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scrtlovr

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  1. Accents were only a problem because audiences today are more realistically inclined so you either shoot the movie in Italian (all the characters are Italian so clearly they would speak Italian to each other, or you shoot in English with no accent). My main issue with the movie is that it's just bad and super boring: the 2 main characters are pretty despicable with no true motivation for most of their actions. I thought Gaga was actually good as was Adam Driver, considering. No idea what Paolo Gucci was like in real life but I can't imagine he was as grotesque and dumb as Jared Leto made him out to be. Thought Pacino was just phoning it in. Just a pointless film with nothing interesting to say and not even entertaining. Other than that it was great 😜

  2. If you can accept the "revisiting" of history with a black queen and wealthy, powerful black people in the time of slavery as well as the use of contemporary music, I would think the gratuitous soft core porn would be the most realistic part of the show. Personally, it took me a while but eventually my lust for Rege-Jean Page got the better of me and I watched the whole damn thing. Brings us back to the days of Dynasty and Knots Landing . . . in period costume.

  3. Like a lot of Visconti's films it just didn't age well and is much too slow paced by today's standards. But if you put it in context it shows remarkably well Dirk Bogarde's character's longing and desire for beauty and youth while he himself (along with Venice) is decaying and dying (a slapstick comedy it ain't) and - however tedious - the movie remains a classic. As for the boy, I suppose he represented a vision of beauty which is also somewhat dated.

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