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But they make fun of everybody.

"Guess they just can't help making fun, through caricature rather than character, of people they consider inferior to their brilliant selves -- in this case, Southerners. "

But they do this to everyone, so it's not like they're bigoted.

Raising Arizona: Southwesterners
Hudsucker Proxy: American corporate managers/50's urbanites
Fargo: Northwesterners
Big Lebowski: People from L.A. - all of them.

I don't think they're so much trying to make fun of these people for the sake of distinguishing their own brilliance, I believe it's just that they've discovered that you can tell a better story with extremely eccentric characters. Where eccentricities define the character and dictate a character's actions. Sure, it turns them into caricatures of real people and real cultures . . . but you wind up with a fun story.

When you read dilbert, do you complain that it's just another example of Scott Adams making fun of people he considers inferior to his brilliant self . . in this case, Human Resource personel? No, because his caricatures are funny .. and tell a good story.


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