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I'd love to watch a movie where it's from the perspective of some young scientist who dies and find themselves in some kind of stadium, and the crowd is cheering, screeching even and the person takes a moment to find out what's going on.
After wandering around for a bit, there's millions of people in some gargantuan type colosseum and they ask the hotdog vendor what is happening and he says "oh, you're in the afterlife colosseum where people who do heinous and horrible things in life get their comeuppance - a bit of cosmic justice before we reincarnate them back into life to try to earn a place amongst the everlasting"
The hotdog vendor continues, "There are a lot of different colosseums around, a lot of different heinous actors thinking they could get away with unspeakable horrors and you can choose to go to whichever one you want by the taxis outside."
The young scientist asks "oh, so what's going on in this one? The people are going feral up there. "
"Oh, this stadium is filled with scientists and researchers who get to assault Robert Maxwell into oblivious and resurrect him over and over again for the damage he did to academic publishing." Continuing, he says "here, take a hotdog and head on up - go see what Archimedes, Newton, and Einstein do with the washing machine on a pendulum - it splatters him into a bloody mist and Rosalind Franklin is trying to see if she can determine his last thoughts by diffraction of where his grey matter ends up against the wall!"
I can buy that Archimedes and Newton would be willing to do some twisted shit, but Einstein wouldn't have any part in torture. He was a peaceful soul.
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