PIECES OF ME: Stereotypes

CITAS

"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I AM Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being..."
(Emily Bronte - Whuthering Heights)
"Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours."

(Michael Cunningham - The Hours)

"You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."

(Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice)

"...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist"

(Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughter-house-five)

I have no time to describe my plans. I should say a good deal about The Hours and my discovery; how I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is that caves shall connect, and each comes to daylight at the present moment.

(Virginia Woolf's Diary, August 30^th, 1923)

"Hace veinticinco siglos, el general chino Sun Tzu escribió el primer tratado de táctica y estrategia militar. Sus sabios consejos se siguen aplicando, hoy día, en los campos de batalla y también en el mundo de los negocios, donde la sangre corre mucho más.

Entre otras cosas, el general decía:
Si eres capaz, finge incapacidad.
Si eres fuerte, exhibe debilidad.
Cuando estés cerca, simula que estás lejos.
No ataques nunca donde el enemigo es poderoso.
Evita siempre el combate que no puedas ganar.
Si estás en inferioridad de condiciones, retírate.
Si el enemigo está unido, divídelo.
Avanza cuando no te espere
Y por donde menos te espere, lanza tu ataque.
Para conocer al enemigo, conócete."

(Galeano, Eduardo. Espejos. Editorial siglo veintiuno, 2008.)

"Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—
Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!"

(Hamlet Act 1 - Scene 2)

"It sounds mad for a woman who has spent her life in the teaching profession to say so, but the truth is, I am not very good with young people. I am perfectly confident in a classroom, where the rules - regardless of whether or not they are respected- are clearly defined. But in other contexts I fin myself at loss. I cannot affect the casual, knockabout style of conversing with the younger generation that seems to be derigueur these days. I am not a casual person."

(Heller, Zoe. Notes on a Scandal. pg 108)

"One by one, I tore the pages from the notebook, crumpled them in my hand, and dropped them into a trash bien on the platform. I came to the last page just as the train was pulling out"

(Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy. The Locked Room)

"History as a discipline has always been important to society, helping us to understand who we are, where we come from, and how we have evolved – geographically, politically and culturally (...) It helps us to uncover the cultures of the past and make sense of the way things are in the present....(...)... retelling stories and even choosing which stories to tell – is not an objective exercise.”

(Valdés and Hutcheon)

"...In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
(Irving, John. The World According to Garp)

“Momentos de debilidad cualquiera los puede tener en la vida, y, si hoy pasamos sin ellos, demos cierto que los tendremos mañana…”

(Saramago, José, Las intermitencias de la muerte)

"Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs, and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (...) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension. And signs for aught we know, may be but the sympathies of nature with man."
(Bronté, Charlotte. Jane Eyre)

“The US.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where theThird World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms its hemorrages again, a lifeblood of two worlds merging to from a third country – a border culture...A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary...”
(Anzaldúa,Gloria. Borderlands/LaFrontera. P. 25)

“(…) literally for her, figuratively for the rest of us. One might add that if this is true, then not only is all fiction about fiction, but all fiction about fiction is in fact fiction about life. Some of us understood that all along.”
(Barth, The Friday Book).

"No podemos intervenir en la rotación de la Tierra", dijo Delaura.

Pero podríamos ignorarla para que no nos duela", dijo el obispo.

(Del amor y otros demonios. Gabriel García Márquez)

LIBROS

Allende, Isabel. La isla bajo el mar.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Auster, Paul. Invisible.
Auster, Paul. The Brooklyn Follies.
Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy.
Bernhard Schlink. El Lector.
Borges, Jorge Luis. El libro de Arena.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Introducción a la literatura norteamericana.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Chejov, Anton. La Gaviota.
Cook, Robin. Ceguera Mortal.
Cook, Robin. Coma.
Cook, Robin. Médico Interno.
Cook, Robin. Toxina.
Cortázar, Julio. Las armas secretas.
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours.
De Nápoli, Carlos. La eterna fórmula de la juventud.
Dotoievsky, Fedor. Los hermanos Karamázov.
Dueñas, María. El tiempo entre costuras.
Galeano, Eduardo. Espejos.
García Márquez, Gabriel. Del amor y otros demonios.
García Márquez, Gabriel. El amor en tiempos de cólera.
García Márquez, Gabriel. El General en su laberinto.
Heller, Zoë. Notes on a Scandal.
Irving, John. The World According to Garp
Kafka, Franz. El Proceso.
Lara Salive, Patricia. Las mujeres en la Guerra.
O'Donnell, Pancho. Caudillos Federales.
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. La Carta Esférica.
Saramago, José. El Hombre Duplicado.
Saramago, José. Las intermitencias de la muerte.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Smiley Jane. A Thousand Acres.
Stieg Larsson. Millenium 1. Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres.
Stieg Larsson. Millenium 2. La chica que soñaba con una cerilla y un bidón de gasolina.
Stieg Larsson. Millenium 3. La reina en el palacio de las corrientes de aire.
Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in conversation.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughter-House Five
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.

