“His relationship is with the law.”)įor Erick Freitas, who writes an alternate version of the character in the American Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero series, the satirical aspect - often lost on American audiences entirely, with its roots in a particularly British sense of humor - has become even more obscure in today’s America. ![]() “The Punisher works contrary to a system we recognize because he exists in a reality that is much like ours, whereas Dredd represents and embodies a future reality.” (Katayama also joked that Dredd didn’t need personal relationships because of his devotion to his cause. I think that’s very reductive,” argued critic Kelly Kanayama. “I think people lump together because they’re both ‘grim violence men’ with no personal relationships. “The Dredd movie, it’s like The Raid it pits the authoritarian against these terrible drug dealers, and you lose the satire.” “I do think that it’s hard to do satire in films,” she said. Rosie Knight, a British comic critic, suggested that the satirical element of Judge Dredd was an essential element of the character’s success, but one that is often missed by the audience at large - and by those who adapt the character into media outside comics. Jamie Lee Curtis on Her Run With 'Halloween' Coming to an End, Working With David Gordon Green
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