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September 25, 2013 6:49 PM   Subscribe

 
This film is also screening shortly at the Adelaide Film Festival.
posted by dumbland at 6:54 PM on September 25, 2013


I can't wait to see this! The Pervert's Guide to Cinema was fantastic!
posted by cytherea at 7:24 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


Thanks for posting! I'm now looking forward to seeing this.

Also, on the topic of They Live, this was a very good read. And my, that is some fight scene.
posted by klausman at 7:26 PM on September 25, 2013 [3 favorites]


I saw The Pervert's Guide to Cinema a bunch of years back and I think I dismissed it as a fever dream until I saw this just now. I'm normally allergic to pretentiousness, but this guy is amazing.
posted by neckro23 at 7:27 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


Interesting clip. I've never considered the kinship of gestures that Zizek and Louis Black share.
posted by umbú at 7:28 PM on September 25, 2013 [2 favorites]


You have to drink a shot each time he touches his nose.
posted by cytherea at 7:30 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


What a wonderful excuse to rewatch They Live. On the other hand, remembering that I have a copy of They Live is also a good enough reason to mandate rewatching They Live.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:31 PM on September 25, 2013 [10 favorites]


"Put on the glasses!"
"No!"

30 minutes of fight scene. The best single fight scene in western cinema, a legit street brawler against a pro wrestler.

"Put on the glasses!"
"OK... hey, I should have put on the glasses!"

The rest is Roddy Roddy Piper trash-talk, which means the movie wins everything forever. There may have been a plot or theme, I'm not sure, and I'm not secure enough in my aggressive masculinity to find out.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:03 PM on September 25, 2013 [2 favorites]


Not only do I love They Live, but I even like Carpenter's movie from the previous year - "The Prince of Darkness".
posted by 445supermag at 8:24 PM on September 25, 2013 [5 favorites]


Zizek on the NFL.
posted by docgonzo at 9:11 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


I've been getting bits and pieces of this for a while on Twitter from Zizek Ebooks.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 9:12 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


Slap*Happy: "The best single fight scene in western cinema, a legit street brawler against a pro wrestler."

Keith David is or was a "legit street brawler?" I always thought he was an outstanding narrator who was severely under-utilized as a great actor.

And, "They Live" is an awesome movie. The "This is your God" on the currency was superb.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 9:45 PM on September 25, 2013


THEY LIVE is one of my all-time favorite movies. it works well on so many levels, and this new "ideology" perspective is quite interesting and apt.
posted by brianstorms at 10:37 PM on September 25, 2013


Roddy Roddy Piper

ROWDY Roddy Piper. You're liable to get an inverted atomic drop for that.
posted by Hoopo at 10:42 PM on September 25, 2013 [3 favorites]


Ah, damn, of course he'd talk about They Live---all its subtext is just text. Now Zizek on The Fog, that'd be interesting!
posted by ThatFuzzyBastard at 10:47 PM on September 25, 2013


Not only do I love They Live, but I even like Carpenter's movie from the previous year - "The Prince of Darkness".

Then you're in luck: it just came out on Blu-Ray this week.
posted by Rangeboy at 10:52 PM on September 25, 2013


Just watched it and I don't think he succeeded in projecting his ideas on to this movie, as hard as he tried.
posted by Hoopo at 11:17 PM on September 25, 2013


What would Zizek say about the Chicken fights on Family Guy?
posted by zaelic at 11:55 PM on September 25, 2013


Saints Row IV.

That is all.
posted by ShutterBun at 2:55 AM on September 26, 2013 [1 favorite]


I like his music video.
posted by pracowity at 3:11 AM on September 26, 2013 [1 favorite]


I'm totally stealing this from the Principia Discordia:
A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners) be True. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more True than any other.

DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some particular grid. But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is "absence of female-ness", or vice versa, is a matter of definition and metaphysically arbitrary. The artificial concept of no-relation is the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.

The belief that "order is true" and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the ERISTIC ILLUSION.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

Reality is the original Rorschach.
Leaving aside the assessment of the usefulness or truthfulness of grids, I find this an incredibly useful metaphor (that is, I like this particular grid) for understanding ideologies. It explains how two people can look at the same facts and draw radically different conclusions. I'm not interested in arguing over whether or not given grids can be more True, as Thornley or Wilson or Hill or whoever wrote this particular page thinks. I think think it's a good metaphor that is relevant to the discussion.
posted by Pope Guilty at 2:48 PM on September 26, 2013 [1 favorite]


What's your standpoint on bubble-gum?
posted by ShutterBun at 11:07 PM on September 26, 2013


I could really use some more because I am not qualified to kick ass.
posted by Pope Guilty at 11:46 PM on September 26, 2013


"You? You're OK. This one? REAL fucking ugly!" Damn that is a sweet film!
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 12:34 AM on September 27, 2013


Adam Buxton on twitter
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:01 AM on September 27, 2013


So the Tea Party friends I have that call me a sheep and that I should wake up and see that I'm just obeying orders, are really just leftist Hollywood types?
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 7:34 PM on September 28, 2013


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