Obviously this was far from an "exhaustive list" of examples. Let us know in the comments of other cinematic or literary candidates for the Big Flip that have interested or affected you, for whatever reason.
Another brilliant piece, Mark, weaving together disparate storylines with a common — and strong — thread: The power of love.
When I watched "Pulp Fiction" the first time back in like 2005 (I was out of the tv/movie-watching loop for many years), I recognized Jules' spiritual transformation, so it was fun to watch the clips you embedded (despite the violent depictions of death and chaos😭). Jules felt the power of love in the "miracle" that saved his and Vincent's lives, and he knew instinctively to embrace that, which is what a true "Big Flip" is: Our Divine Design breaking through the insanity and depravity to experience GRACE.
I would say that the power of love IS the creative spark we are designed with and is therefore all that matters in the end. Oh, and in the NOW. So now is when we should light up. Which you do so well in your writing.
The power of love is the *je ne sais quoi* that and will always defeat evil, because evil is incapable of UNDER-STANDING love, and therefore must return to entropy in its presence, as in the Xander clip.
It's like when a cop says, "Do you understand your rights as I have read them"? and I say "NO, I do not" because *I don't stand under my rights*! I skillfully wield my rights like a fucking light saber, because they are my gift from the Divine Creator.
There’s much more flipping in art than in life. It makes for good drama.
And although you’re right about so many things, I very much doubt you’re right about Musk. He would not have gotten where he is without embracing transhumanism and sucking at the tit of the deep state. The minute he flips, he’s dead. He’s been very useful in pretending oppose to tyranny, while assembling its architecture.
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💬 The sword is inside Xander’s heart, and the power he wields is greater than that of any demon or dragon.
A reminder we all badly need, again and then again again 🔥
--
To lighten the mood an eensy tad,
💬 ↓↓ “I don’t want to die on any hill,” I told him.
🗨 ↑↑ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment. ~~Woody Allen
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The iconic Biblical Pulp Fiction monologue reminds me of Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “The Flick”, wherein the monologue plays a key role at the climax and end of the play. The Flick isn’t a redemptive story per se, but it is a play where evil is explicitly called out at the end. The hero of the story, who, now, come to think of it, functions as sort of a Christ figure in that he is offered up as sacrifice (within the mundane context of the play). Through the course of the play, he is known for his flawless delivery of movie monologues, his purported masterpiece being the very Pulp Fiction monologue featured here (the scary weaponized one, not the redemptive one). Throughout the play he rebuffs requests to deliver that monologue. At the end of the play, after he has “returned from the dead” (again within the mundane context of the play, here “dead” means “fired”) he delivers the Pulp Fiction monologue, but now it functions as an utterly devastating judgment of the other characters’ evil. He walks off the stage and the play ends.
EDIT: no, actually I just looked at the play script, the full monologue is delivered at the end, including the redemptive bits. And there is one more short scene afterwards, but it reinforces the potentially spiritual underpinnings of the play: Avery, the Christ figure, has a life after being fired, the other characters are still stuck in dead end jobs, essentially “dead souls”.
The 'turn' or 'flip' happens more often than I expected, once I started thinking about it. It can be subtle, like Peter Quill's turn in Guardians of the Galaxy (when he saves Gamora), or it can be more clear as when Bud White turns in L. A. Confidential.
Midnight Mass was awesome. And boy did they nail the fake "holier than though" religious person who manages to *precisely* invert spiritual teachings to justify pure evil, using the exact same words.
Obviously this was far from an "exhaustive list" of examples. Let us know in the comments of other cinematic or literary candidates for the Big Flip that have interested or affected you, for whatever reason.
Another brilliant piece, Mark, weaving together disparate storylines with a common — and strong — thread: The power of love.
When I watched "Pulp Fiction" the first time back in like 2005 (I was out of the tv/movie-watching loop for many years), I recognized Jules' spiritual transformation, so it was fun to watch the clips you embedded (despite the violent depictions of death and chaos😭). Jules felt the power of love in the "miracle" that saved his and Vincent's lives, and he knew instinctively to embrace that, which is what a true "Big Flip" is: Our Divine Design breaking through the insanity and depravity to experience GRACE.
I would say that the power of love IS the creative spark we are designed with and is therefore all that matters in the end. Oh, and in the NOW. So now is when we should light up. Which you do so well in your writing.
The power of love is the *je ne sais quoi* that and will always defeat evil, because evil is incapable of UNDER-STANDING love, and therefore must return to entropy in its presence, as in the Xander clip.
It's like when a cop says, "Do you understand your rights as I have read them"? and I say "NO, I do not" because *I don't stand under my rights*! I skillfully wield my rights like a fucking light saber, because they are my gift from the Divine Creator.
Wield on, man.
There’s much more flipping in art than in life. It makes for good drama.
And although you’re right about so many things, I very much doubt you’re right about Musk. He would not have gotten where he is without embracing transhumanism and sucking at the tit of the deep state. The minute he flips, he’s dead. He’s been very useful in pretending oppose to tyranny, while assembling its architecture.
https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/alt-saviour-elon-musk-hints-at-buying?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2
💬 The sword is inside Xander’s heart, and the power he wields is greater than that of any demon or dragon.
A reminder we all badly need, again and then again again 🔥
--
To lighten the mood an eensy tad,
💬 ↓↓ “I don’t want to die on any hill,” I told him.
🗨 ↑↑ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment. ~~Woody Allen
The iconic Biblical Pulp Fiction monologue reminds me of Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “The Flick”, wherein the monologue plays a key role at the climax and end of the play. The Flick isn’t a redemptive story per se, but it is a play where evil is explicitly called out at the end. The hero of the story, who, now, come to think of it, functions as sort of a Christ figure in that he is offered up as sacrifice (within the mundane context of the play). Through the course of the play, he is known for his flawless delivery of movie monologues, his purported masterpiece being the very Pulp Fiction monologue featured here (the scary weaponized one, not the redemptive one). Throughout the play he rebuffs requests to deliver that monologue. At the end of the play, after he has “returned from the dead” (again within the mundane context of the play, here “dead” means “fired”) he delivers the Pulp Fiction monologue, but now it functions as an utterly devastating judgment of the other characters’ evil. He walks off the stage and the play ends.
EDIT: no, actually I just looked at the play script, the full monologue is delivered at the end, including the redemptive bits. And there is one more short scene afterwards, but it reinforces the potentially spiritual underpinnings of the play: Avery, the Christ figure, has a life after being fired, the other characters are still stuck in dead end jobs, essentially “dead souls”.
Anyway, hope you have a Happy New Year!
This was a really good one.
The 'turn' or 'flip' happens more often than I expected, once I started thinking about it. It can be subtle, like Peter Quill's turn in Guardians of the Galaxy (when he saves Gamora), or it can be more clear as when Bud White turns in L. A. Confidential.
Happy New Years. Have some cheddar.
To a discovery leads the cursorily mentioned ‘Christ’s conversation with the thieves’ 😊 Behold Luke(!) 23:43:
🗨 Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise. --vs-- 🗨 Verily I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in paradise.
The fashion to 'aerate' texts with spaces between words emerged many centuries after Christ’s time; the punctuation as we know it dates even later 🤷
How about "12 Angry Men", where each of the jurors are "flipped" one by one.
Enjoyed all the epiphany references, and thanks for the “Midnight Mass” suggestion-I had never heard of it before.
Midnight Mass was awesome. And boy did they nail the fake "holier than though" religious person who manages to *precisely* invert spiritual teachings to justify pure evil, using the exact same words.