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These are two directors,
the Manetti brothers.
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Maurizio and Ernestino.
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My secretary...
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And this is Vicky Rosenthal
who will be your guide.
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I trust you had a pleasant trip.
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He is not bad at all.
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Yes, just right for the role.
We couldn't have chosen better.
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Please, step this way.
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It's the first Catholic Western.
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Christ's return to the
bleak, desolate prairie.
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And is this not
the secret desire of all men?
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A new incarnation of Christ.
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0ur Savior appearing this time
in concrete, tangible form.
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Christ already lives in us,
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but to show him in
a violently mundane context...
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It may seem a desperate
gamble.
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Blasphemy, almost, I agree.
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But I know an artist such as you,
whether a believer or not,
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will understand
that structuralist cinema
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can recapture sublime poetry
through primal images
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that are spare,
eloquent in their poverty -
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syntagmatic, as my friend
Roland Barthes would say.
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Something between Dreyer
and Pasolini
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with just a hint of John Ford,
of course.
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As long as it reflects
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the death throes and decay
of our capitalist system...
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a Western can claim
to be militant.
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That's what Lukacs says.
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We'll create historical characters
sociologically contextualised.