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Johnson's first film was adapted from a play written for the stage in 1964: You're Human Like the Rest of Them. In the B.S. Johnson biography, Like A Fiery Elephant (2004), Jonathan Coe deems the play as “one of [Johnson's] most important works outside the novel form” (176). To be sure, You're Human is an intriguing piece of theatre. The dialogue of the play is written in lines of ten syllables – “Already you cover up like adults / Know you can live only by illusion” – and details the revelations of a schoolteacher called Haakon. The protagonist, as a result of a recent trip to the hospital, suddenly discovers the frailty of his own human mortality. He consequently attempts to “teach [his students] something real, real!” about the troublesome nature of the human condition: “You're all going to die but before then / You're going to decay, rot, for years.” Haakon concludes that one must “make itself an awkward thing to kill” in order to oppose the inevitability of death. The realization of this tragic truth [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], torn away from the “cover . . . [of] illusion,” provokes a socially conceived “mad[ness]” in Haakon; who, according to his pupils and colleagues at least, has gone “round the twist.”
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The Films of B.S. Johnson: Paradigm
The Films of B.S. Johnson: Fat Man on a Beach
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
B.S. Johnson: “Britain’s one-man literary avant-garde.”
The latter half of the sixties saw B.S. Johnson, author of Travelling People (1963) and Albert Angelo (1964), jump ship from the written page to the silver screen. He did so in a similar vein to Beckett – with whom he was personally acquainted – producing numerous short films and television documentaries. These works contained several interesting elements. Indeed [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Johnson was even awarded the Grand Prix for his on-screen efforts; yet, Johnson's films never successfully overshadowed his reputation as an “experimental” author. The films consequently fell into obscurity. Regardless, a brief study of Johnson's filmography can expand our conceptions of the enigmatic author.
During the 1960s numerous experimental authors adopted alternate forms of media – in contrast to the traditional nature of the written page – with the intention of expressing their progressive ideas in a distinctly modern sphere: cinema. For instance, at the beginning of the sixties the French Nouveau Roman movement climaxed oversees via Alain Resnais's L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961), written by Le Voyeur's(1955) Alain Robbe-Grillet; further, in the middle of the decade Nobel-prize winner Samuel Beckett began to produce his first minimalist films, such as Eh Joe (1964) and Film (1965).
You're Human Like the Rest of Them: The Film
You're Human had been commissioned by Jeremy Brooks for inclusion in an experimental piece of theatre called “Expeditions III” – a show that never occurred. Johnson's play was consequently shelved; however, You're Human would later re-emerge in an alternate format. In a letter to Bruce Beresford [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], dated 21st August 1966, Johnson writes: “I think [You're Human] will make a far better film than a stage play” (qtd. in Coe: 215). The wheels of creativity thus stirred into motion. With the help of his wife and friends, the film adaptation of You're Human was complete by the beginning of 1967.
You're Human Like the Rest of Them: The Screenplay