to rape

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would point out that Haneke is an Austrian, living, last I checked, in
France, so English may be his third language.

Also, there are several words for rape in German, and one of them has a
variety of meanings, so he might not really mean rape.

DanG


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Not in OED:
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> 2007 Michael Haneke in _N.Y. Times_ (Sept. 23) [
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/magazine/23haneke-t.html?ref=3Dmagazine&p=
> agewanted=3Dall
> ]:
>
> "I=E2=80=99ve been accused of =E2=80=98raping=E2=80=99 the audience in my
> f=
> ilms, and I admit to
> that freely =E2=80=94 all movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
> =
> What=E2=80=99s
> different about my films is this: I=E2=80=99m trying to rape the viewer
> int=
> o
> independence.=E2=80=9D
>
> I suppose he means, "To shock, as by means of an artistic work."
>
> PS: I never felt much "assaulted" by Doris Day movies, for example, or _The
> Lord of the Rings_ or even _Citizen Kane_.  (OK, _Eraserhead_.) But I was
> probably too aesthetically obtuse to notice.
>
>
> JL
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