Sätze, die die Klammer bilden

[David_Aames80]

Beim Schreiben eines Buches, heißt es, ist der erste Satz unheimlich wichtig. Er kann schon entscheiden, ob der Leser gepackt wird oder ob er den Roman sofort wieder aus der Hand legt. Ich finde: der letzte Satz ist mindestens genauso wichtig. Zwar kann es dem Autor nach der gerade erwähnten Logik im Prinzip egal sein, wie er beim Leser ankommt, weil es relativ wahrscheinlich ist, dass dieser das Buch danach weglegt, egal ob ihm der letzte Satz gefallen hat oder nicht. Doch natürlich ist es dem Autor nicht egal. Weil dieser letzte Satz den Raum schafft für das, was nach der Lektüre kommt: die geistige und emotionale Auseinandersetzung mit dem eben Erlebten. Der erste und der letzte Satz eines Buches bilden die Klammer, die viel über das Dazwischen aussagen können.

Ich hatte die Idee, daraus ein Topic für Filme zu machen. Gute Idee? Dann füllt es mir Leben. Vielleicht motiviert es den einen oder anderen zur Wiederauffrischung oder zur Erstsichtung. Schlechte Idee? Dann lasst es runterrutschen. Ich mache den Anfang, mit einem zugegebenermaßen nicht unbedingt herausragenden Beispiel. Aber es war der Film, der mich auf die Idee brachte: Witness of the Prosecution (Zeugin der Anklage)

"Silence. All persons who have anything to do before my Lords the King's Justices of Oyer and Terminer, and general gaol delivery for the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court, draw near and give your attendance. God save the Queen"
...
"Sir Wilfrid, you've forgotten your brandy!"

P.S.: Ja, ich weiß. Der erste Satz ist kein Satz, sondern drei Sätze. Aber wir wollen doch nicht so genau sein, oder?

[Harvey Dent]

Nennt mich Ismael.

[Tet]

"Ich war geheilt… All Right!"

Klassiker.

"I can't let this go. I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things - those things about how stupid you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?" (Claudia smiles)

Eine meiner Lieblingsszenen generell, wobei ihr Lächeln hier das beste ist.

[Danwalker]

When you love someone, you've gotta trust them.

And that's that.

Ich liebe "Casino".

[Thomas S.]

Cooles Thema, ich glaub Into the Wild passt ganz gut ins Schema.

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more."

"What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?"

[thomasbond]

Wie wäre es mit There Will Be Blood:

"I'm finished"

[soulassassin]

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."

Legendär!

"What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, was tending the light at the end of the tunnel. There was only one road back to L.A. - U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity. Just another freak, in the freak kingdom."

----------------------------------------------------------------------

"Mr. Dufresne, describe the confrontation you had with your wife the night that she was murdered."

...

"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."

[soulassassin]

"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot..."

...

"He was Edmond Dantés... and he was my father. And my mother... my brother... my friend. He was you... and me. He was all of us. ... No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me."

[Tet]

Da fällt mir ein:

Beginning: Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.
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Ending: So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's going to change, I'm going to change. This is the last of this sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the day you die.

Beste.

[Tet]

What was that?
- Der Captain