Sessão da Classe apresenta: discutindo sobre o sucesso pela via negativa, por Daniel Colin

Quando fui convidado para esta Sessão da Classe, cujo tema será o 'sucesso', a primeira imagem que me veio a cabeça foi a do Quiz Kid Donnie Smith, personagem do filme Magnólia, de P. T. Anderson. Tal personagem, interpretado sensivelmente por William H. Macy, a bem da verdade, representa o FRACASSO: alguém que foi muito famoso quando criança e que carrega o peso de nunca mais conseguir ser tão bem sucedido quanto outrora. O fato dele carregar o apelido daquela época - Quiz Kid - já é um exemplo notório desse peso.

Por que não discutir sobre o sucesso refletindo acerca do FRACASSO?

Decidi então postar dois diálogos do filme, como atiçadores de questionamentos sobre o sucesso vs. o fracasso.

Os diálogos estão em inglês porque foi assim que os encontrei na internet e não me achei apto o suficiente para traduzi-los. Além do mais, para aqueles que não entenderem, fica a provocação de assistir ao filme, que é imperdível.

"Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Do you know who I am?
Thurston Howell: You're a friend of the family, I presume.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: What does that mean?
Thurston Howell: Nothing special. Just a spoke in the wheel.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: You talk in rhymes and riddles and r-Rub-a-Dub. But that doesn't mean anything to me. See, I used to be smart. I'm Quiz Kid Donnie Smith. [loudly]
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm Quiz Kid Donnie Smith, from TV.
Thurston Howell: It might have been before my time.
Smiling Peanut Patron #1: I remember. In the Sixties, right?
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm Quiz Kid Donnie Smith.
Thurston Howell: Like you said.
Smiling Peanut Patron #1: Smart kid! You got struck by lightning once.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: So what?
Smiling Peanut Patron #1: I heard about that.
Smiling Peanut Patron #2: Did it hurt?
Thurston Howell: But you're all right now. So what's the what?
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: What?
Thurston Howell: That's right."

"Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I used to be smart, but now I'm just stupid.
Thurston Howell: Brad, dear, who was it that said..."A man of genius has seldom been ruined but by himself"?
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [quietly; to himself] ... Samuel Johnson...
Thurston Howell: It was the lovely Samuel Johnson! Who also spoke of a fellow "who was not only dull... but a cause of dullness in others."
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: "The cause of dullness in others."
Thurston Howell: Picky picky!
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Let me tell you this; Samuel Johnson never had his life shit on... and taken from him, and his money stolen! Who took his life and his money? His parents? His mommy, and daddy? Make him live this life like this... A man of genius who gets shit on as a child!... and that scars! That hurts! Have you ever been hit by lightning? It hurts. It doesn't happen to everyone. It's an electrical charge. It finds its way across the universe... and it lands in your body, and your head! And as for ruined, but by himself... not if his parents took his freaking life... and his money, and tell you to do this... and to do that, and if you don't...
Smiling Peanut Patron #1: Your parents took your money you won on that game show?
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Yes! They did.
[to Thurston]
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: What does that mean, a spoke in the wheel?
Thurston Howell: Things go round and round, don't they?
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Yes, they do... They do. But I'll make my dreams come true.
Thurston Howell: Sounds sad as a weeping willow.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I used to be smart. But now I'm just stupid.
Thurston Howell: [raising his glass] Shall we drink to that?"

DANIEL COLIN - Ator, diretor, dramaturgo e performer. Integrante e fundador do grupo Teatro Sarcáustico. Ganhador de diversos prêmios, dentre os quais os Troféus Açorianos de Melhor Espetáculo 2010 e Direção por Wonderland e o que M. Jackson encontrou por lá