The “Behold! Plato’s man!” moment is that much funnier when you remember Diogenes was a malnourished bum and Plato was an Olympian wrestling champion (that’s how he got his name, his wrestling coach named him Platon, meaning broad)
Imagine a dirty skeleton of a man burst into the lecture of the buffest philosopher in town to throw a plucked chicken on the floor.
plato’s cave suddenly loses all of its allegorical meaning and becomes a jock telling neets to go outside
Other actors playing real life bad ppl: I tried to really,,,,, get in his Mind you know,,,,,,,, I tried to understand what made him,,,,,,, the way he was,,,,,,,,,
I love that thing in Lord of the Rings where the villains spend so much time obsessing over the character they believe is their Destined Archenemy that they overlook the character who actually defeats them
The Witch-King of Angmar, the Black Rider, seems to be Destined to fight the wizard Gandalf, the White Rider. He doesn’t consider Eowyn a threat right up until she stabs him in the face
Saruman is fixated on defeating Theoden, Aragorn and Gandalf in an Epic Light vs Dark Fantasy Battle at Helm’s Deep. So he completely overlooks the two hobbits and bunch of trees sitting right next door, who proceed to destroy Isengard
Sauron is fixated on defeating Aragorn, the Destined King of the Heroes and descendant of the man who defeated him last time. So he completely overlooks Frodo and Sam, who proceed to actually defeat him
