{5116}{5186}There was a short film narrated {5191}{5225}by Jean Cocteau. {5230}{5296}He spoke about how a film was made. {5308}{5340}The voice said: {5355}{5420}Red light. I entered {5425}{5454}illicitly. {7402}{7434}When I was born, {7439}{7523}did I also pass|through my mother illicitly? {7542}{7591}I wanted to be an engineer. {7596}{7664}Have I even managed|to be ingenious? {7704}{7803}All these stories, now mine,|how can I tell them? {7817}{7857}Show them, maybe. {8106}{8156}The screenplay was invented. {8184}{8225}A minor Mafia accountant {8241}{8326}had to put some order|in the brainwaves of Sennet. {9191}{9271}And Friedrich Murnau and Karl Freund. {9285}{9352}They invented the Nuremberg lighting. {9360}{9462}While Hitler couldn't even afford a beer|in a Munich caf?. {9650}{9692}<i>Dirty Hands.</i> {9911}{9955}<i>To Have or Have Not.</i> {10220}{10288}The medium close shot,|framed at the belt. {10302}{10344}For the revolver: {10349}{10369}The genitals. {10374}{10444}Male genitals.|Women were framed {10449}{10469}at the breast. {10480}{10519}Beneath every love story {10549}{10588}lurks a wet nurse. {12137}{12229}It was a director, not a historian,|Marcel Pagnol, {12242}{12309}who cracked the secret|of the iron mask {12315}{12394}and simultaneously,|the origin of the close-up: {12399}{12477}The king's face on the coin. {12589}{12639}And the camera-pen. {12644}{12723}Sartre gave the idea|to Alexandre Astruc. {12738}{12819}The camera fell|under the guillotine of meaning {12824}{12864}and never got back up. {13084}{13117}Strangest of all, {13154}{13256}the living dead of this world|are constructed on the former world. {13261}{13353}Their reflections and sensations|are from before. {14547}{14629}The thing exists|only by the name that I give it {14650}{14686}- poor thing - {14701}{14732}and that I am. {14770}{14803}Albertine! {14972}{15008}Albertine... {15064}{15098}Iost. {15320}{15396}"For a long time,|I went to bed early..." {15401}{15441}I say that {15454}{15512}and suddenly Albertine disappears. {15517}{15567}And time is regained. {15578}{15644}For the novelist is speaking. {15649}{15764}And the director? If we had to speak|without saying anything. {15769}{15855}For example:|"I woke up surly." {15871}{15964}Cinema must exist|for words stuck in the throat {15979}{16047}and for the truth to be unearthed. {16325}{16411}Neither an art, nor a technique.|A mystery. {17763}{17830}Be sure to have used... {17867}{17947}all that is communicated|by immobility {17952}{17983}and silence. {18142}{18221}Ah, my homeland! Is it true? {18245}{18327}This is how I imagined you|for a long time. {18342}{18389}Happy country, {18394}{18452}magic, dazzling. {18467}{18511}O beloved land, {18519}{18558}where are you? {18613}{18670}If it involves an interpretation {18694}{18775}it will not be transformed|on contact with other images. {18816}{18889}Other images|will have no power over it. {18908}{18976}It will have no power|over other images. {18995}{19049}Neither action nor reaction. {19080}{19162}It is definitive and unusable {19170}{19235}in the system of the cin?matographe. {19680}{19726}Films are merchandise {19744}{19785}and we must burn films. {19814}{19851}I told Langlois. {19882}{19947}But beware:|With the fire within. {19952}{20040}<i>Matter and Memory.</i> {20055}{20132}Art is like fire.|Born from what it burns. {22920}{22962}Can time be told? {22967}{23039}Time in itself,|as itself, of itself. {23049}{23121}No, it would be a crazy undertaking. {23148}{23262}A story in which it is said:|Time passed, followed its course... {23267}{23328}History of cinema. {23458}{23492}When, {23505}{23540}oh when? {23571}{23652}When was there creation|delivered from form? {23686}{23749}When, oh when without fate? {23821}{23851}It was, {23870}{23950}without dream it was,|neither waking nor sleep. {23955}{24062}Only an instant, a song,|the unique voice, unevocable, {24087}{24127}a smiling call. {24160}{24254}Once there was the child.