Like my chunky bitch of
an ex-girlfriend,
Deadpool wants to have its cake and eat it.
So in the case of the film, this means that you're meant to think that
it's anarchic and subversive despite it being made by the studio that
it's pretending to rebel against. As a result with
Deadpool,
you do get plenty of swearing and some friendly digs at the
X-Men franchise, but you never
get anything that's devastatingly deconstructive of the genre due to
who's holding the money. It's like a whore that advertises themselves
as the dirty little bitch that'll do anything whilst still having to
check with their pimp before agreeing to wank off a donkey.
Particularly if donkey wanking might cause problems for any future
business or cross-franchise pollination. For example, people think
that the Bond films
became gritty because they attempted to catch up to the real world
relevance of Jason Bourne.
However I think it's actually because that franchise was well
and truly destroyed by
Austin Powers, who
sent up the 007 formula
so effectively that Bond, like all of his dead girlfriends, became
absolutely fucked. Was Deadpool good
fun? Yes. But do you really think that the superhero genre is now
going to struggle to continue in its current format? Of course not!
This is slightly more complicated than my ex who would more simply
just like to have had some of her cake left after having already
shoved the whole thing into her fat stupid face. Bitch.
