File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Aug.95, message 66


Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:19:36 -0700
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re: eliminating recuperation: ethical stoicism


At 04:06 PM 8/14/95 -0500, nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu wrote:
>John, the LSadean themes in Tarantino are even more prevelent than
>the Nietzschean ones, although thre is a good deal of overlap
>between Nietzsche and Sade. But on Tarantino's overt Sadism. Most
>striking is the repeated presence--pure and unadulterated
>presence too--of homosexual sodomy and rape. In _Reservoir Dogs_
>there is the discussion between Micheal Madsen's character, Vince,
>and Chris Penn's character, i can't remember the name righrt now,
>of Vince's stint in prison and the buggering that occured. In
>_Pulp Fiction_ there is the sodomistic scene involving Marcellus,
>Butch, Maynard and Zed (and the Gimp). Thre is a good deal of
>violence directed toward the "good" in RD. The most obvious
>example being the cutting off of the cop's ear because, of cuorse,
>he's a cop. Sodomy, especially homosexual sodomy, ahs tradionally been
>considered the most blasphmous acts: whence Sade's love for it.
>
>chris
>
>
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Perhaps by way of Genet, which would be more in the line of a direct
filmic/dramatic influence.



==============================================================================            Steven E. Callihan -- callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com

             "With a creative hand they reach for the future,
           and all that is and has been becomes a means for them,
                        an instrument, a hammer."

         --Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil," Section 211.
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