Slavoj Zizek on Titanic in The Pervert's Guide To Ideology | Film4 Clip

"What am I doing here, in the middle of the ocean, alone in a boat, surrounded by frozen corpses?"

In this exclusive clip, Zizek explores James Cameron's 'Hollywood Marxism' as seen in the Oscar-winning drama Titanic...

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[Jeedan]

The clip abruptly ends here but his point that Titanic is basically a story about how the upper classes feel the desire to get their 'life' back by associating with the lower classes. Rose is basically a poverty tourist. But since Jack dies they never hit the point where the affair grows stale as she realises they have little in common and living in New York in poverty sucks. So Jack lives on immortalised as an idealised vision of the joyful working class person, literally giving his life so rose can live. The iceberg hitting is the point in the film where we conveniently get to stop thinking about class division and just watch spectacle.

[devduguay]

"Her getting off the boat with him would have been the true catastrophe" 🤣💀💀💀

[sophiaeletskaya]

I doubt that anything will ever match Zizek's "intense sex in New York" in thick Slavic accent

[cohan]

I love how his chills were only felt momentarily...

[erwinwoodedge]

Very nice fragment, but his mini-essay on Titanic doesn't end here. He has some wonderful things to say about the actual ending of the film too.

[AarmOZ]

You going to ruin every over idealized romance with reality, Zizek?

[jboyce]

Same for Romeo and Juliet. If they had lived same could have happened.

[mrrolandlawrence]

and there was me thinking that poor people should know their place and they are only there for the amusement of the wealthy! jack gladly gives his life for rose because as a poor person his life matters no where near as much as hers. he knows his place and happily slips away, never to be seen again. out of sight out of mind. the film is a love letter to capitalism and class surely.

[cannonfodder]

Director: Okay, Zizek, your last line is: The love affair would some how fade away.
Zizek: "Tha lavaffer.."
Director: No, Zizek, the love affair..
Zizek: "Tha lavaffer.."
Director: (applies palm onto face while nodding)

[GabrielConstantinides]

We must now pose the question:
What really sunk The Titanic? The iceberg, or Zizek?

[javierk]

Like in the famous song, Rose wanted to live the common people

[dt]

The best part about looking up Zizek is all the people who hate him, and then they actually pay attention or see a video like this, and it's 1.7k likes to 37 dislikes. He is the embodiment of the principle that objective analysis is possible. Every one of us is prewired to hate him, and we end up not hating him.

[Ceronocero]

you can download the full thing from the pirate bay ;)

[katrinadespi]

Is this video really no more than 2 minutes? If so does anyone know where I can find the rest of this? I felt like it ended too abruptly. 💔

[NeboekadnezarII]

From 1.30 onward; hilarious.
Both documentaries are very good, awesome even. But i have to watch it again, don't think i fully understood it...
1ste The Pervert's Guide To Cinema (2006)
2nd The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)

[whatabouttheearth]

This documentary (?) (Zizeks film) is really good. It was way better than I expected.

Im fairly sure anyone that likes to think will really enjoy it...he even criticizes communist (not that thats surprising to anyone other than some of these more idiotic commenters)

[jenn]

Now that I think about it, he's absolutely right

[mighty_osaker]

After one minute I realized it's not a movie fragment

[BonnoJ]

Well, isn't Revolutionary Road the sequel to The Titanic?

[Sir_Gugharde_Wuglis]

Rose would realize she’s with a poor man. She would struggle.