Satire

         Satire is used in many common movies and throughout the media in the world today. Some great examples would be Austin Powers, Scary Movie, and Shrek. Personally Scary Movie portrays the best examples of satire, making fun of scary/horror movies. In every scary movie they always have the person run upstairs instead of outside which makes the audience automatically assume that that person will die. Scary Movie ties that in but makes it comical like that person knows that they are going to die by running upstairs. The writers for this movie take scenes or story lines from famous horror movies and finds the satire in them making them funny and almost unrealistic.  It exaggerates the techniques used by horror movies to scare audiences.
         A prime example would be when Scream calls the house and tries to scare the person answering but in the movie they go along with the call and end up having a conversation with them. The people answering were doing drugs and were extremely high so Scream and the people joke around about Scream killing people. At the end of their conversation Scream tells them he's going to kill them and then they start to freak out. Another example would be when a small Asian boy haunts this house where an old lady lives making fun of the movie The Grudge. In these scenes when the house is getting presented to this girl the realtor knows that the Asian boy is there but hides it every time it tries to scare the new girl which makes it comical. Later on in the story when the new girl finds the Asian boy for the first time they both just scream at each other making fun of the first time a person sees something haunting or scary.
         Another movie that portrays satire is Shrek. Shrek satirizes traditional fairy tale traditions. For example when Shrek rescues the princess it is supposed to be the prince but instead it's an ugly ogre and she becomes disappointed. Also they portray the prince differently than what a prince is always imagined. The prince in Far Far Away is very small and not good looking. Not to mention he has a very ugly personality and is too scared to defeat the dragon and rescue his lovely princess. So he has a challenge to find a warrior to win his princess over. Another example would be when the princess is not as perfect as she seems and ends up having a spell on her that turns her into an ogre by sundown. Once it hits sundown she has to be indoors and hidden from everyone. This is a parody on the always perfect princess to her not being as perfect as she seems.
         All of these examples of satire can be tied to the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer creates a gang that's goal is to kill people and animals. The gang portrays themselves as very tough and mean and determined but in reality they are not. They are just boys that want to have fun and the gang ends up falling apart and disappearing. They end up doing nothing menacing.