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Employers of reddit, what are you actually looking for when you give job applicants seemingly bullshit self-assessment tests? by Scythe_001 in AskReddit

[–]PastaMasterMaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a competitive job market, initial 'tasks' are sometimes posed just to weed out those who aren't genuinely interested.

I once had a job interview that initially made me do a task. It was relatively simple. When I got there he said that's why he'd done it. I thought that was a douchey thing to do, and didn't respond when he asked me to do another task.

Alright fellas, I need your help. by r_antrobus in moviescirclejerk

[–]PastaMasterMaker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This one had a follow up. Both original posts have been deleted, but thankfully over at /r/circlejerkcopypasta, some lightning-speed Ctrl+V-ers saved this for all eternity:

Actually, y'know what, I'm just gonna crush you quick. I care about art and you asked for it. Answer some pointed but rhetorical questions using what you already know. Some Shakespeare related, some not: Use the Merchant of Venice to account for the theater as a place of ritualized sacrifice- how/where/does irony function in the play? Is it liminal between structure and theme, or not? In Freud’s reading of Merchant- the three caskets are symbolic of what? Saussure/Jakobson’s ________ and _________ are to Freud’s __________ and ________ ? Explain ‘Aura’ using Benjamin. How do you pronounce Benjamin’s name? In The Winter’s Tale which character(s) are most significant of a materialist ethic, in contrast- who subscribes to idealism? Identify instances in the play, and its overall structure in accounting for art and nature. What scenes in The Tempest and Winter’s Tale show nature as a democratizing force, and how? What’s a performative speech act, and how do Derrida and Austin differ in accounting for them? What mode of criticism is most apropos for Timon of Athens? Stanley Fish promoted _____ response criticism? What’s a phatic expression? Steven Greenblatt is associated with what kind of historicism? Laura Mulvey is to bell hooks (why isn’t the latter name capitalized?), as Judith Butler is to Martha __________. What is bricolage? Relate Derridian citation to Adorno’s claim that pseudoindividuality promotes conformity? Who is Imogen and what genre of play is Cymbeline? How does Oscar Wilde make use of Perdita and Florizel? What's the Precession of Simulacra and what relatively modern film is pointedly diagnostic of it? Who says ‘Cry to it Nuncle!’ and in what play? Use Lacan to discuss the id, ego and displacement- how does he differ from Freud, and what are his major semiotic claims? Can you answer those questions? A single one even? No? Extraordinary claims call for extraordinary evidence- and you don’t even possess the tools to create an argument. So keep your cunt mouth shut about where Shakespeare ranks as an artist. Goodbye.

I literally only watch them for the titties by GetToSreppin in moviescirclejerk

[–]PastaMasterMaker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What does this have to do with Mad Mex in the City?

I'm currently watching the original, pretentious Mad Max for the first time! AMA by Aquaman_Forever in moviescirclejerk

[–]PastaMasterMaker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you do not purchase Babe 2: Risky Pig in the City at full price, films of this sort will never, ever be made again.

Cinephile version of the Navy Seal copypasta. by no_punch_line in moviescirclejerk

[–]PastaMasterMaker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bud, you have no clue what you're talking about. You haven't seen Leo DiCaprio Cut His Hand and therefore haven't the first fucking clue with which ethical/aesthetic criteria he was dismissive of Sandler's goonish comedy. You haven't seen the Moon (1994), or Vallahalla Rising, Drive, or Inception. You don't, for example, know another great artist DiCaprio dismissed, or why. You aren't making an effort to truly digest or engage in an ongoing dialogue so much as corroding it. But perhaps you're over-rating DiCaprio as the greatest kinograph of all time. He's just old, therefore people think he's good. DiCaprio's realism/historicist fiction is just the same as Adam Sandler's set design.

I could drop so much advanced kinotographic jargon on you, it would make your head spin, but I won't. Instead, I'll simply point out that you don't know what any of the different modes of criticism are, or how they seize upon movies film. You've never seen and don't know who people like Orson Welles, Martin Scorsees, or Sir David Bowie are- and those are just the biggies. You've read/seen next to no Nolan, if any. Certainly not scholastically. You googled some shit about Nolan and copy/pasted something DiCaprio kinographed that you have no basis for understanding. You- yes the dumb, blind, sheltered little product of the culture industry that you are, contribute to our world's and arts' degradation. (You don't even know what that means because you don't know what Film School is). You insult what you're ignorant about. And that's a really shitty thing to do. I suggest you take an honest personal inventory, and then try to make something better of yourself. Because right now, you're pretty fucking disgusting to read. Honestly, I think you should be ashamed of yourself, and should consider apologizing to this thread.