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Theorem (movie)

Theorem (movie)

Theorem is an italian language movie directed in 1968 by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Laura Betti, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti and french actress Anne Wiazemsky.

Plot

A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor? Could he be God? Category:1968 films Category:Controversial films Category:Italian films



Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, and writer, who often made films about the social outcast and rebels. He is known for casting actors with little or no acting experience.

Biography

Pasolini was born in Bologna, traditionally the most leftist of Italian cities. He was the son of a soldier who became famous for saving Mussolini's life. Pasolini began writing poems at the age of seven. His works were first published when he was 19 and studying at the University of Bologna. Pasolini had belonged to the communist clubs of his town. In his youth, he wrote several poems in Friulian, a language that he learnt from his mother, who was from Friuli. He had also created an association to foster the use of Friulian in literature. He was drafted in World War II, and after subsequent imprisonment by the Germans, managed to escape. After the war, he joined the Communist party, but was expelled two years later on the grounds of his homosexuality, which he publicly declared on many occasions. At the time, a public declaration of being gay could cause scandal across the political spectrum. All the same, his world view remained essentially communist throughout his life.

Death

Pasolini was murdered brutally by being run over several times with his own car at the beach of Ostia near Rome. Pino Pelosi, a hustler, was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. On May 7th, 2005, he retracted his confession, claiming that unidentified men had killed Pasolini. He gave threats of violence against his family as the reason for his erstwhile confession. The investigation into Pasolinis death has been re-opened following Pelosi's recantation. His murder is still not completely explained: some contradictions in the declarations of Pelosi, a strange intervention by Italian secret services during the investigations and some lack of coherence of related documents during the different parts of the judicial procedures brought some of Pasolini's friends (actress Laura Betti, a close friend, particularly) to suspect that his murder had been commissioned. It is true, indeed, that Pasolini, in the months just before his death, had seen many politicians, telling them that he was aware of certain crucial secrets. Following Pelosi's statement of May 2005, the Rome police has reopened the murder case.

Work

His first novel, Ragazzi di Vita (1955), dealt with male prostitutes, pimps and thieves, resulting in obscenity charges against him, the first of many instances where his art caused him legal problems. Accattone (1961), his first movie, also about the Roman underworld, likewise brought him into conflict with conservatives, who demanded stricter censorship. Strangely, supported by the Catholic Church, he directed the black-and-white The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1964), widely hailed the best cinematic adaptation of the life of Jesus, who was portrayed by Enrique Irazoqui. While making the film, Pasolini vowed to direct it from the "believer's point of view," but later, upon viewing the completed work, realized that he had expressed his own beliefs instead. In Theorem (1968), starring Terence Stamp as a mysterious stranger, he depicted the sexual coming-apart of a bourgeois family (later to be repeated by Francois Ozon in Sitcom). Later movies centered on sex-laden folklore, such as Il fiore delle mille una notte (Arabian Nights, 1974), Boccaccio's Decamerone (1970) and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1972), own to the Trilogy of life. His final work, the only one from the expected Trilogy of death, Salò (1975), went far beyond what most movie-goers could stomach at the time, because of its scenes of intensely sado-masochistic graphic violence. Based on the novel by the Marquis de Sade, it continues to be his most controversial film. In his 1966 film, Uccellacci e Uccellini, a sort of picaresque - and at the same time mystic - fable, he wanted the great Italian comedian Totò, to work with one of his preferred "naif" actors, Ninetto Davoli. It was a unique opportunity for Totò to demonstrate that he was a great dramatic actor.

Significance

Pasolini, as a director, created a sort of second neorealism, which deeply and constantly touched picaresque tones, showing a sad reality — hidden, but real, concrete — which many social and political lobbies had no interest in seeing brought to light. Mamma Roma, with an extraordinary Anna Magnani, the story of a prostitute and her son, is an astonishing punch in the stomach for the common morality of those times. The doubt that Pasolini often inserted in his works, that such realities are less distant from us than we imagine, is one of his major contributions to a change in the Italian psyche, and an unrepeated example of poetry applied to cruel realities. The director also promoted the concept of "natural sacredness" in his works, the concept that the world is holy in and of itself, and does not need any spiritual essence or supernatural blessing to attain this state. Indeed, Pasolini was an avowed atheist. The contrast between public opinion and what Pasolini was able to show, focused on sexual moralism, was perhaps what made him encounter general disapproval and effectively he was perhaps the man who most suffered cultural discrimination for his homosexuality. Pasolini's poetry, lesser known outside of Italy, often deals with his highly revered mother and his same-sex love interests, but this is not the main and only theme. As a sensible and extremely intelligent man, he depicted certain corners of the contemporary reality as very few other poets were able to do.

Political views

In politics too, or better, in the social debate, Pasolini was able to create scandal and debate with some assertions that were as much unheard as, at the same time, true: during the disorders of 1969, when university students were acting in a guerrilla-like fashion against the police in the streets of Rome, all the leftist forces declared their complete support for the students, and described the disorders as a civil fight of proletarians against the system. Pasolini, instead, alone among the communists, declared that he was with the police or, to be precise, with the policemen, the real proletarians who were sent to fight against boys of their same age for a poor salary and reasons which they could not understand because they had not had the fortune of being able to study. Pasolini was also an ardent critic of consumismo, i.e. consumerism, which he felt had rapidly destroyed Italian society in the late 1960s/early 1970s, particularly the class of the subproletariat, to which he felt both sexually and artistically drawn. Pasolini observed that the kind of purity which he perceived in the members of that class (as portrayed e.g. in Acccattone) was rapidly vanishing, the animalistic joie de vivre of the boys being rapidly replaced with more bourgeois ambitions such as a house and a family. The coprophagia scenes in Salò were described by him as being a comment on the processed food industry. But not only economical globalization but also the cultural domination of the North of Italy (around Milan) over other regions, but especially the South, like Sicily, primarily through the power of TV, angered him. He opposed the gradual disappearanc of Italian dialects by writing some of his poetry in Friulian, the dialect of the region where he spent his childhood.

