Popular web writing on the New French Extremity ignores how grounded in French culture it was, often just associating the movement with a group of French filmmakers and leaving it at that. In reality, it grew out of a particularly French mindset, deeply rooted in the cultural subconscious and historical context of France. Aside from historical events discussed in the intro, French writers such as Marquis De Sade and Georges Bataille paved the way for an extreme form of art, and so did Antonin Artaud with his manifesto for playwrights to embrace a "theater of cruelty" that violently smashed ideas into the audience.