Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Franco Zeffirelli seems obsessed with the left, especially in Italy, especially inside the cinema world. In a very interesting interview (only in Spanish, here), he said several things to note:
I am being punished for not pouring salt in front of the emperor's statue. Do you know how the first Christians managed to escape from persecutions? They would pay homage to some earthly god, that today is no other than comunism, the left wing.
After that he pours scorn for the fake communistic pose of Visconti.
I am not saying that he poured the salt for convenience sake. He did that to be pardoned for being born in one of the most aristocratic and autocratic families in Milan.
Next...
There you have Picasso, a mean and greedy multimillionaire who had no consideration for the poor, who accumulated a huge fortune without doing charity in his whole life. However, it was enough to pour some salt: everything would be wide open: job opportunities, critical back up, newspaper space. Things are still quite the same.
Next...
We didn't change at all. They destroyed the Socialistic Party and they would not allow Italy to work as a normal democracy, where liberals and labourites coexist. They only estimulate obscenity and the stupidity of those who are opposed to globalization, all of them sons of rich people pretending to be rebels. In that sense I think just like Pasolini, another one who poured his salt.
Next: Nanni Moretti, next: Roberto Benigni:
All of them poured the salt, even De Filippo and De Sica, who wasn't a communist at all.
The only one to be saved, naturally, is Berlusconi, who was ashamed of being Italian just because Italians don't recognize Zeffirelli as the great artist he is. But Berlusconi, he does "allow Italy to work as a normal democracy"; he, just like Fallaci and Zeffirelli, does defend the true values of the Western Civilization against the savagery of the Islamism.
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So, again, the same problem: if Visconti was rich, how could he speak against capitalism? If Picasso was never charitable, then he couldn't possibly have been left winged. Only a poor homeless beggar, and only if he lives in a poor town of some poor third world country, only if he was struck by the lighting of starvation for years, only he felt the rain on his head time and time again, only then he could claim to be against the asymmetry of the world. If you're learned, cultivated, famous, or rich, you're out. Those who use money can't speak against it, can they? So either you're a true victim, or you're only posing. But if you're posing, according to Zeffirelli's discourse, then you're pretending to be something that is truly worse than what they critic: to be left winged is far worse than to be right winged, only for an intellectual is more profitable to be leftist. I suppose that's why Zeffirelli is being scorned by Italy, or by those who are not ashamed of being Italian.
I am being punished for not pouring salt in front of the emperor's statue. Do you know how the first Christians managed to escape from persecutions? They would pay homage to some earthly god, that today is no other than comunism, the left wing.
After that he pours scorn for the fake communistic pose of Visconti.
I am not saying that he poured the salt for convenience sake. He did that to be pardoned for being born in one of the most aristocratic and autocratic families in Milan.
Next...
There you have Picasso, a mean and greedy multimillionaire who had no consideration for the poor, who accumulated a huge fortune without doing charity in his whole life. However, it was enough to pour some salt: everything would be wide open: job opportunities, critical back up, newspaper space. Things are still quite the same.
Next...
We didn't change at all. They destroyed the Socialistic Party and they would not allow Italy to work as a normal democracy, where liberals and labourites coexist. They only estimulate obscenity and the stupidity of those who are opposed to globalization, all of them sons of rich people pretending to be rebels. In that sense I think just like Pasolini, another one who poured his salt.
Next: Nanni Moretti, next: Roberto Benigni:
All of them poured the salt, even De Filippo and De Sica, who wasn't a communist at all.
The only one to be saved, naturally, is Berlusconi, who was ashamed of being Italian just because Italians don't recognize Zeffirelli as the great artist he is. But Berlusconi, he does "allow Italy to work as a normal democracy"; he, just like Fallaci and Zeffirelli, does defend the true values of the Western Civilization against the savagery of the Islamism.
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So, again, the same problem: if Visconti was rich, how could he speak against capitalism? If Picasso was never charitable, then he couldn't possibly have been left winged. Only a poor homeless beggar, and only if he lives in a poor town of some poor third world country, only if he was struck by the lighting of starvation for years, only he felt the rain on his head time and time again, only then he could claim to be against the asymmetry of the world. If you're learned, cultivated, famous, or rich, you're out. Those who use money can't speak against it, can they? So either you're a true victim, or you're only posing. But if you're posing, according to Zeffirelli's discourse, then you're pretending to be something that is truly worse than what they critic: to be left winged is far worse than to be right winged, only for an intellectual is more profitable to be leftist. I suppose that's why Zeffirelli is being scorned by Italy, or by those who are not ashamed of being Italian.
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