That is delightful nonsense you've found, there. All the moreso because of its age and style of language.
In re the movie Spartacus, there are several speeches about being a thing to be looked at; and after all the initial revolt is in the fighting ring, when gladiators suddenly leap the barrier between spectator and actor, and run riot over the audience. But in general (and generally thanks to the film code), we see subtler invocations of power: Olivier interrogates his new slave Tony Curtis on his skills, and in the cut scenes on his sexual inclinations, but it's much more the velvet glove than the iron fist, you know? Till the end, anyway.
(That screenplay, by Dalton Trumbo, is a regular favorite of the film crit crowd, specifically because of all of its references to gaze and objectification and the ownership implicit in looking.)
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In re the movie Spartacus, there are several speeches about being a thing to be looked at; and after all the initial revolt is in the fighting ring, when gladiators suddenly leap the barrier between spectator and actor, and run riot over the audience. But in general (and generally thanks to the film code), we see subtler invocations of power: Olivier interrogates his new slave Tony Curtis on his skills, and in the cut scenes on his sexual inclinations, but it's much more the velvet glove than the iron fist, you know? Till the end, anyway.
(That screenplay, by Dalton Trumbo, is a regular favorite of the film crit crowd, specifically because of all of its references to gaze and objectification and the ownership implicit in looking.)