{"id":8651,"date":"2013-08-02T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2013-08-01T22:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T02:52:26","slug":"big-deal-on-madonna-st-1958-mario-monicelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8651","title":{"rendered":"Big Deal on Madonna St. (1958, Mario Monicelli)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rewatched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8613\">Rififi<\/a><\/em> recently after reading that this is supposed to be a parody.  Instead of a team of experts successfully pulling a heist then getting killed off by rivals in the aftermath, we&#8217;ve got a team of incompetents who botch the planning and the heist itself, escaping with their lives and nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>Cosimo (Memmo Carotenuto, a croaking Eugene Pallette type) is arrested ineptly breaking into cars, forms the heist master plan but gets edged out of the group. Peppe the boxer (ladies&#8217; man Vittorio Gassman) takes over, teams with aged Cappanelle, tough-looking mama&#8217;s boy Mario, new dad Tiberio (Marcello Mastroianni, a couple years before <em>La Dolce Vita<\/em>) and suave mustache man Michele who keeps his virginal sister Carmelina (Claudia Cardinale in her first year in the movies) locked in their apartment. The plan involves Peppe dating a girl who lives above the shop they plan to rob, gaining access to the building through her.<\/p>\n<p><em>L-R: Mario, Michele, Cappanelle, Peppe and Tiberio:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/bigdeal1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>By the time of the heist, Cosimo is dead (run down by a bus trying to purse-snatch), Tiberio&#8217;s arm is broken, Mario is fooling around with Carmelina, and Peppe&#8217;s girl has quit her job.  They break in anyway, fail to get the safe, just steal some food from the kitchen, knock down a wall, then slink away.  Reads like there&#8217;s a ton of comic business, but for an Italian comedy it&#8217;s actually pretty subdued.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mario meets Claudia Cardinale:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/bigdeal2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Based partly on an Italo Calvino story &#8211; what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewatched Rififi recently after reading that this is supposed to be a parody. Instead of a team of experts successfully pulling a heist then getting killed off by rivals in the aftermath, we&#8217;ve got a team of incompetents who botch the planning and the heist itself, escaping with their lives and nothing more. Cosimo (Memmo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,1033,1714,13,225,936,631],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-cat-tossing","tag-claudia-cardinale","tag-criterion","tag-italy","tag-marcello-mastroianni","tag-perfect-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}