Comments on: The American Tragic Hero #2: Robocop

By: josh

josh — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:45:57 +0000

PS – OT @Fenzel: can you do a post on the syntactic genius of the Wu-Tang Clan such that they can make this sentence:

Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothin ta fuck with.

actually mean this sentence:

Wu-Tang Clan is nothing to fuck with.

The laws of grammar and double-negatives dictate that the first sentence should mean that the Wu-Tang Clan is not nothing to fuck with, i.e. that the Clan is indeed something to fuck with.

However, any listener immediately takes the second sentence as the true meaning.

How is this possible?

By: josh

josh — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:22:53 +0000

Just read Perich, Stokes, Belinkie, Lee and now this…I’m loving Verhoeverthinking It with a level of intensity it definitely deserves.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:09:11 +0000

Great article.

It isn’t pop culture, but another great depiction of the American tragic hero can be found in Arthur Miller’s play A View From The Bridge.

By: lee

lee — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:24:53 +0000

“[Verhoeven is] like De Tocqueville with brief nudity and a higher body count.”

WIN.

Also, video punchline at the end = WIN