic made-for-TV movie, with the straightforward premise of how unjustly maligned were Nero and Caligula.
You're right, of course. Which is why I would never send such a thing to Hollyweird. I'd make a book out of it and publish it myself in a form that made it obvious to anyone reading it that it was satire. ;-)
62 posted on
08/03/2003 8:33:44 PM PDT by
Antoninus
(In hoc signo, vinces †)
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