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| 09:40am 18/06/2008 |
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Ha muerto Cyd Charisse. Esperanza Aguirre y el "Nannysex" siguen vivos. Tócate los huevos.
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| 02:06pm 18/06/2008 |
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I’ll give you my big speech on horror. There are two horror stories that we can tell, and we can imagine ourselves around the campfire listening to the tribal elder or witch doctor or preacher or whoever it is telling us these things at night. The first thing he tells us is about where “evil” is, and he says, “Evil is out there,” and he points beyond the campfire, to the darkness in the woods and the noises we hear at night; the wolves that come and drag us off; those beasts out there; the “other”—the other tribe, the other people—the ones who are different, different color, their eyes are different from ours; those are the evil ones out there. In different countries they have different clothes, different ideologies, or they may be any force of nature we cannot control, so this unifies the tribe.
That’s the first story of horror. The second one is the same setup, but the tribal elder says, “Let me tell you where the evil is—the evil is here,” and he points to himself. And he says, “It’s in the human heart.” That’s a harder story to tell—that we are all part evil, monsters and devils—because the audience is always going to respond to the “other.” It unifies us as a tribe—that’s the way we are designed. We see things in order to find where the predator comes from; it’s survival instinct over all the time we have evolved. So a lot of this is unconscious in a way. We’re driven by it, and our parents reinforce it, our religion reinforces it—“Watch out!” Watch out for those predators, because they are all around.
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