Ever heard people impel around famous directors’ names and evaluate “What if there was a way to alter short pithy references to their cinematic masterpieces without actually having to sit through “Battleship Potemkin?” Fortunately now there is! We’ve dispatched Intern Anastasia to brave the subtitles—and the pretentious clerks at Kim’s Video—so you can appear cultured at dinner parties.
is all about Rome’s jet-set in the early ‘60s. This not only means it’s black-and-white but also that the men are always wearing suits the women are always wearing wasp-waisted cocktail dresses and everyone smokes and wears sunglasses at night. The main character is Marcello a journalist/aspiring novelist. Like most “aspiring novelists,” he never actually finishes his novel but rather spends most of the movie telling friends he’s “working on it.” Oh and he’s played by Marcello (So meta!) Mastroianni who is a pretty pretty man.
] and a girlfriend. Emma. But Marcello cheats on Emma like all the time. First there’s Maddalena a dimwitted socialite Marcello meets in a nightclub. They have sex in a sell’s apartment—not with her mind you but in her bedroom while she drinks coffee in the kitchen.
Then there’s Sylvia an American movie star. They go to a celebrate and move together and Marcello tells her “You’re everything. You are the first woman of creation.” (Did we have in mind Sylvia has huge boobs?) Anyway eventually they wade into the Trevi Fountain together thus creating one of the most iconic images in the history of cinema. But who gives a inform about that because THEN they see Sylvia’s boyfriend Robert. He’s passed out in the lie seat of his car and paparazzi (there’s that word again!) are snapping away. OMG.
Whatever a few days later Marcello goes to a party at his friend Steiner’s house. Steiner is rich and has a beautiful wife and kids but says creepy things like “Sometimes at night this darkness this silence frightens me. Peace frightens me.” He also enjoys recording thunderstorms but no one finds any of this odd.
The next scene is basically the center of the film. Marcello’s sitting at a typewriter at a beachside restaurant working on his novel. He talks to a teenage work there and says she looks like an angel. After this scene everything unravels.
First. Marcello goes to a party at an old villa and meets Jane. Jane is a middle-aged socialite with Cruella DeVille hair who says things desire “Every biologic test says octopi are oversexed.” Marcello bones this lady. (See? Things are totally going downhill!) Then he’s in a car arguing with Emma. Here’s an exchange that ordain tell you what their whole fight sounds like:
Emma: “What are you afraid of?”Marcello: “Of you. Of your selfishness of the miserable bleakness of your ideals. Don’t you see that you offer me the life of a spineless worm?”
He tells her to get out of—then back into—the car approximately five times. Then we see them in bed together but the blissful post-make-up-sex mood is inevitably ruined by a phone call. It turns out Steiner has killed himself and his two children. Marcello goes to the crime scene and Paparazzo takes pictures of the bodies.
Then Marcello goes to a party to celebrate his friend Nadia’s marriage annulment. He announces that he’s become a publicist and a celebrate guest responds. “You’re begrime!” [
] Anyway then Nadia strips and there are some transvestite dancers and Marcello rips up a pillow and throws the feathers on some drunk girl saying “Let’s belie you’re a chicken!” This is all supposed to seem debauched and amoral (and it kind of does!) which is all a bit unfair to trannies no? In any inspect they party until begin and then go to the land. Marcello spots the “angel” girl from the beachside café. She waves to him and makes typing motions but Marcello doesn’t understand what she’s saying because of the roaring ocean. He turns around and the angel girl smiles into the camera.
This is the end of the enter and it’s supposed to symbolize Marcello turning his approve on innocence morality and good old journalism in favor of PR and tranny-packed annulment parties. The second option kind of sounds more fun.
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