Your new filmmaker's guide: "Edgy" is depression and malaise but having the willpower to do something about it.
If they stuck to that, boom, edgy is done as a requirement. "My parents are dead, life has no purpose, and I make sure to bring that darkness to my enemies." Easy edgy.
What they're doing, is comedy. They just don't know it and so it doesn't come off right. "It is funny, you see, because it is the least likely person to be these things! Statistically, anyone else would have been more logical to be the abuser, so now we laugh!"
I think that's one of the reasons why so many films fail. They try for a mainstream edginess, and it's quite bad.
"The most common guy is a rapist somehow!" "Yeah, edgy, twisty, look at me being edgy."
It's the practice kendo swords of edgy. All the right parts, no ability to commit suicide.
Your new filmmaker's guide: "Edgy" is depression and malaise but having the willpower to do something about it.
If they stuck to that, boom, edgy is done as a requirement. "My parents are dead, life has no purpose, and I make sure to bring that darkness to my enemies." Easy edgy.
What they're doing, is comedy. They just don't know it and so it doesn't come off right. "It is funny, you see, because it is the least likely person to be these things! Statistically, anyone else would have been more logical to be the abuser, so now we laugh!"
Which is amazing because George of the Jungle could do it.
https://youtu.be/UNXy3z_NfCI