Draft Week 3

Alec 2022-03-25 09:01:15

Footsteps
gray, black/green skirt—what a lovely color!
Fast city/(a pair) chronic
all other women wear hats, exaggerated flower brim/The hostess doesn't wear a hat, and the bellboy asks her where the hat is when she leaves the restaurant Where she said no - emphasizing
the street lamp-like little flower - pointing out the cuteness of the modern city and definitely breaking
a street lamp - pointing out that there is still ugliness in
the rags of the garcon, the broken lamps in the exhibition, the restaurant everything etc. modern Industrial fast ≠ quality
restaurant and bar food diners sullen face deteriorating quality of life

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sleep. Good night.

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(Review Thompson)
against the Europeans' reliance on continuity-editing, post-Kane flashback construction which had been popularized since the 1940s (Tati & Bresson)

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Playtime quotes

  • Barbara, Young Tourist: How do you say "drugstore" in French?

    Monsieur Hulot: Drugstore.

  • Monsieur Hulot: [in English, to Barbara] I'll be back.

    Old Woman 1: [in French] What's that mean?

    Old Woman 2: [in French] I've no idea. Can't they use French?