The Third Woman
22 September 2005 @ 17:48
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I was thinking about this yesterday, that perhaps one reason I found unemployment so hard was that I have always been good at what I do, always been able to float around and feel just that little bit superior. I suppose I always wanted to be Orson Welles - almost a genius in my field but, oh, just that little bit arrogant. More specifically I wanted to be - a somewhat less evil - Harry Lime. I mean, how can you top ‘Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgia’s they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.’ Just imagine it: coming out with those lines, commanding the whole film for a few minutes of screen time, have someone love you so much that they walk past - totally blanking - the good guy. Sadly, I have the arrogance, but not the genius! |
