{"id":2951,"date":"2016-10-12T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2021-03-27T01:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T01:52:15","slug":"robert-stark-and-alex-von-goldstein-talk-about-mishima-taxi-driver-aristocratic-individualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=2951","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks about Mishima, Taxi Driver, & Aristocratic Individualism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark discusses the films\u00a0Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Taxi Driver<\/a><\/p>\n

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Paul Schrader<\/a>, who wrote both films, and directed Mishima
\nSchrader as a subversive non-conformist who exists within Hollywood culture
\nThe theme of alienation in both films
\nThe\u00a0Nietzschean theme of a weak man empowering himself
\nThe life and legacy of\u00a0Yukio Mishima<\/a>
\nHow both Yukio Mishima and\u00a0Travis Bickle<\/a>\u00a0in Taxi Driver are similar archetypes, existing in different environments
\nHow both characters are aristocratic individualists, who envision an ideal world that is at odds with their current situation
\nAn Aristocratic Individualist is someone who follows their own path instead of submitting to societies standards
\nAristocratic Individualism is about having a clear vision for an ideal society, rather than individualism in the sense of everyone doing what ever they want
\nExamples of Aristocratic Individualists include,\u00a0J. R. R. Tolkien<\/a>,\u00a0Aleister Crowley<\/a>,\u00a0Oscar Wilde,<\/a>\u00a0H. L. Mencken<\/a>,\u00a0David Lynch<\/a>,\u00a0Richard Wolstencroft<\/a>,\u00a0Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/a>,\u00a0Jonathan Bowden<\/a>,Ernst J\u00fcnger<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>
\nThe theme of romantic rejection, and the corrupting nature that sex plays in both films
\nMishima’s story,\u00a0The Temple of the Golden Pavilion<\/a>
\nHow Aristocratic Individualists resent that they are being denied their rightful place in society, and the normie response that it’s\u00a0a coping mechanism for losers
\nHow Aristocratic Individualists take actions that can lead to either greatness or alienation
\nHow Yukio Mishima rebelled against\u00a0Japan’s process of modernization and Americanization
\nThe scene where Yukio Mishima spoke to leftist college students, stating that he is fighting \u00a0against the same forces they are, but they dismissed them
\nThe parallels to to how European New Right thinkers such as\u00a0Alain de Benoist<\/a>\u00a0share views\u00a0with the dissident left( ex. anti globalization, anti-consumerism, anti-imperialism, and pro-environment)
\nHow Yukio Mishima was dismissed in his time, but dissidents are later validated in times of turmoil
\nMishima’s Japanese minimalist aesthetic vs. Taxi Driver’s urban grittiness of 70’s New York City
\nNew York Neon<\/a>: Taxi Driver locales in Time Square, and “porn tourism,” which seeks out the remnants that have survived gentrification
\nThe\u00a0Neo-noir<\/a>\u00a0genre
\nThe Retro-futurist theme in\u00a0Mishima, combining ancient Japanese culture with the 80’s vision of the future(Vaporwave<\/a>)
\nEiko Ishioka<\/a>, who was the art director for Mishima
\nThe fantasy dream sequences in Mishima, and the dream like quality to 80’s films which are the essence of art
\nBernard Herrmann<\/a>‘s Jazz score for Taxi Driver, which captures the feeling of alienation and urban grittiness, and\u00a0 Philip Glass<\/a>‘s\u00a0minimalist classical score for Mishima
\nAristocratic Individualist Fashion style including designer\u00a0Comme des Gar\u00e7ons<\/a>\u00a0and the director\u00a0John Waters<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Mishima-and-Taxi-Driver.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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                              Robert Stark discusses the films Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Taxi Driver Topics include: Paul Schrader, who wrote both films, and directed Mishima Schrader as a subversive non-conformist who exists within Hollywood culture The theme of alienation in both films The Nietzschean … Continue reading Robert Stark talks about Mishima, Taxi Driver, & Aristocratic Individualism<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572,542,709,706,457,669,324,429,470,15,83,460,428,548,422,404,276,684,112,322,323,116,380,720,140,600,411,475,1319,721,169,123,86,694,18,59,271,130,639,695,573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-aesthetics","category-alienation","category-aristocratic-individualism","category-art","category-asia","category-asian-culture","category-cinema","category-conformity","category-ellliot-rodger","category-erotica","category-fashion","category-film","category-futurism","category-gender","category-globalization","category-history","category-hollywood","category-homosexuality","category-japan","category-japanese-culture","category-literature","category-loserdom","category-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters","category-music","category-neon","category-new-york","category-nietzsche","category-oscar-wilde","category-paul-schrader","category-philosophy","category-pornography","category-psychology","category-retro-futurism","category-sexuality","category-social-isolation","category-social-rejection","category-social-status","category-taxi-driver","category-vaporwave","category-yukio-mishima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11285,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/11285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}