Lot n° 59
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150 - 200
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JEANSON, Henri (1900-1970), écrivain, journaliste, scénarist - Lot 59
JEANSON, Henri (1900-1970), écrivain, journaliste, scénariste français.
M.A.S. S.l.n.d. 4 pp. ½ in-4 on blue paper. Corrections and erasures. Very discreet paper clip trace.
Remarkable Jeanson's manuscript on slang. "When one is born like me to Jobelin - sorry: to the Goblins! - two bistros in the rue Mouffetard, a cigarette from the Santé, two pedal strokes from the barracks in Lourcine, one can say, without flattering oneself, that one knew the slang when one came into the world. Not all slang, of course, not the hermetic slang, the slang that is the secret weapon of the mobsters, but the slang that runs through the streets, - the common slang, the all-purpose slang, the elementary slang, the slang that comes to your lips quite naturally, so little so that you are not gifted for living languages. As for the rest... For the rest, slang is learned day by day. To speak it well you must have and have lived it... Anyway, I knew right away how to say: "Down with the cops and dead to the cows". Slang is a language that suits me - not like a glove but like an espadrille. I like it because it keeps me young, because it moves, because it's always in tune, always in action, always in the spring of its life. It never stops flowering, giving fruits, each one tastier than the last - and to be eaten on the spot [...]. On the screen, as in the theatre, we have to cheat with slang, to play with a piqué slang. That's why, when I try to get certain characters in my films to speak - whether they're from Hôtel du Nord, Pepe le Moko, Guinguette or Lady Paname - I use apparent slang, parallel slang, bogus slang... In Hôtel du Nord, when Jouvet says to Arletty: -I want to change air... go somewhere else... you are not an atmosphere for me. And Arletty replies: -Atmosphere, do I look like an atmosphere? -The audience has the impression of hearing a slang dialogue and yet it is not. Dear Arletty was not mistaken when she told Michel Perrin her bio
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