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icism and marxism were still newlyweds on honeymoon this is suddenly clear in roland barthes cinema by phillip watts an essential film book from 2016 containing roughly nine previously untranslated articles along with commentary by watts of a combative didactic barthes tending to the cinema of his day and its problems cinemascope guitry s royal affairs in versailles chabrol s le beau serge new leftist criticism published in positif reaction etc at one point in roland barthes cinema watts quietly footnotes a shameless statement from kazan on his services rendered to reaction using essentially the same words that orson welles later used as pure denunciation to loudly definitively and irrevocably condemn kazan in front of a large audience at the cinémathèque française in 1981 in fact the footnote is from kazan s own autobiography when brando at the end yells at lee cobb the mob boss i m glad what i done you hear me glad what i done that was me saying with identical heat that i was glad i d testified as i had so when critics say that i put my story and my feelings on the screen to justify my informing to the house un american activities committee they are right kazan is less interesting than the fantastic phrase identical heat which he uses here if you are interested in cinema no need to check or re check his work as he s already been served to you in umpteenth dishes and regurgitations instead go see or see again abraham polonsky and john garfield s force of evil 1948 a real foil to on the waterfront s operatic dishonesty as lindsay anderson succinctly put it a sympathetic worker was originally published in 1955 in les lettres nouvelles under the title comment démystifier how to demystify and was re titled by barthes for mythologies important t hroughout the original essay barthes misspells kazan as cazan ar a sympathetic worker by roland barthes c azan s film on the waterfront is a good example of mystification it concerns as you doubtless know a handsome indolent slightly brutal longshoreman marlon brando whose consciousness is gradually awakened to love and to the church in the form of a shock priest spellman style since this awakening coincides with the elimination of a fraudulent and abusive union and appears to involve the longshoremen in resisting their exploiters some viewers have supposed we ve been shown a courageous film a leftist film determined to reveal the worker s problem to the american public actually we are dealing once again with that truth vaccine whose very modern mechanism i have indicated apropos of other american films a small gang of mobsters is made to symbolize the entire body of employers and once this minor disorder is acknowledged and dealt with like a trivial and disgraceful pustule the real problem is evaded is never even named and is thereby exorcised yet it is sufficient to describe objectively the roles in cazan s film to establish its mystifying power beyond a doubt the proletariat here is constituted by a group of weaklings submitting to a servitude they clearly recognize but lack the courage to shake off the capitalist state is identical with absolute justice and is the only possible recourse against the crime of exploitation if the worker can make contact with the state for instance by communicating with the police and its investigative agencies he is saved as for the church in its phony modernist guise it is merely a mediating power between the worker s constitutive poverty and the boss state s paternal power ultimately moreover this minor irritation of justice and conscience is soon resolved in the grand stability of a beneficent order in which the workers resume their labor the bosses fold their arms and the priests bless both sides in their manifestly just functions it is the ending however which betrays the film at the very moment when many supposed cazan had cunningly insinuated his progressivism in the very last sequence we see brando by a superhuman effort managing to present himself as a conscientious good worker to the boss waiting to meet with him now this boss is obviously a caricature and the audience murmurs see how cazan has managed to ridicule the capitalists here or nowhere is the occasion to apply the demystification method proposed by brecht and to examine the consequences of the attachment we feel for the film s main character it is obvious that brando is our positive hero to whom despite his faults the public gives its heart according to that participation phenomenon without which in general we are reluctant to consider any entertainment possible when this hero all the greater for having rediscovered his conscience and his courage exhausted injured yet still tenacious heads for the boss who will give him work our communion knows no bounds we identify ourselves totally and unhesitatingly with this new christ and participate unreservedly in his calvary yet brando s painful assumption actually conduces to the passive acknowledgment of the eternal boss what is orchestrated for us here despite all the caricatures is the restoration of order with brando with the longshoremen with all the workers of america we put ourselves with a sense of victory and relief back in the boss s hands which it serves no further purpose to portray as tainted we have long since been snared in a fatal communion with this longshoreman who discovers a sense of social justice only to bestow it as a homage to american capital as we see it is the participational nature of this scene which objectively makes it an episode of mystification trained to love brando from the start we can no longer at any point criticize him or even admit we are conscious of his objective stupidity now it is precisely against the danger of such mechanisms that brecht proposed his method of alienation brecht would have asked brando to show his naiveté to make us understand that despite all the sympathy we may feel for his misfortunes it is still more important that we see their causes and their remedies we can sum up cazan s mistake by saying that what should have been judged was much less the capitalist than brando himself for there is much more to expect from the rebellion of victims than from the caricature of their executioners the hollywood movie industry had become such a maze of interlocked labor unions that jurisdictional disputes were inevitable in september 1946 a jurisdictional dispute led to one of the most violent