I’ve posted a transcription of this before, but it’s so much better on screen:

[youtube=www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEUGmWlkJZk&w=600]

For our interview with writer-director Whit Stillman, go here.  To purchase the DVD of The Last Days Of Disco (highly, highly recommended), go here.

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3 responses to “Lady And The Tramp and The Last Days Of Disco”

1. Joshua Corrigan says:

   04/06/2010 at 1:35 pm

   Thanks for posting this. I had forgotten how incredible this film is.

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2. John Zahl says:

   04/06/2010 at 9:39 pm

   The movie supports Josh's position. Des is the Tramp; he thinks he's been changed by Chloe S' love, and, as we come to find out (thanks to Jade Barrymore), he has been deceiving himself. Ultimately, in wake of that humiliating revelation, he wonders if "to thine own self be true" can possibly be a good thing.

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3. John Zahl says:

   04/06/2010 at 10:04 pm

   You could say that once Des' anthropological estimations of himself plumit (once he loses himself), he finds a new life.

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