— William & Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart (1995)Young William: I can fight. Malcolm Wallace: I know. I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men.
— Jack Lucas, The Fisher King (1991)I'm hearing horses! Parry will be so pleased!
— Yuri Orlov, Lord of War (2005)Often the most barbaric atrocities occur when both sides proclaim themselves freedom fighters.
— Maximus, Gladiator (2000)I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.
— Miles, Sideways (2004)Half my life is over, and I have nothing to show for it...I’m a smudge of excrement on a tissue, surging out to sea with a ton of raw sewage.
— Miles, Sideways (2004)If you don't have money at my age, you're not even in the game anymore. You're just a pasture animal waiting for the abattoir.
— Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild (2007)I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.
— Katsumoto & Nathan Algren, The Last Samurai (2003)Katsumoto: Do you believe a man can change his destiny? Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him.
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty (1999)Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
— Patton, Patton (1970)No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor bastard die for his country!
— Patton, Patton (1970)(looking at remains of a battle) I love it! God help me, I love it so. I love it more than my life.
— Ron Franz, Into the Wild (2007)When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.
— Parry, The Fisher King (1991)I have a hard-on for you the size of Florida!
— Quintus & Maximus, Gladiator (2000)Quintus: "People should know when they're beaten!" Maximus: "Would you, Quintus? Would I?"
— King Longshank, Braveheart (1995)Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.
— John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.
— John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
— Lars & Gus, Lars and the Real Girl (2007)Lars: Well, Bianca can help you. She's got nurse's training. Gus: No she doesn't. That's because she's a plastic...thing. Lars: That's amazing. Did you hear that? Bianca said God made her to help people.
— Miranda, Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)Miranda (to Daniel): I bring home a birthday cake and a few gifts; you bring home the Goddamn San Diego Zoo. And I have to clean up after it!
— Jake Sully, Avatar (2009)All I ever wanted was a single thing worth fighting for.
— Gen. Omar Bradley, Patton (1970)Give George a headline, and he's good for another 30 miles.
— Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild (2007)The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.
— William & Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart (1995)Young William: I can fight. Malcolm Wallace: I know. I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men.
— Jack Lucas, The Fisher King (1991)I'm hearing horses! Parry will be so pleased!
— Yuri Orlov, Lord of War (2005)Often the most barbaric atrocities occur when both sides proclaim themselves freedom fighters.
— Maximus, Gladiator (2000)I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.
— Miles, Sideways (2004)Half my life is over, and I have nothing to show for it...I’m a smudge of excrement on a tissue, surging out to sea with a ton of raw sewage.
— Miles, Sideways (2004)If you don't have money at my age, you're not even in the game anymore. You're just a pasture animal waiting for the abattoir.
— Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild (2007)I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.
— Katsumoto & Nathan Algren, The Last Samurai (2003)Katsumoto: Do you believe a man can change his destiny? Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him.
— Lester Burnham, American Beauty (1999)Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
— Patton, Patton (1970)No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor bastard die for his country!
— Patton, Patton (1970)(looking at remains of a battle) I love it! God help me, I love it so. I love it more than my life.
— Ron Franz, Into the Wild (2007)When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.
— Parry, The Fisher King (1991)I have a hard-on for you the size of Florida!
— Quintus & Maximus, Gladiator (2000)Quintus: "People should know when they're beaten!" Maximus: "Would you, Quintus? Would I?"
— King Longshank, Braveheart (1995)Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.
— John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.
— John Keating, Dead Poets Society (1989)The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
— Lars & Gus, Lars and the Real Girl (2007)Lars: Well, Bianca can help you. She's got nurse's training. Gus: No she doesn't. That's because she's a plastic...thing. Lars: That's amazing. Did you hear that? Bianca said God made her to help people.
— Miranda, Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)Miranda (to Daniel): I bring home a birthday cake and a few gifts; you bring home the Goddamn San Diego Zoo. And I have to clean up after it!
— Jake Sully, Avatar (2009)All I ever wanted was a single thing worth fighting for.
— Gen. Omar Bradley, Patton (1970)Give George a headline, and he's good for another 30 miles.
— Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild (2007)The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.
I’m not normally big on these motivational videos, but this one is worthy of your time. Well produced and featuring great wisdom.
Thanks to my good friend Vegard Svingen for the link.
Finally, as promised, here it is. This is the first video in a series of four on the King, Warrior, Magician, Lover archetypes. The first deals with the King.
This is my first time teaching on video like this and I want you to be real honest with me how you experience it. It’s kind of foreign to me and I’m still getting used to it. Tell me what works and what doesn’t so I can give you more of what you want and less of what you don’t.
Thanks,
Eivind
For the past year, I’ve been running an online film club on a community site consisting of people from the now dissolved “The Deida Experience”. We’ve watched eleven films and are about to watch our 12th. This is the list of the movies we have covered:
It’s been a great experience to lead a group of this type and I have enjoyed it immensely. Actual growth has taken place as a result of the Polarity Film Club. But now, it is closing down. I tell you this, dear readers, because I want to honor the end of something that has been important to me. This represents the dissolution of a group of people I have come to appreciate a lot. I also tell you this because I wonder if there is interest for an online film club hosted on Masculinity Movies, where we discuss movies in a forum setting and see what gems we can excavate together. My energy must move towards this webpage now. 2011 is going to be an important year.
To give you an idea of what a filmclub like this may mean, I include here part of the text I wrote when the Polarity Film Club opened.
For the last year, I’ve been building a website about masculinity in movies on my spare time. It’s called Masculinity Movies and can be found on www.masculinity-movies.com.
Prior to and during the development of the site, I have spent a fair amount of time reflecting on the role movies have in shaping our identity, society, sexuality and intimate relationships. I set out with a working hypothesis – that movies looked at from the right perspective can serve as great teachers of universal principles. With some mileage under my belt, the hypothesis still holds firm; I believe it is true.
I have found that when we take our time to really penetrate to the core of what good movies are trying to tell us, some timeless laws of great importance make themselves manifest. These laws are what I hope to extract from the movies and put on the table for us to investigate and discuss.
Tell me what you think.
Thanks,
Eivind
4000 unique visitors in the last 30 days and 100 subscribers to the mailing list. Make no mistake, Masculinity Movies is still a relatively marginal website, but its relative growth is rapid. At the beginning of this year, I averaged around 20 unique hits a day. Now I average 150. These are relatively modest numbers and I could probably do much to increase them, but I’m still very happy with the growth. And if the relative growth keeps up at this pace, I will be averaging more than 1000 unique hits a day in a year, at which point I can probably turn the website into my livelihood.
Thank you to all of you for your interest and your generous support of my work. Running this website is a deeply meaningful hobby and it looks set to turn into a meaningful “job”. When that happens, I will be able to dedicate myself fully to what I feel called to do – empower men to reclaim their authentic selves. Just writing that makes my body tingle.
See you around the next corner 🙂 And thanks again.
Last Friday turned out to be a great evening for those of us who participated in the Masculinity Movies LIVE event. Read more about the fourth MM LIVE evening.
Thanks for coming guys. It is always an honor.