August 13th, 2011 -- by Dr. Faustus
Visions of Ecstasy Excerpt
Russell Blackford on his blog Metamagician and the Hellfire Club brings our attention to this short YouTube excerpt from the short 1989 film Visions of Ecstasy, which was (and I believe, still is) banned in the United Kingdom. I think it well worth watching, though due warning for squick:
This seems to play with tropes we’ve seen a lot before on ErosBlog, and which some people play with in even more extreme ways than we see here. Is it erotic? Religious? Blasphemous? Is there really a deep difference?
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Speaking of ecstasy, (in my opinion) there is a visual reference to Bernini’s controversial “Ecstasy of St. Theresa” contained in that clip….
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Now that this post is a bit older and has less traffic, I will point out that trope actually means a figure of speech that isn’t literal, like “As soon as I heard her voice, I turned on a dime”. The common mistaken usage on the net is because the website TV Tropes used to cover tropes in dialogue on television, but now covers things well beyond just television… and well beyond just tropes.
Not sure if you care, as to many people this would be nitpicking. It’s offered purely in good intent and because you tend to like trivia and origins (I’m enjoying the melusine posts).