For my 3D production class I had to create a three shot short that was a remake of an existing movie scene- with muppets. I ran out of time to do the particle water effects, but this is basically Pacific Rim anyway.
We’re losing our collective shit laughing at this. Holy crap it’s so funny, please turn the sound on.
What she means: The famous “Beauty is terror” quote in The Secret History (Donna Tartt, 1992) actually makes no sense at all in the context of the book. it is based on a misconception of beauty, or at least a very outdated one. in 1991, french philosopher Jean-François Lyotard wrote an essay in which he (based on the work of Edmund Burke) describes the difference between mere beauty and the sublime. whereas mere beauty comes down to perfection, a following of the rules of rhetorics and poetics established by the schools and academies and the tastes of their aristocratic public; the sublime is something that arises from a break, a defect, a certain ugliness. what refuses to be determined and grasped by rules and techniques creates an openness to the sublime. it is why plato and sophocles are sublime, whereas lysias and ion are merely perfect. the beautiful gives pleasure to its viewer. the sublime on the other hand unites pain, or terror, and pleasure. the sublime is kindled by the threat of nothing further happening, of a total breakdown, a nothingness. it comes from the terror of death, suspended in art, thus becoming sublime pleasure. what the characters in the secret history are looking for is not beauty, they are looking for a bacchanal, a total disruption and derangement of the senses. they are searching the sublime. it is dyonisus, not apollo. beauty is not terror. the sublime is terror. donna tartt lied to us
me, applying makeup in the mirror: wow i look pretty today!
the ghost of donna tartt that haunts my vanity: beauty is terror. what we call beauty we tremble before. the true, awesome, terrible beauty of the ancient world contains as much distress and anguish, as much grotesquerie as it does perfection
me: please, donna, i have class in 20 minutes, i just want to put on some mascara