
-Listen Matthew…
-Yes…
-You’re a big movie buff, right?
-Way…
-Then why don’t you think of Mao as a great director making a movie with a cast of millions? All those millions of Red Guards marching together into the future with a little red book in their hands… Books, not guns. Culture, not violence. Can’t you see what beautiful epic movie that would make?
-I guess, but… it’s easy to say “books, not guns”, but it’s not true, it’s not books, it’s “book”, “a” book, just one book.
-Shut up, you sound just like my father.
-No, listen to me… the Red Guards that you admire, they all carry the same book, they all sing the same songs, they all parrot the same slogans, so in this big epic movie everybody is an extra. That scares me, that give me the creeps.
-Yes…
-You’re a big movie buff, right?
-Way…
-Then why don’t you think of Mao as a great director making a movie with a cast of millions? All those millions of Red Guards marching together into the future with a little red book in their hands… Books, not guns. Culture, not violence. Can’t you see what beautiful epic movie that would make?
-I guess, but… it’s easy to say “books, not guns”, but it’s not true, it’s not books, it’s “book”, “a” book, just one book.
-Shut up, you sound just like my father.
-No, listen to me… the Red Guards that you admire, they all carry the same book, they all sing the same songs, they all parrot the same slogans, so in this big epic movie everybody is an extra. That scares me, that give me the creeps.
Theo (Louis Garrel) e Matthew (Michael Pitt)
em The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci 2003



