This week ChessBase news has directed its readers to two short chess films at Atom films. Both use chess as a vehicle for exploring male/female relationships.
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Bergman's Seventh Seal: Death plays Black
From internet move database:
Quotes from The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection:
Antonius Block: I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre. I shall try to remember our talk. I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.
Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you!
Death: Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.
In response to Death coming for him.
Jonas Skat: Is there no exemption for actors?
Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.
Jöns: Love is the blackest of all plagues... if one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love, but you don't die of it.
Antonius Block: I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.
Antonius Block: Who are you?
Death: I am Death.
Antonius Block: Have you come for me?
Death: I have long walked by your side.
Antonius Block: I know.
Death: Are you prepared?
Antonius Block: My body is frightened, but I am not.
Antonius Block: Have you met the devil? I want to meet him too.
Witch: Why do you want to do that?
Antonius Block: I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone.
Jöns: Who will take care of that child. God, the devil, the nothingness? The nothingness, perhaps?
Antonius Block: It can't be so!
Death: Don't you ever stop asking?
Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
Death: But you're not getting an answer.
Death approaches Antonius Block
Antonius Block: Wait a moment.
Death: You all say that. But I grant no reprieves.
Antonius Block lets Death choose which chess pieces to play
Antonius Block: You drew black.
Death: Appropriate, don't you think?
The church painter explains why he is painting a mural about death
Church Painter: Why should one always make people happy? It might be a good idea to scare them once in a while.
Jöns: Then they'll close their eyes and refuse to look.
Church Painter: They'll look. A skull is more interesting than a naked woman.
Jöns: If you do scare them...
Church Painter: Then they think.
Jöns: And then?
Church Painter: They'll become more scared.
Jöns: Do you have any brandy? I've had nothing but water. It's made me as thirsty as a camel in the desert.
Jöns: Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up.
Mia: You don't look so happy.
Antonius Block: No.
Mia: Are you tired?
Antonius Block: Yes. I have boring company.
Mia: You mean your squire?
Antonius Block: No, not him.
Mia: Who do you mean, then?
Antonius Block: Myself.
Antonius Block: Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.
Jöns: Love is as contagious as a cold. It eats away at your strength, morale... If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection.
Blacksmith Plog: You're happy, you with your oily words. You believe your own drivel.
Jöns: Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice.
Jonas Skat: Kill me. I'll thank you afterwards.
Blacksmith Plog: Jons, between you and me, isn't life a dirty mess?
Jöns: Yes, but don't think of that now.
Blacksmith Plog: It's what you make it.
Jonas Skat is in a tree which Death is cutting down
Jonas Skat: Hey, you scurvy knave, what are you doing with my tree? You might at least answer. Who are you?
Death: I'm felling your tree. Your time is up.
Jonas Skat: You can't. I haven't time.
Death: So you haven't time?
Jonas Skat: No. My performance...
Death: Cancelled... because of Death.
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Quotes from The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection:
Antonius Block: I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre. I shall try to remember our talk. I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.
Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you!
Death: Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.
In response to Death coming for him.
Jonas Skat: Is there no exemption for actors?
Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.
Jöns: Love is the blackest of all plagues... if one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love, but you don't die of it.
Antonius Block: I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.
Antonius Block: Who are you?
Death: I am Death.
Antonius Block: Have you come for me?
Death: I have long walked by your side.
Antonius Block: I know.
Death: Are you prepared?
Antonius Block: My body is frightened, but I am not.
Antonius Block: Have you met the devil? I want to meet him too.
Witch: Why do you want to do that?
Antonius Block: I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone.
Jöns: Who will take care of that child. God, the devil, the nothingness? The nothingness, perhaps?
Antonius Block: It can't be so!
Death: Don't you ever stop asking?
Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
Death: But you're not getting an answer.
Death approaches Antonius Block
Antonius Block: Wait a moment.
Death: You all say that. But I grant no reprieves.
Antonius Block lets Death choose which chess pieces to play
Antonius Block: You drew black.
Death: Appropriate, don't you think?
The church painter explains why he is painting a mural about death
Church Painter: Why should one always make people happy? It might be a good idea to scare them once in a while.
Jöns: Then they'll close their eyes and refuse to look.
Church Painter: They'll look. A skull is more interesting than a naked woman.
Jöns: If you do scare them...
Church Painter: Then they think.
Jöns: And then?
Church Painter: They'll become more scared.
Jöns: Do you have any brandy? I've had nothing but water. It's made me as thirsty as a camel in the desert.
Jöns: Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up.
Mia: You don't look so happy.
Antonius Block: No.
Mia: Are you tired?
Antonius Block: Yes. I have boring company.
Mia: You mean your squire?
Antonius Block: No, not him.
Mia: Who do you mean, then?
Antonius Block: Myself.
Antonius Block: Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.
Jöns: Love is as contagious as a cold. It eats away at your strength, morale... If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection.
Blacksmith Plog: You're happy, you with your oily words. You believe your own drivel.
Jöns: Believe it? Who said? But I love to give pieces of advice.
Jonas Skat: Kill me. I'll thank you afterwards.
Blacksmith Plog: Jons, between you and me, isn't life a dirty mess?
Jöns: Yes, but don't think of that now.
Blacksmith Plog: It's what you make it.
Jonas Skat is in a tree which Death is cutting down
Jonas Skat: Hey, you scurvy knave, what are you doing with my tree? You might at least answer. Who are you?
Death: I'm felling your tree. Your time is up.
Jonas Skat: You can't. I haven't time.
Death: So you haven't time?
Jonas Skat: No. My performance...
Death: Cancelled... because of Death.
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Re: chess in cinema
Both of those short movies were unbelievably bad. Very weak plots, predictable, horribly over-acted productions with no *suspension of disbelief* factor to keep a someone who actually knows something about chess interested. It is clear that Luis Camara Silva & crew know very little about the game of chess, and about making a good short movie for that matter.jstripes wrote:This week ChessBase news has directed its readers to two short chess films at Atom films. Both use chess as a vehicle for exploring male/female relationships.
To date, the only decent chess films that i've come across are: "The great chess movie", and "Game Over". Both documentaries. It would be nice to see a good dramatic movie about chess and the life of Bobby Fischer. I think James Woods would be a great choice of actor to play Fischer.
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Re: chess in cinema
I am sorry that your expeirence is so limited, and that you have failed to develop your aesthetic standards for short work beyond those of Coleridge.zugzwanged wrote: ... weak plots, predictable, horribly over-acted productions with no *suspension of disbelief* ...
To date, the only decent chess films that i've come across are: "The great chess movie", and "Game Over". ...
My notice about the films offered no assessment of their quality. Yet, the notice itself did imply at least a sense that they might be of historical interest.
Endgame is clearly derivative of a passage by T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land. Although, by adding a few additional elements, and presenting it in a format other than poetry, it adds something new. Eliot would certainly approve of that much.
Neither of the films, nor Eliot's poem concern chess. Chess is merely a rhetorical vehicle.
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Bobby Fischer films
Two films pertaining to Bobby Fischer hit theaters in 2013. "Pawn Sacrifices" and "Bobby Fischer Goes to War" Get your tickets now!