Commedia All Italiana
Michael Hu
Professor Ott
Italian 60
June 10, 2014
Commedia All’Italiana Films that are made in Italy are well-known worldwide, especially the Italian-style comedy, which has won a lot academic awards and earned enormous applause and praises. However, there are something behind the laughter tries to tell the audience within the Italian-style comedy. Commedia All’italliana thrives for its uses of innovative and bold subjects and contents, and a profound and twisted ending; besides, humor in Italy are manipulated as a tool to expose social issues of different fields while reflecting poverty and misery. Commedia All’italiana starts from a street performance, and it works its way toward the stage of world. The origin of Italian-style …show more content…
“The Italian-style comedy was able to talk about social problems and still be popular,” said Peter Bondanella, “It was a way of having a dialogue about what was going on in Italy, of addressing questions that were not being discussed in the government” (Grimes). An Italian-style comedy called “Divorcee: Italian-Style” tells that a Sicilian gentleman wants to murder his wife because he wants to marry his younger and prettier cousin. The reason that he has such an evil purpose is that divorce was against the Italian laws at the time because of the strict religion’s requirements in Italy. Therefore, this gentleman chooses to have an honor killing because “honor was so important in society, the legal punishment for this special kind of murder was oh-so lenient” (Turner). It is so ironic that a person takes such a method to get divorced. This film successfully attracts the public attention, not only for it is an Italian-style comedy but also for it makes the government and the public to reconsider the reasonability of the legislation of outlaw divorce. The issues which always make no sense and bother and perplex people are subject to be talked about in Commedia All’itliana and it is easy to be accepted by government. Commedia All’italiana is considered a special communication between society and government, which people are reflecting what is happening in their lives to
Professor Ott
Italian 60
June 10, 2014
Commedia All’Italiana Films that are made in Italy are well-known worldwide, especially the Italian-style comedy, which has won a lot academic awards and earned enormous applause and praises. However, there are something behind the laughter tries to tell the audience within the Italian-style comedy. Commedia All’italliana thrives for its uses of innovative and bold subjects and contents, and a profound and twisted ending; besides, humor in Italy are manipulated as a tool to expose social issues of different fields while reflecting poverty and misery. Commedia All’italiana starts from a street performance, and it works its way toward the stage of world. The origin of Italian-style …show more content…
“The Italian-style comedy was able to talk about social problems and still be popular,” said Peter Bondanella, “It was a way of having a dialogue about what was going on in Italy, of addressing questions that were not being discussed in the government” (Grimes). An Italian-style comedy called “Divorcee: Italian-Style” tells that a Sicilian gentleman wants to murder his wife because he wants to marry his younger and prettier cousin. The reason that he has such an evil purpose is that divorce was against the Italian laws at the time because of the strict religion’s requirements in Italy. Therefore, this gentleman chooses to have an honor killing because “honor was so important in society, the legal punishment for this special kind of murder was oh-so lenient” (Turner). It is so ironic that a person takes such a method to get divorced. This film successfully attracts the public attention, not only for it is an Italian-style comedy but also for it makes the government and the public to reconsider the reasonability of the legislation of outlaw divorce. The issues which always make no sense and bother and perplex people are subject to be talked about in Commedia All’itliana and it is easy to be accepted by government. Commedia All’italiana is considered a special communication between society and government, which people are reflecting what is happening in their lives to