[lbo-talk] Schwarzenegger screens Terminator 3 at old Saddam palace

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Fri Jul 4 18:17:58 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: <dredmond at efn.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 6:03 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Schwarzenegger screens Terminator 3 at old Saddam palace


> Quoting Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net>:
>
> > " 'I play terminator, but you guys are the true terminators,' he told
the
> > soldiers."
> >
> > An Austrian Bob Hope.
>
> The ultimate irony is that he's more right than he'll ever know -- the
> terminators are utterly evil, malevolent killing machines. "I want to be
a
> machine", said Hamlet in Heiner Mueller's "Hamletmachine", one of the
great
> meditations on the power of reactionary ideology to turn human beings
into
> repressive monsters.
>
> -- DRR
======================

Except it's not irony. It's tragedy.

Ian



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