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a_kleber«So now, leaving Dreyer, George goes into the office. It is right across the hallway. Gottlieb isn't there, for a wonder. George peeps out of the window between the slats of the Venetian blinds and sees, in the far distance, the two tennis players still at their game. He coughs, fingers the telephone directory without looking at it, closes the empty drawer in his desk, which has been pulled open a little. Then, abruptly, he turns, takes his briefcase out of the closet, leaves the office and crosses to the front classroom door.
His entrance is quite undramatic according to conventional standards. Nevertheless, this is a subtly contrived, outrageously theatrical effect. No hush falls as George walks in. Most of the students go right on talking. But they are all watching him, waiting for him to give some sign, no matter how slight, that the class is to begin. The effect is a subtle but gradually increasing tension, caused by George's teasing refusal to give this sign and the students' counterdetermination not to stop talking until he gives it.
Meanwhile, he stands there. Slowly, deliberately, like a magician, he takes a single book out of his briefcase and places it on the reading desk. As he does this, his eyes move over the faces of the class. His lips curve in a faint but bold smile. Some of them smile back at him. George finds this frank confrontation extraordinarily exhilarating. He draws strength from these smiles, these bright young eyes. For him, this is one of the peak moments of the day. He feels brilliant, vital, challenging, slightly mysterious and, above all, foreign. His neat dark clothes, his white dress shirt and tie (the only tie in the room) are uncompromisingly alien from the aggressively virile informality of the young male students.»
- Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man (pdf)
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Пытаясь разобраться, что же мне так понравилось в глянцевом на вид фильме, перешла к чтению исходного материала. Роман отличный. Тема раздвоения внутреннего и внешнего человека оказалась тут центральной. И юмор едкий. Видимо, фильм каким-то образом умудрился передать дух книги, поэтому так западает (например, в романе нет впомине сцены суицида - но то, что эта сцена в фильме полна висельного юмора, как раз очень в стиле).
His entrance is quite undramatic according to conventional standards. Nevertheless, this is a subtly contrived, outrageously theatrical effect. No hush falls as George walks in. Most of the students go right on talking. But they are all watching him, waiting for him to give some sign, no matter how slight, that the class is to begin. The effect is a subtle but gradually increasing tension, caused by George's teasing refusal to give this sign and the students' counterdetermination not to stop talking until he gives it.
Meanwhile, he stands there. Slowly, deliberately, like a magician, he takes a single book out of his briefcase and places it on the reading desk. As he does this, his eyes move over the faces of the class. His lips curve in a faint but bold smile. Some of them smile back at him. George finds this frank confrontation extraordinarily exhilarating. He draws strength from these smiles, these bright young eyes. For him, this is one of the peak moments of the day. He feels brilliant, vital, challenging, slightly mysterious and, above all, foreign. His neat dark clothes, his white dress shirt and tie (the only tie in the room) are uncompromisingly alien from the aggressively virile informality of the young male students.»
- Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man (pdf)
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Пытаясь разобраться, что же мне так понравилось в глянцевом на вид фильме, перешла к чтению исходного материала. Роман отличный. Тема раздвоения внутреннего и внешнего человека оказалась тут центральной. И юмор едкий. Видимо, фильм каким-то образом умудрился передать дух книги, поэтому так западает (например, в романе нет впомине сцены суицида - но то, что эта сцена в фильме полна висельного юмора, как раз очень в стиле).