|Once there was creation. {24289}{24407}Once again it will come to be,|miracle delivered from chance. {25013}{25083}Magical evocation {25116}{25167}of a faraway, remote world. {25212}{25242}Beauty. {26698}{26731}Such is beauty. {26782}{26821}This is why it is also {26849}{26908}a relapse into pre-divinity. {26936}{27028}This is why for man|it is a recollection {27070}{27100}of something. {27331}{27367}O homecoming! {27417}{27505}Homecoming of him|who need no longer be a guest. {27564}{27632}Impossible to retrieve that smile {27637}{27707}in which we were once quietly huddled. {27746}{27837}Impossible to retrieve|the smiling embrace, {27865}{27931}that fullness of being on awakening {27955}{27999}or just before awakening. {28189}{28303}Impossible to retrieve the sweetness|in which we buried our face {28308}{28407}so that our vision would not prove|to be simple chance. {28489}{28585}Where everything was ours|when all was rendered to us. {28832}{28881}O homecoming! {28915}{28968}O universal time {28998}{29079}where nothing was mute|to the child's mute eyes {29121}{29181}and everything was a new creation. {29387}{29417}O music {29450}{29513}inside us and outside us. {29721}{29786}Beauty, game in itself. {29813}{29879}Game man plays with his own symbol. {29889}{29985}His only chance to escape,|at least symbolically, {29993}{30039}his fear of loneliness, {30080}{30125}repeating again and again {30130}{30180}the beautiful autosuggestion, {30195}{30237}the flight into beauty {30260}{30295}the game of flight. {30467}{30514}Art's despair, {30571}{30617}its desperate attempt {30662}{30735}to create the imperishable|from what perishes. {30740}{30799}From words, sounds, stones, colors {30884}{30989}so that the space formed|might outlast time. {31291}{31382}Although the mighty build halls, {31426}{31496}filling them with torches and music, {31534}{31617}surrounding themselves|with bodies, and more bodies, {31622}{31675}and faces, and more faces. {32135}{32190}That too was but a kind of sleep. {34932}{35008}Neither an art, nor a technique.|A mystery. {35038}{35100}To solve it,|a simple magic potion. {35117}{35212}To illuminate our lantern,|magic too. {35255}{35366}The history of cinema|is first linked to that of medicine. {35382}{35439}Eisenstein's tortured bodies, {35444}{35505}beyond Caravaggio and El Greco {35517}{35581}speak to Vesalius' dissections. {35605}{35695}Joan Fontaine staring|at the glass of milk {35710}{35774}does not respond|to a Delacroix heroine {35779}{35808}but to Pasteur's dog. {35851}{35927}Kodak made his fortune|with X-rays, {35960}{36001}not with Snow White. {36094}{36177}Since it wanted to imitate|the movement of life, {36182}{36229}it was normal, logical {36252}{36316}that the film industry|first sell itself {36321}{36369}to the death industry. {36396}{36468}Oh, how many screenplays|about babies, {36484}{36522}about flowers... {36546}{36615}But how many about bursts of gunfire? {36676}{36728}Because this is what happened: {36752}{36831}Photography could have been invented|in color. {36847}{36898}Color already existed. {36917}{36971}At the dawn of the 20th century, {36976}{37050}techniques decided to reproduce life. {37055}{37111}So they invented photography. {37126}{37185}But morality was still strong {37197}{37308}and they were preparing|to strip life of its identity. {37325}{37387}So they began mourning this murder. {37407}{37504}It is with the colors of mourning,|black and white, {37523}{37582}that photography|came into existence. {37603}{37649}Not because of engraving. {37656}{37756}Nadar's flowers|do not recopy a Dor? lithography. {37761}{37794}They annihilate it. {37807}{37872}Soon after,|to mask the mourning, {37879}{37996}Technicolor films will use|the same dominants as funeral wreaths. {38026}{38100}And Scarlett O'Hara|will vow once again {38105}{38152}to think about it tomorrow. {38157}{38210}About what? Happiness. {38259}{38372}Because one must go into mourning.|But forgetting about it. {38377}{38435}But Madame de Stael told us how. {38440}{38504}She wrote to Napoleon:|"Glory, Sire, {38509}{38573}"is the dazzling mourning|of happiness." {38578}{38654}Glory, sunlights, Oscars, festivals. {38683}{38786}For fifty Cecil B. De Milles,|how many Dreyers? {40313}{40386}<i>Everything I say|can be said of music hall.</i> {40391}{40462}<i>All I am is|a song-and-dance man!</i>
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