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Shadows is a 1958 American independent drama film directed by John Cassavetes about race relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City. The film stars Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, and Hugh Hurd as three black siblings. The film was initially shot in 1957 and shown in 1958, but a poor reception prompted Cassavetes to rework it in 1959. Promoted as a completely improvisational film, it was intensively rehearsed in 1957, and in 1959 it was fully scripted.
“Shadows are like plants. They need sunlight simply to exist.”
“There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.”
“The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.”
“Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.”
“No matter how satisfying the shade is, one must step out of it. Because if you keep staying in the shade like this, even your own shadow will abandon you.”
“Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
Not who you're looking for? Others named Shadows: orchestral prelude composed by Aulis Sallinen · 1919 film by Reginald Barker · 1922 silent drama film by Tom Forman · album by Teenage Fanclub
