The auteur is dead, says Jean-Luc Godard. The future is cut-and-paste movie mashups. Fiachra Gibbons meets the great contrarian – and leaves carrying his latest script
• Nine of the best: Xan Brooks picks his Godard favourites
Jean-Luc Godard has a solution to Europe's financial crisis. It's as simple and ingenious as one would expect from the man who, with all the young guns of the Nouvelle Vague, freed cinema from its studio straitjacket in the 1960s. "The Greeks gave us logic. We owe them for that. It was Aristotle who came up with the big 'therefore'. As in, 'You don't love me any more, therefore . . . ' Or, 'I found you in bed with another man, therefore . . . ' We use this word millions of times, to make our most important decisions. It's about time we started paying for it.
"If every time we use the word therefore, we have to pay 10 euros to Greece,...
• Nine of the best: Xan Brooks picks his Godard favourites
Jean-Luc Godard has a solution to Europe's financial crisis. It's as simple and ingenious as one would expect from the man who, with all the young guns of the Nouvelle Vague, freed cinema from its studio straitjacket in the 1960s. "The Greeks gave us logic. We owe them for that. It was Aristotle who came up with the big 'therefore'. As in, 'You don't love me any more, therefore . . . ' Or, 'I found you in bed with another man, therefore . . . ' We use this word millions of times, to make our most important decisions. It's about time we started paying for it.
"If every time we use the word therefore, we have to pay 10 euros to Greece,...
- 7/13/2011
- by Fiachra Gibbons
- The Guardian - Film News
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