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Jean-Luc Godard's short segment made for “Les sept péchés capitaux”.
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07 Mar 1962
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This feels like a holdover from Godard's early shorts, when it was his screenwriting wit that propelled things over his amateur grasp of shooting and editing. Still, that wit abounds here in the depiction of a star so lazy he can't even bring himself to bed a fan because it's too much fuss, leading to a classic early Godardian ironic morale. If pride might be called the deadliest sin as it was, per Milton, the true original sin as committed by Lucifer that begat the rest, sloth, in Godard's estimation, might be the noblest of them, as it is the only sin that might "motivate" one not to commit the others.
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In a little aside in Vivre sa vie, Anna Karina's character Nana claims to have appeared in a film starring Eddie Constantine. Constantine was an American-born actor who built a career in Europe, exporting a little of the noir cool that had entranced French critics over to France itself. One of those French critics was Godard himself, though he wasn't the first of his peers to bring Constantine into the arthouse; Agnès Varda placed him alongside Godard and Karina in The Fiancées of MacDonald Bridge, the film-within-a-film in Cléo from 5 to 7. Nevertheless, Constantine's best-remembered role nowadays isn't one of his many commercial thrillers, it's Godard's science-fiction experiment Alphaville, made a few years after Vivre sa vie.
Alphaville gave…
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Eddie Constantine a la flemme.
De parler.
De mâcher (alors il commande un sandwich pain de mie/pâté).
De faire ses lacets.
De faire du sexe (parce qu'il faut se rhabiller).La grosse flemme, je vous dis.
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flemme de parler,
flemme de mâcher,
flemme de faire ses lacets,
flemme de faire l’amour,
(parce qu’il faut se rhabiller part la suite).
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Segment - Sloth
Watched as a part of The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
A sloth so strong, it overwhelms other sins. Isn't that morality?
Godard being Godard. About a lazy man being lazy (Eddie Constantine). The pacing is well and is similar to Godard's other works from the 60s. It's neat and very simple. Like it honestly.
Again, the text animation goes so hard. Whoever the editor is, I love him.
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Eddie Constantine doesn’t go through with hooking up with a fan because he decides it’s too much work. We learn in the end that it’s better to have idle hands than do the devil’s work. Which, you know, okay, sure.
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“O sol e a morte. Não se olha diretamente para eles”
Os curtas de Godard são tão únicos e meticulosos em sua mensagem
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This movie shows the consequences of the seven deadly sins. Here "Acedia"(sloth) has the main focus on it. At the end there is a question if lazyness is really that bad if it protects from other sins.
Is it moral?
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