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Man, I wish I had hands and a head. That would be nice!
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The mediator between the hands and the head must be the fart.
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Jul 29, 2014 07:08
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At a most basic level, the heart is a temporary class-truce, where rich and poor 'unite' to eliminate the outsider who sows dissent. This 'unity' takes the form of humanitarian aid and other forms of charity, passed down to the workers so that they don't get all uppity. (Despite the liberal style, this focus on the devious outsider led to the film being easily co-opted by the Nazi party.) The symptom of the film is the splitting of Maria into good and evil halves, with the 'good' one meekly preaching Christan love and the 'evil' Satanic one promoting actual revolt. The idea of a radicalized Christianity is beyond the confines of the film - the 'evil' Maria is casually destroyed. The proper messenger from hands to head would be both Marias working in concert. Freder is a distraction.
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Jul 29, 2014 07:52
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Cool, that works.
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Rotwang was no outsider. He was one of the upper class and turned to a nihilistic fantasy of destruction. Naive though it may be, Metropolis' narrative has more poetry and beauty than it would if it resolved in a Marxist-approved manner. Case in point, the short lived musical version.
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You could also run with Kracauer's basic argument about Lang's films and suggest that the ending of Metropolis is the ultimate distillation of the point of view that the form is paramount to the human. Despite the fact that Rotwang and his robot essentially represent the ultimate industrial corruption of spirituality, Lang and von Harbou made their sympathy towards the builders of the Tower of Babel rather explicit by making the 'true prophet' Maria overtly sympathetic to their bleak design of building a tower to Heaven. (You'll notice this explicitly rejects the most fundamental moral premise of the Hebrew myth, which is that these actions distract humanity from God's moral authority.) Even though it is revealed that the urban utopia of the over-city is actually a dystopia for its underclass, Lang and von Harbou, as intellectuals with roots in expressionism, have a very hard time giving up the naive dream of the innate beauty of the industrial state as the ultimate realization of man's 'true' likeness. To them, the form - and, thus, the politique - will always be more important than the individual, social human. Thus, the underclass are constructed as a mob that, left to their own devices, almost drowns their own children when they destroy the forms that ostensibly oppress them, and immediately reverts to a witch-hunting mob. This is really not that different from The Birth of a Nation, where D. W. Griffith's message is not that Blacks are lacking in basic human dignity, but that they still need the control of the State, realized in the superego self-actualization of the Ku Klux Klan/Freder. Oppression is a necessary evil so that the State can be re-unified, but with the a representative of the old regime still functioning as its beacon. It's not difficult to see how this favoritism of the form over the human eventually leads to Nazi propaganda such as Triumph of the Will, and the concurrent perversion of Judeo-Christian morality to excuse both racial and ideological oppression. Rotwang being a member of the elite is irrelevant, because his perversion of the form with his pathos - associated with his antiquated house and clothing more reminiscent of the workers than the elite, than Joh the traitor who stole his true love - marks him as non-viable with the State. In fact, he is far more like Marx, who was also a member of the elite, but who still welcomed the ultimate dissolution of the oppression of the proletariat. EDIT: Even when I first saw the movie when I was thirteen, I always rooted for Rotwang, and was very surprised when it was in fact Frollo's son who threw Quasimodo off of the Church, instead of the other way around. Metropolis is a seriously flawed movie. It's not just naive. K. Waste fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Aug 2, 2014 |
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Aug 2, 2014 23:43
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Brings new meaning to the phrase 'don't chase the rabbit'.
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Aug 3, 2014 03:51
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anyone with money wanting some sweet, sweet Pacific Rim props? http://propstore.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/9/
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Sep 4, 2014 13:48
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I feel ultimately it was a movie about Giant Robots punching things. Very deep stuff man.
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Sep 4, 2014 14:53
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darkspider42 posted:anyone with money wanting some sweet, sweet Pacific Rim props? Gonna pay eleven thousand dollars for Mako Mori's Drivesuit Helmet...so I can...have a little piece of her near me...
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Sep 4, 2014 16:36
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That won't be drive suit coolant/fluid flowing through the helmet.
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Sep 4, 2014 16:38
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Actually tempted to bid on a lot of the bone shards and maybe the drill and wrench.
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If the stuff's located in LA, I might bid on Idris Elba's desk and use it at work 
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Wizchine posted:If the stuff's located in LA, I might bid on Idris Elba's desk and use it at work The only desk listed is Hannibal Chau's (Ron Perlman's).
