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Subject: Re: SALO From: SignorelliL@alma.it (Luca Signorelli) Date: 1996/08/26 Message-ID: <4vskh8$smh@server-b.cs.interbusiness.it> Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies [More Headers] [Subscribe to alt.cult-movies] karetool@sirius.com (chelsea corazon) wrote: >In article <4vmi2n$ai8$18@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>, Richard M. Anderson <103212.720@CompuServe.COM> says: >> >>>I heard that he commit suicide? He was murdered??? Please tell >>>me the details....anybody. >> >>Passolini was murdered by his teenage homosexual lover, or >>ex-lover. Stabbed, as is the case with most homosexual killings. >>Still, anyone who was hated by both the fascists and communists >>must have been a pretty good guy. >>sinc; >>Rich >He was beaten stabbed and run over with his own car in a deserted spot. >The man who (supposedly) killed him was not a close friend at all. There >is a documentary about it called "Who Killed Pasolini" which theorizes >that the killing was a hit set up by the Facists and other criminal elements >who feared Pasolini as an influential socialist-leaning filmmaker. I >would love to see the movie but haven't been able to get it yet. > ~Chelsea~ Pasolini ( a great guy and possibly Italy's best filmaker and most corrosive intellectual) wasn't "hated by communists". He was a self acknowledged marxist itself. Thus said, he managed to make the definitive filmed version of the gospel: "The Gospel According St. Matthew". If you ever tought that the Gospel is unfilmable, and/or every version of it shoulkd be an overblown, turgid C.B.De Mille/Zeffirelli epics, you'll change mind! He filmed on location on the "Sassi" of Matera, an area that hardly changed sincel the late neolitic and in the 60's was still inhabited by very poor people. He used non-professional actors (including a very effective Jesus played by a portughese student), and had his mother playing an aged Mother Of Jesus. There's also a haunting score based on the song "Sometime I Feel Like Motheless Child". This is the only Gospel movie ever where the Slaughter Of Innocents and the Crucifixion are portraied as cruel, sickening event. You can even hear the Two Thieves scream in pain. Toward the end of his life, Pasolini believed that art should be understandable (and enjoiable) by non-cultured people, and devoid of any rethoric, obscurity or conceptualization. He also believed that positive sexuality had a political value, compared to negative, oppressive/repressed sexuality. He thus prepared and filmed a trilogy based on three erotic masterpieces of the past: "The Decameron", "The Canterbury Tales" and "The One Thousand Nights". The results are provocative, solar movies bordering on pornography, that had a great success in Italy even with low classes (as Pasolini hoped). The final step was "Salo". Pasolini intended this movie being an actual portrait of the evil soul of Fascism/Nazism. He succeded beyond every expectation. "Salo", simply said., it's the most nightmarish, sickening, cruel, revolting, dreadfully violent and painful movie EVER done (and who's writing is a cannibal movie fan, so I know what I'm talking about!). It's an evil movie made by a deeply moral person, who wanted to show what REAL evil is all about (not the make believe that many people take for evil, I mean, not black robed people talking 'bout Satan). The phaeces scene is notorious, but the whole movie doesn't let up for a second. Even the light, even the cinematography is sickening. I've re-seen the movie last month, and I felt bad for days. A masterpiece if there's one. Once the movie was presented, hell broke loose. The then-ruling Democratic-Christian party (and the Church) labelled Pasolini as a "atheist marxist homosexual" (he was) and as a "sicko" (he wasn't). He received several death threaths by far-right elements. As an answer Pasolini (who was mainly a novelist and a political writer, and then a moviemaker) writed some explosive stuff on how the Church/Politic/Capitalistic link was transformed Italian society in a rotten corpse, how the middle class (that Pasolini, who came from peasant stock, hated to guts) was subservient and how corruption was endorsed and spreaded by the ruling class. He made names and surnames and this sealed (IMHO) his fate. He was killed (beaten to death) on a beach near Rome apparently by a then 19 years old boy he had (reportedly) picked up shortly before (most Pasolini occasional lovers were street punks). It his widely believed that in fact he was trapped and killed by several people, possibly a Fascist commando. The truth will be never known, . Just to understand how hated was Pasolini by his enemies, a much repeated request to build a small stone sign in his assassination place was repeatedly rejected by authorities. Most of Pasolini prophecies on the progressive corruption of Italian society of course were right, and now he has become a sort of evanescent, sainlty figure that everyone says to respect (even Fascists!). His deep moral beliefs, and his knowledge that, in order to be truly revolutionary, you must stay with the people WHEREVER THE PEOPLE IS (and not just endorse or patronize some kind of intellectual mumbo-jumbo disguised as "progressist culture") is, again IMHO, very actual today. If someone could wonder how came that horror/ultraviolent movies could have a political meaning, I want to remind that most of the great Italian horror directors of the '70s (Argento, Fulci, Deodato and al) had deep, open political beliefs (Fulci being the most extreme). Luca Signorelli
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