Trust me, I respect Darío Fo so much and I´m also against any act of censorhip. I share many of your thoughts as you certainly were reading my posts.ITALIANO wrote:Hustler wrote:[I consider him a cheater in political terms. He intended to subvert a genocide, to soften it up. That´s unforgivable. It´s a shame when you try to manipulate the history.
By the way, I didn´t find this performance comic at all.
Trust me - you didn't understand the movie and you probably don't understand much about comic cinema (and theatre).
One is allowed not to like Life is Beautiful, of course. But one can't say that there are subject that a comic can't touch, in comic terms - death, sex, religion, food, French Revolution, Hitler, Popes, and so the Holocaust, too - as Dario Fo has said, even just the idea that there are "sacred" subjects that can't be dealt with in a comic, or humorous, way, is an act of censorship.
If you have guilty feelings, it's not Benigni's fault.
Hustler wrote:[I consider him a cheater in political terms. He intended to subvert a genocide, to soften it up. That´s unforgivable. It´s a shame when you try to manipulate the history.
By the way, I didn´t find this performance comic at all.
No, you didn´t understand at all. I wasn´t refering to his talent. I consider him a cheater in political terms. He intended to subvert a genocide, to soften it up. That´s unforgivable. It´s a shame when you try to manipulate the history.ITALIANO wrote:He's a comic actor, that's why he always plays the same character.
And "cheater" is a word which doesn't have anything to do with artist expressions - it's a moral judgement in the honored (here) tradition of "cheap whore", etc.
Benigni is a cheater, that´s why I don´t like him. I think american were capivated by his work because they didn´t know him. If you take a look at his filmography you´ll see that every character is a carboncopy from the other. On the other hand he took a serious and painful fact of our recent history with incredible lack of respect.
Benigni is a cheater, that´s why I don´t like him. I think american were capivated by his work because they didn´t know him. If you take a look at his filmography you´ll see that every character is a carboncopy from the other. On the other hand he took a serious and painful fact of our recent history with incredible lack of respect.Steph2 wrote:That's a great comment Josh, and I think you're absolutely right, but I can't select Whitaker with all the crap in the performances of the lesser actors you mentioned. I'm actually gonna go with Foxx.
And how is poor Roberto winning this poll by a wide margin? Seriously, do you people remember Russell Crowe and Jamie Foxx??
