smoke

Hilton 2022-08-08 20:37:43

Last year, I watched half of the class in the upper grades, and I wanted to see it, but I couldn't find the resources, and finally I was very satisfied after reading it in my class.

The small section structure is not as clever as the crash of the Tower of Babel. It always fits the main characters and slowly spreads out. The structure of the play seems to be related to the Oster screenwriter, but in the narrative style, the strong east can be clearly seen. Delicate, I heard that there are many Asian staff in the crew. The teacher said that Chinese American directors were thinking about how to speak East Asian languages ​​under the Hollywood system, so most of them will reflect on the relationship between people and families, and watch the two families in the film. Dealing with the chaos of the white family and the sadness of the black family, this association is self-evident, a large number of dialogues instead of actions, the representative of language dramas, the rhythmic tension of the paragraphs are also relatively relaxed, except for the last father and son. Later, two long freeze-frame panoramas were used to restrain, until the final black-and-white fragment of the subtitles, a large number of medium and close shots passed the facial details and texture of the two through the trembling and heavy black voices, allowing the entire play to complete the final closed loop, complete Delicate, the male protagonist does not play a key role in the main line, but he is like a guide, participating in the transformation of everyone, reminiscent of the beginning, the weight of the smoke may be measurable, but the most important thing is smoke. The shadow is invisible to accompany everyone. Brooklyn is such a great place

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Smoke quotes

  • [last lines]

    Paul Benjamin: Bullshit is a real talent Auggie. To make up a good story you have to know how to push all the right buttons. I'd say you were up there with all the masters.

    Auggie Wren: What do you mean?

    Paul Benjamin: I mean um,

    [chuckles]

    Paul Benjamin: it's a good story.

    Auggie Wren: Shit, if you can't share your secrets with your friends, then what kind of friend are ya?

    Paul Benjamin: Exactly. Life just wouldn't be worth living, would it?

  • Auggie Wren: The boys and me were just having a philosophical discussion about women and cigars.

    Paul Benjamin: Well I suppose that all goes back to Queen Elizabeth.

    Auggie Wren: The Queen of England?

    Paul Benjamin: Not Elizabeth the Second, Elizabeth the First. Did you ever hear of Sir Walter Raleigh?

    OTB Man #1, Tommy: Sure. He's the guy who threw his cloak down over the puddle.

    OTB Man #2, Jerry: I used to smoke Raleigh cigarettes. They came with a free gift coupon in every pack.

    Paul Benjamin: That's the man. Well, Raleigh was the person who introduced tobacco in England, and since he was a favorite of the Queen's - Queen Bess, he used to call her - smoking caught on as a fashion at court. I'm sure Old Bess must have shared a stogie or two with Sir Walter. Once, he made a bet with her that he could measure the weight of smoke.

    OTB Man #3, Dennis: You mean, weigh smoke?

    Paul Benjamin: Exactly. Weigh smoke.

    OTB Man #1, Tommy: You can't do that. It's like weighing air.

    Paul Benjamin: I admit it's strange. Almost like weighing someone's soul. But Sir Walter was a clever guy. First, he took an unsmoked cigar and put it on a balance and weighed it. Then he lit up and smoked the cigar, carefully tapping the ashes into the balance pan. When he was finished, he put the butt into the pan along with the ashes and weighed what was there. Then he subtracted that number from the original weight of the unsmoked cigar. The difference was the weight of the smoke.

    OTB Man #1, Tommy: Not bad. That's the kind of guy we need to take over the Mets.

    Paul Benjamin: Oh, he was smart, all right. But not so smart that he didn't wind up having his head chopped off twenty years later. But that's another story.