Marquis de Sade - The Original Sadist Documentary
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Amazing sexual acts & stories ! Marquis De Sade was ahead of his time. Sorry many of his Works were lost or destroyed ! Was the great vial in the Bastille crevice ever discovered and saved?
just found this channel and must say i loved this video and it made me sub to you great video always been interested in him so this was a decent video about his life thanks
He was definitely promoting some bad shit no doubt about it he lived it and loved it
A sadist was talking to a masochist. "Hit me! Hit me!" said the masochist. The sadist paused for a moment, and then said, "No".
Clearly an advanced practitioner.
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dreadful Franglais accent :)
How was a nobelman sent to prison with only a prostitute as a witness, he must have been extremley disliked by the court.
I agree. I was surprised that they even attributed any credibility to her and the other women. At that time higher moral values were assumed when someone had wealth or status.
Its not too different to today.
His politics didn't please. They used a E. Jean Carroll. 😂
This was when rumors got women burned at the stake, is it really that much of a reach?
@@desertparanormal2791Not everywhere - and this is a bit later. The big, mad witch burning epidemic was more Switzerland in the 16th century and the Holy Roman Empire part of Germany and more17th century. The Pendle witch trial in the UK was early 17th century. In England about 500 ‘witches’ were executed in the late 16th-early 17th century. All by hanging unless they also killed their husbands which meant being burned at the stake. In France it was also mostly 17th century with about 800 being executed - not at the stake I don’t think. Sceptical kings in France and jurists in England basically stopped most of it in the late 17th century but more rural distant areas could get away with stuff!
His skull is still missing. The 1965 horror movie, "The Skull" is about the skull of the Marquis De Sade, which was haunted. Perfect movie for Halloween.
It absolutely is. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are wonderful.
I have that movie. Two of the best actors in the hammer films was in it……
@@taebundy658 Yep!
I guess you could say De Sade was a head of his time.
Oh my lord, my Mom and I watched that movie when I was little. It scared the crap out of me 😂😂😂
"The man known in history as..." is becoming iconic in 5 years.
To* history
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I love these documentaries. Thankyou for putting them up free for us to watch. I regrettably have missed many I still didn’t go back and re watch as the narrators voice is quite conducive for sleeping.
17:34 "Lewd acts involving 'The fundamental orifice'... "?🤔 I got a pretty good chuckle out of that line.
i tried looking up what that meant lmao
"Desecrate her holy chalice with bodily fluids" my god
It's one of De Sade's common lines in his characters.
Does that mean BJ? I think.
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I was about 15 years old when I read Sade for the first time. Speechless is not strong enough to describe the state the book has put me into. I couldn't stop wondering why it is considered to be literature and not just pornography. Then I was told about his "grateness" and that is a punch to the stomach to society's hypocrisy etc, etc....OK! Even so, one book like that would be enough; he could take another route, he had the talent to do so. Sarcasm, criticism and so forth can be established with so many ways. In my humble opinion, he was just describing his fantasies. As for the critics for the movies, "masterpiece" was one of the terms used and it just added to my belief that those who "judge" movies, get exited by whatever they don't comprehend. As I have already said, just my humble opinion.
Yes his work is extremely disturbing
He wasn't just describing his fantasies. If Broken down they would only be a fragment, compared to to the endless phrases of his philosophy. If he was just writing his fantasies, why would he even bother to add this massive amount of extra material.? Much of the writing is an expression of his anger and hatred of the hypocrisy of those, in many areas of French society, taking part in the same activities, and yet, not being taken to account for it, while he is left imprisoned.
@@Ragestation If you believe so...
De Sade moral standards were very high!
@@aikaterinimoschou9437 I read a lot. I know so.
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How many know that De Sade's second forename was not Alphonse? In fact it was ALDONSE. This name was a "peculiarity" , a local name in his father's Province.. People - Critics, Authorities and others probably thought it was a "miss-read" and so substituted the nearest they could imagine - hence "Alphonse".
