I Just Want O Trade Marked Chicken Strangler

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There's a brilliant scene in the beginning that i was struggling with an it seemd like it would only be a modern reference. Now, he said like austin powers. And he can't blame a director for 19 forty eight inserting references that may be only like the peop only the privileged. An that his references we have to take like a sonous omo. Rhiting of hitchcock. I just want o trade marked chicken strangler. That's a lie. I never strangled a chicken in my life. Ten. Aright, let's,let's, come back and talk about the he philosophy, psychology behind uso,. i think there's a lot of interesting

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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