Or we could free Luigi, and get the real thing!
Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people.
Submitted 2 months ago by Slovene@feddit.nl to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Luigis Mansion: A TV show about a mansion filled with kidnapped billionaires. Sprinkle some inspiration from the Saw movies on top, and we’ve got a hit.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’d fuckin watch that.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s a good idea for a ‘dystopian’ thriller book
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is why I now advocate for a Mamdani/Mangione 2028 presidential ticket.
I know he can’t run for president right now but, maybe we can break the rules for the benefit of the people some day.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean…yes?
I’d vote for that.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s crazy, Americans would never vote in someone accused of such serious crimes right? A suspected felon could never be in the White House, that would be unthinkable!
/s
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We may need to rewrite the constitution before this is all over anyway.
Amir@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This would go so hard
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 months ago
And also title the show “Luigi”
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Current world record holder
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
No I believe that title goes to Mao or Lenin
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But Luigi is innocent
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I honestly wouldn’t. Not because I disagree with the concept, but because more on-point escapist media would just ensure that people will get their revolutionary fix without ever leaving the couch. We don’t need that. We need people to be angry, to be fed up, to have no other escape than to fight for it.
Capitalism has done wonders at keeping us sedated by selling us our fantasies of change and better days. It’s time we stopped taking the meds.
Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
[deleted]latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Let’s make it even more interesting, then!
HalifaxJones@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My only argument against this idea, which a part of me supports, is we need to start pushing forward our own propaganda against the billionaire class to get more people on board with the movement. And entertainment is an avenue for propaganda to achieve this.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I think entertainment is one of the poorest means of distribution, because, as it is now and in my opinion, entertainment exists in a state somewhere between not being taken seriously, and being taken seriously enough to pacify the subconscious.
On the other hand, populist means of distribution would be far more effective for this. Appeal to the average citizenry, make the message clear and simple, easily digestible, but frame it still within the context of reality.
As a concrete example, I’d offer stuff like House Of Cards, The Fall of The House of Usher, The Boys, and many, many other shouws with a “calling out truths through metaphors” theme. All of these shows are on point as far as having the metaphors parallel life, but even so they are heavily misinterpreted at worst (see people being downright surprised that Homelander is supposed to be the bad guy), or consumed then forgotten at best.
We need to go beyond metaphors and tackle the Concrete, the what-is, as-is. Show the numbers, show concrete examples of how life is made worse by actual people, and call it out directly - as opposed to the luke-warm and abstract wording of news, that dilution of the truth to make it inoffensive enough as to be easily swallowed then excreted by readers, as the truth isn’t the point of news anymore, it’s getting more and more eyes on your webpage.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think being angry enough to kill someone may be the top.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
And I think Luigi would have done nothing had he stayed submerged in escapism, is my point.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right, and that will happen because TV shows aren’t produced by billionaire-owned media corporations.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Star Wars: Andor is made and produced by fucking Disney.
Never underestimate the ability of capitalism to commodify anything and everything, even the dissent of the system.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
True, capitalism commodifies everything, but it always has a doublethink view of dissent and rebellion. They’re okay as long as the bad guys are a clearly evil empire (as in Star Wars) but not if it’s the US or conventional culture in general. I mean, Disney isn’t gonna mek a series about the adventures of the Black Panthers.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But Cops is currently on it’s 37th season.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wasn’t that cancelled?
the show was later picked up by Fox Nation, a streaming service from Fox News Media, and the 33rd season premiered on October 1, 2021
Ah. On-brand for them.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try to make it on VEO3 and Google will come back saying it’s against the TOS.
Make anything else on the exact same basis except sub out rich people for anybody else… allowed!
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
First 2 seasons of Arrow were like this. But yes I would watch the shit out of it. Make it a law and order style straight from the headlines and make the rich people resemble real life rich people.
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The first 2 seasons of Arrow were so damn good.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 months ago
'You failed this city!"
