One of my favorite commentary accounts on Facebook is that of author Jason K. Pargin. He usually takes something from media and spins his opinions about them into nice, thoughtful essays.

His most recent video involves one of my very favorite films of the 21st century: Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 masterpiece THERE WILL BE BLOOD. It’s a challenging film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil Man whose sadistic pursuit of money and power leads to his downfall.

Here’s what Pargin says about this character’s issues:

I think Pargin is SO CLOSE to getting it right, but he’s missing the one key ingredient that pulls this film together: HIERARCHY.

You see, the Daniel Plainview character is a Destroyer Alpha who does indeed want to ruin everyone perceived as a competition, as Pargin correctly identifies.

However, Plainview’s issues with Paul Dano’s character really come from the fact that Paul Sunday is a BETA MALE who is attempting to usurp Plainview’s Alphahood. This is made quite clear during the church scene when Sunday humiliates Plainview.

Plainview refuses to accept that, and ends up killing Sunday at the end of the film, correcting the Hierarchical power structure.

It underlines what I’ve been saying about people needing to accept their natural place and not acting out of turn. Alphas despise betas who try to insinuate themselves into the Alpha fraternity or usurp an Alpha’s position. It always ends badly!

Sunday just happened to do this to a very dangerous Destroyer Alpha, and be rightfully paid the price!

Thoughts?

In 1980 the film CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC was released to capitalize on the already dying disco craze and the campiness of The Village People.

It’s rightly considered one of the worst films of all time, but still not as bad as bloated pig carcass Trump “dancing” to this song.

The film also featured an unwanted cameo by then-male Olympic medal winner Bruce Jenner (in a half shirt) that generates all sorts of hate given the bitch’s attacks on gays these days.

It’s incredible that this abomination didn’t set back gay rights many decades.

This will be an ongoing feature in which I try to point out examples of Alphahood and Alpha behavior as expressed in the arts, primarily movies.

The 1992 crime thriller Glengarry Glen Ross is a middle-of-the-road film about a bunch of mostly broken Men trying to salvage something of their lost lives.

But it opens with one of the most dynamic representations of Alpha/beta Hierarchy ever put to film. Alec Baldwin (in his only appearance in the film) plays a dynamic, successful corporate sales manager sent in to motivate the flagging sales team. The way he does it establishes himself firmly as the God Alpha among the other males. Kevin Spacey plays his beta-dom suck-up. Among the group, guys like Jack Lemmon are like beta cucks.

Only Ed Harris exhibits any potential Alpha qualities, initially fighting back against Baldwin’s bluster. However, Baldwin’s God Alpha character kicks Harris back into place.

Here is the scene:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) premiered 49 years ago and kicked open the solid doors of societal oppression against the burgeoning gay rights movement. It was a low-budget blast of camp, drag queen, muscle worship, and Dom/sub dynamics all wrapped up in a glam-tastic technicolor swirl.

There are two primary reasons why the film became such a landmark in the gay rights movement. First of all, the film really rocks. It has some of the best pop/rock songs ever put into a musical film, and it helped to make the film more accessible to mainstream audiences.

But the second required a bit of casting magic. Tim Curry absolutely transformed into the over-the-top main character Dr. Frank-n-Furter, an alien from Transsexual Transylvania. Curry honed and shaped the character on the stage before taking the complete creation to the big screen. There were were left spellbound by every lip curl and scrunch of his nose, his Mick Jagger-like lips constantly quivering and twisting with barely-contained lust.

Straight people might have once had an idea of what a “faggot” might be like, but they suddenly found themselves in a darkened theater with a brazenly proud and voracious faggot practically sucking their dicks through the screen. And wouldn’t you know it – people loved it!

So many faggots came to realize that their need to serve Men is something universal in faggots, that their desire is natural to them. In the film, Frank is so desperate to serve an Alpha that he makes one himself (the titular Rocky). What faggot can’t relate to that?

I’m so glad Tim Curry came along to create that character and throw himself so totally into the role. His look, style, and attitude are forever etched into popular culture, and especially into the hearts of the generations of faggots he inspired.

Now if I could only learn to dance in high heels!!