:55:00
Like-- like literature
is better for telling a story.
:55:04
And if you tell a story
or even like a joke--
:55:06
"This guy walks into a bar
and sees a dwarf."
:55:10
That works really well
because youre imagining this
guy and this dwarfing this bar.
:55:14
And it's an imaginative
aspect to it.
:55:17
In film, you don't have that because you
actually are filming a specific guy...
:55:20
in a specific bar
with a specific dwarf...
:55:23
- of a specific height who
looks a certain way, right?
- Mm-hmm.
:55:25
So like, um, for Bazin, what the
ontology of film has to deal--
:55:29
it has to deal
with, you know, with--
:55:31
- Photography also has an ontology,
- Right.
:55:33
except that it adds
this dimension of time to it...
:55:36
and this
greater realism.
:55:38
And so,
it's about that guy...
:55:41
at that moment
in that space.
:55:43
And, you know, Bazin
is, like, a Christian,
:55:46
so he, like, believes
that, you know--
:55:48
in God, obviously,
and everything.
:55:51
For him, reality and God
are the same. You know, like--
:55:54
And so what film is actually capturing
is, like, God incarnate, creating.
:55:59
You know, like this very moment,
God is manifesting as this.
:56:05
And what the film would capture
if it was filming us right now...
:56:08
would be, like,
God as this table,
:56:10
and God is you and God is me and God
looking the way we look right now...
:56:12
and saying and thinking
what were thinking right now...
:56:14
- because were all
God manifest in that sense.
- Mm-hmm.
:56:18
So film is like a record of God
or the face of God...
:56:20
or of the ever-changing
face of God.
:56:23
You have a mosquito.
You want me to get it for you?
:56:25
- You got it. Yeah.
- I got it?
:56:28
And the whole Hollywood thing
has taken film...
:56:31
and tried to make it
this storytelling medium...
:56:33
where you take
these books or stories...
:56:35
and then you,
like, you know--
:56:37
you get the script and then try
to find somebody who fits the thing.
:56:39
But it's ridiculous.
:56:41
It shouldn't
be based on the script.
:56:43
It should be based
on the person, the thing.
:56:45
And, um--
And in that sense,
:56:47
they're almost right
to have this whole star system...
:56:49
- because then it's about that
person instead of the story.
- Right.
:56:54
Truffaut always said
the best films aren't made--
:56:58
The best scripts don't
make the best films...