#The Ruling Class

[reality-detective]

The top 1% of the world’s population owns 80% of the world’s wealth... Uneducated, demoralized and frightened. Taking orders and hoping for the best is NOT the answer. 🤔

[tilbageidanmark]

Seen in Boston: Radical times calls for radical solutions

[corpseflwr]

peter o'toole core

[ironmaidenhead]

What should we call you then? Any of the nine billion names of God. Your Lordship will do, or J.C., Eric, Bert, Barney, Entwhistle. I know exactly who I am. THE RULING CLASS (1972) Dir. Peter Medak

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[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

The Ruling Class

[skeletor-n-a-meatsuit]

Drunkenly watching The Hobbit movies and booing and throwing popcorn at the screen when Thorin lies to those Esgaroth people about sharing the riches

And then when Bilbo speaks for him?

Some burglar who's been traveling with these dwarves is vouching for Thorin? Who tf even is that guy?

Why'd they believe any of them? The ruling class doesn't SHARE.

[cringefail-loser]

[marie-gautier]

THE RULING CLASS (PETER MEDAK, 1972) / MAX STIRNER, THE EGO AND HIS OWN.

[victusinveritas]

On this date in 1972, "The Ruling Class" was released. The film tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O'Toole) who inherits a peerage.

O'Toole held the rights to Barnes's play upon which the film is based; director Peter Medak approached O'Toole repeatedly about exercising those rights. According to Medak, the project got started one night that he and O'Toole were returning from the theatre, which "meant stopping at every pub between Soho and Hampstead, and it didn't matter if it was after closing hour because he would knock on the door and just say 'Peter's here,' and every door opened for him". Later on, at O'Toole's apartment, the deeply inebriated actor phoned his manager and said, "I'm with the crazy Hungarian and I know I'm drunk but I give you 24 hours to set this movie up." The next day, Medak received a call from United Artists and a deal was put together to shoot "The Ruling Class".

Alastair Sim cast himself in the role as the Bishop, according to the commentary on the DVD. He called up his friend O'Toole and told him, out of the blue, of course he'd help him by taking the part. No one was about to turn down the offer of such a great character actor, no matter how eccentric.

Film critic Jay Cocks in Time Magazine: " All actors can play insanity; few play it well. O'Toole begins where other actors stop, with the unfocused gaze, the abrupt bursts of frenzied high spirits and precipitous depressions. Funny, disturbing, finally devastating, O'Toole finds his way into the workings of madness, revealing the anger and consuming anguish at the source."

Despite mixed critical reaction to the film, O'Toole's performance was universally praised and garnered numerous prestigious awards and prizes, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Reportedly, when United Artists, its North American distributor, told producer Jules Buck that it would be cutting the film extensively for US release, Buck reportedly punched the company's London representative and bought the film back. Avco Embassy then bought the distribution rights and cut the film's 154-minute running time by six minutes.

The film cost around $1.4 million to produce, with O'Toole reportedly working for free (he was instead paid a great deal for the big-budget "Man of La Mancha", released by the same studio later the same year). O'Toole described the film as "a comedy with tragic relief." (IMDb/Wikipedia).

[lonelydragon62]

POT Appreciation Week

Day #5: Happy Birthday

I really admire this man!

[tilbageidanmark]

Luigi Mangione is becoming the face of the "Upcoming Class War", a symbol for the rise of the proletariat ready to depose the ruling classes - not only in the USA, but all over the world.

Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you - Ye are many—they are few.

"YE ARE MANY - THEY ARE FEW.”

Remember: There are only 2800 2799 of them - 8 billions of us.

DOWN WITH ALL THE OLIGARCHS!

(As seen in Venezia.)

#2800Billionares

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[ironmaidenhead]

The Ruling Class | Private Idaho

[myfavoritepeterotoole]

Peter O'Toole

The Ruling Class (1972) directed by Peter Medak

Peter O'Toole as Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney - 14th Earl of Gurney

[apleasurableillusion]

I hate this kind of thing. Nobody has "decided" that this is normal and thinking it can be decided is just conspiratorial. There is no evil cabal running the world. We're fallible people making decisions that affect others on individual and collective levels