>When you are trying to flog it to a mass audience of billions you
>get... different weirdnesses than hagiographic emperor-worship: you
>get... the attempt to take the Christianity out of Narnia... you
>get... the semi-indigeneity-ecoworship of "Pocahontas"... you get...
>Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie (a magnificent actress who did a
>fantastic job in "Girl, Interrupted") with digitally-enhanced
>breasts...
You become a subject of capital - regulated, disciplined and denied by invisible ties that bind.
>Then again, there is *nothing* about blood and gore that Shakespeare
>could have learned from "Reservoir Dogs": consider the last scene of
>Hamlet. And the seduction and abandonment--the mental rape--of Queen
>Dido in the "Aeneid" has always seemed to me to be... profoundly
>unhealthy... glorification of brutality toward the (relatively)
>powerless...
Yeah, but the last scene in Hamlet shows Hamlet up a bit, and it's tragic, too. Mebbe we might even dare read it as an early exploration of allo that humanism that was haunting Europe at the time (yeah, we're the only beings who can consciously make a difference, but we just can't tie this morality thing down, and, anyway, we're a pretty fallible fulcrum for the universe ... ).
RD shows nothing but carnage (with reference to bugger-all, for mine).
And Jupiter had a job in mind for Aeneas over at Lavinium (however you spell it) - all part of the ties that bound in Virgil's day - not just the merely regent female to the patriarchal male, but also good men to their gods.
G'Night all, Rob.