Word: bullshits
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Third, I was straight out of a provincial private school that failed to teach the tools of academic bullshit. I was bowled over by my first reading list, and understood not a word of my first lecture. Third strike--I thought I was one of the admissions' test tries, and a goof, at that...
...contrast is all the more marked in relation to technique: the best Bertolucci's improvised segments can come up with is Brando's famous "everything outside is bullshit" line while Rivette's effort enriches the film with a ring of additional depth. The film-within-the-film approach in L'Amour Fou lacks the gimmickry and inside-joking of the similar segments of Tango: in Rivette's film the function is real, and Sebastien is even helped in his direction by seeing rushes of the television film...
When she sits down to write about film, she sticks by her initial responses as the ones she can trust the most. She lets her heat build, but hits ground before it peaks: "So there's my two bits, take it...or leave it." It's a no bullshit no pretensions tone. She is like a muckraker fighting for the rights of movie lovers, a one-time member of "the gang" who pounces on the hint of an excuse to blast the Big Wheels and demagogues and hooligans of movie-making. The voice belongs to someone who is simply...
...almost in an instant. Brando's scream in the film's brilliant opening scene declares an existential wound -- later filled, if only for an instant, by Brando and Schneider's sudden and passionate coming together. During their short-lived ecstasy, Brando declares that "everything outside of this place is bullshit...
...junior who traditionally sleeps through most of his morning classes said, "For the last three years, all my bullshit answers on exam questions have basically been on the meaning of life; now Harvard has institutionalized...