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In Reply to: "Cinema Paradiso" (longer bersion) posted by rico on June 16, 2006 at 08:36:32:
rico,Warning: Important scenes and ending revealed !
"Cinema Paradiso" is a film I regret having forgotten to list for the "magical movies" thread below. I'm a big fan of movies that concern movies and movie people, "Day for Night", "The Player", "The Stunt Man", "Sunset Blvd.", and so on.
This movie is quite amazing in the exquisite juxtaposition of the boy Toto and growing up with his relationship to the projectionist- who ironically is blinded in a fire of the old nitro-cellulose film.
We see Toto growing up with one foot in the movie fantasy world, but there is always the return to reality. The scene in which the now famous, but jaded, divorced, depressed grownup movie director Toto watches the strung together kissing scenes that the projectionist collected over decades, expurgated by the local priest as indecent, is one of the most moving ever in a movie and especially affecting in this love note to movies.
The whole think works on one level as an allegory of life, the cinema is a social hub, realm of fantasy, and reality shock- it becoes a porno house and burns down- all in one.
It's interesting to compare "CP" to "The Legend of 1900", another film by the same director, Giuseppe Tornatore, that has many of the same qualities- it also examines the microcosm of life and the way a person captivated by an art makes decisions, but this time aboard a ship rather the encapsulated world of a town cinema.
I haven't seen the extended version, but I'll wager that more is more with this one.
I also regret not having seen "Cinema Paradiso" since it was new- 15 years or more? - thanks rico for the reminder to have a "re-charge".
Cheers,
Bambi B
Follow Ups:
Being a certified Jelly Roll Morton freak, the "duel" scene between 1900 and Jelly is my favorite part of the film.
rico,I did enjoy the Morton/1900 duel in "The Legend Of 1900"- as "1900" was calm and used his pianistic prowess to speak for him instead of boasting. But, I wonder if Jelly Roll was as arrogant as portrayed, or was it just heightened for dramatic effect ? To me, his music has too much humour and postiive energy for him to have had that kind of nasty personality.
The other sequence that has a child-like glee to itis the scene in which "1900" and his trumpeter friend ride the piano, careening around the ballroom during a storm. Gosh, I'd love to have a big room with a "riding piano" !
Cheers,
Bambi B
Based on what I have read and on the Library of Congress recordings I would say that he definitely was a braggart but did it with a great deal of charm and humor. Plus it was also said of him that he coould back up every claim tht he made. So I agree that the film sequence made him out nastier than he was in real life.
rico,That's what I suspsected- Jelly Roll Morton couln't be the pure arogant asshole as depitced in "1900", he must've been more like an earlier Muhammad Ali, spouting off, but humourously and intelligently- taking the mickey out of the people that take things so seriously that they can't enjoy it- and that is antithetical to jazz and, I suppose, professional sports.
Plus, Morton had to be brilliant in more than just music- his stuff is so complex and yet integrated in nature.
And yes, he could as advertised- "deliver the goods" whilst committing the tickling of the ivories.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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