In Mishima’s world, an outpouring of sincerity is only good once, and the value of a moment correlates with its proximity to beauty or death.
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Sean Gill
THE FREE THINKER AND THE AUTOMATON: POLARITY AND DUALITY IN STEPHEN HAND'S FREDDY VS. JASON: THE NOVELIZATION OF THE SCREENPLAY BY DAMIAN SHANNON AND MARK J. SWIFT
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BY SEAN GILL
Freddy Vs. Jason is a quintessential tale of a clash between titans, the unstoppable force pitted against the immovable object, a crude powerhouse reckoning with a vulgar wit. In this way, Voorhees and Krueger echo some of the great 20th Century feuds: Mailer and Vidal, Hemingway and Faulkner, Hearst and Welles, Leno and Letterman.