When there is a twist in a movie that has no build up, makes no sense and happens just to shock the audience.
Such a practice was created by Rian Johnson with his controversial movie, The Last Jedi.
Such a practice was created by Rian Johnson with his controversial movie, The Last Jedi.
Guy 1: Hey dude! Did you see that movie?
Guy 2: I did, and it was shit.
Guy 1: How so?
Guy 2: The characters are bland, and the movie does the Rian-Subversion too much.
Guy 1: Dear god...
Guy 2: I did, and it was shit.
Guy 1: How so?
Guy 2: The characters are bland, and the movie does the Rian-Subversion too much.
Guy 1: Dear god...
by RicBoi2010 March 7, 2019
Subversive Measures - Refers to certain tactics or methods which are implemented or carried out either overtly or covertly or both so to achieve a political objective or intent. Such measures are no limited explicitly to political application only, but rather they can also be applied in a Social context and can be an important tool or element of Social engineering.
Subversive Measures, can be compared with the overt and covert methods utilised during the former Soviet Union in relation with implementing Censorship, a process which had been used in both political and social capacities and had been contrived by Leon Trotsky ( Preventative Censorship) and was enforced by the Glavlit agency.
by Baron Neville February 7, 2015
Subversive Desensitization, Refers to a process which covertly alters or changes a persons mind set, consequently transforming his or her perception of reality with regards to either Social, political or religious matters. Whereby rendering a person incapable of understanding or viewing a situation presented before them in a clear and rational manner.
Subversive Desensitization, is the ability for radical extremists either religious or political, in being able to deceive or manipulate the populace in submitting to there extremist ideology or doctrine.
by Baron Neville March 8, 2014
Guy #1: Hey man, how'd that date with Jenny go?
Guy#2: Oh it was great, I pulled off the subversive sequel.
Guy #1: No Way!!! You Legend!!
Guy#2: Oh it was great, I pulled off the subversive sequel.
Guy #1: No Way!!! You Legend!!
by AYYYEEE LITTY February 1, 2017
by L&H1201 December 19, 2018
Tweeting while you're being paid to do your job, not tweeting. Say at a really boring staff meeting, or while on the phone with your boss.
Sally is the queen of subversive tweeting--she sent out forty tweets during that brainstorming session at work on Monday.
by Sleeping with Ward Cleaver June 22, 2009
A double whammy subversion of expectations, in particular in regard to film and television, where the audience is led to believe that a scene will follow through with a subversion of expectations regarding theme or humor before the opposite happens. May not always work- relies on the assumption that the audience is expecting the unexpected, but not expecting the expected.
As an example, we can take the Wheel of Fortune scene with Randy Marsh in South Park. In it, he must spell out the word which means "people who annoy me". He manages to by dumb luck fill out every single other letter in the answer leaving him with N_GGERS. The expectation by the audience is that at the last second he will answer with the word "Nagger" rather than "nigger", however at the last second the build-up to the joke concludes with a subversion of the audience's subverted expectations and the joke plays out as it would normally: with Randy answering "NIGGERS!".
As an example, we can take the Wheel of Fortune scene with Randy Marsh in South Park. In it, he must spell out the word which means "people who annoy me". He manages to by dumb luck fill out every single other letter in the answer leaving him with N_GGERS. The expectation by the audience is that at the last second he will answer with the word "Nagger" rather than "nigger", however at the last second the build-up to the joke concludes with a subversion of the audience's subverted expectations and the joke plays out as it would normally: with Randy answering "NIGGERS!".
We were led to believe that the punchline would be changed at the last minute, but the movie did a Subversion of Subverted Expectations by continuing the joke on as normal.
by hawn hawn baguette January 15, 2023