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up. We loved to celebrate forbidden holidays with carbide in building lobbies, initiating huge detonations, tie two neighboring doors with a rope and then stick toothpicks in both doorbells, run away from school together when “Zvezda” was the guest team and to wriggle through the thin opening for selling tickets on the northern stand... And we were always unified and united, there were no snitches, although gloomy Kosta, as an older and more experienced man, always claimed that the yield of spies in our land was always high. “Better than potato and beans together”, he liked to say. But we were united – until The Written Off appeared. They shook our unity, with a few broken noses. The stumbling block was Prle. Tihi, whom we considered our Bjelopavlić, was not. Finally, and it has been so until this very day, my best man Ratko became Prle, the best of all of us, fighter against the kleptomaniac privatization, who is still, in a Don Quixote manner, persistently trying to defend the remains not eaten by the Šojićs, as Dr. Pavle P., the best internist in Nikšić, calls the wasteland behind us. The time of wonderful memories is merged in one Man – Dragan Gaga Nikolić. The story about Gaga Nikolić is a story of a time, which is, with a few remaining masters of life, slowly fading into the amnesic-transformational category called History. IF I HADN’T ENROLLED IN ACTING SCHOOL... With his masterful roles, Gaga not only became a pop icon of the time, as the press keeps stating these days, but much more than that. He was a rare phenomenon in his field: a magnificent actor, a modest and unimposing man, with a complete absence of self-marketing and narcissism (inseparable from his vocation), a great gentleman with a big heart and always open wallet, a refined bohemian, an emotional knight easily touched by the suffering of others, Zvezda fan, a boy from Crveni Krst, Belgradian, Serb and patriot. Gaga was an exemplar, one that doesn’t exist anymore. He mostly played the roles of urban, tough guys, heroes of Belgrade streets, but, essentially, as a man, he was completely different. In his private life, he was nothing like Prle, Jimmy Barka, Floyd, Popeye, Urke, Steve... The unique feature of Gaga’s acting transformation, as well as the mark of his essential being, was the fact that he managed to breathe soul into all those marginal guys, to refine and enlighten them by giving them a part of himself, thus creating characters of righteous rebels or proud rascals from the margins of life. As a fighter, who was engaged in boxing for a short time, he tasted the charms of the streets, however without delinquency periods, and took the best from everyone. The street had its own rules at the time – laws, principles, hierarchy... stronger and more effective than many contemporary institutions, today, unfortunately, deformed by the unspoken, but dominant side of transition. “I was lucky to play in the movies everything I’d been deprived of in life. I had family and civil upbringing, but I felt the scents of the street and early challenges. If I hadn’t enrolled in acting school, I would have gone to Paris and who knows what would have happened with me. I played the roles of urban types, desperadoes with a soul, yet antiheroes, except perhaps Prle, who could have been a bodyguard to some politician ater the war...” – remembered Gaga, making an analogy that every time has its heroes: “Even now I get goose bumps when I remember Joca Jovanović’s film ‘Young, Handsome as a Rose’, the first to speak about the conjunction of the police with criminals, when I, as a criminal, say at the end of the movie: ‘I’m your future’.” The character of this most charming Belgradian is illustrated by his life motto, written in the credits of the first movie he played in – for new generations, for the actual moment, probably absurd, only confirming his strong personality and postulates he had been brought up on: “Even when I’m dead and gone, I’d still like to be some kind of a light.” Urban and modern, he was deeply traditional, following the motto of his ancestors, who lived for judgment day, not to disgrace their predecessors and not to dishonor their descendants, proven by another one of his attitudes towards life: SERBIA • N O <strong>54</strong> • 2016 65
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