I've studied the form of comics intimately. I've spent a third of my life in a hospital...
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Elijah Price:
I've studied the form of comics intimately. I've spent a third of my life in a hospital bed... with nothing else to do but read. I believe comics are our last link... to an ancient way of passing on history. The Egyptians drew on walls. Countries all over the world still pass on knowledge through pictorial forms. I believe comics are a form of history... that someone somewhere felt or experienced. Then of course those experiences and that history... got chewed up in the commercial machine, got jazzed up... made titillating, cartooned for the sale rack.
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I've studied the form
of comics intimately.
I've spent a third of my life
in a hospital bed...
with nothing else to do but read.
I believe comics
are our last link...
to an ancient way
of passing on history.
The Egyptians drew on walls.
Countries all over the world still pass
on knowledge through pictorial forms.
I believe comics
are a form of history...
that someone somewhere
felt or experienced.
Then, of course,
those experiences and that history...
got chewed up in the commercial
machine, got jazzed up...
made titillating,
cartooned for the sale rack.
This city has seen its share
of disasters.
I watched the aftermath
of that plane crash.
I watched the carnage
of the hotel fire.
I watched the news waiting to hear
a very specific combination of words...
but they never came.
Then one day I saw a news story
about a train accident...
and I heard them.
"There is a sole survivor...
and he is miraculously unharmed. "
I have something called
osteogenesis imperfecta.
It's a genetic disorder.
I don't make a particular
protein very well...
and it makes my bones
very low in density.
Very easy to break.
I've had 54 breaks in my life...
and I have the tamest version
of this disorder, type one.
There are type two,
type three, type four.
Type fours don't last very long.
So that's how it popped into my head.
If there is someone
like me in the world...
and I'm at one end
of the spectrum...
couldn't there be someone else...
the opposite of me
at the other end?
Someone who doesn't get sick, who
doesn't get hurt like the rest of us?
Clip duration: 111 seconds
Views: 314
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: drama, mystery, sci-fi
Summary: A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
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00:22 Do you know what the scariest thing is
00:35 I have been sick
00:23 And to answer your question there are two reasons
00:11 And friends'll listen to each other They don't
00:33 Why is it do you think that of all the professions in the...
00:05 They say this one has a surprise ending
00:30 I thought maybe 'cause you're my dad
01:11 David it's Elijah
00:05 You better not be jacking off to the Japanese comics I swear...
00:53 A hotel fire downtown 211 die no survivors
00:07 I'm still going to uh
00:13 You should never do anything like this You know that right
00:15 You killed all those people
00:21 You think you could have beaten up Bruce Lee
00:44 I've never been injured Eliijah
00:21 I've never been injured Eliijah
00:13 I had a bad dream
00:08 This is an art gallery my friend
01:18 I've studied the form of comics intimately
00:36 I wanted to ask you a question