<i>♪ When you smile at me ♪</i>
<i>♪ I hear gypsy violins ♪</i>
<i>♪ When you dance with me ♪</i>
<i>♪ I'm in heaven when the music begins ♪</i> <i>♪ I can see the sun when it's raining ♪</i>
I saw lots of movies as a child. Later on... I'd play with my friends and pretend I was a director. Our games were mostly about the arts. But I didn't have the means to pursue those things, and I developed a kind of complex about it. For there to be fraud there has to be some element of deception, like using a car or carrying a briefcase to look the part.
That's unnecessary roughness.
Fifteen yards.
Come on, you've been on me all day!
You're out!. You're out of the game!
Who you taking out, Toots?
Never mind who.
There's our benefactor. Pitbull. Terrier. Fortune favors the bold. Ungrateful bastard. I give you something to eat and that's your way of saying thank you? It's all in the game. Welcome, Dadi, my dear brother. -Who is he? What the fuck do you care? -I was only asking. So there's a God after all. Is there anything to see? Unlucky person. Read this. You wanted to see me. I don't wanna work with thieves anymore. What are you waiting for? Give the man something to drink.
I've got a cunning plan. -You?
Ma'am, when I was chopping wood, this guy ran around the house.
What was all that about?
The neighbour's son. A certified idiot. Pay him no mind. He dreams of being a samurai.He runs around like that all day.
A samurai!
Well...
I'm going out a while.
For work?
Not exactly. For this.
What? You're going gambling? Better to stay away from that. My nephew, he's addicted to gambling. He refuses to work, plays all day.Don't know... He dropped out of sight. For me, it's just a pastime. Some pastimes can become too serious. What do you think? This sword cost me a fortune.
Yes, Mr Ogi, it's a fine sword.
I'm giving it to Lord Sakai. He'll be so pleasedthat he'll do us business favours.
Of course.
----------------------------- from Zatoichi
This fits well since it is including three aspects of play in time. The fantasy of play, the danger of getting lost in it and the productive power of a gamble on influence.
I am looking for a dialogue that talks about play and maybe the transition from the imagined to reality. Thinking about paprika shatering the mirror while still in a dream.
I started with the end of a game that is talking about how to push people into doing things, by letting them think that no matter what they do, it has no consequences. This is at the end of a very violent game in which the main character (I/ we) have always done what we were asked to and never faced any repercussion for the actions.
That lead me at to a preaching about how rudeness is an expression of people that they will not get what they want.
Since I felt that that was not applicable to my underlying theme of play this semester, I went back to the game and came across an analysis that spoke about the underlaying theme of playing “without thinking”. Interestingly that lead me to a sentence from kill bill II that brought forward what is commonly seen as the most grave of all possible results of mindless play. Death.
Whats next ?
I would be interested to talk about how much play is a state in between fantasy and reality and how quickly it can dive into both worlds.
Now i just have to find the right dialogues to talk about it.
Tried the https://panoramasofcinema.ch/search subtitle search with mixed result.
1.
A quote from Hotline Miamis ending: "All you gotta do to get people to do what you want them to is to make them think there'll be consequences if they don't.."
lead me to an unexpected visit to a preaching at the grande budapest hotel: "Rudeness is merely the expression of fear. People fear they won't get what they want. The most dreadful an"
2. "Just play without thinking" i found in an analysis of the first
and surprise i came across kill bill:" Oh, Mommy. Don't die. I was just playing. I know."