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[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No need, we already have the Manga version of capital, the superior version.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For anyone who hasn't read it, the story follows a man who makes cheese and goes on to start a cheese factory, and point by point he learns the hard way that even the owners of Capital aren't really in charge under Capitalism, and how the contradictions of the system make worker exploitation, monopolization, crises of capital, and collapse an inevitable cycle, with regular asides from Engels to explain things. You could totally get Margot Robbie to play Engels and do a straight adaptation.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

This sounds awesome actually.

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Why does Karl look like he's charging up?

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

That's what the dialectic does to you

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Take this! Energy from the entire proletariat!

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

how about Hexbear puts together some cash and makes a film version of Marx's The Capital inspired by UlyssesT and based in Epstein's notes

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

It's a machinima film made in Star Citizen.

[-] Sebrof@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

No lie that's literally what I read and thought this was a badpost.

But now, instead, I'm just aware of missing out on a cool sounding Eisenstein film on Capital

[-] 420lenin69@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

based on the genre of the essay

I absolutely would go to a cinema to watch the Shaun skull hate JK Rowling for 4 hours

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

"Hullo everyone :)"

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Take me to the alternate universe where Einstein adapts Das Capital as a tik tok video compilation plz

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

"Okay but how do we depict capitalism"

"Horrifyingly!"

"Yes but what's going to be on the screen?"

"History!"

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago

I'm like 90% sure that such a film would have been made in the USSR, had the avant garde art movement of the 20s not been crushed by socialist realism... 😔

/hj

[-] CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 months ago
[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

"Film essays" you say? what about these essays are in an online video form, and are about videogames and how capitalism is actually bad?

[-] hollowmines@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Watch some Chris Marker. no need to stoop to AI

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That sounds very much like documentary cinema though. Like Koyaanisqatsi or something.

And honestly maybe something like Koyaanisqatsi but Capitalism might be pretty powerful. Now that I think more about it…

[-] xijinpingist@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh wow. I think it was the first time I ever tried shrooms someone put that movie on and OH MY GOD

Started a love affair with Philip Glass that lasted the entire 90s. After listening to Music in 12 parts, all six CDs, over and over for years, finally I had had enough. Powaqqatisi was meh but way too third world. Naqqatasi was forgettable. I can't even remember anything.

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago
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