In later years, though, when Bertolt Brecht reconfigured the play, he sided, as you would expect, with the righteous demands of that same throng, against their trampling overlord.
ONE of the most righteous demands of the newly awakened Arabs is that the tyrants who pillaged their countries and battered the bodies of those who opposed their crimes should face the full force of justice.
"If the righteous demands of the people are ignored and they continue the dam project," he wrote in Weekly Eleven, a popular Yangon-based newspaper, "the people will defend the Irrawaddy with whatever means possible".
It said that "historical experiences make it necessary for the diplomatic apparatus of our country to carefully and sceptically monitor the behaviour of White House officials so that the righteous demands of our nation are recognised and respected by those who favour interaction".
No, I'm the man!' " For the record, topdog/underdog is a term coined by Fritz Perls, the father of gestalt therapy, to describe the internal battle between the righteous, demanding perfectionist and the lazy, resistant saboteur that neurotic individuals commonly conduct in a vain attempt to avoid the anxiety of everyday living.
That is precisely why people band together, form organizations, and participate in grassroots movements and campaigns: to construct the collective power needed to make righteous demands politically potent.
But, not to spoil a good twist, Solondz deliberately undercuts that very mockery, as Fantasy — for all his bravado, pugnacity, vanity, and self-righteous demands — ends up something of a hero whose ambitions, strangely but with an achingly sublime humor, match up with Solondz's as clearly as do Dave's.
And the litany of complaints regarding the New York Organic Fertilizer Company was all too familiar: "the smell was unholy, the demands righteous".
In most movies -- certainly in most movies directed by or starring Mr. Gibson -- violence against the innocent demands righteous vengeance in the third act, an expectation that Mr. Gibson in this case whips up and leaves unsatisfied.
The climate, so toxic with righteous fear and anger, demands it.
