Übermensch at Work

Übermensch at Work is the 66th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on April 20, 2015.

Show Notes

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock's Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock's long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark's motivation, and Yoel plays a round of "Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?"  

• long take
  
• Julie and Mark
  
• Yoel Inbar
  
• Very Bad Wizards 
  
• Episode 22
  
• : An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness
  
• Rope
  
• Leopold and Loeb
  
• Paul Gauguin
  
• The Moon and Sixpence
  
• Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy
  
• Remembering When,
  
• What's the matter with a little brother sister action?
  
• Support Very Bad Wizards