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Thirteen Conversations About Money, in the chronological order of films. In some, the old myth of Danae is a world away, in other very closely. The differences are two: the men appear and generally has replaced the gold banknotes - but not always. In the movie The bulls
(1953), Alberto (Alberto Sordi ) is a wimp who still lives with his mother and sister Olga ( Claude Farell), an employee, that here the money is going. Alberto is the sustained, Olga knows but if it just needs Albert opens his mouth. Olga has a lover who is married to Albert and will make her morals when she is gone. "But you think about my mother?" Will tell you, he who has never taken a penny in the house.
Cabiria (Giulietta Masina ) is a prostitute who has the dream to find the man of her life. I think I found Oscar (Francois Perier ) that the proposed marriage. Cabiria sells everything he has, including the house, and boasts happy big bunch of notes. Oscar is sitting in the front. I'm in a restaurant in Castel Gandolfo, happiness is at hand, only a little later, taking a walk in the pine forest bordering the lake, Cabiria finds out the true intentions of Oscar to throw in the lake and take away the money.
Elsa (Mylène Demongeot ) is the mistress in charge of the rich playboy Raymond (David Niven ). Tonight is happy he won at the casino and among those who celebrate there is also Cecile (Jean Seberg ) the daughter of Raymond. But Elsa does not know what to expect: the designer came Anne Larson ( Deborah Kerr) who was the best friend of Raymond's wife and wants to marry him. Elsa was born with the shirt: that night know the funny billionaire Pablo ( Walter Chiari) and can quickly see things in a whole new perspective.
In the fishing village of Porto Manacore, Marietta (Gina Lollobrigida ) is the most beautiful girl, fought over by three men: Don Cesare ( Pierre Brasseur), Tossa Enrico (Marcello Mastroianni ) and Matteo Brigante (Yves Montand ). Only it's a poor family, in which case the trench is best that you Marietta: bags filled with notes above. Who will give them to him? The richest or the one that really likes her?
After the closure of brothels, in consequence of the law Merlin, four prostitutes decide to join forces to open a restaurant: Adua ( Simone Signoret), Lolita ( Sandra Milo), Marilina ( Emmanuelle Riva) and Catherine ( Gina Rovere ). They put together their savings and are waiting Ercoli ( Claudio Gora), a purveyor of ambiguous Affairs, who met in homes. Ercoli strozzerà with the rate of a loan and return the women to be prostitutes, but on the street.
Dino (Horst Bucholz ) has brought his mistress Cecilia (Catherine Spaak ) in the rich house of mother (Bette Davis ). Dino knows that Cecilia has other lovers, and that one of these, Luciani ( Luigi Giuliani) would make a trip to Capri. Dino has the keys of the safe of his mother and plays Cecilia naked with large bills. Cecilia enjoys, is fascinated by this game, which concludes by throwing Dino bancanote fall to Cecilia so that from above, like rain. Then Dino Cecilia proposes to keep her all the money, but the surprising Cecilia asking the exact amount it costs to travel and stay in Capri, much less. Cecilia has found a way to respond to what he really wanted Dino: keep it to himself.
The episode is also in Moravia's novel and the similarity with certain erotic representations of the myth of Danae in the seventeenth and eighteenth century is evident.
Jason (Todd Armstrong ) with the help of Medea (Nancy Kovack ) is managed to steal the Golden Fleece. Medea, in love with Jason, ha tradito il padre Eeta ( Jack Gwillim ), che possedeva il Vello. Durante una battaglia con gli uomini di Eeta, Medea viene colpita alla schiena da una freccia. Giasone e Argo ( Laurence Naismith ) hanno l'idea di ricoprirla col Vello e in poco tempo le proprietà terapeutiche del Vello fanno sì che Medea si riprenda, perfettamente sanata. Un'idea intelligente, vicina a rappresentazioni del mito di Danae non palesemente erotiche.
Nestor Patou ( Jack Lemmon ) era un poliziotto. It has now become the protector of Irma la Douce ( Shirley Mac Laine ) he is in love and that is in love with him. Precisely for this reason, Irma worked as much as possible because he thinks it is happier than she Nestor. And Nestor is actually happy, Irma's has just as many notes you earn that day. But a few days after Nestor would like Irma was all for him, a pernicious confusion between love and work. What to do?
Marie (Anne Wiazemsky ) is the daughter of a master di paese che ha fatto i soldi amministrando le tenute di un aristocratico, il cui figlio era innamorato di Marie. Ma sono intervenuti dei contrasti col padre di Marie sulle modalità amministrative e sul denaro. Questo ha allontanato i due giovani e Marie si è messa con un poco di buono che la trascura. Una sera, disperata, si rifugia nella casa di un uomo che crede amico. Questi le offre dei soldi che Marie prima prende poi rifiuta. Questa rappresentazione, ancor più del mito di Danae, richiama un mito biblico, quello della Casta Susanna. Penso che Bresson lo sapesse benissimo e l'abbia fatto volutamente.
