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* ''[[Hard Boiled]]'' features every single police officer character as unambiguously heroic, as an apology by [[John Woo]] for the way Chinese films had started to glorify criminals (including some of Woo's previous films). Their conduct in the hospital sequence in particular puts an extra helping of "Heroic" in [[Heroic Bloodshed]].

* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' was partially an attempt to revive the British police officer as a credible movie hero after almost every British crime movie of the previous decade (or at least since ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'') had instead focused on glorifying criminals. Hot Fuzz spent its first half brutally deconstructing the police-action movie, then used its second half to gleefully rebuild it.

* ''[[Silverado]]'' reconstructed the Western in [[The Eighties]].

* When the [[James Bond]] series appeared dead (and had been somewhat deconstructed in the Timothy Dalton era), ''[[True Lies]]'' appeared to reconstruct the spy-action-adventure genre by way of [[Affectionate Parody]]. Ironically, it is a remake of a French ''parody'' of Hollywood action-adventure movies.

* [[Sufjan Stevens]]' yearly ''Songs For Christmas'' EP's were a personal reconstruction of Christmas Music for Sufjan: his attempt to capture the sublime melancholy of Christmas music at its best, and to come to terms with the [[Glurge]] of the holiday season. (Sufjan had previously dismissed Christmas itself as a social construct.)

* [[Tenacious D]]'s music seems to be a reconstruction of classic rock. Though they don't take themselves or their lyrics very seriously, they certainly take the ''music'' seriously. As they wrote in "The Metal":

Hahahahaha, THEY FAILED! as they were thrown to the ground! }}

* Monster Magnet is another reconstruction of classic rock, as are the Hellacopters. (especially on their early albums)