Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini is one of the most important film directors of all time. He created multiple films that expressed the true reality of a Fascist Italy. Italy at the time was under Fascist control, which was similar to that of the Nazi take over in Germany. In his movie 8 ½ Fellini casts Marcello as the lead role, some say that Marcello was portraying a younger version of Fellini. Marcello plays the role of Guido in the film. Guido is a young man who is struggling through a sort of directors block on his recent film. Throughout the movie Guido’s past life unfolds before his very eyes as the women of his life return and many other memories unravel. This movie is a great example of the mastermind that Fredrico Fellini really is.

The opening scene lays out the entire story for the viewers. Guido the main character is in a traffic jam that he cannot escape. He is trapped inside a car with people from his past staring him down at all angles, as if forcing him to move. Guido eventually is able to escape out of the roof of his car; as soon as he is out he begins to float away in a rope that is pulling him into the sky. As he floats away he passes over the city of Rome and floats on endlessly until one of critics pulls him out of the sky and back into reality. This is where his story begins. Guido is constantly in and out of reality because he is under some much pressure to finish his latest film.

This film goes back and forth between what is reality and what is fantasy. To the people watching the film it becomes difficult to decipher what is really reality and what is fantasy. If you watch the film closely some say that Guido touches his nose when he switches from reality to fantasy while others have no idea what the difference...

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...oving together to achieve a common goal, or the idea of a group of people marching to music, most of these scenes were further away in the background, but some were displayed in the front. Such as the ending scene where all of the actors march in a line to the same beat on the spaceship like set that Guido created for his film. The idea of unity and working together formed the idea for the conclusion in the end. This scene is well known and demonstrated in many other films created by Fellini.

Fellini is what some many call a magician, as he is able to incorporate all of these magical scenes discreetly into all off his films. He has proved himself over and over again to be the vision of Cinema, and his film 8 ½ is the last building block in his puzzle.

Works Cited

Bondanella, Peter E. The Italian Cinema Book. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

The 8 ½ film