Cari lettori vicini e lontani buongiorno a tutti! Oggi voglio parlarvi di uno dei pochi nomi che più dovrebbero conoscere gli addetti ai lavori, i lettori and anyone who is interested in the Great Library and on film. I speak of William Peter Blatty author of (relatively) few but extraordinary novels and not just the well-known "The Exorcist" . But why talk about someone who everyone knows by now, at least by hearsay, and not any of the authors and younger as well known? Why is the novel, the film is ("The Exorcist") are examples of how to write and shoot a film to make an unforgettable addition to the fact that Blatty is still alive. And why does the fact that today there are well-known writers and directors, does not mean that they are also validi. L’esorcista è uno dei film più terrificanti di sempre e il merito di questo si deve al regista, ma dobbiamo anche dire che è nato da uno dei romanzi più terrificanti di sempre. Concepito col massimo rigore e determinazione artistica, ha ispirato un film che rimarrà un cult di difficile, se non impossibile, emulazione. E non si può dire che non ve ne siano state a partire dai seguiti e da film ottimi, ma non a quel livello, come “L’esorcismo di Emily Rose” . Insomma: Blatty e Friedkin sono esempi viventi di come si dovrebbe scrivere e di come ormai non si scrive né tanto meno si dirige un film. Per quanto riguarda lo scrittore, il suo latest and newest novel, "Redemption" , suffered several negative reviews for various reasons. If you remember, even my previous post called this book too confusing for my taste but, besides this, I also expressed my appreciation for the style of a man who writes very well. In short, anyone who reads one of his novels of course, if it is not always a bimbominkia, that art is something that you not only sweat but also live, your reason for living, your muse, your beacon in the night.
There is an unexpected artists, writers, sculptors, painters, filmmakers. And, limiting myself to writing, one can not study or take courses in public schools private. Art is what you are and that no mass can ever emulate. Above all, before the mass of people following the bullshit marketing ends in themselves, art is something difficult to understand. Add to this, quite a "who cares" and go ahead! The film "The Exorcist" , faithfully taken from the novel, he had the supervision of the writer (as usually happens in such cases) met a film worthy of the name, the aforementioned William Friedkin . Today Friedkin certain choices in the film of the same name and choices in the field of literary Blatty would horrify most people, but if you want to describe something that has the taste of the real need to make it real. Otherwise we might as well be satisfied with the merry stories that are all the rage today. The genes of marketing, which also account for whatever you sell today, they are not ready to head to the Arts and is a fact that Art and Marketing are incompatible at some level. In pennies: markettaro writer and give each other the ass! Example (unseemly) as functions of marketing in the purely commercial sense, it appears already in the choice of cover of "Redemption": a (bad) copy of that saga "Twilight" that did not do well in the novel as many sheep, now accustomed to thinking (thinking?) That books are "wonderful" are some silly fantasy stories all brick or the usual "common stories of young people struggling with life-false truth," can only NOT consider a novel of this sort. Today should be the nonsense that plastic is a fact: that they are entitled to another space. Whether the standard is truly shameful. Back to us I would like to invite you to turn your attention to manic perfection by director and writer in the composition of the film which gave immortal fame to the protagonist, Linda Blair . Examples of this are several episodi che qui vado a elencare. Dopo quattordici ciak falliti, Friedkin schiaffeggiò violentemente O'Malley (Padre Dyer) per rendere realistico il suo stato d’animo quando dà l'estrema unzione a Padre Karras. Per rendere gli attori più realistici sparava (letteralmente) alle spalle degli attori per rendere ‘vivo’ il loro terrore. Quando la controfigura della Blair, Eileen Dietz, vomita contro Jason Miller la zuppa di piselli, Friedkin non avvertì l’attore in modo che il suo disgusto fosse del tutto verosimile. Per rendere credibile la voce “demoniaca” di Mercedes McCambridge, le disse di fumare tre pacchetti al giorno di sigarette, bere liquore e nutrirsi