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సినిమాలు తీయాలనుకునే ప్రతిఒక్కరూ ఒక పుస్తకం చదవాలి. అది Andre Bazin రాసిన What is cinema అనే పుస్తకం. ఇందులో ఆయన సినిమాల గురించి, సినిమా తీసే విధానం గురించి ఎంతో బాగా విశ్లేషించి రాసారు. ఈ పుస్తకం చదవడం ద్వారా నవ యువ దరశకులకు ఎంతో మేలు జరుగుతుందని నా అభిప్రాయం. సినిమాలు తీయకపోయినా, కేవలం సినిమాల గురించి రాయడం ద్వారనే ఈయన ప్రపంచ సినిమాలకెంతో సేవ చేసాడు. ఈయన గురించి చెపతూ, Jean Renoir అనే ఫ్రెంచ్ సినిమా దర్శకుడు ఈ విధం గా అంటారు.(What is cinema పుస్తకపు ముందుమాటలో)

In the days when kings were kings, when they washed the feet of the poor and, by the simple act of passing by, healed those afflicted with scrofula, there were poets to confirm their belief in their greatness. Not infrequently the singer was greater than the object of his singing. This is where Bazin stands vis-a-vis cinema. But that part of the story has to do only with what lies ahead. what is going on now is simply the assembling of materials. civilization is but a sieve through the holes of which there passes the discard. The good remains. i am convinced that in Villon’s day poets abounded on the banks of seine. where are they now? who were they? no one knows. But the Villon is there still, large as life.

our children and our grandchildren will have an invaluable source of help in sorting through the remains of the past. They will have Bazin alongside them. For that king of our time, the cinema, has likewise its poet. A modest fellow, sickly, alowly and prematurely dying, he it was who gave the patent of royalty to the cinema just as the poets of the past had crowned their Kings.That king on whose brow he has placed a crown glory is all the greater for having been stripped by him of the falsely glittering robes that hampered its progress. It is, thanks to him, a royal personage rendered healthy, cleansed of its parasites, fined down – a king of quality – that our grandchildren will delight to come upon. And in that same moment they will also discover its poet. They will discover Andre Bazin discover too, as I have discovered, that only too often, the singer has once more risen above the object of his song.

There is no doubt about the influence that Bazin will have in the years to come. His writings will survive even if the cinema does not. Perhaps future generations will only know of its existence through his writings. Men will try to imagine a screen, with horses galloping across it, a close-up of a beautiful star, or the rolling eye of a dying hero, and each will interpret these thigs in his own way. But they will all agree on one thing, namely, the high quality of What is cinema? This will be true even should these pages – saved from wreckage – speak to us only of an art that is gone, just as archaeological remains bring to light the objetcs of cults that we are incapable any longer of imagining.

There is, then, no doubt as to Bazin’s influence on the future.Let me say however that it is for his influence on his contemporaries that I hold him so deep in my affections.He made us feel that our trade was a noble one much in the same way that the saints of old persuaded the slave of the value of his humanity.

Andre Bazin గురించి , ఈయన స్థాపించిన Cahiers du cinema అనే సినిమా పత్రిక గురించి, ఈయన ఫ్రెంచ్ సినీ పరిశ్రమలో వచ్చిన new-wave వుద్యమానికి చేసిన సేవల గురించి తెలుసుకోవాలంటే త్వరలో “పొద్దు” లో ప్రచురింపబడుతున్న “What is new wave?” అనే వ్యాసాన్ని చదివి తెలుసుకోవచ్చు.