“[You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground.] Like so.”
—Paul Auster, from Mr. Vertigo (thank you, laura-changeling)
“Bir şeyin eksikliğini çekerken durup dinlenmeden onu arzularsınız ; ah bir sahip olsaydım ona diye düşünürsünüz, bütün sorunlarım çözülürdü. Ama bir de ona sahip olunca, arzuladığınız size verilince, bütün çekiciliğini yitirmeye başlar. Başka gereksinimler öne çıkar, başka istekler kendini hissettirir, sonunda başladığınız yere dönmüş olduğunuzu yavaş yavaş anlarsınız...”
—Paul Auster- Mr. Vertigo“Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us—every man, woman, and child—and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of…the feat….You must learn to stop being yourself. That’s where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. That’s how it’s done. The emptiness inside your body grows lighter than the air around you. Little by little, you begin to weigh less than nothing. You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground. Like so.”
—Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo“Non c’è nessun altro progetto in ballo che potrebbe concretizzarsi prima? Sì, c’è la possibilità di portare su grande schermo Mr Vertigo tratto dal libro di Paul Auster. Siamo in contatto e ci siamo già visti a New York per parlare un po’ della sceneggiatura a cui lui sta lavorando. E’ una bella idea, ma non so ancora quando e se la girerò. I prossimi mesi saranno fondamentali per capire.”
—OH. MY. GOD!
“Deep down, I don’t believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us—every man, woman, and child—and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of…the feat….You must learn to stop being yourself. That’s where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. That’s how it’s done. The emptiness inside your body grows lighter than the air around you. Little by little, you begin to weigh less than nothing. You shut your eyes; you spread your arms; you let yourself evaporate. And then, little by little, you lift yourself off the ground. Like so.”
—Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
“So I let him bury me alive—an experience I would not recommend to anyone. Distasteful as the idea sounds, the actual incarceration is far worse, and once you’ve spent some time in the bowels of netherness as I did that day, the world can never look the same to you again. It becomes inexpressibly more beautiful, and yet that beauty is drenched in a light so transient, so unreal, that it never takes on any substance, and even though you can see it and touch it as you always did, a part of you understands that it is no more than a mirage. Feeling the dirt on top of you is one thing, the pressure and the coldness of it, the panic of deathlike immobility, but the true terror doesn’t begin until later, until after you’ve been unburied and can stand up and walk again. From then on, everything that happens to you on the surface is connected to those hours you spent underground. A little seed of craziness has been planted in your head, and even though you’ve won the struggle to survive, nearly everything else has been lost. Death lives inside you, eating away at your innocence and your hope, and in the end you’re left with nothing but the dirt, the solidity of the dirt, the everlasting power and triumph of the dirt.” ”
—Walter Claireborne Rawley, Mr. Vertigo
I DREAD HIM MAKING THIS...Terry Gilliam scripting Paul Auster's Mr. Vertigo
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This is one of my favorite and most beloved books I have ever read. The entire time reading, I continuously was telling myself how it was already perfectly cinematic as if every description was in letterbox. A simple yet fantastical story set in a classic period of America. I even dreamed of this being my first film project to ever produce after breaking in as a successful actor.
Therefore, as much as I love Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys I cannot look past his recent movie plunders; The Brothers Grim, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and especially Tideland which if you watched it on DVD, Gilliam himself in a brief video foreword informed the viewer if you do not like his film that it only meant that you didn’t get it…rrright. The movie that followed was terrible.
I don’t want this story tinkered with by a loose cannon auteur that seems to have a blotted ego about his ideas more so than an actual well formed and precise vision for his storytelling.
I still dream of producing this movie one day yet understand that dreams don’t always come true-especially when you’re a nobody in the industry of entertainment and you don’t own the rights to the material.
I will not wish failure on Terry Gilliam in the ways of his The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Perhaps I am wrong and this venture will be his return to great storytelling however until he himself and his script prove me wrong I will doubt and dream of making this movie myself and getting a director such as Andrew Dominik to helm the magic that is Mr. Vertigo.
