[wedge] Re: the element of suprise (text version)
- From: Kellie Hindmarch <k.hindmarch@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wedge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:21:50 +1000
Is this a Wedge piece???
Kellie
>The Element of Surprise
>
>77. EXT. STREET. NIGHT. Kandyan 4th to 11th. July
>We drove along a delightful hilly road for two or three
>miles, picking up on the way a very beautiful boy with great liquid
>eyes and a noble intelligent expression.
>,a heavenly being
>down a very muddy, unmade road to a magnificent lake surrounded
>by strange shapes of distant mountains.
>clouds tumble and writhe
>Indistinct and unfamiliar images remain in fixed position
>space is elevated
>manipulation of space and rhythm- changes of mood and atmosphere
>Concerns about masculinity and sexuality lurk at the dark put of despair,
>
>Sentimentality is out of style.
>I=92m in love
>focused on him
>the right moves is important.
>I have always been very conscious of being excessively dull,
>find the right approach What an unimaginable possibility to think it is
>impossible
>tack together some invention, the element of surprise, the enaction of the
>unusual, enacted truthfully and effectively
>little personality quirks and eccentricities, the moments of unexpected
>the effect can be like a silent film of Keystone kops
>
>FIONA: Very lovely drive How about you,
>For a while we didn=92t think he=92d pull through.
>CHARLES: magnificent
>That was a sentence spoken way not unlike a musical score, rather a
>disappointment. My goodness,
>We had to go along a precarious track above the paddy-fields, which car the
>car just managed to negotiate.
> -an elephant grazing in a field
> -the moon, and a wonderful array of fireflies are making
>patterns all the
>time.
>I couldn=92t really bear this. An inability to face the puzzling complexiti=
es
>of human problems.
>A scheme of movement must be decided upon.
>FIONA: Halve biscuits and have biscuits. Have to have
>biscuits. Have to halve biscuits. And have to have
>half a biscuit. Just think how to drink lemonade and
>have payed to have a biscuit or to have bread.
>=91Psycho?=92
>HENRIETTA: [giggling] What the hell was that all about?
>She laughs. She is in a good playful mood-
>HENRIETTA: You=92re so scared
>CHARLES denies any personal emotions.
>Unfortunately HENREITTA knows It is not hard to see what is going on
>to clarify this- it goes beyond any change or variety of mood
>there is constant repetition of the bodily movement of shapes
>seen not as being innocent but as worrying, dangerous, out of control,
>surrounded by more elaborate Concepts of gender and sexuality with slight
>texturing of the edges to suggest a puffy shape.
>The concern is No young lover
>I am of course talking generally I gather I never have no control.
>little by little, day by day,
>fast or slowly depending upon what is
>questioned the validity of such a
>fundamentally similar situation=85..
>=85..it=92s always been you, since first we met-o-so
>many years ago. I knew the first moment. Across a crowded room- or lawn in
>fact.
>HENRIETTA: Fiona loves you.
>Pause.
>CHARLES is flabbergasted.
>A moment of stillness
>30th July. A few fireflies about last night, and rain held off. We left the
>car at a particularly muddy corner.
>
>
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