This is a great comedy, filmed in Sicily, about a man who is in love with his cousin, but he is already married. Turns out, Sicilian courts are lenient on crimes of passion, so he figures if he can get his wife to be unfaithful, and kill her in the middle of her affair, he might actually get off with no prison time! As the plot unfolds, he is successful beyond his wildest dreams. the lead is played by Marcello Mastrioanni and he is great! He combs his hair slick back, in fact wears a do rag to tame his hair, and he smokes with a cigarette holder. Woody Allen parodied this film genre in Everything You wanted to Know About Sex but were Afraid to Ask in the skit about sex in public places, and in Play it Again Sam, in the scene where he and his friend are Italian bakers and they fight over the same woman. Marcello's character is played on Saturday Night Live by Bill Hader, who is an Italian TV interviewer who talks in rapid Italian, smokes, and his producers are off stage smoking and eating sausage and playing cards. hader dresses and acts like Marcello Mastrioanni - its very clever, and dead on "Mastrioanni genre 1960's" really funny. I searched the internet and couldn't find a video clip of him doing the skit. but very funny. In the movie, at one point a roman catholic priest gives a sermon on how society has crumbled morally because of the horrible movies made, and he refers to La Dolce Vita, a film a couple years earlier by....you guessed it, marcello Mastrioanni.!!!! Really funny, he is satirizing his own movies and pop culture spin! Great movie and I really enjoyed it.
No comments:
Post a Comment