/lit/ - Literature

>>1638395

it's okay. i don't look like that anymore.

>>1638396

I didn't steal it, but it was a source of inspiration. I borrowed a lot from romanticism, though.

>>1638368

doesn't matter and I don't go to school

I teach myself things I want to learn. I know I lack the qualifications to do anything outside of some shitty fast food job but I'm okay with that. Not like I'm gonna live to see 35 anyways.

>>1638374

No.

I don't have any recent pics of me(kinda want to stay anonymous these days) but I can show you how I looked like as a teenager.

>>1638358

I have muscles, I'm 5'8", latino, jet black surfer hair, brown eyes that look black, and i have a beauty mark on my cheek

>>1638359

Not very long, but I'm not even sure I could manage to film it. I'm content keeping it a story in the event I can't.

>>1638352

Yeah. That's what Note From Underground essentially was, right? I'm still grappling with some of the ideas I want to use.

>>1638339

Young man who fancies himself a romantic hero laments the lack of depth and warmth in modern relationships. Environment will play a huge role in the direction - ie, the suffocating and alienating nature of the city contrasts with the openness and beauty of nature and this is established in the opening shots.

the stories the protagonist will talk about will be lifted largely from my own life. I'm not saying my problems are unique or the greatest pain imaginable, but I've always been interested in the human condition and how he lives and I want people to relate to that.

>>1638321

Well, marxism and socialism were a bit of a dead-end for me. In my teenage years I was committed to justice and equality, but those words are empty to me now. Working with those people...it demoralized me to the point where I didn't care about anybody but myself, which is contradictory to that goal.

The lack of understanding and cliquish nature of the left is mind blowing. They may have leftist rhetoric but they are just as cutthroat and hateful and spiteful as their perceived enemies, only they coat it with upright moral posturing.

>>1638324

I'm currently drafting up a short story I hope to translate to film. I'll probably talk about it sooner or later. I feel comfortable posting the story here, but that will have to wait.

>>1638317

I don't go to film school. I like what I like.

To be truthful, I think Vivre Sa Vie was better than Pierrot Le Fou. I like Une Femme because it was quirky and original and I liked that.

>>1638299

I did read Marx before aristotle. While I like marx, I think it was his earlier work that I enjoyed, before the scientific socialism brouhaha. I like Engels more, though.

And Lenin wrote some interesting stuff. I really liked State and Revolution. Stalin wasn't much of an ideologue.

But that's beside the point...I'm not a socialist, so don't paint me as one.

>>1638270

Godard, I'd say Une Femme Est Une Femme. Kurosawa, I'd say Yojimbo.

To be honest, I wouldn't be able to name 20 or 30 directors I could say I look up to. Maybe Dreyer(Leaves from Satan's Book), Fritz Lang(Metropolis - duh), Reitman just because he made enjoyable and fun movies, Woody Allen(Love and Death and Annie Hall), Welles(The Trial)...

>>1638254

Godard, Kurosawa, Bergman
not necessarily in that order

>>1638246

I also have a book of Mao's poetry and articles.

You should check out Ba Jin, he really had a flair for creating likable characters. I could relate to the brothers in Family quite a bit.

>>1638234

blah blah young hegelians, turn hegel upright, blah blah

>>1638227

Ba Jin, if he counts. I really enjoyed Family and the message he was conveying.

>>1638222

Do I really have to? I read philosophy with a clear mind and no preconceptions.

>>1638191

Don't know, sorry.

Tell me, why should I leave? I enjoy classic literature, so what. When you can give me authors who aren't quick to sell the material to make a movie, or have something of worth, call me.

'Authors' these days churn out books every year...I see them lined up on the walls of wal-mart all the time. Everybody reads your crap but nobody is willing to read the classics unless Oprah says so. I'll tolerate that shame, though.

>>1638154

I also read The Da Vinci Code. I'm sure there good books out there, but it all comes down to preference. I prefer classic literature.

>>1638123

I'm into punk and 90's emo.

>>1638117

I'll look into it, but I'll be honest here: I haven't found any enjoyment in literature published after 1960. The last modern book I read was Running With Scissors, and although it was decent in the mildest sense of the word, it wasn't something I'd read again.

leave the politics for the kids. us enlightened folk are above it.

>>1638065

>Yeah, my trip seems to incite ungodly amounts of hatred. It's all just tongue-in-cheek, though, so I don't understand why people are quick to insult me about it.

>>1638046

I'm not too keen on modern literature. Goethe spent a good deal of his life writing Faust...the same can't be said for stephen king or palahnuik.

I'm one of the better posters on /tv/ and that's in spite of my limited knowledge of cinema. Expect me to shift the attitude a bit down here.

>>1637908

My favorite work from Dostoevsky is White Nights, which he wrote while he was a socialist. I'm not so insipid as to dislike somebody because they believe in god...if anything, the reasons behind dostoevsky's 'conversion' was tragic.

Also, I'd say I love french culture and literature more, if anything. I don't read Kropotkin or Lenin for the literary merit, but I wouldn't say the same for Flaubert or Hugo.

>>1637891

>>/tv/15103219

>>1637765

Yeah, my trip seems to incite ungodly amounts of hatred. It's all just tongue-in-cheek, though, so I don't understand why people are quick to insult me about it.

ello, /lit/. I'm a transplant from /tv/. I decided to move to this board because I know more about literature than I do cinema. Although I am an aspiring filmmaker, it was impossible to discuss any of it at length because the board revolves around posting pictures of young female celebrities and trolling.

My favorite authors are Goethe, Byron, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Stendhal. My favorite philosophers are Kropotkin, Stirner, Marx & Engels and Aristotle.

All things are nothing to me.

>>1609837

Well, Stirner followed his own philosophy until he died...his wife - the one he dedicated the book to - left him, and he was pretty poor.