David's book
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czeriIf someone had told me six months ago that in half a year I will have read a book in French I would have laughed and laughed. Yet here I am desperately trying to cheer myself up after the total downer "Parkour" turned out to be.
It didn't start that way, was quite amazing for the most part, and occasionally hilarious, but damn, way to end on a low note. Not only did he pack all the deaths in the family into the last chapter (which in itself would have been fine, I was surprised to learn his father shot himself, and within fifteen hours of his grandfather dying, but that was ten years ago. And I already knew that the mysterious third brother, Daniel as it turns out, overdosed, even if the fact he went to prison for armed robbery was new); but then he followed all that by ruminating on the sad state of the world, only to move on to announcing he's quitting parkour. I mean WTF?!
I get going through middle-age crisis and all, but surely just the smoking and the drinking that as he says he's recently taken up should suffice? Parkour without David Belle? NOT ON!!
It didn't start that way, was quite amazing for the most part, and occasionally hilarious, but damn, way to end on a low note. Not only did he pack all the deaths in the family into the last chapter (which in itself would have been fine, I was surprised to learn his father shot himself, and within fifteen hours of his grandfather dying, but that was ten years ago. And I already knew that the mysterious third brother, Daniel as it turns out, overdosed, even if the fact he went to prison for armed robbery was new); but then he followed all that by ruminating on the sad state of the world, only to move on to announcing he's quitting parkour. I mean WTF?!
I get going through middle-age crisis and all, but surely just the smoking and the drinking that as he says he's recently taken up should suffice? Parkour without David Belle? NOT ON!!
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Date: 2009-03-08 07:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-08 09:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 08:06 pm (UTC)As for David's midlife crisis (?), that's just bizarre. He really said he's quitting parkour for good? That's so surprising, especially since the fanboys would be posting it all over the parkour sites and I haven't seen a mention. Maybe he's trying to follow Cyril's footsteps and do more acting instead? Or maybe he just got tired of falling out of trees and getting more scars. ;-)
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Date: 2009-03-11 09:59 pm (UTC)He really said he's quitting parkour for good?
Well, he didn't exactly put it like that:
« Aujourd’hui, je suis en peu sorti du Parkour mais je sais que c’est là. [...] J’ai fait ce que j’avais à faire, j’ai suivi mon entraînement tel qu’il fallait le suivre.
Il ne faut surtout pas s’enfermer dans une chose mais plutôt essayer de découvrir d’autres sports, d’autres villes, d’autres pays et s’ouvrir aux autres. Je ne veux pas m’entêter dans le Parkour. [...] Je veux faire d’autres choses. Je ne sais pas encore quoi exactement. »
I wouldn't say he has enough of falling off trees, though - he mentions several times how much he'd love to run off to a jungle never to be heard of again if only it weren't for pesky things like family and friends...
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Date: 2009-03-19 05:26 pm (UTC)Running off to the jungle, hmm? Wonder if he has any particular one in mind. Planning to
elopeescape with Cyril to Thailand again, are we? ;-)no subject
Date: 2009-03-19 09:25 pm (UTC)Sadly David's plans don't seem to involve Cyril, though. He's the perfect introvert, you see, and has absolutely no use for other people:
« Moi, j’appris à vivre tout seul. J’apprécie mes amis, j’aime ma famille, mais quand je veux respirer, je peux facilement me couper des autres. Je peux vivre déconnecté de tout, me retrouver face à moi-même. »
Really, it's a good thing Luc Besson seems to have put a GPS tracker on him (which I infer from the fact that EuropaCorp was able to track him down for Matthieu Kassovitz while David's family and representatives were not because he "went on a trip").
It really is a fascinating book!
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Date: 2009-03-20 06:41 am (UTC)Seriously, though, I totally empathise with David having no problem being alone. I could happily do that, as long as I had my internet connection to keep me supplied with B13 fic. :D
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Date: 2009-03-20 08:38 am (UTC)Yep, they fit together like two puzzle pieces. And as "Planche a deux" shows us they're stackable, too! ;-)