tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post4231030665243505058..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: IS "THE GLADIATOR" AN ALPHA MALE?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-21341921416052095702010-04-01T04:14:02.998-06:002010-04-01T04:14:02.998-06:00Tangentially related (talking about writers trying...Tangentially related (talking about writers trying to come up with a script): uber-alpha male <b>David Mamet</b> <a href="http://www.movieline.com/2010/03/david-mamets-memo-to-the-writers-of-the-unit.php" rel="nofollow">articulates</a> what he wants to see in a script (in this case, for his now canceled TV series).Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-68057185316921222032010-04-01T00:43:44.392-06:002010-04-01T00:43:44.392-06:00I think this way of conceptualizing male character...I think this way of conceptualizing male characteristics is utter bunk, and appeals only to those men who want to think of themselves as alpha males. Everybody wants to rule the pack. THe only men I hear spending a lot of time worrying about these kinds of rankings are those who are very insecure or desperate to be more than they are. It appeals to the same sort of insecurities that make corporate salary-men go out to the woods for a mythopoetic men's group weekend, don paint, and dance around a bonfire, playing mediocre drums and howling at the moon. LOL<br /><br />As to whether this is useful towards understanding male psychology, again it's bunk. It's a construct that's useless for the understanding the whole person. Jung's four-fold typology is far more powerful, as in jung's concept of the animus and anima, the marriage of the feminine and masculine characteristics in the soul that makes the self whole.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-61515186858349021532010-03-31T14:57:25.820-06:002010-03-31T14:57:25.820-06:00Thanks for the kind comments much appreciated.
I ...Thanks for the kind comments much appreciated.<br /><br />I think The Gladiator was an Alpha when he was a General in the Roman Army, but is stripped of that status to a large extent when essentially reduced to an Omega as a gladiator. He is nothing more than a walking meat sack to be killed for entertainment.<br /><br />The interplay between the Omega Gladiator who continues to hold himself as an Alpha against the Alpha Emperor who internalizes Omega is the more interesting dynamic of the film.Athol Kay: Married Man Sex Lifehttp://www.marriedmansexlife,comnoreply@blogger.com