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ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

I am loving hyped for this movie, but every time I see the title, I can't help but think of this old house track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NSn5RfxoXs

DJs would play this monologue over house tracks, and eventually it got pressed onto vinyl over a couple of different beats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts8iBs3tpmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPYPu4fjZs

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ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

also, I'm loving that poster.

ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

Joakim Brecht posted:

Why do you consider him a shithead? Genuinely asking.

He was an abusive sex-pest to Bjork while shooting Dancer in the Dark.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/bjork-manager-accuses-lars-von-trier-verbal-physical-abuse-2153243

ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

I was extremely happy that the poster image in the OP actually shows up as an actual scene in the movie.

ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

K. Waste posted:

For the most part it's closer to American Psycho and Funny Games, but because it's in von Trier's own more essayist narrative style it sometimes gets into a kind of classic exploitation film tell of just casually juxtaposing a literal clipshow from his filmography with, like, another montage of real world atrocities and human rights abuses. That part is definitely akin to Cannibal Holocaust. Although von Trier never stages anything of his own creation that is intrinsically unethical for spectacle, he and Deodato have a kindred reactionary anti-elitist chip, this idea that the film intrinsically presents as laughable, that what von Trier does to curry such vitriol is incompatible with any proportional response to violence or misogyny or nihilism or whatever in reality.

Of course, Deodato, the butcher, never expressed any humility. The House That Jack Built ends with an almost didactically spelled-out metaphor of how an artist can not reach heaven by plumbing the depths of hell.

Ha, I actually thought he made it to his heaven, what with the whole image of hell flipping into its negative when he finally fell. The whole movie he was trying to get caught and getting more and more brazen and literally yelling angrily into the void and waiting for an answer. He ended up exactly where he wanted.

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