The Movie Rope That David Acts For

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This is the first time that david has suggested a movie, and we agreed. We want to thank you all very much for your support. There were hundreds of you that bought tea shirts. If they get enough demand, i think, as of recording, if 20 more people say they want a tea shirt, they'll print another run. Or you can wait till our next teashert drive, which will probly d i don't know, like six months.

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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