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Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
★ 6.0 · 3,411 ratings on TMDB
The grooviest movie of the summer has a secret, baby!
The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.
DirectorJay Roach
The emergence reading
Austin Powers in Goldmember keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing spy, culture, parody, family, technology.
zero-distanceUSspycultureparodyfamilytechnology
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
