tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417337773760045947.post1913335990487607754..comments2023-09-08T14:41:38.903+01:00Comments on faces on posters<br> too many choices: I Am a Real Americancarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886258675618058752noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417337773760045947.post-76266690169715845682011-11-04T02:51:18.568+00:002011-11-04T02:51:18.568+00:00Ralph - I did mean to mention Ventura, just slippe...Ralph - I did mean to mention Ventura, just slipped my mind in the writing. If I remember right Barthes also talks about the structuralism of the body of matches, how moves are organised into an arbitrary hierarchy; some moves are deemed more powerful than others where there's no real visual indicator to that effect usually.<br /><br />Kasper - Oh yeah I really can't wait to write about the nWo for the '90s but I was actually thinking of going for a 'fascists playing out a fascist fantasy' angle with them, what with the uniform and salute and slogans and their role as invaders. <br /><br />Also of note was that it was never planned for Hogan to be a member, he's exactly the person that the story didn't fit, the other members didn't want him in but he saw his star fading. There's an interview he hogs the night after the story begins and the discomfort of Kevin Nash and Scott Hall with Hogan is palpable.Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03139624478903867593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417337773760045947.post-7704239598611080952011-11-03T23:06:19.755+00:002011-11-03T23:06:19.755+00:00Does anyone remember Hulk Hogan's film 'No...Does anyone remember Hulk Hogan's film 'No Holds Barred'? Much darker than Running Man - not least because its set in the present. 'Wholesome' wrestling comes up against a more lethal, semi-legal variety (egged on by rabid promoters) - and Hogan has to play dirtier than he ever has before to survive!<br /><br />He paid some repentance as 'Mr. Nanny', but it was too late. The 90s paved the way for his Machiavellian superteams, and the Neocon debacle of the New World Order takeover.David K Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10756535951359716522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417337773760045947.post-78218254541412795502011-11-03T23:00:12.807+00:002011-11-03T23:00:12.807+00:00I forgot to add these promos, from the revisionist...I forgot to add these promos, from the revisionist period of wrestling video games right before the millennium.<br />http://youtu.be/ZshnczjvC1o<br /><br />and especially this one:<br />http://youtu.be/rZKhEcoaHTsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417337773760045947.post-63918032459636306002011-11-03T22:40:00.133+00:002011-11-03T22:40:00.133+00:00Good show!
This chimes a lot with my thinking toda...Good show!<br />This chimes a lot with my thinking today after hearing Ed Smith on the Today program when I got to work this morning talking about what is means to conspire to lose, <br /><br />"which as we know is far, far worse than conspiring to win, because the whole edifice of sport crumbles if people start to ask themselves, 'what am I watching here? Am I watching, wrestling, which is basically, you know, phony entertainment, which is fixed beforehand, or am I watching the real thing, the real sport where both teams are trying to win?'"<br /><br />Thinking as someone who is perhaps handicapped by the lack of any interest in competitive sport I see little difference in the closed spectacle of a sporting event (a narrative conflict abstracted from reality) that's outcome is pre-determined and one that isn't. Ultimately it's all about mass cathartic release and the misdirected responsibility of micro-nationalistic tribalism (aint that what they built the circuses for, to quell the stirrings of revolution? Without them we'd have to get our satisfactory cosmic justice and our emotional comradely from running the barricades).<br /><br />From the Barthe vault:<br /><br />"the function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of him[...]Each moment in wrestling is therefore like an algebra which instantaneously unveils the relationship between a cause and its represented effect. Wrestling fans certainly experience a kind of intellectual pleasure in seeing the moral mechanism function so perfectly[...]What is thus displayed for the public is the great spectacle of Suffering, Defeat, and Justice"<br /><br />Curtis, I can't believe that you didn't mention that The Running Man also features former Governor of Minnesota and WWF star Jesse Ventura.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com