Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:27:26 -0500 (CDT) From: CND7750-AT-utarlg.uta.edu Subject: Re: eliminating recuperation: ethical stoicism Yet another commonality between FN and QT, intentional on QT's part or not, is the rejection of the christian and humanist belief in intentionality. There are many places in Nietzsche's work where this topos is addressed. The scene where it is most candidly addressed by Tarantino is the one in PF involving Jules, Vincent and the young business partners of Marcellus. As soon as Brett (or is it Brad?) mentions best intentions, Jules simply shoots "flock of seagulls," and then says, "I'm sorry, did i brake your concentration. You were saying something about 'best intentions'." Of course Tarantino may have nevr read a word of Nietzsche or Sade,3 but that has little to do with whether or not his films are Nietzschean and Sadean. Butt fucking may be a 'trope' in noir fiction, it's also an act explored by Sade and consistently re-enacted in QT's films. In Sade sodomy is an attack on the propagation of the species, on the belief that it is a human instinct fruitfully multiply. Thus sodo is not only the simulacrum of abortion but a specific disavowell of humanity as such. As we all know, Nietzsche is quite interested in overcoming man. This very 'trope' is discussed by Klossowski in his work on Sade and Nietzsche. chris --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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