The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) | How Woke Is It?

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The Kentucky Fried Movie1977

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What We Think

The Kentucky Fried Movie comes from a far less 'woke' era, gleefully offending everyone without agenda. Today, it reads as an artifact of freewheeling, non-woke comedy, with little concern for modern ideological sensitivities.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The Kentucky Fried Movie is a comedic sketch film that predates current ideological trends. There’s no evident emphasis on identity over character or talent, nor forced representation to check cultural boxes. Parodies and humor are unrestricted and unfiltered, prioritizing laughs over any narrative agenda.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film openly mocks everything, including religion, sex, and politics, but does so as slapstick rather than deliberate subversion of cultural foundations. No character is protected from lampooning, and there’s little hint of anti-traditional sentiment by modern standards.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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There’s no clear ideological monoculture. The humor is scattershot and offensive to all sides; if anything, it indulges in equal-opportunity ridicule. The lack of earnest messaging or heavy-handed ideology means alternative worldviews are not systematically mocked or suppressed.

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