PUDD FILE: Capturing the everyday(2) - featuring extracts from About A Boy

It just depends on how you look at it....

A narrated animation : Capturing the everyday and finding the extraordinary in everyday life........a selection of free download imagery via http://www.dreamstime.com - The new expression of the 'throw-away' era in which we  live whereby some images are deemed to have no  value ...and yet others require a credit rating. 

However some of these free images contain absolute gems of observation.   Much like our chosen text.  The narration is taken from literary extracts by ~Nick Hornby, About a Boy (1998),  http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/nickhornby/books/aab_synopsis.html a writer who pays tribute to the genius of everyday and captures the very best of  people's expressions and behaviours like gems ....a few of my favourites: 

'We're vegetarian,' said Marcus. 'But we eat fish.'

'So we're not really vegetarian.'

'We don't eat fish very often though. Fish and chips sometimes. 

We never cook fish at home, do we?'

'Not often, no.'

'Never.'

 

'Will, this is Imogene. You can hold her if you like.'
'I suppose…okay. Yeah. Got her. Lovely. Yeah, she’s, um…delightful, isn’t she?'
'I know. Isn’t she?'
'To tell the truth Chris, I’m being a bit crap with her. You better take her back. Oh.'
'Hey, just think she could’ve been yours if you got your act together.'
'Just think of that...'

(extract from film script dialogue About A Boy -2002)

"All of a sudden you became better-looking, a better lover, a better person ... Great sex, a lot of ego massage, temporary parenthood without tears..."

 

 "If a girl and a boy met, and they didn't have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and they both looked all right, and they didn't mind each other, then they might as well go out together. What was the point in not?"

"There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word." 

  "I was really scared because I didn't think two was enough, and now there aren't two anymore. There are loads. And you're better off that way." 

 

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