Remember, you too must die.
Posted on 08/27/2022 11:49:06 AM PDT by conservativeimage
Whether you're Noah Harari admitting "We don't need the vast majority of the population" or Anthony Fauci gaslighting "I didn't shut down anything," James Stewart who bombed Nazis in WWII responds in the following clip from the 1948 film ROPE: "YOU'VE MURDERED!" "By what right to you dare say that there is a superior few to which you belong?" "Did you think that you were God!?"
Memento Mori, Globalist Management. You too must die and will be judged.
Remember, you too must die.
Et in Arcadia Ego.
Even in Paradise, I death hold sway.
I considered Rope to be a weak movie. I just don’t see a committed Nietzschean pulled that quickly completely away, even allowing for the fact that “Rope”’s generation of professors were a LOT smarter and a L-O-T more consistent.
I think “Crime and Punishment” provides a much better treatment of a similar topic.
Hitchcock deftly hints at the lead characters’ homosexuality.
Yes, the obvious move with two against one would be to overpower and kill ghe Stewaert character. Pushing him out the window would provide a good opportunity to move the body out of the apartment and take a nice drive down to the Hudson River. One could make a whole series about how the two smart boys strugle with lie after lie to try and avoid a web of their own making. Viewers would be fascinated with would they escape and how many other crimes they are driven to commit. I would vote for an ending in which one of the two sets the other up to take the fall and quietly exits to Brasil where he is last seen intellectually corrupting some Brazilian college students while his two very hot Brazilian babes await his arrival at his very fine residence. The last frame would be the words THE End with a big ? beneath.
The problem with changing the ending in that manner moves it too far from the Leopold and Loeb murder done by two homo U of Chicago students. I believe that ne of the two reformed while in jail and was a leader, as he was smart and had plenty to contribute.
The problem with changing the ending in that manner moves it too far from the Leopold and Loeb murder done by two homo U of Chicago students. I believe that ne of the two reformed while in jail and was a leader, as he was smart and had plenty to contribute.
I’m guessing you are aware Rope was based on Leopold and Loeb.
Leopold was a Nietzschean. Never did let it go but was very awkward socially. Loeb was very popular. Had an IQ of 200. Prob was honored to get attention from brilliant and handsome Loeb and murdered a little boy to please him nothing more. Loeb read stories of a criminal mastermind, about a ‘gentleman thief’ named ‘Raffles’ and it led to a rich fantasy life wherein he fancied himself a brilliant criminal mastermind.
Raffles was created by Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother. ‘Raffles’ like his brother’s books about Sherlock Holmes and Watson also had a loyal sidekick who would do his bidding. Loeb’s fantasy life came up with what he thought proved his superiority, a perfect murder. Leopold was his sidekick that would do his bidding, did have a sexual relationship with Loeb. Leopold had absolutely no regret, sociopathic about the terrible murder they committed on that poor little boy, Loeb’s cousin Bobby Franks. I mention the boy because so often he is not mentioned. For years I’ve thought of that little boy and how awful that was.
Many many years later when Leopold was let out of prison he went to his home in Puerto Rico and a reporter went there. Leopold still had a photo of young handsome Loeb. Leopold told the guy he still loved Loeb.
To sort of keep on track here with the column, yes I hope Global management dies but greed is the heart of it and in a way Leopold was motivated like Global management people are. Greed is it’s heart. The little boy was killed for personal gain with no regard to his life. Leopold did it solely to please and keep the admiration and perceived love of the cold hearted monster, Loeb.
I don’t see greed going away. I think the Global market has to lose the potential to make money and only then the greedy people will go elsewhere for their buck. There is no loyalty in them to any idealistic ideas of a country and it’s people being looked after well. It’s all about personal gain.
“Did you think you were God, Brandon?... You’re going to die, Brandon!”
I always liked “Rope” as a contained thriller. I think Hitchcock shot it like a stage play. But I forgot Brandon was one of the culprits.
Let’s go, Brandon!
That is the whole point. Leopold and Loeb look positively silly and complete stupid amateurs by today’s serial killer standards. John Gacy specifically called mocked the pair to one journalist.
LOL - nice catch!
Tanks for all your apt reviews of the film. I was more concerned though about the relevance of the final monologue in the context of the Nazis in Jimmy Stewart’s time or the depopulationists of our time.
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