"Forced Pleasure" by a show master

Sophia 2022-03-14 14:12:31

Burton always shows his true temperament, in fact, this is a character set he made for himself, "Richard Burton, this is my title, my motto, my epitaph, my cross. I won I have gained a diabolical reputation that has absolutely nothing to do with my accomplishments as an actor, I am the infamous Richard Burton."

He is both a liar and a showman, and he can really be himself in a few days.

From when he was five or six years old, he was burned in the stove because he lied too much, to when he carefully seduced Philip, he knew that lying would pay a very heavy price, but he still tasted the sweetness of lying, and then it was like eating wrapped The chronic poison of honey is sinking deeper and deeper.

Like Limas in "Berlin," who spends all day telling lies that he's orchestrated. He said so much that he even subconsciously thought he was telling the truth, not only deceived the enemy, but almost deceived himself.

Only before going to bed at 11 o'clock every night did he take fifteen minutes to be himself and tell himself that it was all fake and lies. In these fifteen minutes, he finally became himself, but this real self made him a little unfamiliar.

Burton wrote in his 70-year diary, "I love the world, but I can't take it too seriously, or I'll go crazy." To make them think he loves them, to fool them into thinking that they are the most worthy of being loved and the most worthy of talking to him in the world.

He adores vanity, telling reporters that he played Hamlet when he was 25 and met and became friends with Taylor when he was 24.

He made up the story of his grandfather's death and told it vividly at parties to make himself a fun, popular person.

He lied to friends and colleagues to lie to reporters. On the surface, he talked and laughed with them and pretended to be very charming. In fact, he abused them viciously in his diary.

He lied to the children and played a gentle and loving father in the children's eyes. In fact, he wished that they would all grow up and leave him immediately and only see him once a year.

He lied to the woman he loved the most that he was absolutely loyal to her and would never betray her, but it didn't take long for him to sleep with another woman. In the last year he lied more, to an unprecedented degree.

He came back in January after meeting Tyler and told Sally that he didn't love Tyler anymore and that he didn't want to have anything to do with her anymore. Yet on the afternoon of August 3, while Sally was busy in the kitchen, he whispered to John Hurt, "I still love Elizabeth."

However, he continued to lie to his Elizabeth, "Can you give me another chance to be reunited with you?"

He called Philip to tell Philip that he was getting better and that he would visit him in the United States in January next year to play "Richard III."

Nine out of ten sentences are false, and only one is true.

When he saw his brother Graham for the last time before he left London at the end of July, Graham noticed he called Sally Elizabeth, bemusedly reminding him in Welsh, "That's Sally."

He replied, "I know."

No one will know his real inner world in the last two months; no one will know why he deliberately called Sally to call Elizabeth to hurt her like this.

He didn't explain anymore, at this time he was very tired to say a word. Acting for a lifetime, can you not get tired?

He hates acting as much as he hates his true self. But he couldn't get away from acting.

He told reporters in '74 that he couldn't do what he really wanted to do because "acting was like a poisonous insect that bit me too deeply, too hard."

The real him just wanted to cry on his lover's shoulder and be Richie, the little Welsh boy, the child without a mother, not the "Richard Burton" he deliberately created.

But he knew his "Welsh mood" was repulsive, and he had to act if he wanted to please her. Sometimes the illness involved him, making him unable to perform, and he was forced to drink the wine she fed him, forcing him to be happy. He lowered his head, immersed in his true emotions, and a thick shadow was formed between the deep eye sockets and the end of his eyebrows. His eyes were hidden in this triangular shadow, making it impossible to see what was inside.

"Alec, I want to make you happy tonight."

In the sadness and depression, he was shocked when he heard the words, raised his head, and faced the expectant eyes of his lover. He must act, lie, and be happy.

"Oh yes, I am, (I'm happy)"

There was still sadness in the eyes that were facing the light, but he still crooked his mouth and made a big smile.

Then, in the end, he pursed his lips, lowered his eyes, and stopped letting her see his eyes. Because as long as it is one second slower, he really can't play anymore.

Why did he have to commit suicide at the end of the day, even though he could live? That's because, for a person who has long been disillusioned and desperate, the lover is not around, and the last light in his life has gone out.

His struggles, his lies, his performances are all meaningless, and even if he utters one last cry in this cold world, no one will hear him. So why don't you just shut your mouth and leave in silence.

"They seemed to hesitate for a while and then shot again. Someone had called out an order before and no one shot. In the end they shot him two or three times.

He looked around angrily like a blind bull in a bullring. When he fell, he saw the crashed car sandwiched between two large trucks. The children in the car were still waving their little hands happily behind the window. "

What did Burton see before he died?

Maybe it was because there was too much blood on his hands, even all the water in the ocean, he couldn't wash his hands, but instead dyed the boundless sea red.

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold quotes

  • Alec Leamas: I'm a man, you fool. Don't you understand? A plain, simple, muddled, fat-headed human being. We have them in the West, you know.

  • Alec Leamas: Mundt was a Nazi, wasn't he?

    Fiedler: He was a member of the Hitler Youth... as a boy.

    Alec Leamas: Now he's a grown-up Communist. He's what I would call... available.

    Fiedler: Like you!... Shall we begin? Let me start by asking you an amusing question.

    Alec Leamas: Let me start by asking you one! Make you laugh your head off! Where's my money? When can I go wherever... wherever home is? I mean, Carleton's gone home! Peters has gone home! What about me?

    Fiedler: The agreement was...

    Alec Leamas: Agreement!... You've broken the bloody agreement and barring miracles you've broken my bloody neck too! The agreement was that I should be interrogated for two weeks in Holland, paid, and allowed to slip quietly back to England without anyone knowing I'd ever been away. And nobody would have known if you hadn't broken the story.

    Fiedler: Just who the hell do you think you are? How dare you come stepping in here like Napoleon ordering me about? You are a traitor! Does it occur to you? A wanted, spent, dishonest man, the lowest currency of the Cold War? We buy you - we sell you - we lose you - we even can shoot you! Not a bird would stir in the trees outside. Not a single pheasant would turn his head to see what fell.