PELICULAS

"50 First Dates" - Peter Segal, 2004.
"A Good Year" - Ridley Scott, 2006
"A Lot Like Love" - Nigel Cole, 2005.
"About Schmidt" - Alexander Payne, 2002.
"Alma Mía" - Daniel Barone, 1999.
"Along Came Polly" - John Hamburg, 2004.
"American Beauty" - Sam Mendes, 1999.
"Anche Libero Va Bene" - Kim Rossi Stuart, 2006.
"Angels & Demons" - Ron Howard, 2009.
"Armageddon" - Michael Bay, 1998.
"As Good As It Gets" - James L. Brooks, 1997.
"Becoming Jane" - Julian Jarrold, 2007.
"Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis" - Dany Boon, 2008.
"Bowling for Columbine" - Michael Moore, 2002.
"Bridget Jones's Diary" - Sharon Maguire,2001.
"Captain Corelli's Mandolin" - John Madden, 2001.
"Catch Me If you Can" - Steven Spielberg, 2002.
"Chloe" - Atom Egoyan, 2009.
"Cidade de Deus" - Fernanando Meirelles, 2002.
"Closer"- Mike Nichols, 2004.
"Coach Carter " - Thomas Carter, 2005.
"December Boys" - Rod Hardy, 2007.
"Derailed" - Mikael Håfström, 2005.
"Derecho de familia" - Daniel Burman, 2006.
"Deux jours à Paris"- Julie Delpy, 2008.
"Dialogue avec mon jardinier" - Jean Becker, 2008.
"Dirty Dancing" - Emile Ardolino, 1987.
"El secreto de sus ojos" - Juan José Campanella, 2009.
"Enfin veuve" - Isabelle Mergault, 2007.
"Enough" - Michael Apted, 2002.
"Finding Nemo" - Andrew Stanton, 2003.
"Forces of Nature" - Bronwen Hughes,1999.
"Ghost Writer" - Roman Polanski, 2010.
"Good Will Hunting" - Gus Van Sant, 1997.
"Groudhog Day" - Harold Ramis, 1993.
"He's Just Not That Into You" - Ken Kwapis, 2009.
"High Fidelity" - Stephen Frears, 2000.
"Hitch" - Andy Tennant, 2005.
"Ho voglia di te" - Luis Prieto, 2007.
"How Do You Know" - James L. Brooks, 2010.
"I Am Sam" - Jessie Nelson, 2001.
"I Could Never Be Your Woman" - Amy Heckerling, 2007.
"Igualita a mi" - Diego Kaplan, 2010.
"In Her Shoes" - Curtis Hanson, 2005.
"Invictus" - Clint Eastwood, 2009.
"Ira and Abby" - Robert Cary, 2006
"It's a kind of Funny Story" - Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 2010
"It's complicated" - Nancy Meyers, 2009.
"John Q" - Nick Cassavetes, 2002.
"Juno" - Jason Reitman, 2007
"Juste une question d'amour", Christian Faure, 2000.
"L'carnacoeur" - Pascal Chaumeil,2010.
"La Tigre e la neve" - Roberto Benigni, 2005.
"Le dinner de cons" - Francis Veber, 1998.
"Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001
"Les poupées russes" - Cédric Klapisch, 2005.
"LOL (Laughing Out Loud)" - Lisa Azuelos, 2008.
"Los abrazos rotos" - Pedro Almodóvar, 2009.
"Love Actually" - Richard Curtis, 2003.
"Love and Other Drugs" - Edward Zwick, 2010.
"Love Happens" - Brandon Camp, 2009.
"Ma Vie en L'Air" - Rèmi Benzáçon, 2005.
"Mamma Mía" - Phyllida Lloyd, 2008
"Marley & Me" - David Frankel, 2008.
"Match Point" - Woody Allen, 2005.
"Midnight In Paris" - Woody Allen, 2011.
"Mine Vaganti" - Ferzan Ozpetek, 2010.
"My Sister's Keeper" - Nick Cassavetes, 2009.
"Música en espera" - Hernán A. Golfrid, 2009.
