Talk:La dolce vita

Warisill cleaned up the description, particularly the "characteristic Fellini style" line, which is simply nonexistent. There are two distinct periods for Fellini and La Dolce Vita rests in the middle of them. I also added the description of the opening scene and touched up the facts about Rome in 1959.

The description here of the opening helicopter scene isn't actually accurate. Marcello says they're taking the statue "to the Pope" and the women understand him by lip reading; then he asks for their telephone number, one of the women below says "he wants our telephone number," and they wave "no" to him. It's a famous scene, but not for conveying anything about the futility of communication. If anything, it's the famous last scene that's more germane, where M. can't hear what the girl from the cafe is saying. --Bombyx 03:04, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

In the trivia section, there is mention that the word "paparazzo" means "sparrow," and that Fellini used this name because photographers could be viewed as "hungry birds". In another article titled "Paparazzo", it is mentioned that this word actually means "buzzing mosquito" and that as a child he knew a classmate with that nickname, and chose the name based on this. There is obviously a discrepency, and I don't know which statement is correct.

The actual word for sparrow in Italian is passero. So, if Fellini did say that paparazzo means sparrow it is either slang or he was deliberately misleading for some reason--he would certainly know the formal word. The buzzing Mosquito story sounds equally doubtful like either a rumor or an after-thought by Fellini later after paparazzi became a term since the photgrapher in the movie does not sound as if annoying photography was central to his character role. It is possible Fellini came up with that explanation after the term apaprazzi was coined. --[digginestdogg, 09:28 UTC, 10 June 2007]

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