Satire In Film

What is the best way to convince someone of something? If your lucky enough to see the movie inception or best yet understand the move as a whole, you would know that the best way to convince someone of something is to paint a picture that lets them come to the collusion on their own. If you can “aid” someones ability to think freely and draw them into the point you want to make, you will have them much more convinced in a much deeper way than by laying your augment in words alone. What is the best to paint a picture to indirectly convince your audience into your point? A motion picture is the obvious answer. Films use this technique to subliminally channel messages to you. Films are intended to convey a plethora of messages to its audience.

Not only does the film show the pitfalls of dictatorships and why they fail but also how they come to existence. When the ruling party wants more power, a dictatorship is used to try and accomplish their task. However once the appeasement is over and the corruption begins the ruling class implodes and eventually ceases to exist. This film with the three stooges was created in a manner to highlight the extremes of foreign countries government styles. The issue it address was how inefficient other countries are and how we are superior. Its a common issue for directors to cover, many films are created to showcase the shortcomings of others to assert oneself’s dominance. The three stooges in their short film did this by playing idiot dictators who couldn't accomplish much other than sawing a square table into an octagon one yet alone run a country. The time of the move coincides with the American war with Germany and the audience would of been externally receptive to seeing a mockery about the germans. The appetite to cast Nazis as scum was very tolerable, given this it is important to note that this short film with the three stooges was one of the first films to blast the Nazi regime. It is probably not a coincidence that this film used satire to mock the Nazis because satire and laughter is used often to “test the waters” on issues because it is more lighthearted than other techniques. This rule holds true still today that satire is used at the front line of new controversies, take for example the TV show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah or the former TV show The Colbert Report with Steven Colbert. Both of the TV Shows constantly take daily events and show how the ideals and ideology of major actors are flawed and how in some cases injustices are carried out. The three stooges film could very will be an extended segment of the