Comments on: But I’m telling you the plot. http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/but-im-telling-you-the-plot/ david cairns Tue, 21 May 2013 07:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/but-im-telling-you-the-plot/#comment-46570 Sun, 06 May 2012 13:07:34 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=19189#comment-46570 I’m undecided as to whether to try to see the other Satyricon… ironically, I seem to recall that it was the makers of that version who were done for indecency.

I wonder if the tapes Fellini made of his own acid trip have survived anywhere…

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/but-im-telling-you-the-plot/#comment-46569 Sun, 06 May 2012 12:59:05 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=19189#comment-46569 Fellini was the cinema’s most sophisticatred “unsophisticared country boy.” Do not forget that he planned a sequel to I Vittelloni called Moraldo in the City. This eventually morphed inot La Dolce Vita with Marcello replacing Moraldo. Fellini had come to know the city quite well, and for his purposes a naif like Moraldo wouldn’t have served as a protagonist. He’d be in a perpetual state of “shock.” Marcello’s world-weariness became Fellini’s primary mode. There are several lesbians (including veteran Jerry Robbins dancer Sondra Lee) and a couple silly queens in the last sequence of La Dolce Vita as befits the overall “last call at the Via Veneto” atmosphere. But by that time he had met and collaborated with Pasolini on Nights of Cabriira — the most sophisticated gay Italian of that era (and most others). Fellini Satyricon sprang from his interest in the hippie movement. He first thought of Terence Stamp and Pierre Clementi for the leads. Then he saw “Hair” and snapped up Hiram Keller. The resultant film is in many ways an Acid Trip. And the presence of Donayele Luna in the cast makes it a perfect doubte feature with Skidoo (aka. Preminger Satyricon)

Thanks for mentioning that other version of Satyricon made at the same time as Fellinii’s. Apparently it was a flop in every concievable way. Giton as a girl? Oh Prunella!

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/but-im-telling-you-the-plot/#comment-46566 Sun, 06 May 2012 11:28:30 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=19189#comment-46566 Still, for an avowedly hetero filmmaker, Fellini did extremely well in embracing the work’s pansexuality, especially considering the age he was working in. I would say “and the country,” yet Italy throws up so many interesting takes on sexuality that it seems as if Catholicism has had an effect rather opposite to that intended.

I’m guessing FF found the book’s fragmentary nature inspiring, especially as his films had been moving away from traditional narrative for some time.

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