Quotes

"If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief." (1966) "The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life." [Interview in documentary, late 1960s]

Filmography

External links


- [http://www.pasolini.net Italian site with extensive commentary on his theories, films, and literature]
- [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/pasolini.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4529877.stm BBC News report on the reopening of the murder case]
- Doug Ireland: [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=8433 Restoring Pasolini] Thirty years later, new questions arise about who murdered the Italian cultural genius Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo ko:피에르 파올로 파졸리니 ja:ピエル・パオロ・パゾリーニ

Silvana Mangano

Silvana Mangano (April 23, 1930 – December 16, 1989) was an actress of Italy's neo-realistic period. She was born in Rome, Italy. Trained as a dancer, she was supporting herself as a model. Rome, ItalyIn 1946, at 16, Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant. One year later she was one of the girls in the Miss Italia contest. Potential actress Lucia Bose became "The Queen", among Mangano and some other future stars of Italian cinema like as Gina Lollobrigida, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Gianna Maria Canale. Mangano's earliest connection with filmmaking occurred through her romantic relationship with actor Marcello Mastroianni. This led her to a movie contract, though it would take sometime for Mangano to ascend to international stardom with her stunning performance in Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro, Giuseppe De Santis, 1949). Though she never scaled the heights of her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Lollobrigida, Mangano remained a favorite star between the 1950s and 1970s, appearing in Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951), The Gold of Naples (L' Oro di Napoli, Vittorio De Sica, 1954), Mambo (Robert Rossen, 1955), Theorem (Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968), and Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia, Luchino Visconti, 1971). Married to Bitter Rice producer Dino De Laurentiis, Mangano had four children, one of whom, daughter Raffaela, coproduced with his father the Mangano's next-to-last film Dune (David Lynch, 1984). Silvana Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain, at 59 years of age.

External links


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- [http://www.batnet.com/mfwright/silvana_mangano.html Silvana Mangano page at Batnet] Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Silvana

Anne Wiazemsky

Anne Wiazemsky (born 14 May 1947), French actress, appeared in Robert Bresson's Balthazar and later in Godard's La Chinoise. She married Jean-Luc Godard. (22 July 1967 - 1979) (divorced) She is the granddaughter of François Mauriac. Anne Wiazemsky is also a French author, she wrote several novels : “Canines”, “Une poignée de gens”, “Hymnes à l’amour”. All the fine promises (2003), a movie directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac, with Valérie Crunchant and Bulle Ogier, is based on "Hymnes à l'amour".

Filmography

Actress


- 1966 : Balthazar (French title : Au hasard Balthazar) directed by Robert Bresson
- 1967 : La chinoise directed by Jean-Luc Godard
- 1968 : Theorem directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- 1971 : Raphael or the Debauched One directed by Michel Deville
- 1973 : The last train directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre

Screenplay


- 1994 : U.S. go Home directed by Claire Denis
- 2003 : All the fine promises (Prix Jean Vigo), directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac with Valérie Crunchant and Bulle Ogier

Director


- 2004 : Les Anges 1943, histoire d’un film with Jean-Paul Civeyrac

External link


- Wiazemsky, Anne Wiazemsky, Anne

Category:1968 films

This category lists the titles of films originally released in the year 1968. See also 1968 in film. Category:Films by year Film

Category:Controversial films

This is a list of films, intended for mainstream or broad commercial distribution, that have provoked extraordinary controversy due to their content or approach. Also see: Banned films Category:Films by societal reaction Category:Controversial entertainment media

SoCal Val

Valerie Elizabeth Wyndham (born March 27, 1986 in Beverly Hills, California) is an American professional wrestling valet, better known by her ring name, So Cal Val.

Career

After she was "discovered" while attending a local wrestling event, Valerie Wyndham debuted on March 30, 2002 for the Golden State Championship Wrestling independent promotion as the manager of Pinoy Boy, who she promptly betrayed by berating him after he was defeated by Scott Lost and then leaving with Lost. She appeared for several other promotions in Southern California before her family moved across the country to Orlando, Florida when she was sixteen. Wyndham developed the character of So Cal Val, a wealthy, petulant, ruthless heel. In addition to working for multiple independent promotions, Wyndham has appeared with World Wrestling Entertainment, modelling a John Cena t-shirt on WWE.com and appearing on WWE SmackDown! as part of a vignette featuring Luther Reigns. She regularly appears with the Orlando based promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, working variously as a ring girl, spokesmodel and merchandise model. She appeared at the TNA No Surrender pay-per-view on July 17, 2005 alongside ring announcer Jeremy Borash. Wyndham continues to work for promotions throughout Southern California, most prominently Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where was the commissioner at one point.

Wrestling facts

Quotes


- "It's all about the legs."
- "I'm filthy rich... and you're just filthy!"

Finishing and signature moves


- So Cal Slap

Wrestlers managed by So Cal Val

Wyndham has managed over seventy wrestlers, including:

References


- [http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/s/so-cal-val.html So Cal Val at OWW.com]
- [http://upw.com/superstars/vixens/socalval.htm So Cal Val at UPW.com]

External link


- [http://www.geocities.com/officialsocalvalsite/ The official website of So Cal Val] Wyndham, Valerie Wyndham, Valerie Wyndham, Valerie Wyndham, Valerie Wyndham, Valerie Wyndham, Valerie Wyndham, Valerie Wyndham, Valerie

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