From early childhood, all people love to imitate someone. For example, young children, not yet learning how to speak, are already repeating the sounds made by dogs, cats, cows, pigs, birds and so on.
Older girls and boys begin to imitate their favorite idols, performing their works or voicing expressions from films and TV shows. And this is not surprising. Everyone is trying to be aligned with someone.
But in art there is a special genre called parody. It is the same as imitating anyone. Consider where this word came from.
Parody - what is it?
The word "parody" comes from the Greek words "couple" - "near", "against", and "dia" - "song". A parody is such an art where people imitate existing films, songs, clips and other works in a modified form. This is usually done in a humorous form, like a mockery.
Absolutely everything can be parodied: films, video clips, songs, some theatrical productions, compositions, poems, the actions of any singer or actor.
The very first parody is associated with antiquity, with ancient literature and was called "Batrachomyomychia." This is a parody poem about the war of mice and frogs, using travesty (when a small object in a high style is described). In this case, the small subject is mice and frogs.
Parodies can be presented in various directions.
Parody directions
There are parodies of songs, cinema, literary, parody sites and others. Each of them is also classified according to certain criteria.
Consider what movie parody is. What is “cinema” everyone knows, then a movie parody is a parody of a certain film. The most successful is the imitation of a famous film. Films such as “Don't Threaten the South Central”, “The Naked Gun”, “Hot Heads”, “Top Secret”, “Not Childish Cinema” and others were spoofed.
The horror film “A Very Scary Movie” - really keeps viewers in a tense state. There are quite terrible moments when you want to close your eyes and no longer look at the screen. But the parody of this film makes the audience not only not afraid, but also laugh out loud. Yes, there is also a lot of blood, but still not scary, but funny.
Parody sites are made on popular web pages, on their external and internal design.
People are more and more doing parodies of songs, usually the most famous. Both words and the sound of the melody can change. For example, a parody was made of songs such as “Flying Gait ...”, “Together, it’s fun to walk ...”, “Slowly minutes float away ...” and others. The tsarist anthem and the anthem of the Russian Federation did not go unnoticed.
Literary parodies are also popular. These include famous works, theatrical productions, poems, and others.
There are three main genre paths in a parody:
1. In a comic or humorous form, that is, not mockery or mockery of a film or song, but with good intentions to the original. People make such skits either because of the desire to imitate, or they want to gain popularity in networks.
2. Satirical form - this means against the original. Presented as a mockery of the main characters of the film, making actors with scary faces, putting them in awkward situations. Or there is a mockery of the words of the songs - they are replaced by stupid, sometimes even obscene.
3. The latter is called "parody use", that is, focus only on internal literary goals.
Parodies on TV
A few years ago, the TV show “Big Difference” appeared on television and immediately fell in love with everyone. She gained immense popularity, which suggests that this genre is very in demand. In this program, parodies of popular figures of politics, pop, television presenters and so on were presented. The very name of the program, as it were, suggests that the audience should find the difference between the parody and the original.
The musical parody “What is a crisis?” Was invented in a very original way. to the song of the DDT group.
Alexander Pushnoy, Vladimir Vinokur, Maxim Galkin, Evgeny Petrosyan, Alexander Peskov, Elena Vorobey, Mikhail Grushevsky and others are considered the most famous parodists of our country. All of them can be seen on television, on the Internet. They parody different people, actors, performers.
Favorite group "Ex-BB"
The well-known Ex-BB band performs quite non-standard. Musically literate, with high artistry, the members of this group spoiled a lot of songs. In addition to songs, they made parodies of films. For example, the film "Gentlemen of Fortune" was liked by the audience. Having once visited their performance, you will never forget.
Afterword
It has become fashionable to make skits on clips. For example, the famous clip “On Louboutins” was spoofed several times. And all the options are interesting and funny.
In the 60-70s of the twentieth century, Viktor Chistyakov was an outstanding parodist.
Having analyzed the concept of “parody” (what is it, where is it used), we can say that this genre of art was created to raise the mood of viewers.