Dark and apocryphal Mike Leigh's film Naked (1993) was a film that I loved and was challenged by...especially in my twenty-somethings. See excerpt below or click here to read the complete script.
- Yeah? What do you believe?
Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed that it would evolve into the frog?
Of course it didn't.
And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal cords...
in order to attract a mate or to retard a predator...
do you think that that frog ever imagined that that incipient croak...
would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world?
Of course it fucking didn't.
And of the water and employed its vocal cords...
in order to attract a mate or to retard a predator...
do you think that that frog ever imagined that that incipient croak...
would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world?
Of course it fucking didn't.
And just as that froggy could never
possibly have conceived of Shakespeare...
so we can never possibly imagine our destiny.
I know what my destiny is.
- Yeah? What do you believe?
Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed that it would evolve into the frog?
Of course it didn't.
And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal cords...
in order to attract a mate or to retard a predator...
do you think that that frog ever imagined that that incipient croak...
would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world?
Of course it fucking didn't.
And of the water and employed its vocal cords...
in order to attract a mate or to retard a predator...
do you think that that frog ever imagined that that incipient croak...
would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature of the world?
Of course it fucking didn't.
And just as that froggy could never
possibly have conceived of Shakespeare...
so we can never possibly imagine our destiny.
I know what my destiny is.
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