Wednesday 24 December 2014

Duck Soup

Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
1933
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Leo McCarey…
Outstanding Performances:
All
Premiss:
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs Teasdale.
Themes:
Alienation
Compassion
Courage
Destiny
Emotional repression
Empathy
Family
Friendship
Humanity
Identity
Loneliness
Loyalty
Mankind
Materialism
Narcissism
Nature
Personal change
Political Correctness
Religion
Republicanism
Self-expression
Social class
Snobbery
Solipsism
White culture
White supremacy
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Unknown
Review Format:
Cinema

Quite simply the best comedy ever made.


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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.