:28:01
His point is that the novel's premise -
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that there's something immoral in a group of
young people putting on a play- is simply absurd.
:28:07
You found Fanny Price unlikable?
:28:09
She sounds pretty unbearable.
But I haven't read the book.
:28:11
- What?
- You don't have to have read a book
to have an opinion on it.
:28:15
I haven't read the Bible either.
:28:17
WhatJane Austen novels have you read?
:28:20
None. I don't read novels.
:28:22
I prefer good literary criticism.
:28:24
That way, you get both the novelist's ideas
as well as the critic's thinking.
:28:27
With fiction, I can never forget
that none of it ever really happened...
:28:30
that it's all just made up
by the author.
:28:35
One thing I like about him is
he doesn't say all the expected things.
:28:39
He doesn't just agree with everything
everyone else is saying.
:28:42
That's true. He disagrees
with everything everyone else says.
:28:45
I'm not sure I prefer that.
:28:47
He's quite good-looking though.
I think serious guys tend to be better-looking.
:28:51
Ow!
:29:05
The term ''bourgeois'' has almost always
been - been one of contempt.
:29:10
Yet it is precisely the - the bourgeoisie
which is responsible for-
:29:15
well, for nearly everything good that has happened
in our civilization over the past four centuries.
:29:19
You know the French film,
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie?
:29:23
When I first heard that title I thought...
:29:25
''Finally, someone's gonna tell the truth
about the bourgeoisie.''
:29:29
What a disappointment.
:29:31
It would be hard to imagine
a less fair or accurate portrait.
:29:35
Well, of course.
Buñuel's a surrealist.
:29:37
- Despising the bourgeoisie is part of their credo.
- ( Nick ) Where do they get off?.
:29:40
But the truth is,
the bourgeoisie does have a lot of charm.
:29:44
Of course it does.
:29:46
The surrealists
were just a lot of social climbers.
:29:48
( Fred )
Is there any more wine?
:29:51
- ( Orchestra;Ballroom )
- I like the French.
:29:53
- Really?
- At least those I met in Grenoble.
:29:56
Actually, the only girl I ever knew who studied
in France stayed over there and got married.