The Leopard - Visconti and Mortality
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2020
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Reframing Luchino Visconti by Ivo Blom
Luchino Visconti : A Biography by Gaia Servadio
Luchino Visconti: The Flames Of Passion by Laurence Schifano
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The final scene of Prince Salina fading into the dark, greeted by a street cat, is such a suble metaphor of the fate of aristocrats in this movie/book named Leopard, symbolized by how all felines face their mortality with a dignified manner. Angelica's kiss and dance with the prince is not a premonition of romance, but a gesture of gratitude, which the prince gladly accepts while still declining to take credit for her ascension. Sad that they don't make that kind of film anymore.
I think she has her eye on the Prince for future reference, and he on her.
Thank you for using his true name. Il Principe di Salina, or, more familiarly, Don Fabrizio. The man who narrates this documentary has got his name completely wrong. I, as an Italian, can vouch for this.
@@jackbailey7037 sim, a aristocracia deveria ser nosso exemplo de nobreza: Jesus Cristo, Rei dos Reis
The third act of this film was so powerful and beautiful that I could not find the words to describe it. It actually changed the way I viewed my own life.
Visconti's film leaves out the last few chapters of Lampedusa's novel, but it is certainly true to its spirit.
Both the book and the film are masterpieces in their own right
Beautiful portrayal and explanation
This is a great piece of cinema that I've never seen. All the characters are portrayed in the new, realistic style that was spreading through movies' at that time. This movie was made around the time I was born. Burt Lancaster is such a fine actor. It's sad he was not nominated for an academy award?
'Exquisite' is certainly the key adjective here. Every image is so exquisitely beautiful (cinematically, not solely photographically - there _is_ a difference) that it makes one ache and long for something one knows the world cannot provide. Any are that can convey that is valuable beyond measure. But exquisite also is the perceptive intelligence of the commentary and even the voice within its delivery. I could listen all day to this kind of understanding, even love, without wanting it to stop. Even as a purely vocal podcast it would inspire me to pull out my blu-ray and be lost (perhaps even found) in the experience. I've subscribed whoever you are. Do keep it up, for one day you may be the last person on Earth who could show young filmmakers how to avoid mere self-indulgence in what I call 'The Grim Cinema of the Grim'. If a film is not beautiful cinema, neither is it making its point. It is merely thrusting it 'in-yer-face'. It does not invite one (in some still detached sense) to _share_ the pain of the characters, it merely makes one glad one isn't living in their world. What a hopeless inversion of intention that is.
I put off watching The Leopard for several years because all I had heard was that it was “real cinema” and how it had perfect review scores from critics. This was intimidating to hear. However, it turned out to be completely correct, and now this is one of my favorite films.
Thanks for watching!
the ending shoot was unforgettable
What is this beautiful piano music in the background. So fitting.
“Often regarded as cinema’s true masterpieces”, you are damn right.
Hope sometime in the future UA-cam will be able to show us that movie "The Leopard" uncut just like "Once Upon a time in the West" by Sergio Leone. Love your comment about this wonderful film. Thank you!
I've seen Visconti's SENSO, and it is magnificent.
Excellent video. Looking forward to checking out more of your vids.
Thanks for watching!
And another great irony at the end of the film--Tancredi gloating over the execution of some of his former Garibaldian comrades!
And Concetta providing the necessary but inconsequential moral compass as usual.
Wow, this i great! Need to see this movie now ☺️
Rocco and his Brothers is one of my favorite of Visconti's movies. I watched that when I was very young and still love it today. In regards to Il Gattopardo, you left out one of the most important things of this movie and the book, which is still very much relevant today: “Everything must change for everything to remain the same”
Everything must change for everything to remain the same is the fabric of the film...it is the condition of the relationship between the Province and Tancredi, which is generational and transitional. It reflects an aristocratic commitment to duty, responsibility and that tenure is a reflection of that role
Prince and Tancredi
Prince's slowly disappearing in the empty streets broke my heart really. I'm also looking for piano in the background of the video, does anyone have an idea?
Still looking
nice analysis
Your video is amazingggg, btw im so in love with the background music, what is it.
Prince Salina's nephew revisits the Palace that Luchino Visconti used in The Leopard in this video: ua-cam.com/video/r02uZK9PnRM/v-deo.html He is now in his 80's. The palace is still beautiful. It's surroundings not so much. Thank you for your video, The Cinematheque. I really enjoyed it.
You speak well
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Luchino, pronounce. ' Lookeeno', a hard c not a soft one. Just saying.
Well, the sets and costumes upstage the actors. And Burt is miscast.
Intimidating sets and costumes and
Lancaster not the fitting actor as such
Have you at least seen the movie ?
"The Empire" What Empire?!
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies