Explosive Redemption. Elia Kazan. On the Waterfront

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Explosive Redemption

Elia Kazan

On the Waterfront

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 1

Cinéma 1

Ch IX.

The Action-Image: The Large Form

L'image-action : La grande forme

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Kazan and the Actor's Studio

Kazan et l'Actors Studio

On the Waterfront abundantly develops this theology: if I don't betray others, I betray myself and I betray justice. One has to go through many dirty permeating situations, and through many humiliating explosions, in order to catch a glimpse through them of the impression which cleanses us and the detonation which saves or pardons us. [Deleuze, Cinema 1, 1986:161d]

« Sur les quais » développe abondamment cette théologie : si je ne trahis pas les autres, je me trahis moi-même et je trahis la justice. Il faut passer par beaucoup de sales situations imprégnantes, et par beaucoup d'explosions honteuses, pour entrevoir à travers elles l'empreinte qui nous lave et la détonation qui nous sauve ou nous pardonne. [Deleuze Cinéma 1, 1985:216-217]

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image.Transl. Hugh Tomlinson & Barbara Habberjam, London: Continuum, 1986

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 1: L'image-mouvement. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1983.

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http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Le-Ma/Malden-Karl.html