Comments on: Quentin Tarantino vs. the New Italian Cinema http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/quentin-tarantino-vs-the-new-italian-cinema/ The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mary Smithhttp://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/quentin-tarantino-vs-the-new-italian-cinema/#comment-521414 Mary Smith Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:49:40 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/quentin-tarantino-vs-the-new-italian-cinema/#comment-521414 OK, now, has any of you ever seen one of those new Italian films? I mean, already from a lot of decades Italian films whom, may were not totally depressing in the post-war time, now are the worst thing that could happen to a big screen. Do they ever realize how dumb is putting some show girl with no acting skills on a film making her portray some dumb woman which destiny is getting inside some dumb married man's bed? Or worse, do they know that all of those jokes about sex, gay people, cheating on partners or all of those lines will never ever happen in real life? And also, never make them make a film which goes on thriller or horror or drama or actually eveything, they're doing the same dumb jokes that may worked decades ago, they didn't move from the surrealist expressions of their past, they didn't evolve and dear God, they can barely act. So what about the scripts? Those can be defined scripts! Their TV Series are worse than a reality show! I really can't keep writing, I should stay writing these days to say how Italian filmography is despictable and horrorific. OK, now, has any of you ever seen one of those new Italian films? I mean, already from a lot of decades Italian films whom, may were not totally depressing in the post-war time, now are the worst thing that could happen to a big screen. Do they ever realize how dumb is putting some show girl with no acting skills on a film making her portray some dumb woman which destiny is getting inside some dumb married man's bed? Or worse, do they know that all of those jokes about sex, gay people, cheating on partners or all of those lines will never ever happen in real life? And also, never make them make a film which goes on thriller or horror or drama or actually eveything, they're doing the same dumb jokes that may worked decades ago, they didn't move from the surrealist expressions of their past, they didn't evolve and dear God, they can barely act. So what about the scripts? Those can be defined scripts! Their TV Series are worse than a reality show! I really can't keep writing, I should stay writing these days to say how Italian filmography is despictable and horrorific.

]]> By: Andre Soareshttp://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/quentin-tarantino-vs-the-new-italian-cinema/#comment-124654 Andre Soares Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:08:45 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/quentin-tarantino-vs-the-new-italian-cinema/#comment-124654 Hey Boyd, Thanks for the comment. Indeed, Tarantino may have spoken about something of which he knows very little. Now, I'd say that even if a particular film's sociopolitical/cultural elements go over the heads of international audiences, the film itself could still be "accessible" in terms of its human element. That's what makes cinema -- as any other type of art -- universal. I remember watching "La Scorta" a while back, and even though I didn't know all the details about the Italian mafia and what happens to politicians and judges who dare fight that criminal organization, I could relate to the characters' fears/hopes and to the reality that the bad guys often win in the real world, whether in Italy or elsewhere. Something tells me, however, that Tarantino would have found "La Scorta" a "depressing" example of the state of Italian cinema... Hey Boyd,

Thanks for the comment. Indeed, Tarantino may have spoken about something of which he knows very little.

Now, I'd say that even if a particular film's sociopolitical/cultural elements go over the heads of international audiences, the film itself could still be "accessible" in terms of its human element. That's what makes cinema — as any other type of art — universal.

I remember watching "La Scorta" a while back, and even though I didn't know all the details about the Italian mafia and what happens to politicians and judges who dare fight that criminal organization, I could relate to the characters' fears/hopes and to the reality that the bad guys often win in the real world, whether in Italy or elsewhere.

Something tells me, however, that Tarantino would have found "La Scorta" a "depressing" example of the state of Italian cinema…

]]> By: Boydhttp://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/quentin-tarantino-vs-the-new-italian-cinema/#comment-123625 Boyd Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:24:10 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/quentin-tarantino-vs-the-new-italian-cinema/#comment-123625 Dio mio! Everyone seems to get their knickers in a twist over this silly statement from Tarantino. The real question is, obviously, how much of recent Italian cinema does he really see? Does he see three films a year, 20, 50 or the entire output (around 100)? Plus, since when is "good cinema" an equivalent of "universally accessible cinema"? Some countries, and I am thinking of Spain, Greece and Italy in particular though there are others, have quite a few films that are so tied to their culture/socio-political landscape that for outsiders they are hard(er) to decipher. Does that make them bad movies? Hardly. They were not made to be understood by people outside of the country in the first place. Dio mio! Everyone seems to get their knickers in a twist over this silly statement from Tarantino. The real question is, obviously, how much of recent Italian cinema does he really see? Does he see three films a year, 20, 50 or the entire output (around 100)? Plus, since when is "good cinema" an equivalent of "universally accessible cinema"? Some countries, and I am thinking of Spain, Greece and Italy in particular though there are others, have quite a few films that are so tied to their culture/socio-political landscape that for outsiders they are hard(er) to decipher. Does that make them bad movies? Hardly. They were not made to be understood by people outside of the country in the first place.

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