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Marquis De Sade

posted 17 years ago by lezardormeurgeant
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This is of course a comedy of horrors and the laughs overpower the screams.
However the presence of the infamous Marquis, one of the worst real-life
monsters in History, has a somewhat sobering effect on our mirth when we
remember how he took pleasure in despoiling the innocent.

Sarah (Deborah Foreman) with her limpid eyes, rosy apple cheeks,
guileless dimpled smile, modest hairdress and chaste attire,
is the perfect victim for the malefic aura of this demon,
like the prey fascinated by the eyes of the snake about to swallow it.
And sure enough, the Marquis' abject purpose is to reveal to sweet Sarah
" the little whore she really is !"
That's how he got his SATANIC Kicks ! Like the child molesters of our day.
There is perhaps a little symbolism in his end when, after getting axed in the spine,
he collapsed sitting his rear to the fire !

Too bad he was not shown melting out !

[–] PassTheSeason 17 years ago

How was the Marquis de Sade a "monster"? Sure, in the film he was totally batsh!t crazy, but in real life he was just a perverse writer. And he wasn't a Satanist.

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[–] cntryblueeye 15 years ago

He was more than a perverse writer. He ran a prostitution ring and was a sadistic lunatic that spent 30 something yrs of his long life in asylums.

[–] oneiroi 15 years ago

Sade was neither a pimp nor lunatic. Vincennes and the Bastille were not asylums. Read a biography or two to separate fact from fiction.

[–] dmfaust 14 years ago

He was put in an asylum, but not for 30 years. Only a small part of his incarceration was in an asylum.

As for whether he was a pimp or a lunatic... Well, I'm not sure I'd call him a pimp. Lunatic, certainly however.

Forget the writings. I don't care about those in the slightest, censorship is the greater evil by far than anything he expressed in written form. But during his life he engaged in actual criminal acts of rape, imprisonment, torture, and more. He was even convicted of mass poisoning and broke out of prison on several occasions.

The man was a sexual predator who flaunted it every chance he got, plain and simple.

He was a spoiled noble who uses his status to get away with things that a common man would have been hanged on the spot for. That he is romanticised is disgusting, particularly by so called revolutionary and progressive minded people since all he did was embody the hedonism and sense of entitlement of the upper cruste.

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[–] Dream_Demon 14 years ago

I would have to say that he's certainly an infamous sexual deviant, but I don't think he belongs in the top 18 people who ever lived. That is reserved for people like Stalin and Hitler.

Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger

[–] Lokisgodhi 8 years ago

Búllshït.

De Sade was one of the nobility that actually supported the French revolution and it's goals. It was one of the reasons he wasn't executed. He was an elected delegate and officeholder to the National Convention.(Third government of the French revolution) He was a member of the far left radical section of the revolution. He was a vocal supporter of direct election, the election of officials by ballot rather than indirect election, which was the election of a body which then chooses officeholders.

dmfaust wrote:

He was a spoiled noble who uses his status to get away with things that a common man would have been hanged on the spot for. That he is romanticised is disgusting, particularly by so called revolutionary and progressive minded people since all he did was embody the hedonism and sense of entitlement of the upper cruste.