Nietzsche (2003)
Released: August 2003
Genre: Drama / Psychological
Running Time: Approx. 5 minutes
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The Story: Two coworkers have a conversation about the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
Production Notes: The script for this short was written in August of 2002. We had just completed “The Last Patrol” and “The Quotient of all Anxieties” and we were ready for a new project. We were inspired to make a gangster flick after watching Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Andrew came up with the idea of two gangsters sitting at a table talking about philosophy while a third man, their hostage, sat tied to a chair next to them. We thought this was a great opening scene for what could be a really cool gangster film. We even had a name for it, “The Black Tie Affair.” However we were never able to get it off the ground and we ditched the script. Nearly a year later we decided to resurrect the idea and give it a new angle. Just as a side note: what Ezekiel says in this movie does not necessarily reflect our religious beliefs, we just like hate mail.
Cast and Crew:
Andrew Isaac as Ezekiel
Jared Marshall as Samuel
Directed by Bryan Harley
Written by Andrew Isaac
Edited by Bryan Harley
Original Music by Jeffrey Michael
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nietzsche is an optimistic philosopher not pessimistic. in his books he repeatedly mentions laughter dancing and joy. its only those who have a very romantic image of the world who find him pessimistic
Yeah your right, I just had to hit the reply button. Yeah Nietzsche was not a pessimist. He had hopes for mankind. He believed that only with, might we say, ‘true-grit’, could see the world as it really is, the void, and still laugh with it.
A-men brother! If anything, Nietzsche had more faith and love for humanity than any so-called religious man. Nietzsche saw the world, life, as it really is, and still loved it. Those who say the world is empty and joyless without god never truly loved it to begin with. Aside from that, I like this short movie alot. Good script, simple shots, and a decisive ending, although not an ending I think accurately represented what Nietzsche was laying down. But I still dig it.
and I wonder how he feels about that. Must feel pretty stupid.
“so i suppose you dont know the true moral of Nietzsche?”
So i suppose you dont know the true pronunciation of Nietzsche?:P
hitler nr.2 anyone?
Neitzschie lol
i HATE NIEZTXHCEH i dont even know who he is, but everyone who fuckin mentions him is SOME TWAT
Exactly!
It’s those with a misconception of Nihilism that exaggerate it to be a pessimistic ordeal. where going through his writings one realises that Nihilism is to be overcome, and that was his purpose of writing about the ubermensche, where one rebuilds himself after the nihilistic period (or enlightenment period (which is more of a depressive realisation that it all comes down to nil) to better himself (to become the overman).
unfortunately not all men have the strength to cross over and why try to teach this old dogma new tricks what you cant teach to fly push to fall faster
I like the video its funny.
But you know Nietzsche wasn’t a pessimist.
I like existentialism.
But I like this video..good job.
Denying the almighty, tyrany reigns, but true man acts on his own self interes, also it can be very difficult to live with a genius. However this Nietzsche seems to deny the idea of divinity, well without divinity he wouldn’t be able to because he wouldn’t be alive. The scientific proof of devinity is “Who started the first chemical reaction” this baffled one of my teachers.
Your teacher was obviously a very weak Human being, logically. You don’t “start” chemical reactions in nature to start with.
“Who” started the chemical reactions that led to God, anyone?
You dig your own regressive grave.
Well Mr Riot, your argument is strong, what are the chances of two chemicals colliding, OK so one may have gravity to assist the collision, but in the castness of space, the spirit that controols space time bought the chemicals together and that created the big bang, the chain reaction that created enough matter to form life. The rest can be found in the book of Genesis.
terrible. trading on cliche and caricature. can’t even pronounce his name properly! i think its a joke. But its not funny at all. Students. Bless em….
NOOOOOOO!!! Nietzsche was the first OPTIMISTIC existentialist.
optimistic existentialism. yes but, as an escape from what he percieved “the dangers of nihilism”. and i would say therefore, that nietzsche is still essentially a pessimist. if we understand by that, the abolishing of inherited illusory and childish comforts and hopes. you either take refuge in art or indulge in your power. here you say yes to life.
ITT: Nietzsche know-it-alls
dude, nihilists said that way before neitczhe came along, neitchze was an anti-nihilist. learn about the guy your gonna do a video about
I thought Nietzche was a Nihilitst. Isn’t Existentialism just a train of thought developed on nihilism? Sartre, in my opinion, defines the human condition perfectly. Nietzche was close, but yeah, who am i to judge. Great film.
quite amusing but nothing to be taken serious…furthermore, your usage of language is not accurat ….especially if u consider the fact that nietzsches german texts were written in a very special style…
and nietzsche was not a pessimist …that’s bullshit and only misinterpretation……start reading his books again!
Badly acted, misinformed and pretentious. If this was informative or interesting, perhaps I could overlook the ridiculously contrived and excessively crude dialogue. This was clearly conceived and produced by someone with minimal knowledge of continental philosophy who mistakenly believes himself to be extremely educated in this subject. When the titular subject of the film’s name is mispronounced, you know it can’t be good.
Since i’m avoiding revising this exact subject, I think i’ll point out every error. Firstly, it’s not a dead divinity. When Nietzsche says “God is Dead’, he means that the idea of God is so unconvincing that his existence is, or soon will be, accepted by nobody but the ‘herd men’. Secondly, Nietzsche did not believe that man was an inherently dispicable creature. He believed that the proliferation of Christianity and morality had led to man becoming a “shrunken herd animal”.
Thirdly, Nietzsche did not believe that man’s “sole purpose is to create chaos etc”… He didn’t believe in an objective purpose. Fourthly, “Sartre and his comrades” did not have “a low opinion of men”. Fifthly, Hobbes’ views on human nature are just ridiculous. Sixth, the Gay Science is not really a seminal work. In fact, not a single line of this video is particularly informed. Every line of attempted Kevin Smith-style humour is also a mistake. In fact, the whole video is.
Nietzsche was not really an existentialist; existentialism presupposes a fully autonomous agent within a structureless, chaotic world. Nietzsche was more of a prototypical poststructuralist in that he acknowledged the social construction of identity.
If you actuall read The Gay Science, you would know that about 50% of the book is engaged in a continual discussion of living well and tailoring moral identity to one’s own experience in order to live a life of beauty and purpose, but whatever.
How could you make this video? Of all the people slandering Nietzsche, it shouldn’t be those who have actually read him. Assuming you read the book you cite.
Assuming that’s true, you are one more example of an amateur reader boosting lies about a man whose words must be taken seriously. An existentialist? Who thought men were inherently despicable? A maniac?
…. A NIHILIST?
Have I stumbled into a Kissinger bio narrated by a dickweed college student trying out buzzwords for the first time?
What a pathetically babyish interpretation.
chrismd465 has it just about right on. Who knew it was possible to find cogent historical analysis on philosophy on YouTube?