There is a great scene in Full Metal Jacket where Private Joker talks to some Colonel, or General, who comments:
“Son you wear a peace sign on your helmet and you write next to it: ‘Born TO Kill’.”
“Sir, Yes, Sir!”
“Is that supposed to be some kind of a sick JOKE?”
“Sir, No, Sir.”
“What does it mean?”
“I don’t know, sir.”
“Well you had better get your head wired to your asshole or I will take a giant shit on you. What does it mean soldier? Figure it out, or you’ll be standing tall befoe the man.”
“Sir, I believe it has something to do with the duality of man, Sir”
“The Duality of What?”
“You know, that Jungian thing? The duality of Man?”
“Who’s side are you on, boy?”
“Our side, sir……….”
So somthing about the Christo Gates struck me again….they are like military standards: the things you’ve seen in Kurosawa films and with knights in shining armor…
…And yes Romans and speaking of which, Ben Hur was on last night and it reminded me that the Kubrick painting is not only a stage to stand on, but eventually a wheel of a chariot. Sort of like Giacometti’s great Chariot piece. I want to put a rubber tread around the tondé and make a Rauchenberg like scroll print….anyway that’s the idea.
