Posted on 11/07/2017 1:15:39 PM PST by drewh
I thought you were going to quit.
Simmer down and go knit something.
Yes, this back & forth is something like some dumb college class, where films are picked apart, scene by scene, and discussed as though it had been made recently, using today's/and/or the very young assistant prof's "MODERN" views.
Since Fritz Lang left NO written piece about why he used certain symbols, what he wanted them to mean, if anything, and this is NOT 1920 Germany and we aren't Germans of that era, it's best to just watch and enjoy the movie without dissecting it and attempting to use it as an anti-feminism trope.
Why MOLOCH!?
Why Marie?
Why the FLOOD?
This might come as a schock - but some adolescent males actually DID read the articles that came with the "art" - and wondered... WHY.
Baphomet has NOTHING at all to do with B'aal and just because you have conjured up, in your mind, and then posted it, only makes it "true" for you; though it is wrong/factually incorrect.
Ancient pagans had statuary of their many gods and also totemic animals/animal statues/half animal half human statues. Not only were ancient and modern Jews forbidden to have statuary representing GOD, HIS name was not supposed to be uttered.
Somewhere along the way, somewhat early Christians began to have statuary, paintings, and mosaics representative of Jesus and others. After the Protestant Reformation, some Christians stopped having such statuary and the more stringent even stopped the stained glass window pictures.
You are entitled to your own opinion, even when it is demonstraly wrong; you aren't entitled to then attempt to foist that opinion off on others as the ONLY "truth"!
How about just sticking to the article that heads this thread, which has been taken so far afield, that this is stupidly turning into another UNDEAD THREAD.
This story takes me back to my college days. Her story is not unusual. Unfortunately, do to our cultural attitudes about sex, at the time everyone was getting around. The only question we had at the time was the “quality”.
This is going to sound gross now, but I knew a lot of people that were sleeping with 2 or 3 different women a week every week. It was insane and we were very stupid.
If you were committed in a relationship, then it was just meant lots and lots and lots of sex everyday. Meaning 3 to 5 times minimum a day every day.
It was not until about 5 years after college I finally slowed down on racking up my “trophies”. Well compared to my past. It was all stupid and left me empty, but my ego was bigger than ever.
Evidently you missed the pseudo-html /pun> tag.
I LOVE Dorothy Sayers and read all of her books when I was in college. I own these books and have reread them all a couple of times, at least. My favorite one is THE DAUGHTER OF TIME, which MM also likes.
You did well to bring it up, in view of your earlier remarks on the thread about Philistines, and pop culture vs. more refined interests. Particularly as the book portrayed Shakespeare as being a lickspittle to the leading nobility of his day.
But -- returning to the original topic of the thread, I'm surprised you didn't reference THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR first, as the villain of the book was a slutty young woman who was having an affair with a married man -- and covered it up by making false accusations of kidnapping against another *woman*.
I'm also wondering why you didn't avail yourself of the following quote from THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR:
“Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all.”
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Oh, and not to put too fine a point on it, but THE DAUGHTER OF TIME (and THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR) were written by Josephine Tey, not Dorothy Sayers.
Using a new GHETTO term ?
Yes, I know what it's supposed to mean and take offense at the debasement of the English language by uneducated, stupid ( as opposed to just ignorant ), ghetto thugs and by the whites who now use it.
Long before there was such a thing as "feminism", many nations devolved into the miasma of debauchery and I'm not talking about pre-Christian societies .
So just WHO do you blame for that?
Oh I know...it still has to be women. LOL
Also, using that kind of language, is appropriating the "culture" of a race, which is now a big no no...supposedly; you little wigger.
Because that wouldn’t fit his religious sensibilities and C.S Lewisian views on Christianity.
Schock??
Your post is schlock.
But what does that have to do with Metropolis??????
Thanks for the translation, NP, you’re a gem!
You’re a loon. I wouldn’t look at a picture of you on toast.
NP: Why do all the women haters on FR think they’re God’s gift to women??
How sad that you watch a German masterwork only looking for something to restore American conservatism. You remind me of one of my husband’s film students who after watching Buster Keaton in one of HIS masterpieces, Steamboat Bill, Jr. asked “Was that really necessary?”
If you want a conservative country, conservatives will have to march right back into the arts and popular culture which they cowardly abandoned in the 1960s. I await with interest.
This ain't the Village Voice, Madam.
The metamorphosis of Feminine Maria into the FeminIST Mechanized Babylonian seductress and ABOMINATION - is illustrated there in plain sight for all to see.
How ironic that fact is completely missed, or deliberately ignored, or deliberately OBSCURED by a pretentiously self-proclaimed member of the Broadway "theater"-worshiping culture.
Liberal chicks are easy...very easy.
>>Baphomet has NOTHING at all to do with B’aal
Survey says:
https://www.google.com/search?ei=QO4EWrP3IIXSjwOzt5vgCw&q=Baphomet++Ba’al
Your opinion is noted with appropriately dismissive impunity.
I am not "surrendering" at all. You want to keep this up for days on end, for some childish, stupid,no doubt some perverted sexual release, which I find to be a total waste of my time, as well as tedious and stultifying.
Now, little boy you're p0laying at being Batman? What next...want me to play "PAT THE BUNNY" ?
Pardon me for imagining, for even one moment, that you would snap out of it and act like an adult.
You haven't posted one single thing about the "restoration of American conservatism", which has just about nothing at all to do with that movie, what this article is about, nor what this stupid, immoral, idiot girl supposedly did.
Though human nature doesn't change, what the Frankfurt School was cooking up back then, had nothing at all to do with this movie, Fritz Lang, nor the price of eggs in England, back then nor now.
Not really, but thanks anyway. :-)
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