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this is good about eyes wide shut i think:

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0096.html
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the dedication to country and duty in the new james bond film is an allegory for the film's own dogged, artless dedication to preserving the bond franchise. the audience makes it worse.
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discipline posted:

I'm going to treat myself to the new james bond flick tonite too

what did you think about casino royale

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uhh it's not that allegorical mate. skyfall is pretty explicitly about returning the bond franchise to its origins and makes use of about a billion pieces of iconography to do so. we got some ambiguity in casino royale and an actual acknowledgement of cia and mi6 black ops in quantum of solace but now we're back to battling stateless criminals for the good of the empire. beautifully shot though
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*ears perk up* Beautifully shot ? http://badassdigest.com/2012/12/05/movie-review-the-impossible-is-deplorable/
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its got anton chigurh in it
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skyfall is the dark knight for james bond
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gameskeeper willie.
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littlegreenpills posted:

i'd like to see an article detailing a real world example of local community initiatives paving the way to fill in gaps left by the retreating state



here's one

http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/features/2012/04/19/feature-01

edit ps before you all think i'm even stupider than usual this is posted ironically because somalia is written about in anarchocapitalist dreamlike tones for randian masturbation and i do get that ok

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discipline posted:

someone pulled me aside today and said the best thing about me is that I know my place



did this really happen

i can barely handle america as a male, i would not want to be a woman there, jesus

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discipline posted:

the wealth question, well, high society has always been a man's domain yeah?



lol no

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the worlds of high finance and business have typically been very male dominated, but high society (the meaningless social ephemera and ostentation of lavish lifestyles, if thats indeed what you actually mean) is very matriarchal and female-centric. not that that makes it any less misogynist, since high society social functions are what rich kept women were necessarily relegated to because they were/are viewed as not being skilled or intelligent enough to compete in the "man's world" of business and finance
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i keep a list of articles i think i should write but never actually do

can someone write an article about the mythology of the 3 kingdoms era from a contemporary chinese perspective and how it could have informed, or not, the psychological/cultural geopolitical thought in post-revolutionary China in re US - Soviet - China relations

extra points if you write (in addition to, or instead of, the above) about the sheer blinding orientalist naivete of a white guy thinking that the two have any connection

i'd read it. tia
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Superabound posted:

the worlds of high finance and business have typically been very male dominated, but high society (the meaningless social ephemera and ostentation of lavish lifestyles, if thats indeed what you actually mean) is very matriarchal and female-centric. not that that makes it any less misogynist, since high society social functions are what rich kept women were necessarily relegated to because they were/are viewed as not being skilled or intelligent enough to compete in the "man's world" of business and finance



High society is very matriarchal and female-centric, not that that makes it any less misogynist.

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alternatively

the semi-mythological status of the Cultural Touchstone, e.g. three tv channels in the 50s and 60s, War of the Worlds, everyone reading the same book in the pre-broadcast age. is it these shared events that properly knit together a people under modern nationalism as we are used to thinking of it, and if so does "democratization" of media rather than empower a society to broaden its viewpoints just shatter all of its touchstones and break the feeling of large social togetherness-of-purpose into a tattered collection of disconnected urges

is socialism necessarily nationalist and if so does the eradication of a society's common media experience necessarily drive it further into capitalism, where our cultural groups exist only due to common market habits: i have shared interests only with those people who buy similarly to me.
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discipline posted:

kubrick uses women as props and kidman's totally 2 dimensional performance, just as flat as any of the other women in that film, sort of reinforced it to me.



I think Kubrick uses men as props too, and tom cruise doesn't get much more to do than nicole kidman (which is coveting material goods and sexual fantasies) and is just as flat. it's too simple to say he's a misanthrope, but he just isn't interested in people as individuals, only their positions in the symbolic order he's constructing - that's what makes him difficult for some critics. all his protagonists represent something about humanity rather than being human - alex delarge, the feral, all carnality, and hal 9000, the rational, lacking even a body, are equally horrifying. you seem to be saying that the masculinity of eyes wide shut comes from something internalized by kubrick rather than his authorial intent; for me, that's certainly possible. this makes me want to watch barry lyndon again. and also think that kubrick should have made more comedies; he made one and it was pretty much his best movie.

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lolita
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discipline posted:

dude if some guy I'd just met got into my shower, on my boat I wasn't aware he was on, NAKED, I'd probably kill him or at least scream bloody murder



that scene was a direct homage to the one in Live And Let Die, where the woman actually does pull a gun on Roger Moore (because hes a creepy old man and the worst Bond)

Edit: also in Skyfall, it wasnt her boat and she was a literally-branded prostitute from a sex slavery ring

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its funny to me that even supposed leftists will placate the altar of kubrick, the embodiment of everything reactionary about culture, a perverse megalomaniac bent on the realisation of the holy writ of his individual vision as supreme auteur, an air of bourgeois decadence so thick it oozes from the cases of blu-ray digital remasters, his most noteworthy work centering on an infantile reading of nietzsche, mirroring the thousands of libertarian teenagers who see themselves as the ubermensch, a body of work so trite and facile that you might as well start praising atlas shrugged for its beauty and ambition, a horde of pseudo-intellectuals paying respects to the church of vision, it's like if the architect from the fountainhead started making movies, surprise surprise boring white people the world over eat it the fuck up