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Jean-Paul Belmondo, hero of Breathless, plays the lead role of Ferdinand (the name of a king of Spain during the Inquisition), a man whose life has drifted away from him without his realizing it. He had sold out when he married an Italian girl who had a lot of money and now he is bored. He goes to a party with his wife. The camera follows his point of view as he wanders around the party aimlessly staring at the people there, always puffing on his Gauloise Bleue. In a highly stylized sequence, different groups of Beautiful People repeat...
...flash, he makes the existential choice to completely break with his past. Ferdinand becomes Pierrot Le Fou. He acts. He grabs a huge chunk of cake, flings it at the Beautiful People, and bolts out the door into a world of ecstasy and destruction. Like a desperate gambler, he is going for broke. As with Michael Poiccard in Breathless, it is all or nothing...
CASTLE TO CASTLE, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, is the final novel in a crazed autobiographical trilogy by the demented French physician-genius who apparently viewed the body of modern society with complete revulsion...
Ploy No. 4: "You made me do it." Feuer sees terrorism as the natural climax to student movements, since after all what Freud's "primal sons" want to do to Father is symbolically kill him. In Feuer's version of history, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which precipitated World War I, reads like this: the young Bosnian student Gavrilo Princip "finally achieved his place as a father-destroyer . . . even though it also meant the destruction of himself and the maiming of European civilization...
...young, lean, in tense nobody. He was one of the radical group of "Expressionists" who sought, with staccato rhythms and garish colors, to "express" on their canvases tormented moods and fantasies rather than to portray fashionable, naturalistic everyday scenes. "Crazy Kokoschka," his critics called him. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who was later to die at Sarajevo, grumbled that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken...