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I will make no concessions
to the public in this film.
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I believe there are several
good reasons for this decision,
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and I am going to state them.
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In the first place, it's well known that
I've never made any concessions...
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to the dominant ideas or
ruling powers of my era.
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Moreover, nothing of importance
has ever been communicated...
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by being gentle with a public,
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not even one like that
of the age of Pericles;
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and in the frozen mirror
of the screen...
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the spectators are not looking
at anything that might suggest...
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the respectable citizens of a democracy.
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But most importantly:
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this particular public, which has been
so totally deprived of freedom...
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and which has tolerated
every sort of abuse,
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deserves less than any
other to be treated gently.
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The advertising manipulators,
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with the usual impudence of those
who know that people tend to justify
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whatever affronts they dont avenge,
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calmly declare that People who
love life go to the cinema.
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But this life and this cinema
are equally paltry,
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which is why it hardly matters
if one is substituted for the other.
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The movie-going public,
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which has never been very bourgeois and
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