di sole uova e mele verdi. Le urla della Blair during the exorcism were obtained using a sound based on a swarm of bees, the cries of the poor pigs in the slaughterhouse and the screams of a boy undergoing a real exorcism. The priests who starred in the film were real priests ... and so on! Blatty himself during the composition of the novel long studied the subject of his interest, he consulted books, discussed with exorcists. It 'obvious that such behaviors are not applicable in times such as those which we live. There animal figures, human rights defenders, trade unions of actors (and actors themselves) relatives, associations, conferences of bishops and blah, blah, blah as they would a "demonic" against casino processing of such a film? Stiamo parlando di un libro e un film composti negli anni settanta, un periodo importante per la verosimiglianza della cinematografia mondiale e anche del modo di scrivere. Erano gli anni delle violenze più estreme (in Italia c’erano le Brigate Rosse e ti capitava di essere preso a calci per la strada dalle frange estremiste) e il mielismo italico, ancorché presente, lottava comunque ad armi pari con il periodo storico in oggetto. E’ sufficiente consultare la cinematografia italiana per rendersi conto della produzione di film che, anche se limitati da motivi finanziari, erano a loro modo geniali e disturbanti. Un altro grande, grandissimo film horror di quegli anni, “The Entity” , sempre americano, è un altro capisaldo del genere horror e secondo chi scrive inferiore solo all’Esorcista.
Spostandoci nel campo della SF di razza, gli anni settanta hanno sfornato libri bellissimi e davvero esemplari mentre in campo cinematografico il genere presenta orgogliosamente “2001, odissea nello spazio” (il romanzo di Clarke fu scritto allo stesso momento come il seguito, “2010, odissea due”, “2010 l’anno del contatto” al cinema). Ma anche il regista di 2001 usava le sue tecniche per rendere a proprio agio gli attori. Keir Dullea girò molte scene da solo, filmato da telecamere nascoste perché la sua fosse una recitazione naturale. La verosimiglianza scientifica fu curatissima e questo è il solo film al mondo (sic!) in cui le astronavi si muovono senza far rumore (come nella realtà) e il rumore di fondo è sostituito dalle bellissime musiche di Strauss. E che dire dei modelli del Discovery? Impressionanti quando ad accuratezza costruttiva. Insomma: effetti speciali si, ma uniti all’arte. Che sarebbe come dire che quando si scrive la verosimiglianza scientifica, di OGNI genere, deve sempre procedere di pari passo con il TALENTO VERO, non con le copie. Questo decennio, così fecondo per l’espressione artistica, è un periodo che non tornerà mai più e per certi versi è un well. The rights of the diversity of animals, the human being deserve to be protected but it is also true that today we witness the triumph of the dull and hypocrisy that they have not solved the problems of the world. The most heinous crimes remain the same and the Italic gooders will not stop the harshness of life as the hypocrisy not only paving the way literary or film. In fact, in literature and film (not to mention the musical or technological) are witnessing terrible setback. Cameron has been acclaimed for his Avatar everywhere. Yeah ... I disagree, although obviously that is just my personal opinion. Avatar of I Speech: a pretentious film unlikely to clear imprint of trade. And what about the books so critically acclaimed? What are these real talent, these masters of Fantasy and SF? The sixteen who are writing the usual saga copied from Tolkien ? Those others who insist on certain plots of operetta sciorinare presenting stories as \\ truth? Those who are making a name gost writers from writing books? Or those who assume to direct a film goats (not actors) taken by the reality (here, for example) by offering them a plot useless and pretentious? On balance, though today we live in a cruel world but decorated like a stick of candy floss to reassure the hypocritical prudishness of some quarters (but that does nothing to eliminate certain problems world-wide) maybe I'd like boarding a time machine and go back to thirty years ago. Sweat (novels and films) paid by directors and writers and knew it was often true of life, works of art. Something quite different from what they do see today, colored mock strawberry, sugar-free strictly to avoid putting on weight and stay trendy ...
Massimo Valentini
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