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 > > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- > 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. ============================================================================== --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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