Extractos de Como hacer una tesis de Umberto Eco que me gustaron mucho y creo se pueden aplicar perfectamente tambien para los cortometrajes:
(Sobre la soberbia de los principiantes de escoger generalmente temas muy amplios; los volcanes, la literatura española, la felicidad, etc) :
"Se trata de temas que alterarian la sangre a estudiosos bastante mas maduros. Para un estudioso venteañero se trata de un desafío imposible. O hace una vulgar reseña de nombres y de opiniones corrientes, o da a su obra un sesgo original (y siempre se le acusaria de omisiones imperdonables). El autor Gonzalo Torrente (para la traduccion en español) publicó Panorama de la literatura española contemporanea.
Pues bien, si se hubiera tratado de una tesis le habrian suspendido (por no citar a muchos autores tanto mayores como menores). (...) Todos comprenden que estas exclusiones y estas desproporciones eran voluntarias, (...) pero si la misma gracia la hace un veinteañero ¿Quien garantiza que tras el silencio no hay una gran malicia? O que las omisiones sustituyen a una pagina critica que se habria escrito en otro lugar que el autor sabria escribir."
"Decian los medievales, que tenian un respeto exagerado por la autoridad de sus autores clasicos, que los modernos, aun siendo "enanos" en comparacion con aquellos, al apoyarse en ellos se convertian en "enanos en hombros de gigante".Con lo cual veian mas allá que sus predecesores(...)."
"Tambien en este caso hay que partir del principio de que, si se es un enano inteligente, lo mejor es saltar a hombros de un gigante cualquiera, aunque sea de estatura modesta; o de otro enano. Mas adelante habrá tiempo de avanzar a solas."
En mi caso, voy a intentar graduarme sobre los hombros de tres gigantes interesantisimos, de uno ya hablé, los otros dos son Alfred Hitchcock y Francois Truffaut.
Showing posts with label Hitchcock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hitchcock. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Nothing really new; Some funny Hitchock quotes I found watching some interviews @ youtube + a bonus 1 from Groucho Marx from the same subject:
1. Maestro Hitch: I never said actors where like cattle I said they shoud be treated like cattle
Q: Watching your cameos, would you consider the possibility of acting?
2.H: Never so low
3. Actors are necessary evils from our industry. But I think Walt Disney has the right idea about actors. If he doesn´t like them he tears them apart.
In your most recent movie, the majority of the actors are birds. Tell us, Mr Hitchcock, what technology did you use to control all of them?
4. (...) Bird seed...
Besides self motivation, what´s the mayor purpose that drives your pictures?
5. (...) money
...and he´s not in the army you know...
who?
6. General Izing
"What´s my Line?" T.V. Show: (people are blindfolded and have to figure out who the famous voice is): Are you a gentleman?
7.(...) sometimes.
8. I did a movie some years ago called Psycho...
9.Television is like the great american toaster. You press a button and the same thing goes up.
10.When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say: It's in the script. If he says: But what's my motivation? I say: Your salary.
It´s easy to say something dirty and get a laugh, everybody can do that. But to say something clean and recieve a laugh... for that it is required a comedian. (Groucho Marx)
1. Maestro Hitch: I never said actors where like cattle I said they shoud be treated like cattle
Q: Watching your cameos, would you consider the possibility of acting?
2.H: Never so low
3. Actors are necessary evils from our industry. But I think Walt Disney has the right idea about actors. If he doesn´t like them he tears them apart.
In your most recent movie, the majority of the actors are birds. Tell us, Mr Hitchcock, what technology did you use to control all of them?
4. (...) Bird seed...
Besides self motivation, what´s the mayor purpose that drives your pictures?
5. (...) money
...and he´s not in the army you know...
who?
6. General Izing
"What´s my Line?" T.V. Show: (people are blindfolded and have to figure out who the famous voice is): Are you a gentleman?
7.(...) sometimes.
8. I did a movie some years ago called Psycho...
9.Television is like the great american toaster. You press a button and the same thing goes up.
10.When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say: It's in the script. If he says: But what's my motivation? I say: Your salary.
It´s easy to say something dirty and get a laugh, everybody can do that. But to say something clean and recieve a laugh... for that it is required a comedian. (Groucho Marx)
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