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Sep 5, 2014 14:34
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Wade Wilson posted:The only desk listed is Hannibal Chau's (Ron Perlman's). They had Stacker's up there earlier I believe, it was one of the ones ending soon.
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Sep 5, 2014 14:36
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I want that Gipsy Danger ground crew jacket so bad. Gipsy's the prettiest girl in that movie. 
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Sep 5, 2014 15:19
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According to this thread Gipsy has a penis.
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Sep 6, 2014 00:31
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A phallus. They're totally different.
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Sep 6, 2014 01:14
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If you can pilot it, it's a lady.
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Sep 6, 2014 01:45
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Bongo Bill posted:A phallus. They're totally different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris#Spotted_hyenas
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Captain Invictus posted:They had Stacker's up there earlier I believe, it was one of the ones ending soon. I just got an email that the stuff IS here in LA, too. And the desk is available if you search for it. But the current bid is $1000, so no thanks. Wizchine fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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Sep 6, 2014 06:45
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The prices on a lot of the costumes are pretty reasonable if you consider the cost to buy the pants, sweaters, and jackets, and accessories individually. Like that fisherman costume for $10. It's probably actually waterproof, too, since the actors were getting sprayed during that scene. Or any of the ones that come with a bomber jacket.
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What do Ebola, Sierra Leone, and Pacific Rim have in common you may ask? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/world/africa/sierra-leone-ebola-medical-supplies-delayed-docks.html quote:...  And this isn't a case of some kook naming himself after a movie. I found a 2006 mention: http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/philadelphia/16438-chernoh-alpha-m-bah-philadelphia-march-25-27-a.html I haven't found anybody actually named Crimson Typhoon or Crikey Dingo yet, but GDT needs to answer for this. 
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jscolon2.0 posted:If you can pilot it, it's a lady. According to my Of course, in this case Mako is learning how to posses the phallic power, which she achieves when she makes more explicitly phallic part of Gypsy Danger hard and shoves it into a giant monster. In contrast, Godzilla has no need to possess the phallus, he is the phallus and yet is totally complete in himself and unable to be possessed (except by the ghosts of the war dead I guess). In Freudian terms, this is the godlike power we seek by pursuing the phallus, but can never achieve because it is only an object separate from our body, rather than an aspect of ourselves. The phallus is also totally a penis though. It is Freud after all. E: also I guess Ebola is hosed now. That is pretty rad, and I'm glad to see something not mind-numbingly from depressing from that shitshow. Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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Hodgepodge posted:Of course, in this case Mako is learning how to posses the phallic power, which she achieves when she makes more explicitly phallic part of Gypsy Danger hard and shoves it into a giant monster. They cut things in half. There is never any stabbing with the sword.
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Did that prop site have Hannibal Chau's sweet shoes for sale? I couldn't have afforded them but I'm just interested if they were available and what price they sold for.
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If you were Ron Perlman, wouldn't you have kept them?
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Pacific Rim 2 to begin filming in late 2015
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Oct 16, 2014 23:08
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Way to not soon late way to gahhh film now plz
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This pleases me.
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So as some of you may know, my family has made some pretty spiffy Halloween costumes over the years. We have had a lot of fun doing them, and they've been pretty well received around here. This year my younger son is edging past the acceptable Trick or Treat age, so we decided to make one last major costume. I think it's pretty fitting for this thread. Черно Альфа!!!  We had a great Halloween, and even though it rained and got too cold to go downtown like we have in the past, we went to WalMart.  I slapped a video together like I have done in the past as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV-17T7zPNw I hope it's okay posting this here. I didn't see a Halloween costume thread or contest on SA this year.
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Ramen Pride! posted:So as some of you may know, my family has made some pretty spiffy Halloween costumes over the years. We have had a lot of fun doing them, and they've been pretty well received around here. I am so in love with your robot costumes. <3
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Has any porn studio done the parody yet? "Pacific Rim Job"
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JazzPaws posted:Has any porn studio done the parody yet? You'll have to be satisfied with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0CZYNbqvj4
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JazzPaws posted:Has any porn studio done the parody yet? I read somewhere that the porn industry in general doesn't do the funny name-thing anymore. All you will get is "Pacific Rim: The XXX Comedy" or some such. My personal theory is that this is because all the people who came up with the funny names now work for The Asylum.
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Grendels Dad posted:I read somewhere that the porn industry in general doesn't do the funny name-thing anymore. All you will get is "Pacific Rim: The XXX Comedy" or some such. The Knobbit.
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