The discussion was not at all like the video you referenced. It followed the description on the Facebook page. The first part was about Curzio Malaparte the Italian author. Walter told described Malaparte's existence as a writer read some of his favorite passages. A blurb on Amazon's web page describes it best as follows,
Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II."
Walter then pointed out that he had translated a Malaparte poem from Italian to English. A publisher asked if he would translate more and from that request Walter produced the book "The bird that Swallowed its Cage."
Walter then went on to describe how he got involved in "Particle Fever" and what is was like to walk into 500 hours of footage. Much of it had to do with his relationships to the people involved and a big non-film contribution he made. He created a chart showing his understanding of the relationships of the 17 fundemental particles. The chart the particle physicists were using was confusing. Walter was puzzling over it and woke up one night with his solution which he presented as a slide. This is the initial representation used by particle physicists, http://radiofreethinker.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ss24-4.jpg. If you go 1:08:00 into this clip, you can see Walter's representation, http://article.wn.com/view/2014/03/14/legendary_editor_walter_murch_talks_the_physics_of_x27partic/.
Best Wishes,
Paul
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Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II."
Walter then pointed out that he had translated a Malaparte poem from Italian to English. A publisher asked if he would translate more and from that request Walter produced the book "The bird that Swallowed its Cage."
Walter then went on to describe how he got involved in "Particle Fever" and what is was like to walk into 500 hours of footage. Much of it had to do with his relationships to the people involved and a big non-film contribution he made. He created a chart showing his understanding of the relationships of the 17 fundemental particles. The chart the particle physicists were using was confusing. Walter was puzzling over it and woke up one night with his solution which he presented as a slide. This is the initial representation used by particle physicists, http://radiofreethinker.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ss24-4.jpg. If you go 1:08:00 into this clip, you can see Walter's representation, http://article.wn.com/view/2014/03/14/legendary_editor_walter_murch_talks_the_physics_of_x27partic/.
Best Wishes,
Paul
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There's a simple presentation here, though the JHU presentation was probably tailored to that audience.
- Oliver
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