Pink Floyd The Wall Big influence from Triumph of the Will, but perhaps a bit too close to the carnivalesque Brazil in its aesthetic, though not a parody in any way that I could tell. Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Albert J. Ty" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 1:49 PM Subject: looking for films that employ a fascist aesthetic > Hi everyone, > > I'm devoting three screenings that illustrate the fascist aesthetic. > Beginning with Triumph of the Will, my THIRD film will be Brazil (as an > illustration of the way the carnivalesque is used to satirize the fascist > aesthetic). I'm looking for a SECOND film that will show the influence of > Triumph on mainstream cinema. Star Wars would be the obvious example, but > I'd much rather show something else. I thought of Starship Troopers, but > that's a little satirical already, and I was looking for something a little > more straight-faced. Any thoughts, anyone? > > Thanks much, > Andrew > > ----- > There is a picture by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. In it an angel is > depicted who appears as if trying to distance himself from something at > which he is staring. His eyes and mouth gape wide, his wings are stressed to > their limit. The Angel of History must look this way; he has turned to face > tbe past. Where we see a constant chain of events, he sees only a single > catastrophe incessantly piling ruin upon ruin and hurling them at his feet. > He would probably like to stay, waken the dead, and correct the devastation; > but a storm is blowing hard from Paradise, and - caught in his wings - it is > so strong he can no longer close them. While the debris piles ever higher > before his eyes the storm drives him without pause into tho future to which > his back is turned. That which we call Progress is this storm. - Walter > Benjamin > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html