The Transcription of Gale and Randy's Goodbye Video
Some nice people posted this at imdb.com on the QAF Message Boards.
Gale's part:
"Obviously a very strange moment. I am the worst public speaker…….this isn’t really the public……speaking in front of you. Ah, I don’t know what to say. ______________but, I don’t know what to say. But, in all this, wrapping things up, the only thing that I really care about is trying to relate all this to what it means to be alive as a human being. I’m still not really clear what that is -- as it relates to what we're doing right now. But I guess it’s as important as you make it, you know. That’s what I find, and sometimes you don’t realize the impacts of where it is that you’re actually going through until it’s over. _________________But, all that I want to say is we’re all just trying to make it through. Right? So, ah, I’m very happy to have had a, sort of, I guess, a second act to my life and I’m very happy to experience it with all of you people. Lot of people that I wish were here, aren’t here, but for what it’s worth, it’s real good right now. And thank you. Thanks a lot."
Randy's part:
"I'm gonna force myself to speak because I've been dreading it for 3 days since it was announced that it was sort of what we were supposed to do. I wanna thank Stephen for the tear stick. I asked him for it so that you wouldn't think I was cold. You know, I've heard so much over the past 3 days about the show and it's importance and it's significance and it is all true and has an incredible amount of value but when I look back on the past 5 years that I've spent in Toronto the fact that we actually made a tv show is kind of like the last thing I think about. For me, it's the hours that I've spent with you, the months and days and years that we've spent together, it's like, I don't, people don't spend this much time together and people don't have the luxury of getting to know people in such a easy, thorough way and, people don't spend this much time with their families and I wouldn't never have wanted to spend like a minute less with any of you. We all come together to do this thing, to make this product that's gonna be, like, sold and marketed and we all have these very specific roles that we have to do to make that thing and we're always told to do it faster and better and what that is can become dehumanizing to a certain extent so there's for me and I think for everybody who does this, this tug of war between like the reason that we’re here, what we're making and we want it to be good, and then like, the what Gale was saying, like the f--king reason that we're here, and, the fact that I've begun sort of figuring out that struggle with the kind of examples that I've had, um, the kind of openness and the way that you've shared how you dealt with those things. Um, even when I couldn't show up for the f--king work, I always wanted to show up because of everybody here and I'll never be able to thank you enough for that...........because I never bothered to learn your names."
Gale: "That was my joke!"
They both were obviously overwhelmed by a lot of emotions which is understandable considering they had just finished filming a very emotinal scene a few minutes ago. I love choked up!Gale and intellectual!swearing!Randy! ♥
Also, an interesting discussion has been going on about the on and off screen chemistry between G/R on the QAF Message Boards. I found a post I really liked and thought I'd share.
"What I really love is that at first sight, Gale and Randy seem to be such an unlikely pairing in every way, and yet there is something between them that seems to go beyond their on-screen characters. I think it's quite rare that you are moved by the chemistry between two actors, especially when you find it in a place where you didn't expect it.
Far too often there's just a big frustrating emptiness between the main characters, and it's not enough to throw two people at each other, have them get naked and perform blunt sex scenes. It takes more than that to make it work, and those two showed that beautifully. It's difficult to imagine they could do that without forming a kind of bond between them that translated into the relaxed closeness and wordless intimacy in some of the more quiet scenes. " (by bloodoceans)
*happy sigh*
I think this sums it up beautifully.
Gale's part:
"Obviously a very strange moment. I am the worst public speaker…….this isn’t really the public……speaking in front of you. Ah, I don’t know what to say. ______________but, I don’t know what to say. But, in all this, wrapping things up, the only thing that I really care about is trying to relate all this to what it means to be alive as a human being. I’m still not really clear what that is -- as it relates to what we're doing right now. But I guess it’s as important as you make it, you know. That’s what I find, and sometimes you don’t realize the impacts of where it is that you’re actually going through until it’s over. _________________But, all that I want to say is we’re all just trying to make it through. Right? So, ah, I’m very happy to have had a, sort of, I guess, a second act to my life and I’m very happy to experience it with all of you people. Lot of people that I wish were here, aren’t here, but for what it’s worth, it’s real good right now. And thank you. Thanks a lot."
Randy's part:
"I'm gonna force myself to speak because I've been dreading it for 3 days since it was announced that it was sort of what we were supposed to do. I wanna thank Stephen for the tear stick. I asked him for it so that you wouldn't think I was cold. You know, I've heard so much over the past 3 days about the show and it's importance and it's significance and it is all true and has an incredible amount of value but when I look back on the past 5 years that I've spent in Toronto the fact that we actually made a tv show is kind of like the last thing I think about. For me, it's the hours that I've spent with you, the months and days and years that we've spent together, it's like, I don't, people don't spend this much time together and people don't have the luxury of getting to know people in such a easy, thorough way and, people don't spend this much time with their families and I wouldn't never have wanted to spend like a minute less with any of you. We all come together to do this thing, to make this product that's gonna be, like, sold and marketed and we all have these very specific roles that we have to do to make that thing and we're always told to do it faster and better and what that is can become dehumanizing to a certain extent so there's for me and I think for everybody who does this, this tug of war between like the reason that we’re here, what we're making and we want it to be good, and then like, the what Gale was saying, like the f--king reason that we're here, and, the fact that I've begun sort of figuring out that struggle with the kind of examples that I've had, um, the kind of openness and the way that you've shared how you dealt with those things. Um, even when I couldn't show up for the f--king work, I always wanted to show up because of everybody here and I'll never be able to thank you enough for that...........because I never bothered to learn your names."
Gale: "That was my joke!"
They both were obviously overwhelmed by a lot of emotions which is understandable considering they had just finished filming a very emotinal scene a few minutes ago. I love choked up!Gale and intellectual!swearing!Randy! ♥
Also, an interesting discussion has been going on about the on and off screen chemistry between G/R on the QAF Message Boards. I found a post I really liked and thought I'd share.
"What I really love is that at first sight, Gale and Randy seem to be such an unlikely pairing in every way, and yet there is something between them that seems to go beyond their on-screen characters. I think it's quite rare that you are moved by the chemistry between two actors, especially when you find it in a place where you didn't expect it.
Far too often there's just a big frustrating emptiness between the main characters, and it's not enough to throw two people at each other, have them get naked and perform blunt sex scenes. It takes more than that to make it work, and those two showed that beautifully. It's difficult to imagine they could do that without forming a kind of bond between them that translated into the relaxed closeness and wordless intimacy in some of the more quiet scenes. " (by bloodoceans)
*happy sigh*
I think this sums it up beautifully.