The Edge of the World

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A final flourish
and "There, Master Michael."

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"A pie fit for a king," she said.

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Then, as she slid it
into a hot oven,

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the disillusionment of a true artist
swept over her

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and I heard her mutter darkly
"And then you eats it,

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and it's all done."

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If her audience praised her work,
she beamed.

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If they were indifferent,
she would say scornfully

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"Not a bit of good cooking
for some folks."

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She is still making pies

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and I am still making films,

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but for a long time,
none can be so near my heart

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as The Edge Of The World.

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I wish I were as sure
of its perfection

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as the old cook was of her pies.

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At any rate, like her,
I can always have the last word.

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(Schoonmaker-Powell)
These days, when viewers are used to

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computer-generated images
of astonishing locations

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and beings interacting
with those locations,

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in a way you could never
actually shoot,

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it's hard to remember how difficult
every shot taken on this island was.

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Here you see
over and over and over again

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the camera placed
in the most difficult places.

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And if you weren't a director
with such determination

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and, uh, passion,

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you might have tried to shoot things
a different way.

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One reason this film meant
so much to Michael Powell

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is because it was a gamble he took

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on doing what he really had
always wanted to be in films for,