A Dream

Requiem  s.m.
(Retirado da expressão "requiem aeternam dona ei (eis)", que significa "dai-lhes o repouso eterno")
Composição musical de conotação religiosa, cristã, especialmente composta para funerais, com o objectivo de honrar os mortos. Missa ou prece pelos mortos.

Vários compositores possuem no seu repertório este tipo de obra litúrgica.
Há o Requiem de Mozart,   há o Requiem de Brahms,   há o Requiem de Verdi,   há o Requiem de Berlioz,    e há o Requiem de Aronofsky, o Requiem por um sonho...


Aronofsky, longe de ser músico, eleva o cinema à sua já merecida posição de 7ª arte.
Requiem for a Dream foi o filme que dirigiu em 2000, com Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto e Jennifer Connely nos papéis principais.
Este filme, que permitiu a Ellen Burstyn a nomeação para o Óscar de Melhor Actriz e Globo de Ouro de Melhor Actriz na categoria de drama, conta como o sonho se torna pesadelo e retrata os limites do ser humano.
Contando com uma banda sonora grandiosa, composta por Clint Mansell e tocada pelos Kronos Quartet, o filme tem todas as características para ser recomendado.

Assim, aqui vos deixo com o trailer. Requiem for a dream ( A Vida não é um sonho), baseado no livro de Hubert Selby Jr. :

Look up. Look up.

 Num dos maiores clássicos da sétima arte, "O Grande Ditador", Chaplin apresenta-nos um dos discursos mais tocantes alguma vez feito, na irónica pele de um ditador. Aqui fica uma montagem bastante bem conseguida:



"Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."

Born to Create Drama

The Young Director Award são as únicas premiações oficiais para "iniciados", e já estão entre nós desde 1988.

Aqui fica a campanha de 2011, intitulada "Born to Create Drama":

Site oficial: http://www.youngdirectoraward.com/

Instantes

Encontrei estas imagens de alguns instantes de alguns filmes e não resisti em colocar aqui!
Aviso já que isto vai parecer um pouco quadros do Harry Potter...

Alien, 1974

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Swimming Pool (2003)



2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)



How to Steal a Million (1966)



The Seventh Seal (1957)



A Clockwork Orange (1971)



Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)



Shining (1980)



Ghost World (2001)



A Clockwork Orange (1971)



Young Frankenstein (1974)



Shining (1980)

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