The controversial puppet film by Trey Parker in 2004 “Team America: World Police” is a parody of many things. Above all, it is a satire of the administration George W. Bush, an administration which was too eager to start wars around the world, creating the United States as, yes, the world police. Just as, however, “Team America” is a parody of Michael Bay and his tendencies to the destruction of Wonton, Jingism and Military Fetish. Indeed, Michael Bay is called by his name in the song “The End of An Act”, where the songwriter Parker wrote: “I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the brand when he made” Pearl Harbor “.”
“Team America” also aims to make fun of the north-Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, transforming him into a cartoon wicked like a James Bond film, and the members of Team America’s violence put an end to him. Fruusting, however, Parker’s film also launches American celebrities who worth having an opinion on global politics. Indeed, Team America is just as disturbed by Alec Baldwin (expressed by the actor of “Futurama” Maurice Lamarche) as by Kim Jong-il. Baldwin heads a framework of Hollywood activists – The film Actors Guild, Get It? – who takes advantage of their fame to hear on the political stadium. Celebrities are represented as unilaterally stupid and cowardly. “Team America”, although hilarious in his irreverence Slapstick, is also frustrating because he does not seem to have a point of view. He hates everything he sees.
Matt Damon (expressed by Parker). This version of Damon, one of the members of the guild, is like a beautiful silly Pokémon, capable of groaning his own name. Why choose Damon in particular? Who can say?
In 2016, the real Damon organized an AMA session on Reddit, which enabled a fan to ask him questions about the Gruation Matt Damon of “Team America”. Damon had indeed seen “Team America”, but had no answers. It was just as disconcerted as the rest of us.
Matt Damon was not exactly delighted by his representation in Team America
Asked about “Team America”, Damon admitted that he could miss something. He knew that Parker and his co-series Matt Stone launched the notion of celebrity, with the way the public considers certain actors. Damon estimated that it was possible that he had a public figure that he simply did not know, writing:
“I have always been a little disconcerted by” America “. I think that because it is difficult for us to understand what our images are in public, I think we are not good judges. At this point, I said to myself in a way: “I am a screenwriter and actor, and really?
He seemed a little upset. He also hastened to add, however, that Matt Stone and Trey Parker are geniuses, a term that he does not use lightly. He also noted, however, that he was on the right side of history. “Team America” assimilates Hollywood activists to dictators and showed that the actors and singers were, at the end of the film, parroquating the same rhetoric as Kim Jong-il. Damon continued:
“I think they are absolute geniuses, and what they did is great and I’m a big fan of their, but I never really understood that one. […] Those of us who were parodied in this video were parodied because we were against the war in Iraq, and we made the file against this war, and therefore the story is on my side and not. “”
Damon has always been opened on his political opinions, generally approving democratic political candidates. He may have been disconcerted by his representation in “Team America”, but he remained faithful.