I did not know that. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for the information!
Fascinatingly enough that's the name of a evil god in the darkover series by mccaffrey and Bradley
The Don!
Thank you for spoiling us with so many interesting profiles lately. Can you please do one on The Brothers Grimm?
Descendant of royalty. Abused as a child. Maybe he wanted to leave his mark in history by consciously or unconsciously revealing the causes of his degeneration?
Interesting theory isn't it? I never knew he was from royalty!
@@FunkyTomoJust like King Charles and his ancestor Vlad the impeller, inmortalised as the blood drinking Dracula!
I think it was more about self gratification and a desire to shock people
@@softell9129 Sort of, but not really. It was, more specifically, a sociopolitical bitchslapping of imposed Christian morals, and how they signalled an undue and unjust authority over the masses. He was a maverick hero, villified in the books of history like every other maverick hero. He was a hedonist, yes, but such a lifestyle shouldn't be of issue to anyone beyond himself and the involved consenting adults.
@@teptime true, though I wouldn't define him a hero, he liked to toy with the idea of evil and how far you could take it for your own personal pleasure (how immoral you could get), from the way he writes he seems to enjoy disgusting the reader, and also dares you to wonder about you're dark desires
Following on from this, please consider making one for Voltaire at some point. 🙂
Agreed. Such vastly different figures tho - Voltaire is a principal hero of modern secular ethics. De Sade by is literally a textbook example for theist ethicists
@@minui8758 Nice summary. They were both philosophers though, and they were both French! 😁
@@minui8758 de sade was clearly not a religious man. How do draw the conclusion that he is a text book example of theist ethics?
@@bookofthewarsofthelord9273 counter eg the - he’s the example of godlessness that proves the value of eschatological reward mechanism morality
Excellent suggestion!
Finally more Sade content! And from the History Profiles at that :) Once I “photoshopped” a picture of a local celebrity into some random XVIII century noble and put it as my pfp for whatsapp, and the father of my best friend accused me of putting his face on Sade (he was really keen to prove I was a bad influence, when I changed the picture to a Medieval lady from an early XIV century manuscript he found a way to say her hand was in a promiscuous place (she was holding a rosary💀) Well, all this to say, Sade has been with me in weird ways for a long time, from Enigma’s amazing song “ Sadeness” to my friend’s father idiocy lol.
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Take a bow Ruben Crow...
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His severest critics were just plain hypocrites ...as though the French court and aristocratic society were not already rife with libertinism. Reminds me of Oscar Wilde who died in prison. Fascinating , TY❤
Oscar Wilde died in Paris, after he had finished his sentence of hard labor at Reading Jail, but in a way you are right, he was a broken man after being abandoned by family and friends, and jail broke him, so yes, he, his spirit did die in jail, his last words were said to be "either this wallpaper goes, or I do" who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? ❤
@@michaelhall596 thanks for the correction.
He took it to "the next level"
Oh Sade went way beyond anything Oscar Wilde was into.
The man who brought us The Happy Prince would never be as provocative & foul as Sade, imho.
Excellent information well presented, thank you! I read Justine in the late 1960s, when I was in my late teens, and was told by my contemporaries that it was political. We all took it as a horrifying and hilarious treatise on Punishment of Virtue. I read another book about her libertine sister Juliet, and how she succeeded in life. Was it by De Sade? As I recall, it was, but it's not mentioned in your documentary. My forever picture of DeSade was painted by Geoffrey Rush's spectacular performance in the movie "Quills."
Geoffrey Rush played him in " the quills" awesome
There's something about Geoffrey Rush that enables him to portray damaged souls isn't there? He rarely plays any other role.
@@AndyJarman💯🎯👏 yes, I agree. He played Sade so well. Kate Winslet was also brilliant, imho.
"Quills" is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Geoffrey Rush, and pretty much the whole cast, were superb.
One significant point was missed, he writes quite beautifully. If he hadn't he would have been forgotten.