strikes in west coast history pickets numbered in the hundreds and frequently engaged in battles with the police during one of the bitterest of these cars were overturned and the officer above wounded a fellow deputy sheriff held the mob at gun point while rescuers removed the injured man u s camera 1947 photo frank filan 1 24 pm no comments may 1 2025 citizens care for us true indeed they ne er cared for us yet suffer us to famish and their storehouses crammed with grain make edicts for usury to support usurers repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor if the wars eat us not up they will and there s all the love they bear us menenius friend to noble roman coriolanus either you must confess yourselves wondrous malicious or be accus d of folly i shall tell you a pretty tale it may be you have heard it but since it serves my purpose i will venture to stale t a little more citizens well i ll hear it sir yet you must not think to fob off our disgrace with a tale but an t please you deliver menenius there was a time when all the body s members rebell d against the belly thus accus d it that only like a gulf did remain i the midst o the body idle and unactive still cupboarding the viand never bearing like labour with the rest where the other instruments did see and hear devise instruct walk feel and mutually participate did minister unto the appetite and affection common of the whole body the belly answered citizens well sir what answer made the belly menenius sir i shall tell you with a kind of smile which ne er came from the lungs but even thus for look you i may make the belly smile as well as speak it tauntingly replied to the discontented members the mutinous parts that envied his receipt even so most fitly as you malign our senators for that they are not such as you citizens your belly s answer what the kingly crowned head the vigilant eye the counsellor heart the arm our soldier our steed the leg the tongue our trumpeter with other muniments and petty helps in this our fabric if that they menenius what then fore me this fellow speaks what then what then citizens should by the cormorant belly be restrain d who is the sink o the body menenius well what then citizens the former agents if they did complain what could the belly answer menenius i will tell you if you ll bestow a small of what you have little patience awhile you ll hear the belly s answer citizen ye re long about it menenius note me this good friend your most grave belly was deliberate not rash like his accusers and thus answer d true is it my incorporate friends quoth he that i receive the general food at first which you do live upon and fit it is because i am the store house and the shop of the whole body but if you do remember i send it through the rivers of your blood even to the court the heart to the seat o the brain and through the cranks and offices of man the strongest nerves and small inferior veins from me receive that natural competency whereby they live and though that all at once you my good friends this says the belly mark me citizen ay sir well well menenius though all at once cannot see what i do deliver out to each yet i can make my audit up that all from me do back receive the flour of all and leave me but the bran what say you to t citizens it was an answer how apply you this menenius the senators of rome are this good belly and you the mutinous members for examine their counsels and their cares digest things rightly touching the weal o the common you shall find no public benefit which you receive but it proceeds or comes from them to you and no way from yourselves what do you think you the great toe of this assembly citizens i the great toe why the great toe menenius for that being one o the lowest basest poorest of this most wise rebellion thou go st foremost thou rascal that art worst in blood to run lead st first to win some vantage but make you ready your stiff bats and clubs rome and her rats are at the point of battle the one side must have bale american teeth bramkamp the acting of the american christine whittlesey is especially interesting as an enlargement on how you re working with gestures and expressive means this irradiates also backwards and opens another possibility to perceive your earlier films regarding the end of paris texas you once critically remarked that nastassja kinski far too often played with her hair straub like this gestures shoving his hair back repeatedly she s doing this 10 times bramkamp you only said that something is wrong it seems to me that the acting of christine whittlesey is near to this question of mimetic repetitions she fully opens her eyes closes them and lets a smile follow then she repeats this sequence almost like a ballet until one recognizes there is a rule to this mimic but at the same time she s playing with the features of american expressivity now something strange is happening when this mimicking goes together with the music and her simultaneous singing in front of the camera straub these are repetitions which are structured and not happening arbitrarily precisely as she s american we reached this and that s why we tried it we wouldn t have tried it with a european vocalist bramkamp because she already had the training straub nods and as for example she likes so much showing her teeth that s how we always bantered with her during the work we told her now here you wouldn t show your teeth all the time but only here and there and so on now when are walking in the street and we see certain women in their cars i m always saying to danièle again another one who likes so much showing her teeth interview they died cried and snorted in colors now all that s left is the image past may day dedications to danièle huillet on kino slang 2007 examine caesars 2008 song of two humans but 2009 this land is mine 2010 men without women 2011 freedom 2012 small grasses 2013 that s just what we intend 2014 the lizards 2015 no post misery 2016 complete animals 2017 huillet at work interview 2017 venez m aider plus duras on othon 2018 straub huillet talking interview 2019 born may 1st 2020 we caught a political conscience like one catches chickenpox 2021 may night 2022 progress away from the bulk of humanity 2023 dialectical at every second unpublished interview with straub huillet by j hughes b krohn 1975 2024 no appeasement palestine eyes do not want to close at all times 5 58 am no comments older posts 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