Pastiche

Here is an Example of Pastiche in Film. It is the movie Airplane! (1980).

A. How is this pastiche a reworking of the past?

     "Airplane" is a movie that represents past disaster movies as an entirety.  (before 1980).  The plot and the scenes in the movie are similar to and recognizable with previous disaster movies in general.

B. Is this pastiche only or pastiche with parody? How?

     Airplane is pastiche with parody.  It mocks/makes fun of with humor most specifically Zero Hour! but also

     references to Airport 1975, Jaws, 60 Minutes, San Fransisco International Airport, The Untouchable, and From

     Here to Eternity. Those movies were starting to be so familiar, that the initial scared emotion felt when seeing those movies were no longer felt, so the movie Airplane was able to then make a parody out of those past movies. 

C. How is this work a questioning of the status of the original?
     This is a pastiche and not "an original" because Airplane used ideas from several different "original"  disaster movies
      to come up with this one. 

(Visit http://graphjam.com/, which allows users to create graphs that depend on knowledge of popular culture.)

Answer the following questions:

A. How is this pastiche (the individual graphs and the whole site) a reworking of the past?
     Many of the graphs on this site compare things from the past with things of popular culture today. This graph specifically is showing the difference of the originality of past movies verse movies of today, which is also showing in a way that these movies are pastiches.   

B. Is this pastiche only or pastiche with parody? How?

    This is pastiche with parody. It is mocking and adding humor to the situation.  The website it not serious in any way, showing the parody side of site.   Specific graphs are taking specific topics and mocking them.  

C. How is this work a questioning of the status of the original?
     This graph specifically to me is not a pastiche, but the content that it is talking about is one.  It shows how much the content of movies have changed from the past to the present.  Lots of movies now-a-days are pastiches because they take the same ideas from the originals.  So the familiar ideas now-a-days seen from the past initiate a questioning.