A BOOK OF THE FILM
by
ALEXANDRO JODOROWSKY
Edited by Ross
Firestone
Designed by Bob
Cato
Translations by Joanne
Pottlitzer
Internet adaption
transcribed and edited by
Don Alex Hixx
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SUBTERRANEAN
CINEMA
"This
stone
is an exact replica of my own phallus:
thick, not
very long, but with a voluminous head.
That's how
I am. That's how the rock is.
That's El
Topo's sex."
Alexandro
Jodorowsky
" EL
TOPO:
A BOOK OF THE FILM "
[Jodorowsky's
footnoted
interpretations of the film are sprinkled
throughout the narrative,
and are in brackets and red print.]
PART ONE
EL TOPO
A
scene-by-scene,
image-by-image narrative
of the
film by Alexandro Jodorowsky,
director,
star, writer and composer of EL TOPO.
PART TWO
CONVERSATIONS
WITH
JODOROWSKY
Alexandro
Jodorowsky talks about the making
and
meanings
of EL TOPO,
the quest for spiritual
illumination
and its symbols, and his own future
and past
-- in the course of which an interview
is
transformed
into an act of visionary poetry.
"I
think
that if you want a picture to change the world,
you must
first change the actors in the picture.
And before
doing that you must change yourself.
Right?
This must be done. With every new picture,
I must
change
myself, I must kill myself, and I must be born.
I
must kill the actors and they must be born.
And
the audiences, the audiences who go to the movies,
must be
assassinated, killed, destroyed,
and they
must leave the theatre as new people.
This is
a good picture."
