File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Aug.95, message 78


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


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