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Titolo: Il discorso di Kubrick ai Griffith Awards, in inglese

[PER TUTTI COLORO CHE ME LO HANNO CHIESTO, ECCO QUI IL TESTO ORIGINALE
DEL DISCORSO DI KUBRICK]
Good evening. I'm sorry not to be able to be with you tonight to receive
this great honor of the D.W. Griffith Award, but I'm in London making
Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and, just about this
time, I'm probably in the car on the way to the studio.
Which, as it happens, reminds me of a conversation I had with Steven
Spielberg about what was the most difficult and challenging thing about
directing a film. And I believe Steven summed it up about as profoundly
as you can. He thought the most difficult and challenging thing about
directing a film was getting out of the car. I'm sure you all know the
feeling.
But at the same time, anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a
film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and
Peace in a bumper car at an amusement park, when you finally get it
right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
I think there's an intriguing irony in naming the lifetime achievement
award after D.W. Griffith because his career was both an inspiration and
a cautionary tale. His best films were always ranked among the most
important films ever made. And some of them made him a great deal of
money. He was instrumental in transforming movies from the nickelodeon
novelty to an art form. And he originated and formalized much of the
syntax of movie-making now taken for granted.
He became an international celebrity and his patronage included many of
the world's leading artists and statesmen of the time. But Griffith was
always ready to take tremendous risks in his films and in his business
affairs. He was always ready to fly too high. And in the end, the wings
of fortune proved for him, like those of Icarus, to be made of nothing
more substantial than wax and feathers, and like Icarus, when he flew
too close to the sun, they melted. And the man who's fame exceeded the
most illustrious filmmakers of today spent the last 17 years of his life
shunned by the film industry he had created.
I've compared Griffith's career to the Icarus myth, but at the same time
I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should
only be, as is generally accepted, "Don't try to fly too high," or
whether it might also be thought of as, "Forget the wax and feathers and
do a better job on the wings."
One thing, however, is certain. D.W. Griffith left us with an inspiring
and intriguing legacy, and the award in his name is one of the greatest
honors a film director can receive, something for which I humbly thank
all of you, very much.

 DEL DISCORSO DI KUBRICK]
(snip)
E per chi non volesse far troppa fatica, sul sito di Close Up on line
(
www.close-up.it
) c'e' la versione tradotta.
Federica
-- 
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"Tutte le volte che giro un film penso che sia l'ultimo. Poi passano dei
mesi, allora comincio a pensare a come sarebbe bello fare un film, penso
ad un cane che abbaia, ad un bambino che si sporca la bocca con la
marmellata, e che intanto sta guardando un aereo che vola, e allora
provo delle emozioni e mi sembra di cominciare a girare."