Maria (Sophia Loren ) married Pasquale (Vittorio Gassman ) that is rich and has a problem with trying to do various jobs. But always, Mary is in love with Alfredo Mariano (Mario Adorf ) that makes a home of Mary of the gifts arrive. Pasquale believes that the house is inhabited by a ghost beneficial, but Mary believes that Pasquale has understood everything and he invented the ghost to not to know how things are. It ends with a fake wife-murder, cha all think Maria is dead, including Alfredo, which provides money to what I believe is an apparition. Instead, Mary is in the flesh, that with that money creates an unexpected rain Pasquale who wakes up dazed. Before the passage of money according to the myth (from Alfred to Mary), then the humorous interpretation of the male (from Mary Pasquale).
more money than I have in front Peppino ( Alberto Sordi) is the billionaire ( Bette Davis) who is making his annual trip to Italy during which, coupled with George (Joseph Cotten ) played against scopone Peppino and his moglie Antonia ( Silvana Mangano ). Stavolta sembra che finalmente i soldi della miliardaria trasmigrino, ma non finirà così, perché mentre Antonia gioca molto bene, Peppino è un giocatore fragile e incerto. Declinazione al maschile anche qui.
Dock McCoy ( Steve McQueen ) è un delinquente appena uscito dalla galera. Fuori lo attende la moglie Carol ( Ali McGraw ), che è riuscita ad ottenere che Doc uscisse prima accettando di andare a letto col potente Jack Beynon (Ben Johnson ) - but the Doc does not know. Doc and Carol have just done a bank robbery and put to bed by covering it with notes.
Hugo Adèle (Isabelle Adjani ) is obsessed with love for the British officer Albert Pinson ( Bruce Robinson ). The money that Pinson has repeatedly refuses to everyone.
PS This post was the last one I published in Nonblog Habanera with the title "Rain of Gold (3)", September 17, 2009. I made changes to the text and added some pictures. I wrote a comment that he wanted to be a sum up (!) Of the three posts on the myth of Danae. I post that comment below, also partly modified:
" start from the beginning, more than 2500 years ago.
The original theme of the myth is not an erotic or loving, but it is impossible to escape his Fate. As in the myth of Oedipus. Acrisius fact closes his daughter Danae in a tower because it was prophesied that the son of Danae would kill him. So Zeus is an instrument of Fate: Perseus, generated by visit of Zeus in the form of golden rain, accidentally kills Acrisius.
Already in Greek pottery and the paintings found at Pompeii and the erotic connotation is in the foreground, although it must be said that this is another myth: that of Perseus, the son of Danae, with the liberation of Andromeda and the killing Medusa.
After the advent of Christianity, the myth of Danae disappears for a thousand years. Blooms around the end of the fifteenth century painting and live for three centuries, disappearing in the nineteenth century, because the nineteenth-century representations are almost always making excuses to show a beautiful woman.
Thus, the golden shower sex ratio becomes the modern-money, and the cinema is so often; Here I have shown only thirteen. In the theater, in opera and operetta is a clear centrality in La Traviata and The Merry Widow, and not because creative directors took advantage of good or evil, but because it is just like starting. There are other examples (of course comic opera), the most obvious of which was born from the Beaumarchais-Mozart-Da Ponte: Le Nozze di Figaro with the relationship between the Count, Countess, Figaro and Susanna, the Count on which it wishes to exercise primae noctis jus . Other examples are the two Manon (Massenet and Puccini), Musetta in La Bohème, not to mention Elisir d'amore: Nemorino becomes very popular in his country when it comes to know that inherit from a relative.
Il cinema inserisce molte varianti, fra cui la principale è che compare anche l'uomo oggetto : non è scontato che il denaro ce l'abbia l'uomo. Continuerà così anche in futuro, perché il rapporto sesso-denaro (amore-interesse) continua e continuerà ad esserci, malgrado si faccia di tutto per chiamarsi fuori. Il gioco delle dominanze è inerente agli esseri umani, e il denaro è un mezzo per esercitarlo, ma non il solo mezzo.
C'è un notevole film del 1981: "La vera storia della signora delle camelie" di Mauro Bolognini, con Isabelle Huppert ( Alphonsine Plessis), Gian Maria Volontè (il padre di Alphonsine), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Alexandre Dumas fils), Mario Maranzana (Alexandre Dumas père), Bruno Ganz (Count Perregaux) e. .. Carla Fracci (Marguerite Gautier)! Why the switch from film to represent life and Alexandre Dumas attends the premiere of his play, which becomes Alphonsine Plessis Marguerite Gauthier.
The three images of closure of the post are taken from this film.
(1981) by Mauro Bolognini
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