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Originally Posted by demonrail666

We've been through all this before but I still can't watch The Great Beauty without wondering why I'm not just watching Fellini do it all so much better?

because fellini doesnt do it so much better. it’s really a different tone and a different aesthetic and sorrentino does it beautifully.

there are thematical similarities in the idea of the writer lost in rome, but if we’re going that way then we could say why not just read lost illusions and skip fellini.

and where in dolce vita marcello is quickly lost in debauchery, with jep gambardella in spite of everything the angel still calls.

 

 

and jep is more literary and has such great lines. like when he dresses down the annoying friend who thinks she’s hot shit. dang!

and where la dolce vita is somewhat about the fall of western civilization and the individual falling into debauchery and vulgarity, the great beauty is about the persistence of sensibility in spite of all the noise.

amazing soundtrack too.

jep becomes a journalist having written a novel, marcello never gets there because of his job.

plus in la dolce vita marcello is a toy of the nobles, but in the great beauty, the nobles are for hire, haaa haaa haaa haaaa!

it’s really more contemporary.

(and the climbing of the stairs is not for show...)

yes, the films touch at many points (how could they not?) but they’re different things by different artists in different times. both are fucking amazing.