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Austrian filmmaker and social critic Michael Haneke made ''Funny Games'' in 1997, then remade an English-language version ten years later, [[Shot for Shot Remake|shot for shot]]. Although trivially similar to a [[Gorn]] film, it's actually meant as a deconstruction of violent media as well as a giant [[You Bastard]] at the audience who would want to watch it.

 

Both films center on a yuppie family arriving at their lakeside vacation house. Pulling into their driveway, they see their neighbor has some new guests, two clean-cut young men wearing white gloves who look like they've just walked off the golf course. The men soon arrive on the family's doorstep making a number of requests and imposing on their hospitality. Eventually the family tires of them and ask them to leave, but they ignore the requests. After the husband slaps one of the men, they break his leg with his own golf club and take the family hostage. Though maintaining a nonchalant and even friendly facade, it soon becomes clear that the two men are psychopaths who intend to torment the family with a number of cruel games before murdering them. Can they survive?

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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: An in-universe example that is [[Troll|used for lulz]].

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Paul is completely aware that he's in a film. He smirks at the camera several times and makes snide comments to the audience about what they expect will happen. He also makes several comments that the killers' timing and sequence of actions are based on traditional plot structure.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: [[Tim Roth]] slides between his natural English accent (as in [[Pulp Fiction]]) and his much more nasal, higher-pitched American accent (as in [[Reservoir Dogs]]).

* [[Retcon]]: Within the film! A character rewinds the movie using a remote, inside the movie, and undoes a death.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|Not only do all the sympathetic characters die, but this is neither the first nor last time that this exact scenario has played out for the killers.}}

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