The Rookie (1990 film) learn running and kicking and hitting." Under Eastwood's direction, Braga commented, "When you act with the director, you don't have any barriers because you're giving and taking at the same time." On a separate note, author Marc Eliot described the graphic rape scene in the film that gained much publicity as being, "an explosive sequence, and the only one in the film that people talked about. As obviously provocative and exploitative as it was, "ars gratia artis" the scene may also be read as conveying Clint's feeling victimized at the hands of a beautiful but bad woman." Offering another take
Ars Amatoria college courses on Latin literature. It is possible that Edmond Rostand's fictionalized portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac makes an allusion to the "Ars amatoria": the theme of the erotic and seductive power of poetry is highly suggestive of Ovid's poem, and Bergerac's nose, a distinguishing feature invented by Rostand, calls to mind Ovid's cognomen, Naso (from "nasus", 'large-nosed'). Ars Amatoria The Ars amatoria () is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 CE. Book one of "Ars amatoria" was written to show a man how to find a woman.