/lit/ - Literature

>>17996358
Lately I’ve begun to master the art of speaking sparingly. It all comes down to the standards people have historically held men to; that is to say men are generally expected to act more and speak less.

>>8248676
>Moby Dick
>cast consists entirely of meme British actors

Starbuck's casting is good. Stubb might work. Zach Galifianakis is a meme.

Casting Tom Hardy as Ishmael is all sorts of retarded. Tom Hardy plays overly theatrical "big guys", Ishmael is quiet, conscientious and philosophical.

Whoever they picked as Tashtego looks nothing like an East Coast Native American.

The "Welcome to Qarth" guy is a poor choice for Daggoo, who is a native African. "Welcome to Qarth" guy, from the only role I know him from, is a mild banker which is antithetical in character to the warrior-savage, although solemn, harpooner. I think someone darker in hue and more impressive physically would be preferred.

Bildad and Peleg's choices are too Spaniard looking to be Nantucketers, who in Moby Dick are the extreme manifestation of puritanism.

Daniel Day Lewis is cast in roles like Ahab's too often, the central role of the movie would seem redundant.

If I had to pick a director, it would be Paul Thomas Anderson since he seems to have a mature grasp of literature. Christopher Nolan has a good eye but his writing and storytelling is pretty shitty except for the occasional soliloquy.

>>8205318

The fascist ideal is a man of action, by nature it sets out to seize back and mold the world to its liking. It's fully possible for someone to grasp an Evola text and, instead of writing an impotent academic critique about Hyperboreans, feel energized in the conviction that the current world is vapid and directionless. Kikes and roasties as you call them are a common boogeyman and negative sentiments about them are especially common amongst less sophisticated people but that doesn't acquit them of what they are accused.

It says everything that Evola himself was supportive of right-wing movements. I think you're either trying to sanitize him because he's a monolith and you don't want to believe reactionary politics may have some basis outside of reflexive hatred.

>mfw Watchmen is a comic book approximation of Gravity's Rainbow except with capeshit and muh Richard Nixon instead of V2s and World War 2.

I swear, the Nite Owl - whatsherface romance is like a straight rip of Roger Mexico and Jessica Swanlake romance.

Is anyone else ITT really depressed by all this?

Today an awkward pseudo-goth musical theater major said that she thought the only person who had mastered language like Shakespeare was Poe. I frowned at her with a fully furrowed brow and whispered quietly in a wobbling stammer "Y-You take that back."