#eng notes

having a studyblr is weird because you are both the audience and the supplier

«I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there»

“How does one become Eisenstein?” his students asked. He offered several explanations. First: philosophy, like cocaine, kills joy but releases from pain. Second: the legend of a warrior who saves all his strength for a future deed and suffers humiliation in the meantime: Third: George Bernard Shaw’s Soldier, which cooled his youthful bent for pathos with irony. “And then I spent my whole life with screen ‘canvases’ in the heroic style!”

"It is the first film where I gave up the Eisenstein touch. Conflict had also a hand in it for sure! This is not the only case! The Novgorod bridge as reel — You ought to be ashamed of Your self, dear Master of Art!" Eisenstein on "Alexander Nevsky" in his diary, 1939.

"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste" "My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything" "Taste has no system and no proofs. But there is something like a logic of taste: the consistent sensibility which underlies and gives rise to a certain taste. A sensibility is almost, but not quite, ineffable. Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer a sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea . . ." "После трёх месяцев безмолвия в пустыне речь — это очень физический акт. (Как долго она остается таковым?)" “What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine” "Французская революция, подобно Везувию, была явлением уникальным. В то же время извержение вулкана — нечто постоянное. Везувий извергался, извергается и будет извергаться: повторяемость и постоянство природы. Французская революция, напротив, — событие беспрецедентное и повториться не может. Так, исторические силы приравнивались к силам природным, что и успокаивало, и сбивало с толку, ибо подразумевало: даже если это лишь начало эпохи революций, революция, как и все остальное, пройдет" "Если вы считаете, что эпоха, в которую вы живёте, находится под гнётом пустых, лицемерных формальностей, то вы ныряете в спонтанность или даже бросаете вызов обществу своим поведением... Нравственность, во многом, это попытка компенсировать недостатки своего века. В "неприличное" время человек обращается к старомодным добродетелям. В эпоху, выхолощенную условностями, необходимо учиться спонтанности" Susan Sontag //

«Belonging to a generation involves more than proximity of dates of birth. As Karl Mannheim, a German sociologist, wrote in 1928, a meaningful generation is also forged by the common experience of a trauma that becomes central to its identity. Contemporaries become a generation, he argued, only when “they are potentially capable of being sucked into the vortex of social change.”»