Rota – Fellini
May 15, 2009
Fellini’s Amarcord poster
Maybe the success on this explosive couple lied in the fact that neither Fellini nor Rota understood each other’s work. Strangely enough, Nino Rota would always fall asleep when watching Fellini’s movies and Fellini was a music analphabet to the extremes. But their results were and will always be the most astonishing musical moments in film history, as they managed to melt cinema and music like no-one ever did.
hi, annita !
I use to sleep in most of Fellini´s movies, too…
aside this, I do believe that Rota´s music made great job in makin’ Fellini’s works look greater, and even greater than they realy are.
There are artists in all fields that learned very well, since at least the end of 19th century, to use the power of media tools to create a place to them in the symbolic goods economy that is more related to this placement than to their works themselves.
BUT, i’m not saying that Fellini is not a good film-maker, and that are no interesting (and some times VERY interesting) moments in his movies (in some more than in others).
At this moment I remember another director, this much more fakefull than Fellini, but also a great success at his time, David Lynch.
And I speaking only about the talented dudes.
You should give Fellini a real second chance, then… He’s wonderful. Plus his movies are about moments, and no more than that. That’s his approach to cinema and life, I guess. It’s the language of memory or (day)dream.
Lynch, I adore Lynch… but it would be a different talk…