🔴 Passion & Passivity
Jan 18, 2015
Crash, directed by David Cronenberg (1996).
sex, lies and videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh (1990).
Bad influence, directed by Curtis Hanson (1990).
Secretary, directed by David Shainberg (2002).
I’ve been watching some James Spader films from the 1980s and 1990s (to fill the time until The Blacklist starts up again). My response has not been what I expected, especially to Crash, ‘sex, lies & videotape’ and also, Bad Influence and Secretary. This group seems to have a certain coherence, thematically. In all of these, I would say James Spader plays an innocent, even a sexual innocent. I am not saying he is sexually naive, but rather is caught up in situations in which sexuality is an externalized, even emasculating force with which he is trying to cope. In both Crash & sex, lies & videotape, he struggles with impotence; also in both of these, he is just gorgeous, almost feminized at times. He is, in both, more the subject of seduction than its perpetrator. In key scenes in each the camera lingers on his wavy blonde hair and handsome face.
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![Jennifer Ehle and James Spader, The Blacklist [1:14 Madeline Pratt] Tegucigalpa by breakfast](https://i0.wp.com/blacklistdcd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/11a3740a-972c-43e1-b43f-a9e8864d5609-e1511515179295.jpeg?w=275&h=154&ssl=1 "11A3740A-972C-43E1-B43F-A9E8864D5609")
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![James Spader, The Blacklist [1:14 Madeline Pratt] “All there was was blood”](https://i0.wp.com/blacklistdcd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/be7a16e9-2f63-4507-ba2e-ba8e7adfba7c-e1511515202854.jpeg?w=340&h=227&ssl=1 "BE7A16E9-2F63-4507-BA2E-BA8E7ADFBA7C")
FULCRUM: State Capitalism vs the Internet (2)
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The Fulcrum (possibly an acronym) could involve a Master Plan for world domination, already in play, including a list of people embedded at high levels in national governments (like Fitch). It could spoil the plan if revealed. (Maybe Hillary Clinton is behind it – lol!)⋙ The theory is based on the fact that the World Wide Web went live on December 25, 1990 [the day after Reddington disappeared].Earlier in 1990, the Internet was put into the public sphere by the Defense Department, which had developed it. There must have been grumbling about this.
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