Whit Stillman está vivo

El director y guionista de "Metropolitan"(1990), "Barcelona"(1994) y "The Last days of Disco" (1998) tras ese último éxito se mudó a Paris y desde entonces nadie sabía nada de él más que rumores.

Yo lo echaba menos.

Por eso, aunque muy probablemente a nadie más que a mí le interese esta noticia, me alegra anunciar que Whit está de regreso. "Metropolitan" acaba de salir en DVD editado por Criterion, y entre el trabajo de promoción Josh Horowitz logró calzarle una entrevista a mi ermitaño favorito, donde habla de cómo se inició como guionista y anuncia un nuevo filme, aunque no entrega detalles.

Aquí un trozo de la entrevista que me hizo desear ser agente.

H: So where were you in your life when you started writing the screenplay for Metropolitan?
WS: I was desperate. My life was going along and I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do. I wasn’t being prolific as a writer of fiction or humor. I was doing these day jobs where I wasn’t accomplishing anything in particular. I was an agent for cartoonists. And being an agent for other people is actually a really good job because you’re living vicariously through them.

Metropolitan la ví solo una vez en Film & Arts, y ahora necesito poseerla. Como nuestra, algunas Memorables Quotes cortesía de IMDb:

Nick Smith: I've always planned to be a failure anyway, that's why I plan to marry an extremely wealthy woman.

Nick Smith: It's a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate.

Nick Smith: The titled aristocracy are the scum of the earth.
Sally Fowler: You always say "titled" aristocrats. What about "untitled" aristocrats?
Nick Smith: Well, I could hardly despise them, could I? That would be self-hatred.

Tom Townsend: You meet a group of people and you say, ‘These are going to be my friends for the rest of my life.’ Then you never see them again. I wonder where they go?”

A quién engaño?, yo lo que quiero ser en la vida es Whit Stillman.