Hawkins doesn’t get caught in such a predicament because of any failure or betrayal by the hero the Black Fox is as loyal, courageous, and clever as Robin Hood. Some might even say the style’s become too ubiquitous, and that chasing after trends like this is more a detriment than a delight – but that’s for another day.
Whether it’s Disney poking its own well-worn conventions of princesses and romance, Spider-Man: No Way Home winking toward that famous pointing meme, or every single time your friends and relations share some variation on a meme through social media, meta humor is all around us. In the age of the Internet, we’re all accustomed to self-referential media. The Court Jester is a send-up, and in that respect is well-suited to certain audiences of today.
This didn’t hold either back from delighting audiences and garnering greater praise with successive generations.įor all its bright colors and gentle humor, though, The Wizard of Oz is a straightforward fantasy. And both films, unusually expensive for their time, failed to turn a profit on initial release. Both advertised their use of glorious Technicolor, though by 1955 this meant color services rather than the three-strip photographic process. They both had multiple cooks in the creative kitchen, in Jester’s case the writer/producer/director team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. The Court Jester shares a few odd parallels with The Wizard of Oz.
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