Sunday 26 November 2017

Shaka Zulu
(1986)

Notes, footnotes or references:
  1. ‘Shaka Zulu’: Negative Metaphor For South African Blacks
  2. CAMERA Q&A: Joshua Sinclair on Shaka Zulu and apartheid (2013)
  3. Shaka Zulu (1986)

Shaka Zulu is a gory, foolish and demeaning 10‑hour miniseries. The script is awful at worst, comical at best.

And Shaka Zulu is identified as "the greatest project yet undertaken by the SABC" – and important for the nation's "image abroad" – in the public record of a 1984 South African parliamentary debate held in advance of shooting.

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Sunday 19 November 2017

Mardi Gras: Spring Break
(2011)

  1. American sex comedy films;
  2. Mardi Gras;
  3. New Orleans.
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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.



Albert Camus… (1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)