O Tigre e a Gazela (1976) - full transcript

FRANTZ FANON

Born in Martinique, 1925
Died in Washington, 1961

the text used in this film
is drawn from his work.

and thus becoming lost to their people,

…Because they realise they are
in danger of losing their lives

these men, hot-headed and
with anger in their hearts,

relentlessly determine to
renew contact once more

with the oldest and most pre-colonial
springs of life of their people.

The intellectual sheds all that
calculating, all those strange silences

those ulterior motives,

that devious thinking and secrecy,



as he gradually plunges
deeper among the people.

…He accepts to bare himself,

in order to better display
the history of his body.

THE TIGER AND THE GAZELLE

I gazed upon her with my dusky eye,
where the tiger and the gazelle lie

Lima Barreto, "Intimate Diary"

narration: JL Franca
sound recordist: C Bacelar, R Quinto

percussion: G Telles, M. Masetti
equipment provided by Futura Films

editing, photography, cinematography:
A. Raulino

produced by A Raulino,
T Savietto, J Bouquet

assistant W Rogerio

subtitles: freakout@kg

scripted and directed by
A Raulino

My heart,



you will not deliver me
of my memories.

My family name:
Offended.

my given name:
Humiliated.

my condition:
Rebel-

my age: the
stone age.

My race: the
fallen race.

My religion ...

…but it is not you who will prepare
it with your disarmament;

it is I with my revolt
and my poor clenched fists

and my bushy head.

Colonialism is not satisfied with
snaring the people in its net

or of draining the colonized brain
of any form or substance.

With a kind of perverted logic,

it turns its attention to the
past of the colonized people

and distorts it, disfigures it,
and destroys it.

God Save Princess Isabel;

She gave everybody freedom.

Any black man

can be a doctor

A deputy or senator.

There's no more prejudice
based on color.

Any black man
can be a doctor now

There's no more prejudice
based on color.

God Save Princess Isabel;

She gave everybody freedom

Now any negro can be
a respected man

A deputy or senator.

There's no more prejudice
based on color.

Now any negro can be
a respected man

deputy or senator. There's no more
prejudice based on color.

There's no more
prejudice based on color.

Any black man can be a doctor,
deputy or senator...

There's no more
prejudice based on color...

Brazil!

The peasant who continues to
scratch a living from the soil,

and the unemployed man who
can never find a job,

are never really convinced,
despite the festivities and the flags

however new they might be

are never really convinced that
their lives have really changed at all.

…The masses begin to
lose patience, to keep their distance

to turn their backs on and lose
interest in this nation,

which denies them
proper living conditions.

If the building of a bridge

does not enrich the consciousness
of those working on it,

it is better that the bridge
should not be built at all,

and the citizens continue to swim
across the river

or paddle across in little boats.

…The bridge should not be dropped
down from the heavens with a parachute.

… The citizens must make
the bridge their own.

Then, and only then,
is everything possible.

The colonized subject thus discovers

that his life, his breathing

and his heartbeats

are the same as the colonist's.

…his look no longer
strikes fear into me;

it no longer immobilizes me;

his voice no longer petrifies me.

I am no longer uneasy in his presence.

Verily:

I can stand against him.

I dream I am jumping,

swimming, running, and climbing.

I dream I burst out laughing,

I am leaping across a river,

that I'm being chased by a pack of cars

that never catches up with me.

In between songs that I heard

In between songs that I heard

in between news items I read

in between news items I read

In between laughter
I still remained,

In between laughter
I still remained,

I hoped for the best-

you never came...

fear or misgivings,

Beautiful modern attire,

lively colors

a caress from another
human being...

I knew it, I figured it -
she betrayed me -

But it's all good-

It's better to at least be honest-

I'm trying to communicate,
not begging for anything-

I hope that someone
in this world

one day loves her like I do -

I'll just make do
with what I've got

and maybe a little
something from you,

and maybe someone will
help you too when you're cheated too.

and i hoped for clarity...

you never came,

fear or misgivings...

The enemy thinks he is in pursuit

but we always manage to
come up behind him,

attacking him at the very moment
when he least expects it.

Now it is we who are in pursuit.

Despite all his technology and firepower

the enemy gives the impression he is
floundering and losing ground.

We just sing and sing.

Now o children of the fatherland,

you may at last see
your mother pleased;

for at last the sunrays of freedom

have come to shine over
the horizon of Brazil.

valiant people of Brazil-

all servile fears flee far
away from thee,

our fatherland shall be free,
or we shall die for Brazil.

O my body, make of me always
a man who questions!