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Re: Stirnerite in a movie

vive la insurrection — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:54:35 GMT

Well gross was a bit of a gluttonous libertine.

That said I wouldn't expect Stirner's name to be name dropped - I think mentioning obscure philosophers out thf the blue would lead to some confusion with an audience (you could probably name more common names like Nietzsche or de Sade if it serves a plot point) - I just found it interesting a very obvious and self confessed Stirnerite was portrayed.

Frankly, I was a bit shocked Otto Gross was in the movie, I always thought he was really obscure

Re: Stirnerite portrayed in a movie

SkepticalMetal — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:01:57 GMT

At first I thought you were saying that in the scenes that Gross is portrayed in, he actually commits theft (like some sort of Hollywood stab at Stirner's "egoist anarchism").

Re: Stirnerite in a movie

Neodoxy — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:01:04 GMT

I prefer my women a little more... Foxy...

Re: Stirnerite in a movie

Michael J Green — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:44:16 GMT

Gross was played by Vincent Cassel in the movie, who pretty much always steals the scenes he's in.

I don't recall if Gross's influences are mentioned - perhaps Stirner was name-checked, and I missed it - but he's mostly portrayed as a gluttonous libertine.

Re: Stirnerite in a movie

vive la insurrection — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:10:56 GMT

...Wait a sec!

Keira Knightly not attractive! I've gone from writing about you in my diary to putting you on my list. You're asking for Trouble, with a capital "T".

And what the hell am I doing thinking about Hayek, Stirner and Gross while you make such a comment about "The Duchess of Devonshire" (as portrayed in "The Duchess"). This thread deserves some serious psychoanalysis.

Re: Stirnerite in a movie

Neodoxy — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:57:53 GMT

"are you happy now that you rained on my parade twice in one thread? This is going in my diary."

Mine too.

Re: Stirnerite in a movie

vive la insurrection — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:36:03 GMT

Fine: title changed to "Strinerite portrayed in film", and I guess he wasn't as scene stealing as I thought

are you happy now that you rained on my parade twice in one thread? This is going in my diary.

I actully heard the flick was filled with Jungian / Freudian archtypes and played as a type of Psychoanalytic "parable" ex: Freud = Superego, Jung = Ego, Gross = Id

Re: Stirnerite in a movie

Neodoxy — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:27:27 GMT

Rather an unclear thread in terms of direction don't you think?

Anyway, I liked the movie. It was more of a movie about Jung's personal life more than anything else. I didn't think too much about the Gross character (beyond the fact that he was a total player). I might have liked the movie a little more if I found Keira Knightley really attractive... What? Spoilers? Definitely not.

Also Jung totally looks like Hayek in the movie. Just saying.

Stirnerite portrayed in a movie

vive la insurrection — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:21:43 GMT

Stirerite and Freudian psychoanalyst, Otto Gross, is portrayed in the movie called "A Dangerous Method".

I haven't seen the movie (nor do I intend to), but I hear the few scenes he is in he steals, so that's kind of cool I guess even if the dude was nutter butters.