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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks
See, that was basically my experience with Alien. I thought the effects from the Exorcist aged much better, especially considering that it's older.
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Now that's a hill you're gonna die on alone lol
The effects and set design of Alien are important but what makes it great is the way it builds suspense. The only thing that really holds up about The Excorcist is the priest's nightmare sequence unless you're a christian afraid of a lil devillin.
Re: Salo, I think Pasolini made it aesthetic enough to where the horrific events taking place seem a step removed from reality. The reality of a two girls one cup is much more pukeworthy imo.
Some contest the accusations leveled (rape and pedophilia) towards Sade as literal readings of his transgressive works but idk. This quote is great though
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections, it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. This manner of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life; it alleviates all my sufferings in prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world out side, it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness. The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. A traveler journeys along a fine road. It has been strewn with traps. He falls into one. Do you say it is the traveler's fault, or that of the scoundrel who lays the traps? If then, as you tell me, they are willing to restore my liberty if I am willing to pay for it by the sacrifice of my principles or my tastes, we may bid one another an eternal adieu, for rather than part with those, I would sacrifice a thousand lives and a thousand liberties, if I had them. These principles and these tastes, I am their fanatic adherent, and fanaticism in me is the product of the persecutions I have endured from my tyrants. The longer they continue their vexations, the deeper they root my principles in my heart, and I openly declare that no one need ever talk to me of liberty if it is offered to me only in return for their destruction.
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