{"id":8151,"date":"2012-11-24T20:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2012-11-24T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T18:58:47","slug":"satyricon-1969-federico-fellini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8151","title":{"rendered":"Satyricon (1969, Federico Fellini)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a bit of a Fellini kick. On a recent shopping trip I found two different books about this movie, so I thought I’d do the full research project, (re)watching the DVD then reading the books. But about halfway through the DVD I decided I was ready to be finished with Satyricon<\/em>, so the books will have to wait. It’s an imaginative adaptation of an ancient novel, Fellini-grotesque-style with a huge cast and massive sets. Seems like it should work, but everyone is a bit too wild and campy and I couldn’t get on the movie’s wavelength.<\/p>\n

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Our hero (or protagonist, anyway) is blonde Encolpius (Martin Potter of Demy’s Lady Oscar<\/em>), introduced vehemently seeking his ex-lover Ascyltus (Atlantan Hiram Keller of Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye<\/em>), who stole away E’s underage boy Giton and sold him to pig-faced actor Vernacchio. E gets the boy, immediately loses him again, then his entire apartment building is destroyed by an earthquake so E goes to a banquet thrown by super rich poet Trimalchio and attended by bitter rival poet Eumolpus (Salvo Randone of Hands Over the City<\/em>), who nearly gets thrown into the oven.<\/p>\n

Poetry party:<\/em>
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Trimalchio and Fortunata:<\/em>
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Eumolpus vs. the oven:<\/em>
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E is captured by a slave ship and “married” to an old man called Lichas (Alain Cuny, mysterious caped dude in The Milky Way<\/a><\/em>), who is soon killed by enemies of Caesar. Little Giton is there too, but captured again, of course.<\/p>\n

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Baths are taken, and the demigod Hermaphrodite is kidnapped then allowed to die of dehydration. E fights a fake minotaur then loses his mojo and has to visit the fire-crotched witch Oenothea to get it back.<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, there are some women in the movie besides the witch – Capucine (Clouseau’s wife in The Pink Panther<\/em>) and Magali Noel (temptress of Amarcord<\/a><\/em>), mostly playing bitter wives.<\/p>\n

The wikipedia claims the dubbing was unusually horrendous by directorial intent, but I’m not buying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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