I found his work disturbing, not beautiful by any stretch of the imagination.
“Beautifully”… um no
Very fascinating cross-section of the reality that is become "The Enlightenment" thank you!
I see Walsingham video next in line. Sade and Walsingham have been both portrayed by Geoffrey Rush. Coincidentally. He's a great actor 👍
And David Helfgott. Like Donald Pleasance before him, some actors become typecast to play the most peculiar stereotypes!
OMG you did de sade?? Love you guys. First Blackbeard now this.... Christmas came early this year🎉
More like Antichristmas
Sociopaths and psychopaths can be talented and inf Iuential even charismatic. This doesn't detract from the fact that they are dangerous and they can pervert good to evil in its most abasing for,m, Iike the way they experience love
We see it all the time these days. But today they'd discredit the prostitute and the courts would say "we don't want to ruin his future."
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He was a rotten father - how cud he be anything else with his prioritised choice of activities.... ESTP Sounds like a polite way to say Sociopath...
Wow. This is insanely good. Thank you.
Excellent video. Very thorough and interesting.
Following this, I have strong reason to believe that Desaad, the God of Torture and Sadism from DC Comics is named after him.
They are named after him. Sade Saad Saadi Saadians Sadists
No shit lmao
Holy moly this dude apparently it was one of the first viral super freaks. He'd be a billionaire in today's society. It's amazing how many commoners were able to put this guy in prison.
I doubt he'd be a billionaire, tbh.
@@PinkiePie45838283734666o9 bro look at the Kardashians.. and of course I don't know if he actually literally would have become a billionaire just saying with his freakish nature he would fit right in with our society today
@@bronxbomerpito7286maybe at a pornography convention. Even today, his work would be considered unacceptable for public consumption. Much sicker than anything produced by social media / reality TV famous people.
Well he really believed the Seditionaries would see sense and elevate him to a radical philosopher, but of course by being an aristocrat and pissing off the Catholic church, well he was lucky not to meet Madame Guillotine. Very lucky indeed
It was a real pleasure to watch your videos! I really liked the way you reveal the topic, keep the viewer in suspense.
Thank you for uploading this.
Just found your channel really well presented subbed up
The outro song to this video is friggin awesome!
Geoffrey Rush did a great job portraying Marquis de Sade.
I thought he was too cuddly for the role. De Sade was a noisy, pushy, demanding bad baby always bucking the system
No, he was perfectly fit for the role and as Captain Barbossa in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
@@sabrinanascimento5248 each to their own. Personally, if I was choosing someone to play a dissolute libertine if it would have to be Malcolm McDowell with Pasolini obviously in the director's role, or possibly Kubrick
Or Polanski?
If you haven't seen 'Quills', with Geoffrey Rush as De Sade, do yourself a favour !
And as for '120 days of Sodom', that was taken up by Pasolini in 'SALO', an allegory of the Fascist state.
Fascinating insight into the complex personality of de Sade who usually provokes a knee jerk reaction .
Truly outstanding documentary and very balanced ❤ im intrigued by De Sade strangely a voyeur in S& M. Having viewed many different accounts, this is superb xx
Very intresting and I learned a lot!!
I've heard various things about the Marquis De Sade over the years, but this exceptional documentary certainly stands out.
The thumbnail picture bears a resemblish to Miles Davis. He was something of a sadist too, ESPECIALLY TO HIMSELF.
He was obviously never going to write for Mills & Boon!
Fifty Shades of Grey came pretty close to that "mash up" though didn't it!?
Very well done.
So I got read the old Hansel and Gretel, nice parenting ones again mum and dad haha. Great documentary, thank you.
excellent in depth research brilliant
Very interesting. I had no idea the significance of The Brothers Grim and the foundation whereby which they were written. Very knowledgeable.👍🏼
The original stories of the Grim brothers were in some parts awful, but they pale into significance to 120 days of sodomy. I'm willing to bet all I have that Disney will never make that movie. It's beyond repulsion, it's full of torture and murder of children that they kidnap. The adults in this story do disgusting things but they are at least consensual
Great yet unique presentation definitely worthy of a full go.
