I Want Ont to Kill You, Tobamebut There O Etit

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In the british play, it its alluded to, and almost stated flat out, that the jimmy stuart character had had an affair with one of the students. In reality, rupert's reaction is just one of horror. For we ere we leaving this um about the idea of, you know, i want to commit the perfect murder as a work of art. To me, this seems like cartoond, supervillan kind of reasoning. But i can't imagine the actual person who would truly believed im right. I want ont to kill you, tobamebut there o etit. So here's one thing that hitchcock could have done. The d

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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