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I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting the link to Polli's story. I've missed it so much since it was taken down from YT. Lots of hugs & kisses!!!

Ohh you're very welcome!!!! And a massive big thanks to @sorenkingsley who edited it and @hazelestelle for doing the English subs ❤️❤️

If anyone else is interested you can find the Verbotene Liebe - Next Generation s1 Paul Verhoven x Oliver Sabel storyline HERE :)

WOW x WOW presents 'Buried Connections', a group art exhibition featuring over 60 international artists.

Selected art by Alexandra Verhoven, Kelly Sux, Paulette Jo, Paul Barnes and Angelika Rasmus

The online exhibition opens Friday March 3 at 7pm UK on the WOW x WOW website and will be on view until March 24.

Oh okay I've watched half of showgirls so now i get the jokes™️

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Whats your personal opinion on originals and fics that center Nazis? Even if they keep the horrible people that they are, do you think its... ethical? For the lack of the better word. Because it seems like a very hard topic to navigate, even if all characters are fictional therfore not responsible for actual atrocities.

My short answer is: yes (and there is nothing that could make me say otherwise.) But I can tell, Anon, that this is a question made thoughtfully and in good faith, one that exists in implicit conversation with Simone Weil's exhortation about not reacting to evil in a way that would increase it. So! I will provide a longer answer as well, and it's one I've spent some time meditating on.

Whatever you mean by "it" (Nazis, fascism, genocide), yes, it is a hard topic to navigate, intellectually and emotionally. In my view, this is an argument for approaching hard topics in fiction, not an argument against it. There are a number of factors influencing my position. For one thing, I'm against censorship. Living through the rise (again) of fascism in our own historical moment has strengthened my views on this. Moreover, the argument that maybe it would be better not to present "horrible" things/people or "hard topics" in fiction has been successfully used against queer fiction (and, not incidentally, public libraries) in the region where I live. As a queer woman, I find this both enraging and frightening.

Also, there's precedent for this. People asked themselves this question about Nazis in the time of Nazis. Charlie Chaplin made the controversial comedy The Great Dictator because he wanted to show the absurdity of Hitler's self-delusion, and represent the grandiose plans of Europe's dictators (plural) as, quite literally, ridiculous. Conrad Veidt, having fled the Nazis, drew a personal boundary: he said he would play as many Nazis as Hollywood wanted him (6'2", German accent, cheekbones that could cut glass) to play, as long as their ideology was always represented as absolutely, irredeemably hollow/evil. Obviously (Casablanca) this did not prevent him from playing Nazis as chillingly plausible, complex human beings.

There's also the complex question of what counts as "centering," to say nothing of the question of who counts as a Nazi. (Briefly on the latter: anyone who ever had an NSDAP card? anyone conscripted into the army? If the answer to the former question is "yes," this would include Hans Fallada's novel Jeder stirbt für sich allein, where a couple who voted for Hitler become anti-Nazi activists after their only son is killed on the front. If the answer to the latter is "yes," it would group together men with wildly differing, even diametrically opposed political and moral convictions.) Paul Verhoven's Zwartboek has central characters who are Nazis, and confronts the grotesque, abusive violence of the regime unflinchingly. Schindler's List forces its audiences to confront the reality of a damaged sensualist who will shoot other human beings and like it. More recently, Timur Vermes' novel Er ist wieder da imagined (presciently, alas) how the news cycle and celebrity culture of the 21st century would react to an outrageous dictator. I think that fiction, including films and, yes, including fanfic, can do the work of teaching what Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann in Jerusalem, called "the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil."

August reads.

Starship Troopers was quite different from what was depicted on film and though I enjoy the movie, I kind of wish Paul Verhoven stuck with the book in his adaptation. He found the book to be boring. I highly recommend the book.

More celebrities doing gay scenes need to take inspiration from Paul Verhoven's 1983 erotic thriller The Fourth Man where the two male leads shove their tongues down each others' throats like actual fucking facehuggers

3 years later

Ezt a faltól-falig polcot a saját kezeimmel csináltam, miután a boltban kapható legnagyobb DVD-tárolót kinőtte a gyűjteményem. Mostanra lett tele.

Mit hol találok?

Nagyjából kontinens -> ország -> rendező -> időrend alapján vannak a fontosabb filmek, a maradék ábécé-sorrendben a megfelelő országon/régión belül.

Kék keretben az ázsiai filmek, zöldben a magyarok, narancssárgában az európaiak, és lilában a zenei témájúak (van itt koncert, doku, musical).

Legfelül horror (H), mese (M), és természetfilmek (D) vannak. C betűvel jelöltem a klasszikusokat (kb. 1920-60), a jelöletlen alsóbb polcokon pedig, mint az olcsó borok a boltban, az angol nyelvű filmek sorakoznak. Majdnem Hollywoodot mondtam, de abból itt nincs sok.

Akkor van némi kavarodás, ha egy különleges kiadvány nem fér el a polcon (pl. Ingmar Bergman 54 filmje az M betű felett bújkál), vagy ha egy rendező országot vált (Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Asghar Farhadi, Antal Nimród, Fliegauf Benedek, Hajdu Szabolcs, Luc Besson, Paul Verhoven, Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Miloš Forman, Oliver Stone). Ez utóbbira az a megoldás, hogy ha van magyar vonatkozás, akkor megy a zöld szekcióba, ha ázsiai, akkor a kékbe. Ha mindkettő, akkor szívás. Ez nem egy videótéka, úgyhogy elég, ha én értem a logikáját!

How is Robocop losing? His superpower is literally being Catholic. All the other robocop prototypes unalive themselves, but robocop's faith cannonically keeps him going. It is his Catholicism that lets him overcome OCP's programming and to do good works. Practically all of Paul Verhoven's films have subtle Christian symbolism woven into them. Robocop is shown to practically walk on water in one scene. We also have to mention his whole Jesus-coded death/resurrection. All I'm saying is robocop deserves to be recognized as the Catholic icon he is.

Unrelated but Robocop (1987) is free on youtube right now

justice for robocop ✊

The online right's dedication to missing the point of Paul Verhoven's Starship Troopers movie is truly addicting entertainment to me. Verhoven really set a trap for these people by making that film.

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Sam Levinson really thinks he's Paul Verhoven lmao

the barbie movie should have been directed by paul verhoven.

Seen your post about your thoughts on the piano teacher. Try watch Elle by Paul Verhoven, it’s like almost the same film but one you might maybe enjoy

Will check it out Thanks