He was a deviant who was a good writer!
I am very conflicted on De Sade. Yes he wrote some intentionally perverted stuff but I think the philosophical nature of his work is often very insightful and underappreciated. You could also say that he had some very progressive views for his time that have become mainstream today. He was a fierce critic of the evils of organized religion and his writings sometimes depict women as having the dominating and aggressive position when it comes to the twisted fantasy world he describes.
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In the 1960s as a 16 year old studying French at high school I got the original 18th century French of 120 days of Sodom and translated large slabs. I still remember struggling with a description of one manservant whose buttocks were like flaccid shirt flaps. My French teacher said my work was pornographic but I topped thge course and actually got a medal. Those were the days!
There's a movie "Quills" that is about de Sade. Dunno how accurate to his life but it has good actors.
He was a highly depraved but relentless literary talent. Would you want your father or brother or son to be like him?
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He was deranged. He didn't have both oars in the water. He wasn't playing with a full deck.
A 'roo loose in the top paddock.
Do you truly think that? I mean ok 120days is just pure fantasy. But the other books reflect our natures as species very well. This was something he had first hand knowledge of
@@martinrees4788yeah not to mention the fact that most of his "crimes" are not in fact crimes today. He definitely wasn't a role model but I don't see any evidence that he was "deranged," or otherwise delusional..
@@KS-PNWHe was a despicable individual the fact that “sadism” is coined from his name is enough. His interests & books . included necrophilia, incest, sodomy, flagellation, coprophilia (sexually aroused by poop), necrophilia and the rape, torture and murder of adults and children. He stated that pregnant women should be killed. Him & Alister Crowley & others show how sick & depraved person can be. Do what thy wilt, the ultimate of demonic ideology.
I was introduced to the sod back in my early twenties. After reading 120 days of sodom, I was changed. I can never on mentally see the things that he wrote. Dude was messed up. Yet everything treat in reading his perversions.
Yes I agree - can’t unsee them
I wonder if this is what "Dangerous Liaisons" was based on
Take a look at Brozino's "Allegory of Venus and Time" (Nat. Gallery London). In this painting - intended as a gift to the French Court - is depicted not only incest, but also the advanced stages of syphilis. It is NOT a depiction of incest BECAUSE THE CHARACTERS of Venus and Cupid are ALLEGORICAL. Not hard to imagine that much of DeSade's writing is also ALLEGORICAL. One must also record the journalism of W T Stead, British mid 19th century. The horrors he describes are REAL, not allegorical.
"Illegal acts on his 'fundament'" !!! LMFAO!😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maquis De Sade. I honestly never read his works and as a young girl I did remember my mother mentioned him in extremely unflattering ways. I think De Sade leans in with what he wrote. Meaning it was part of his fantasy that he wants to do in reality. Living vicariously through his writings and ot was part of his social commentary.
I tried to read one of his books.... Unless you are ok with a lot of "toilet" stuff.. yes even no2's... Leave well alone. I found it disgusting TBH!
Never read his stuff, but thinks they nothing enough about it to say what it's about. What a clown.
23:30 😅... Herein we can officially say he was the manifestation of the adage "The Man, The Myth, The Legend"
He even wrote sadistic poetry in newspapers.
Imagine THAT!???!! AN abused child turns into an abuser and one who gets off on abuse and pain inflicted on others. 🤔 Shocking.
Nice, Make one documentary on Indian sultan, tipu sultan.
52:52 That was the same Andrea Dworkin who was disavowed by the feminist movement for her book "Intercourse" where she stated that all sex was rape.
Just coming in to say this is a lie. In many regards Dworkin was a nut job but no she never said anything like that according to Catharine MacKinnon a long time friend and collaborator of Dworkin’s.
