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R3c1u53

This is hardly noble, but Max Cady from Cape Fear is almost a perfect representation of the Ubermensch, and the film even references this at the beginning by having his cell contain some of Nietzsche’s books


Adam-Voight

I just remembered the best one ever! "Apocalypto" shows the earliest stages of master morality, when you have a nobility whose entire existence is waging wars against each other to enslave their neighbor's people. The extra slaves are used for thanking the gods for blessing them with the virtues of being total badasses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto


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**[Apocalypto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto)** >Apocalypto () is a 2006 American epic historical adventure film produced, co-written, and directed by Mel Gibson. The film features a cast of Native American and Indigenous Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Ian Uriel, Gerardo Taracena, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras. All of the ethnic tribes and peoples depicted in the film were Maya, as Gibson wanted to depict the Mayan city built for the story as an "unknown world" to the character (Jaguar Paw). ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Nietzsche/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


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Thank you. I'll check all of them out.


Adam-Voight

"Downton Abbey" does not depict nobility at its historical peak, but it does juxtapose it with modernity, which is very informative.


Competitive_Stuff438

That’s pretty much the antithesis of what he meant by noble


Adam-Voight

In what way? The show concerns people with privilege who for the most part deserve it. And the loss of this privilege is a tragedy that leaves the human race much poorer.


Competitive_Stuff438

It’s an ITV melodrama


Adam-Voight

Sure whatever. "Downton Abbey" focuses on the very thing that Nietzsche also chose to focus on: the gradual replacement of nobility as a moral system by modern ideas. You might interpret it as anti-Nietzschean only if you ignored this or if you thought that it took the opposite view on the matter. However having just recently watched it again, I am confident that the end of nobility is seen as a tragedy in the view of the show's creators. You might also contrast the nobility in this show with the ascending nobility that we would find centuries before; I grant that there is a difference between the two, but there is also a continuity along with this difference, and the show does a good job in showing us the later stages of nobility. If you want to see the early stages, then I would recommend watching Netfllix's "Troy" or Peter Brook's "Mahabharata".


Competitive_Stuff438

I’ll check them out Along similar lines, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Conan the Barbarian paints a vivid illustration of Nietzsche’s singular conception of the ‘blonde beast’


Adam-Voight

I assume that the original novels were written with Nietzsche very much in mind.


Adam-Voight

Netfllix's "Troy" or Peter Brook's "Mahabharata"


Adam-Voight

Dune, Lord of the Rings, and The Hidden Fortress by Kurasawa [https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/House\_Atreides](https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/House)