Marcello Mastroianni Essays

  • The Story of Yasmin

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    The Story of Yasmin – 1989 + As the years elapsed, the room the two sisters had shared upstairs of their old wooden farmhouse, had gained a different status in Eva's mind. It became the precious object of memories, where private conversations and dreams were once revealed. Eva gazed with nostalgia at a faded color portrait of the smiling faces of the two sisters. As adolescents they had been complicit in following the intrepid adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his sidekick, Sancho Penza

  • Compare And Contrast Big Deal On Madonna Street And Bicycle Thieves

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    A crime is a serious offence such as murder or robbery. A punishment is a penalty imposed on somebody who is convicted of a crime. The two movies that are being compared and contrasted is I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958), filmed by Mario Monicelli and Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948), filmed by Vittorio De Sica. Both Bicycle Thieves and Big Deal on Madonna Street ushered in a new era of film. This allows two movies to accomplish similar goals in two completely different

  • Federico Fellini's Rome

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    various visions he gave of his adopted city: Rome of the poor and disillusioned whores, represented by Cabiria who experiences many situations but who resists and smiles to life; Rome of the paparazzi and La Dolce Vita, with Anita Ekberg trying with Marcello to join her in the Trevi Fountain, with Christ on a helicopter flight over the city, and finally Rome, in its entirety. In almost all the posters of Fellini’s movies st... ... middle of paper ... ...th tables of barbarians. A city represented

  • Sion Sono's Dinner Table

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    Sion Sono, having directed 46 films since 1984, is one of the most prolific filmmakers of Japan, excelling, since the beginning of his career, in everything grotesque, abnormally erotic and exceedingly violent that can be found in a movie. He is considered one of the artists that finally modernized the preterit genre of J-Horror, transforming it into something closer to the ero guro style that includes, besides terror, eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence, both physical and spiritual. Sono

  • Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts

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    Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts ABSTRACT: Ours is not the first time philosophers have looked to art for examples to illustrate their arguments. One example would be Kierkegaard, who turned to Mozart's operas in an attempt to expose what he called the aesthetic realm of existence. I hold that if Kierkegaard lived today, he would consider the main character of Nikita Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes (1987) as a prototype of the aesthetic way of existence. In order to support