She is often said to argue that "all heterosexual sex is rape", based on the line from the book that says, "Violation is a synonym for intercourse." However, Dworkin has denied this interpretation, stating, "What I think is that sex must not put women in a subordinate position. It must be reciprocal and not an act of aggression from a man looking only to satisfy himself. That's my point."
Can someone tell me where can I have an updated English class and learn new things? After this hearing surly I missed something in the very catholic academic 60's/70s English
I've seen the movie saló 120 days of sodem What you didn't mention was all those victims were all children
Because they werent. Read the "120 days of Sodom" and see for yourself. Watching movie adaptations of a book isnt the same as reading said book. There is a reason why it is called "adaptation". The 120 days, in contrast to his other works, isnt an easy read and yes, especially the later days are taxing and should not be read out of context or by a mentally unstable or morally undeveloped person but it is quite an insight to the mind,- and to his mind specifically. And yes, I read it,- read all of his works.
Won't someone think of the fictional children! (clutches pearls)
Salo was an Italian movie
There was no real age of consent in the 1760s. The English brought in an age of consent of 12 in Victorian Times but nonces were never arrested for their crimes. I can guarantee you that Pasolini ensured all his actors were 16 or over in Salo and all the sex scenes are simulated. It's just typical 1970s envelope-pushing. The shit eating.and pissing are not real. Pasolini was a director trying to make a point about fascism, consumerism etc.
Back in his time teenagers were fair game. Anyone like the first reply claiming “because they weren’t” in reply to his victims being children is lying to you.
Beyond simply _"mired in controversy",_ The Marquis was mired in a caliber of extremely perverted behavior that has rightfully born his infamous namesake for nearly 300 years = *Sadism* and *Sadistic....* To suggest that his graphic "literary achievements" were not a form of blatantly advocating such condoned perversion is, IMO, a rather derelict misunderstanding of his fully documented intentions. And intentions fully realized _'In The Flesh'_ for decades that finally / rightfully landed him in prison....!!! 🧐 Subsequent historical attempts to "venerate" de Sade's misogynistic and masochistic aberrations is Hard Evidence of just how depraved and deeply deviant much of larger societies actually ARE.... behind the mask of "civility". 😱
You don't think that punishing people by throwing them in jail is Sadistic in itself? There is a dark shadow in the minds of people who are gratified by punishing others with pain and bondage. The "justice" system is based upon the Sado-Masochistic impulse. The contemporary "Social Justice" movement is based upon the idea we are all oppressed by invisible forces. This gives us permission to in turn oppress and abuse others. Christianity was a revolutionary movement in this regard. Rather than justice through revenge, it advocated responsibility for one's own emotions, rooting out the ill intent within one and instead choosing to understand maladaptive behaviour as the expression of an unconscious need for recognition of the self.
He was a writer before his time!
Merely the first recorded.
French really like to invent weird things
Your comment is quite weird too.
Germans even more
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Notable intellectual, despite sins and debauchery. Well-known historically, thankfully to his prominent philosophical treatises, i think he is more a sort of literator of enlightement, than sexual maniac.
This dude was a super freak😂😂
This is a great movie.
He was my source of inspiration. I read all his work while young and discovered myself a fan of dark sexuality and I’m myself a huge fiend and depraved rotten animal! Thank you marquis!
why are there close-ups of parts of contemporary people's faces which have nothing to do with the story...?
It was the French butter that killed Marquis
Having read alot of De Sade's works, I can recommend Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue and it's sister novel Juliette read as a pair. Overall if you can get past the fucked up parts, there is gold in there.
They're very philosophical.
I read Justine in my early 20s
Epstein book club favorite for sure
In a movie about his life, his long suffering wife said the cruelest thing he ever did was getting her to fall in love with him. Being in a crazy relationship myself i could really identify with what she was saying 😢
There was a movie called "Quills" about the Marqui's inprisonment. Not very realistic but very entertaining. I can't remember who played deSade but Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix were in it.
