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Bagaimana harus kuucapkan pengakuan ini: Aku jatuh cinta berulangkali pada matamu, danau dalam hutan di negeri ajaib yang jauh menyelusup dalam ingatan itu.
Berabad-abad yang lalu, kuucapkan selamat tinggal pada apa pun yang berbau dongeng, atau masa silam.
Tetapi cinta, bukan sebotol coca cola. Atau film Disney; di sana tokoh apa pun tak pernah mati.
Juga bukan Rumi yang menari. Sebab pada matamu bertemu semua musim, sejarah, dan sesuatu yang mengingatkan aku pada suatu hari ketika waktu berhenti, dan kusapa engkau mesra sekali.
Kini, bahkan wajahmu samar kuingat kembali. Haruskah kuucapkan pengakuan ini: Aku jatuh cinta berulangkali pada matamu, danau dalam hutan di negeri ajaib yang jauh menyelusup dalam ingatan itu.
Tetapi cinta, bukan sekotak popok kertas.
Atau sayap sembilan puluh sembilan burung Attar yang terbakar.
Cinta, barangkali, kegagapanku mengecup sepasang alismu
1994
posted by :
fitri maryanti-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Open Letter from Martin Scorsese to The Academy Award
Dear Academy,
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Martin
Scorsese. You may have forgotten me, but I have been
making movies since 1959. That was almost four decades
ago.
I was the one who made "Mean Streets" that brought
Robert DeNiro to fame. I was the one who also made
"Taxi Driver" that made Jodie Foster what she is right
now. (What is she right now? Anybody tell me, please?)
And, remember "Raging Bull"? "The Last Tempation of
Christ"? "GoodFellas", "Cape Fear"? That was also me.
Moi. Yours truly. My humble self.
But, you never handed me any Oscar. You never paid
respect to me, let alone my works.
*I'm sobbing right now*
My buddy and muse, Leonardo DiCaprio, has been trying
to encourage me. "Be patient, Marty. Someday, someone
will recognize you."
I have been trying to please you with making movies
according to what you like. I brought you pointless
gang fights. I brought you big budget biopic with no
climactic point. You still haven't looked at me.
In my desperate move, I had taken a role in a silly
animation. It was actually who I really am: a big
fish, a big-mouthed fish.
Now, I humbly, humbly, humbly come before you with an
adaptation movie, for your consideration. I know it
has no respect to the original movie, "Infernal
Affairs". I have also denied watching that genius
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's movie thousands of times.
Like you, I don't pay respect to them, great great
great filmmakers from Asia. (Is Asia a continent? I
thought it is the name of a B-grade actress!)
I have modified the movie into more meaningless,
heartless, pointless, and add more bloods, swearings,
cursings, and violence. You love it, don't you?
I have copied the original score from "Infernal
Affairs" as well. Really. Nothing in "The Departed" is
original.
*I am sobbing, sobbing, and sobbing even more right
now*
This is my most desperate move, Academy. Please, give
me that Oscar. I need it desperately before my 65th
birthday. I need to make my family proud. I need to
save my face!
I am begging you. Please. Do not lose me over "Little
Miss Sunshine" ... that GREAT movie.
"Little Miss Sunshine" has so many originality. It is
a movie made with lots of love and sincerity. You
don't like that kind of movie, do you? You like a
movie like "The Departed" ... has no brain, a bad copy
of an Asian film, has no heart, lots of violence, and
so on. Come on ... you are rooting for this kind of
bad film, right? I have stopped making good movies
just for an Oscar.
Have mercy upon me, please. Save my face. If not, my
butt.
Sincerely and desperately yours,
-Martin "Marty or Iza" Scorsese-
