You'll put both of your eyes out, kid.
Posted on 12/15/2024 2:09:20 PM PST by DFG
Someone recently suggested that as Artificial Intelligence progresses, it may well put a lot of postmodern college professors and other abstruse theorists out of business. Forget the ancient debate about whether ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas movie (it is, of course); our pal Josh Dunn of the University of Tennessee decided to test this proposition by asking ChatGPT to produce a plot summary of ‘Die Hard’ as written by PoMo major domo Jacques Derrida, and this is the result:
Ah, Die Hard, a text of explosive multiplicities, invites us to deconstruct its narrative architecture, its spatial-temporal labyrinth, and the aporia of heroism and terror. At its surface, we encounter the tale of John McClane, a “cop,” a metonym for the sovereign subject, who is thrust into a high-rise citadel, the Nakatomi Plaza—a veritable simulacrum of late-capitalist modernity, both transparent and impenetrable.
Here, McClane is ostensibly positioned as the agent of order, but what order? The order is already fractured, splintered. The film begins with a marital fissure, a différance, as McClane travels to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly Gennaro, who has reclaimed her pre-marital name, destabilizing the paternal phallus, the symbolic order he presumes to uphold. Enter Hans Gruber, the antagonist, whose identity is itself a mask, a play of signifiers. A “terrorist,” but not a terrorist—his violence is aestheticized, his motives avaricious rather than ideological. Gruber’s elegant nihilism challenges the binary oppositions upon which McClane’s symbolic authority rests: law/crime, hero/villain, chaos/order. Is Gruber not merely the inverted reflection of McClane? Is not the difference between them traceable to the play of arbitrary signs?
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Utter pompous nonsense, the drivel of fart sniffing elitism.
A postmodern audience would be cheering the parts of the movie when Hans Gruber kills Joseph Takagi, and later Harry Ellis.
LOL!
I had to sit through that movie for the umpteenth time the other day. (My husband insists it’s a Christmas movie...)
Ditto. In spades
All I know is, it’s not Christmas till Hans Gruber falls from the top of the Nakatomi Building.
A fractured family is being made whole.
A man learns to forgive himself.
Peace and order win over the forces of greed and chaos.
A small child gets their Christmas wish.
A media personality gets socked in the kisser.
And when I see that, the warm glow of Christmas fills my heart.
I prefer Lethal Weapon 2.
You'll put both of your eyes out, kid.
“Utter pompous nonsense, the drivel of fart sniffing elitism.”
Definitely written by an EV owner.
I stopped reading right there.
But your choice.
Plus important dietary information such as Twinkie ingredients “Sugar-enriched flour, Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, Polysorbate 60, and Yellow Dye No. 5. “.
That’s actually pretty accessible compared to some other postmodern gibberish I’ve seen.
Like what this thing churns out:
http://m8y.org/postmodern.html
And "We're gonna need some more F.B.I. guys, I guess".
I watched it for the first time a few nights ago.
NOT a Christmas movie.
It is an action movie that takes place on Christmas Eve. That’s it.
Nothing about that movie speaks of Peace, Joy, or Hope. Barely speaks of love.
It is a Christmas movie. Christmas is integral to the plot in multiple ways.
I’m more of a “Donovan’s Reef” holiday guy. :)
The notion that “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie is spread by us guys, so that we don’t have to watch yet another sappy Hallmark Christmas movie in which a big city girl visits her rustic parents out in the country and falls in love with a local rube after he fixes the flat tire on her Mercedes and takes her a cup of hot chocolate at the local diner.
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