He is the one who invented "pulling out"
Makes me think of a piece of dialogue from a movie, Time after Time, where David Warners” Jack the Ripper” tells Malcolm McDonald’s “HG Wells, In his time, he was a freak. But, in our time, he was merely an amateur.
I found Justine in a library, but only in French. I was able to read enough to discern what was going on and it wasn't good. After this video, I can perceive deSade as a purveyor of Hustler, Playboy, etc., which claimed to be pursuing free speech. Now that everybody says FY every other sentence, hope they are happy.
Narrative was way too fast had to play it on 0.75 ……very interesting doco
Can you make these into a podcast please
We are, very soon.
Are his books still in print?? Sounds like interesting reading.
Were you born yesterday? Of course they are.
Read the books by Anne Rice ,writing as A.N. Roquelaure....erotica
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Marquis de Sade is basically an 18th century 4Chan user
A complex figure. A talented writer but most of his writing was perverted. However, some of his works (especially the Marquis de Gorges and the novel about the Magistrate whose wife is marrying for social advancement rather than love) were maybe more mainstream historical novels and reflect to some extent contemporary themes. He is an interesting example of changing public mores in the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary years, though they became a bit more conservative under Napoleon and his raproachment with the Catholic Church. If an artist/writer is morally questionable. does that mean his art/literature should be shunned? I think *some* may still be of historical interest in informing us of the social and political climate of the time.
I read the 200 days of sodden have to say it was vile, stomach churning. I’ve read lots of torture before but couldn’t finish this!
120 Days of Sodom is a uniquely challenging read. The degree of depravity is substantial. Whilst reading the text you get the feeling you are involved in a perverted series of crimes. I usually get through 3or4 pages and have to set the book down and get some fresh air
I've never read it. I'm glad now! Heard of it but that's it
Pasolini's film (Salo: or the 120 Days of Sodom) has a similar effect on audiences. It usually opens to a packed house, but by the time it reaches its ending, the cinema is almost empty apart from the hardcore! Pasolini played on the audience's prurient interests for sexual titillation and proceeded to rub their noses in it. Most of the film is framed from the position of an onlooker or participant, dragging the viewer into the scenes, which makes for voyeuristically uncomfortable viewing. de Sade may well have been trying to do the same in his writing, piling obscenity on top of obscenity in an attempt to overwhelm the reader. I got a sense of this, reading "Justine", wherein the hapless girl/victim is plunged into one nightmarish situation after another, losing her optimism in human nature and sexual innocence in the process. The poor girl can't even catch a break from nature as she's blasted into oblivion by a bolt of lightning just as she seems to be on the verge of happiness. There's a sly, wicked sense of humour in de Sade, which is easily missed amid the outrage.
How did such parents, and lineage, have such a f-up extremely honest son!!
When you have enough status and power you really don't need to keep up appearances do you?
@@AndyJarman I wish, that are true... apparently you do, or he wold have spent so much time in jails. I imagine it is the disparity between his current moral code and the truth, which TODAY we know, over the decades keeps including more and more things, women today wouldn't have such a shocking response I imagine, it must have been aches to those women and men just hearing such things completely against the moral code of the time. Imagine reading it on top of that. Jeeezzz!!
To be fair, his works are generally laden with symbolism to the point that if the high society he criticized understood a small part only they would be clamoring for his incarceration or worse. Yes, he uses graphic imagery and horrific acts to excess, but once you analyze what was going on at the time it fits.
I wonder if bi polar examples of disinhibited & over sexualised risk taking then periods of low mood ? Syphilis insanity at end Interesting character Born too soon
A good documentary though it ignores De Sade`s imprisonment at the Fortress of Miolans by the side of Lake Annency. If you visit you can wander around unbothered and spend time in De Sade`s cell which is fun ! I might ad an unpublished novella by De Sade came on the auction market in the UK in 2022, written in his hand probably while in the asylum. No one seemed to want to buy it and it finally sold for a relatively low 55,000 pounds.