Episode 66: Übermensch at Work

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren)  joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope.  Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their  Ü bermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”   Links Yoel Inbar [yoelinbar.net] Very Bad Wizards Episode 22 : An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiven