#leconte

[hayaomiyazaki]

Luck is a matter of life and death, or didn't you know?

a film from each year of my life: Girl on the Bridge • La Fille sur le pont — 1999 dir. Patrice Leconte

[detournementsmineurs]

Jean Rochefort et Charles Berling dans “Ridicule” de Patrice Leconte (1996), septembre 2023.

[astredempouck]

L’ennemi, Charles Baudelaire

Ma jeunesse ne fut qu’un ténébreux orage, Traversé çà et là par de brillants soleils ; Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage, Qu’il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils. Voilà que j’ai touché l’automne des idées, Et qu’il faut employer la pelle et les râteaux Pour rassembler à neuf les terres inondées, Où l’eau creuse des trous grands comme des tombeaux. Et qui sait si les…

[kramlabs]

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: LeConte's Thrasher

Photo: Tony Morris

"As pale as desert sand is this wraith of the arid saltbush flats. It seldom flies unless closely pressed, instead running about with great speed on the open ground, its tail cocked up above its back. For many years after its discovery, Le Conte's Thrasher was considered a rare bird, because it lives in desert so barren and forbidding that few people would have thought to seek birds there."

- Audubon Field Guide

[mtonino]

Monsieur Hire (1989) Patrice Leconte

[sesiondemadrugada]

The Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte, 1999).

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

Photo source

Map source

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Tom Killion

Junipers above LeConte Canyon

2023

[van26]

Suicide shop rant

For how much I love to criticise the movie for how it changed the original story ( in a lot of aspects making it worse) it did fix one of the biggest issues from the book.

"What is causing mìshima's issues to then spiral into murder?"

In the original book it made no sense why the thought of selling bad products would cause him to be bedbound, even during the scene where he's reflecting on his life we never get the single thought of him hurting his son ( at least that he acknowledges consciously), he instead considers the error of sending him to the camp in Monaco.

The attempted murder scene therefore comes out of nowhere, sure he thought about Alan's disaster and could have felt rage but we see previously that the thought of Alan actually dieing causes him pain ( as it should, that's your son), there is no mention of him possibly having issues that would alter his behaviour to cause this attempt "out of nowhere"

The movie instead shows mishima bending the rules ( of which he's obsessed with following) for a client that couldn't physically go to get the products and by doing so he ends up getting to know monsieur calmel, seeing his life before this moment thanks to the pictures and then being there for his death, mishima visually sees what he has done, he sees that the rules that he was thought to follow and that has followed for years have caused on people, he now sees himself as a murderer that can only cry while seeing his victims.

This causes him to question his morality in an amazing duet with Lucrèce who feels in a similar manner the guilt of their job, said questioning that leads him to despise Alan even more, Alan has been talking for years about the joy of life and how we should "all be happy" which causes mishima, at least for now, to associate Alan with the reason behind his sudden regret, he imagines killing him due to hallucinations but even outside of them thinking about killing him, slowly loosing his mind and attempting suicide.

After going to a therapist he gets diagnosed with schizophrenia and being bedbound, we see his mind and how he's feeling, we see how he can see what the shop does but he inconsciously associates his guilt on Alan.

The murder attempt is the pinnacle of his depravity, what should have destroyed his guilt, but when he thinks Alan died he feels even more of a murderer and physically not being able to even stand up, he finally realised what caused his guilt, not Alan but the shop.

For how much I dislike the ending it makes sense why he allows the shop to get closed, for how much he's still selling cyanide crepés against his wishes in secret he now acknowledges where his guilt is from, now he doesn't feel this hatred towards Alan ( he's still a terrible dad but it's improvement at least)

The movie did so much wrong with the story but this change improved the plot by far and made mìshima's rage more logical for the character.

But what do you guys think? Sorry for any spelling errors I'm dyslexic as hell

[speakingofnature]

LeConte's Sparrow

The LeConte's Sparrow is a seldom-seen, uncommon migrant only found in Iowa during migration. It was a pleasure to find this one today.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Leconte's hapola moth.

(Photo: Ducks Unlimited Canada)

[detournementsmineurs]

“Ridicule” de Patrice Leconte (1996) avec Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Giraudeau, Carlo Brandt, Bernard Dhéran, Jacques Mathou, Albert Delpy, Urbain Cancelier et Mirabelle Kirkland, septembre 2023.

[astredempouck]

Correspondances, Charles Baudelaire

La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles ; L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers. Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent. Il est des parfums frais comme des…

[kramlabs]

11 years ago on Leconte:

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The Girl on the Bridge (La Fille sur le pont) (Girl on the Bridge) (1999) Patrice Leconte

July 1st 2024