Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Übermensch" video.
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There is a great pre code, 1930 movie called "Babyface", in which a very young and sexy barbara stanwyck plays a girl prostituted by her father, who runs a saloon...although she expects nothing better, a German professor who drops by for a beer, whips out his big book of Nietzsche and tells her that she must follow his philosophy. She takes it seriously and runs away to the big city, sleeping her way to the top of the huge company and becoming incredibly wealthy. Most of the movie shows men going insane with desire for her, shooting each other, begging, sobbing and crying while she swans around ever bigger apartments dripping with jewelry and furs. At the very end of the film (in the last few minutes), the action pulls up short, makes her fall in love and lose all her money, as if they suddenly realized they had been carried away, and didn't want to be blamed for millions of small town girls running to the city with a copy of German philosophy and laying waste to the male population.
Even for a pre code film, it's pretty dirty and ahead of its time. One of my favorites.
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