In fact simply I cannot be perfect but just keep always trying to getting close to that state. Nor I'm not sure if "trying to get close to the perfect" itself is at least significant. I don't know if it's like filling a glass full until the edge of it with pouring water, or getting rid of useless moves to find out the core, ultimate essence like martial arts. Maybe it's best to know your own way to act, judge, and do something in a manner that the unconscious "best of yourself" would pilot you.
2014-03-30
421 Perfection
In fact simply I cannot be perfect but just keep always trying to getting close to that state. Nor I'm not sure if "trying to get close to the perfect" itself is at least significant. I don't know if it's like filling a glass full until the edge of it with pouring water, or getting rid of useless moves to find out the core, ultimate essence like martial arts. Maybe it's best to know your own way to act, judge, and do something in a manner that the unconscious "best of yourself" would pilot you.
2014-03-25
420 Prunus
何だか風変わりな桜だと思って見上げていたのは、実は桜よりも美しい梅でした、というのはまるで「醜いアヒルの子」の寓話です。もちろん、アヒルの子と白鳥の雛はご覧の通り(どちらがより可愛らしいかは別として)かなり違うのですが。
2014-03-22
419 Comme Un Chef
軽妙なコメディ、というジャンルがありますが、ときにコメディの真価は過小評価されているのではないかと思います。Jean Renoが三ツ星レストランのシェフを演じた映画"Comme Un Chef"はまさに軽妙なコメディで、軽快でテンポよく、全編に渡りコミカルで、くだらないギャグも交えつつ、最後は敵の鼻を明かし、恋が実り、愉快な大団円に落ち着くあたり、おそらく作った方も典型的なコメディ以上の深みは追求していないのではないか、と書いたとしても文句は出ないでしょう。
そうだとしても、軽妙で肩の力が抜けているのに、台詞を言うたびに笑いを取る演技とは実は相当に難しいものではないでしょうか。ある人物のあるシチュエーションが笑えるとしたら、その前提としてその人物のリアリティがしっくりくるものでなければ、まず笑う準備もできません。高級レストランのシェフのドタバタが可笑しいのは、その雰囲気や立ち居振る舞いや料理の腕や存在感や台詞回しがちゃんとシェフになりきっているからで、そうでなければ笑いは成り立ちません。それもただ役柄のリアリティを追求するだけでは笑えないので、そうした職業にありがちな特徴をわずかに誇張したり風刺したりするからこそ面白く、加えてコメディを見に来る観客はそもそも笑ってやろうと待ち構えて観ている訳ですから、それに応えるには相当可笑しくなければならない。その上で、俳優が観客が感情移入できるような魅力を備えているから、コメディ映画が観客に幸せな時間を提供できるというものです。
この映画は題材からして料理の魅力に溢れている、と誉めても良いのですが、むしろ全編が活き活きとした台詞の掛け合いに満ちていて、さほど爆笑を誘うというわけでもないけれど、コメディの本質はこうしたシンプルで面白おかしい言葉の妙にこそあることを思い出させてくれます。
そうだとしても、軽妙で肩の力が抜けているのに、台詞を言うたびに笑いを取る演技とは実は相当に難しいものではないでしょうか。ある人物のあるシチュエーションが笑えるとしたら、その前提としてその人物のリアリティがしっくりくるものでなければ、まず笑う準備もできません。高級レストランのシェフのドタバタが可笑しいのは、その雰囲気や立ち居振る舞いや料理の腕や存在感や台詞回しがちゃんとシェフになりきっているからで、そうでなければ笑いは成り立ちません。それもただ役柄のリアリティを追求するだけでは笑えないので、そうした職業にありがちな特徴をわずかに誇張したり風刺したりするからこそ面白く、加えてコメディを見に来る観客はそもそも笑ってやろうと待ち構えて観ている訳ですから、それに応えるには相当可笑しくなければならない。その上で、俳優が観客が感情移入できるような魅力を備えているから、コメディ映画が観客に幸せな時間を提供できるというものです。
この映画は題材からして料理の魅力に溢れている、と誉めても良いのですが、むしろ全編が活き活きとした台詞の掛け合いに満ちていて、さほど爆笑を誘うというわけでもないけれど、コメディの本質はこうしたシンプルで面白おかしい言葉の妙にこそあることを思い出させてくれます。
2014-03-21
418 If I Were
Has anybody been mistaken for someone else? Surely everyone has. But can it happen on Twitter? The other day I found that my twitter name was quoted by someone whom I never knew. Judging from the tweet the person seems to run a coffee beans shop, and he/she wished to take lunch at a cafe (of my name) where the owner (me) bought the coffee beans to serve.
Actually there's interesting coincidence. In my neighbor there IS a coffee beans shop, and also my friend has opened a small bistro near in the town. The chef uses the shop's beans. Funny enough!
To a stranger who mistakenly tweeted above; Sorry I couldn't offer you a lunch at my place the other day, but thank you for making me imagine for a moment myself as a cafe owner, one of my dream avocations.
Actually there's interesting coincidence. In my neighbor there IS a coffee beans shop, and also my friend has opened a small bistro near in the town. The chef uses the shop's beans. Funny enough!
To a stranger who mistakenly tweeted above; Sorry I couldn't offer you a lunch at my place the other day, but thank you for making me imagine for a moment myself as a cafe owner, one of my dream avocations.
417 From Brazil
Last evening I had a little chat with my friend in Brazil. My place was covered with a dark chilly night and Rio was in summer heat. We haven't met three years but the flight of time soon gave way to old friends' funny talk. Finally he wrapped up the dialogue with a remake "Give the choice to the destiny."
He meant nothing serious nor suggestive by this, but I was impressed, not because of this saying but the fact now we could connect and communicate so freely that such a casual remark, or an idea of impulse of a moment was able to reach in a second, across the distance.
2014-03-19
416 Tips of the Iceberg
People say "Try to find other person's virtue" but as we are not much of a saint we're free to think other person as disagreeable. However, the most important and interesting thing is whatever you feel as disagreeable on the surface, it's not everything, or it may not represent all. It's no use of rushing to conclusion by the sight of the tips of the iceberg. Nevertheless, you don't even have to try to find hidden agreeable things. The essentials here is that what you see is not the everything. It's the same when you judge yourself as well as others. We see ourselves but that doesn't mean everything we are. "Tips of the Iceberg" reminds us to be generous to others, and be confident of ourselves, doesn't it?
2014-03-17
415 Tidy Mess
Friends says to me I'm very good at growing plants. I appreciate it, but all I do is just let them grow, or let the sunlight and water grow them. What I do is just thankfully have joy from it. Seriously there's almost nothing I can do for them, while I have plenty of things they bestow on me.
One reason why I love these plants is they create such a wonderful work of art of natural design. I put tiny palor palm, couple of ivies, rosemary, little conifer, monstera and aromatics. There's no order or rules. Totally a mess. But the great thing is they look superb and very pleasant to eyes both when seen as individual and as combined (in a mess). I always admire it and think nature did a wonderful job to give them greatest formative design.
One reason why I love these plants is they create such a wonderful work of art of natural design. I put tiny palor palm, couple of ivies, rosemary, little conifer, monstera and aromatics. There's no order or rules. Totally a mess. But the great thing is they look superb and very pleasant to eyes both when seen as individual and as combined (in a mess). I always admire it and think nature did a wonderful job to give them greatest formative design.
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