I mostri

I mostri (literally " The Monster" ) is a 1963 film directed by Dino Risi incurred episode that takes the Italian company which satirized. He belongs to the genre of commedia all'italiana.

Social satire

A first draft of the script was initially conceived and directed by Elio Petri, for the actor Alberto Sordi and should combine its well-known figure spectrum in a feature film. After Sordi had rejected, the screenwriters Age & Scapelli and Ettore Scola of the substance participated in and wrote about the stories and dialogues. As the new director Dino Risi was added.

Risi pursued the topics on which he had a year earlier taken up in love with sharp curves. He designed a social satire, which traces the urbanization of Italy and its transformation into a consumer society that allows, among others, a simple, convenient shopping in self-service stores. Depending on the episode is the result will be scenes, sketches, anecdotes, sometimes around a single gimmick. Ultimately Risi wanted to achieve more than the sum of its parts. He wanted to do with the genre of the episodic film a critique of society beyond the conventional narrative form. The collection of raw, heartless protagonists should give the image of the typical contemporary Italian. The Monstrous these irresponsible, malicious figures lay in their similarity to the norm and everyday life.

There are men and women who avoid monogamy, bachelors who deal with a lot of skill every effort to escape the "trap" of marriage. In this case, the car will become the key means to escapes from the common budget and social constraints. For the protagonist says bisogna farsi furbi, you have to be torn down. This principle drives the first episode on the top. This Ugo Tognazzi teaches his young son, played by his actual son Ricky to trust no one, to be torn and to transgress the laws of calm.

Among the native productions I was mostri 1963 on the domestic market, the film with the sixth largest revenue, which amounted to 377 million lire. In the Federal Republic, he was not in the cinema. 1977 followed the episodic film I nuovi mostri, with 14 episodes in which Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli led Director. In contrast to the Mostri of 1963, the satirical focus shifted from the individual to society as a whole.

The episodes

I mostri consists of twenty episodes of varying length. For all Dino Risi directed. Ugo Tognazzi (UT ) and Vittorio Gassman (VG ) take on different roles in the review La musa Gassman plays even a woman. The episodes are each separated by a text table from each other, on which the title of the following article is.

The table contains the original Italian titles about a literal German translation.

In the episode Scenda l' oblio a couple looks at the cinema of a war movie. On the screen, a scene will play in which a troop of armed forces shot down a family on a wall. The man asks the woman if you could not build her new house a similar wall like this. This episode takes place on the limited influence of neorealist films on the mass audience, whose desire was boundless for consumer goods. In the 19th and 20th episode described and, in the opinion Lanzonis Fournier (2008), amplified I mostri the myth and the importance that had the television in the lives of Italians. The part of L' oppio dei popoli witness by the continued growth of television in the family and their destruction.

La giornata dell'onorevole was for Fournier Lanzoni " perhaps the masterpiece " among the episodes because they give the entire film a moral dimension, without ever imposing a moralistic conclusion. The presented MPs, the describing his efforts to not be notified of a corruption scandal, which he would then have to stop, was a caricature of the Christian Democrats and their known representative Amintore Fanfani. At the center stands the " motivation " of the party to pursue corruption. This episode could be a reason why the original producer Dino De Laurentiis refused to finance the project finally.

Reviews

The Italian film critic Goffredo Fofi described in a review article (1963 ) for Italian comedy in the stories I mostri as " cases of " alienation " in the affluent society. The satire hits the mark repeatedly, without sacrificing the cheapest and worst effects. " In the Federal Republic the movie does not hit cinemas. 2008 Gerhard Midding described in his obituary of Dino Risi I mostri " an almost encyclopedic world theater of infamy "

1963 in film Screenplay Furio Scarpelli Ruggero Maccari Mario Cecchi Gori Film score Alfio Contini Anthology film Italian neorealism Christian Democracy (Italy)
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