The Artist: Parody Or Pastiche?

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The Artist is a “black-and-white silent film” based in the 1920s-1930s, but was actually made in 2011. The Artist can be argued to be a parody or pastiche. “””A parody takes the codes and conventions of a particular genre and subverts it for a comic effect. A pastiche embraces, imitates, and satirises codes and conventions rather than ridiculing them. It takes the codes and conventions of a genre and revises, updates, or comments on them.””” So, is The Artist a parody or a pastiche? I believe that it’s a pastiche and not a parody. A parody makes fun of a genre or even a specific movie. A couple of examples of a parody are Scary Movie and Vampires Suck. Scary Movie is ridiculing horror films and Vampires Suck is making fun of the Twilight