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Go all out and get Dick Wolf behind this. “Law and Order: Vigilante Justice” where the cops are all inept but there is a dedicated team of New Yorkers working together to bring justice to the streets of America.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Call it the Super Mario Super Show
vsg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The protagonist was a rich guy too. A more socially conscious one, but still a rich guy.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well you got to have resources im fine with rich on rich violence maybe we could put it into an arena of some sort.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Oh, a TV show. I thought you meant for real. Also, isn’t ’evil rich’ kind of redundant?
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The news is on TV im not very picky
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Loved the first seasons of Arrow. The crossover episodes with Flash were great.
reshuffle6655@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
“evil rich people”
There’s no such thing as an innocent billionaire
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mr robot came close i suppose.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Honestly it has a lot of anti-late-stage-capitalism ideas but the core of the show isn’t even really about that. It’s a very good show, I’d recommend it to anyone.
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
You’re making a show about killing money men. Good luck convincing the money men to fund it. And that’s how it works.
Otoh, making video is pretty cheap these days.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Neo Ranga is an old anime about how the Yakuza fund politicians. Guess what else the Yakuza fund? You could tell that anime had no budget.
Nemoder@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Even if you did find some way to fund and produce it, what corporate media empire is going to allow it on their network where more than a handful of people would ever see it?
vsg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The issue is hosting. YouTube would never allow that, and other platforms are too small.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Call him Luigi
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 months ago
Like a gritty modern Robin Hood?
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
My thoughts exactly. Robin Hood, but he actually shoots those arrows at a good target.
Demonmariner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ya, like any major media company would go anywhere near that. Great idea though. It would get dynamite ratings.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It would though, and that was why Luigi was such a danger to them. Ultimately they will keep writing stories that people keep clicking on and or reading. Even during Trump’s initial run for president there were journalists to express that they love the fact that Trump was running because people would always read the articles about him. He was sensational.
Then the day came where Luigi committed justified self-defense on a public New York street. I bet there are more journalists that would rather be printing non-stop stories about Luigi because people would rather read them, as opposed to some dumb shit Trump is doing.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So don’t pitch it to a major media company. YouTube stars are born every day.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Put it on Amazon Prime! With ads!
MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Lots of ads. More than YouTube’s amount of ads.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’d be incredibly unrealistic to have them have any degree of success given the ease of determining their motive and potential targets, and the sheer amount of resources the police would undoubtedly throw at finding someone who was killing oligarchs.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d watch this show.
Angelusz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, I get it, I feel the same sometimes. It’s just much better to strip them of their assets and dump em all on epstein island with a survival package including guide.
Let them learn how to survive for real instead. Much better punishment.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean a hero? That goes around defeating evil who would rather spend billions to ruin humanity instead of millions to improve it?
I think the word your looking for is hero
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Not exactly that, but Leverage gets close. Stealing back from rich people who stole first. Except the rich guy rarely ends up dead.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
RobinKillin HoodBravo@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
They already made one. His catchphrase was “You have failed this city”.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There should be a Poison Ivy movie of basically that.
lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Leverage was kinda like this but they didn’t kill them
trillnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Im sure it happens often or more than we think and its instantly covered up to avoid copycats, maybe ppl who already dlted themselves and their families off the internet
ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Season 4 of You (kinda), but anything’s possible for Dexter Resurrection
natecox@programming.dev 2 months ago
… as a TV show, right? Right?
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d prefer a documentary series.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Luigi Files: Part 1
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not really a true crime guy, but
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 months ago
HansChristianAndersen.jpeg
Or whatever his name is.
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
Based on true events?
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
in minecraft that is
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, nobody would be that insane to think otherwise…maybe even a reality TV show type of deal would be cool.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 months ago
“Coming this fall: ten billionaires are locked in a house with a murderous psychopath. Who will be the first victim, and who make it to the end? Use your phone to vote each week on what weapons the murderer will have access to! Introducing: Bigger Brother! Only on cable!”
Yeah I’d watch it.