"New In Town" - Jonas Elmer, 2009.
"No Reservations" - Scott Hicks, 2007.
"Notting Hill" - Roger Michell, 1999.
"Ocean's Eleven" - Steven Soderbergh, 2001.
"One Fine Day" - Michael Hoffman, 1996.
"P.S I love You" - Richard LaGravenese, 2007.
"Paris" - Cédric Klapisch, 2008.
"París Je T'Aime" - Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, 2006.
"Phone Booth" - Joel Schumacher, 2002.
"Piso compartido" - Cédric Klapisch, 2002.
"Pretty Woman" - Garry Marshall, 1990.
"Pride & Prejudice" - Joe Wright, 2005.
"Ratatouille" - Brad Bird, 2007.
"Remember Me" - Allen Coulter, 2010.
"Ressources Humaines" - Laurent Cantet, 1999.
"River Wild" - Curtis Hanson, 1994.
"Rumor Has It..." - Rob Reiner, 2005.
"Runaway Bride" - Garry Marshall,1999.
"Rushmore" - Wes Anderson, 1999.
"Scoop" - Woody Allen, 2006.
"Shakespeare In Love" - John Madden, 1998.
"Sicko" - Michael Moore, 2007.
"Smart People" - Noam Murro, 2008.
"Something's Gotta Give" - Nancy Meyers, 2003.
"Stepmom" - Chris Columbus, 1998.
"Sunshine Cleaning" - Christine Jeffs, 2008.
"Sweet November" - Pat O'Connor, 2001
"Taxi" - Gérard Pirès, 1998.
"The Bourne Identity" - Doug Liman , 2002.
"The Bourne Supremacy" - Paul Greengrass, 2004.
"The Bourne Ultimatum" - Paul Greengrass, 2007.
"The Break Up" - Peyton Reed, 2006.
"The Bucket List" - Rob Reiner, 2007.
"The Butterfly Effect" - Eric Bress - J. Mackye Gruber, 2004.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - David Fincher, 2008.
"The Departed" - Martin Scorsese, 2006.
"The Good Guy" - Julio DePietro, 2009.
"The Holiday" - Nancy Meyers, 2006.
"The Hours" - Stephen Daldry, 2002.
"The Illusionist" - Neil Burger, 2006.
"The Invention of Lying" - Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson, 2009.
"The King's Speech" - Tom Hooper, 2010.
"The Mexican" - Gore Verbinski, 2001.
"The Object of My Affection" - Nicholas Hytner, 1998.
"The Others" - Alejandro Amenábar - 2001
"The Pianist" - Roman Polanski, 2002.
"The Pursuit of Happyness" - Gabriele Muccino, 2006.
"The Queen" - Stephen Frears, 2006.
"The Queen" - Stephen Frears, 2006.
"The Rebound" - Bart Freundlich, 2009.
"The Royal Tenembaums" - Wes Anderson, 2001.
"The Sex and the City 2" - Michael Patrick King, 2010.
"The Sex and the City" - Michael Patrick King, 2008.
"The Sweetest Thing" - Roger Kumble, 2002.
"The Ugly Truth" - Robert Luketic, 2009.
"Two Weeks Notice" - Marc Lawrence, 2002.
"Un Conte de Noel" - Arnaud Desplechin, 2008.
"Un cuento chino" - Sebastián Borensztein, 2011.
"Vainilla Sky" - Crowe Cameron, 2001.
"Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona" - Woody Allen, 2008.
"Volver" - Pedro Almodovar, 2006.
"What Happens in Vegas" - Tom Vaughan, 2008.
"What Women Want" - Nancy Meyers, 2000.
"When Sally Met Harry" - Rob Reiner, 1989.
"World Trade Center" - Oliver Stone, 2006.
"You, Me and Dupree" - Anthony Russo, 2006.

17 nov 2009

Stereotypes