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He was a dreamer filming fantasies.
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I think just the opposite.
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Prove it.
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Two days ago
I saw a film by Mr Langlois,
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the director of the Cinematheque,
about Lumiere.
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It proves Lumiere was a painter.
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He filmed the same things
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painters were painting at that time,
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men like Charo, Manet or Renoir.
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What did he film?
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He filmed train stations.
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He filmed public gardens,
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workers going home,
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men playing cards.
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He filmed trams.
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One of the last great
lmpressionists?
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Exactly, a contemporary of Proust.
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So Melies did the same thing.
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No, what was Melies doing
at that time?
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He filmed a trip to the moon.
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Melies filmed
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the King of Yugoslavia's visit
to President Fallieres.
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And now in perspective,
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we realise
those were the current events.
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No kidding, it's true.
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He made current events.
They were re-enacted, alright.
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Yet they were the real events.
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Id even say
Melies was like Brecht.
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We mustn't forget that.
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And why mustn't we?
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Why mustn't we?
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So why?
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Why?
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Because an analysis
of a specific situation,
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as Lenin says, is the essential...
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An analysis?
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..the soul of Marxism.
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What's analysis?
:32:48
It's seeing
the inherent contradictions...
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OK, but why analysis?
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Because
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things are complicated
by determining factors.