a wandering ballad

Edyth 2022-04-23 07:02:32

1. Fellini, the master of Italian modernism, ubiquitous autobiographical elements, bitter, sad humor, mysterious, surreal, highly personal imagination and fantasy screen world, become the three recognized Fellini films. aesthetic features. "The Great Road" is a work of his lonely trilogy period. The theme is to express the tragic fate of the lower-class little people. Known as "inner realism". 2. Between the two protagonists, this variation of love and righteousness is accomplished through camera positions, scheduling, and repetition of the same scene again and again. The caravan travels on the road, and the camera is set in or in front of the caravan, so that Zombano and Gersomena appear in the double mid shot. In the first half, Gersomina's eyes can't leave Zombano. When tragedy strikes, for the first time in a road-themed story, the view from the car window begins, a moment in which Gersomina turns her eyes away. The choice of such a camera position indicates a fundamental reversal of the relationship between the two people, and also lays the groundwork for Zambano, who represents barbarism or instrumental rationality, and Gersomina, who represents innocence and kindness in emotional or moral sense, weeping bitterly. Foreshadowing.

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  • Zampanò: [reciting his act by rote before a crowd] Here we have a piece of chain that is a quarter of an inch thick. It is made of crude iron, stronger than steel. With the simple expansion of my pectoral muscles, or chest, that is, I'll break the hook.

    [collecting money from the crowd]

    Zampanò: Thank you, thank you. Now, to do this feat, I must fill myself up like a tire. If a blood vessel should break, I would spit blood. For instance, in Milan a man weighing 240 pounds lost his eyesight doing this trick. That is because the optical nerves take a beating, and once you lose your eyes, you are finished. If there's any delicate person in the audience, I would advise him to look away 'cause there could be blood.

    [with seemingly great effort, he breaks the chain]

  • Gelsomina's Mother: She's not like Rosa. But she's a good girl, poor thing. She'll do what she's told. She just came out a little strange. But, if she eats every day, maybe she'll get better.