Перечитываю сейчас старого-доброго Стивена Фрая. Начиная читать что-либо вышедшее из-под его пера, сразу вспоминаю, за что же я его так люблю.
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I said it before and I'll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there's only movies. Music is still okay, because music is soundtrack. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a play-wright. I'd be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. All wanna make movies. Not write movies. You don't write movies. You make movies. But movies are hard to live up to.
When you walk along the street, you're in a movie; when you have a row, you're in movie; when you make love, you're in a movie. When you skim stones over the water, buy a newspaper, park your car, line up in McDonald's, stand on a rooftop looking down, meet a friend, joke in the pub, wake suddenly in the night or fall asleep dead drunk, you're in a movie.
But when you are alone, dead alone, without props or co-stars, then you're on the cutting-room floor. Or worse, you're in a novel; you're on stage, stuck inside a monologue; you're trapped in a poem. You are CUT.
Movies are action. In movies things happen. You are what you do. What's inside your head means nothing until you act. Gesture, expression, action. You don't think. You act. You react. To things. Events. You make things happen. You make your history and your future. You cut the wires that defuse the bomb, you lay out the villain, you save the community, you throw your badge into the dirt and walk away, you fold your arms around the girl and slowly fade to black. You never have to think. Your eyes might dart from the alien monster to the fizzing power cables as a plan comes to you, but you never have to think.
The perfect stage hero is Hamlet. The perfect film hero is Lassie.
Your history - 'back history' they call it in Hollywood - only counts insofar as it informs the present, the now, the Action of the movie of your life. And that's how we all live today. In scenes. God is not the Author of the Universe, he is the screen writer of you Bio-pic.
Lines you always hear in movies:
Don't talk about it, just do it.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Gentlemen, we have a situation here.
I don't have time for a conversation.
Move it, mister.
Lines you always read in novels:
I wondered what he meant.
He knew in his heart it was wrong.
She loved, above all, the way his hair stuck up when he became agitated or excited.
Nothing made sense any more.
(c) Stephen Fry, Making History
I simply love this gorgeous man