Seven Beauties - Opening Scene

[Journeyman]

Run time: 04:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGvfe9bAUyU   Posted on YouTube: October 12, 2006 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 10, 2007 By DU Member: Journeyman Views on DU: 1259

 
Lieberman waves another man's saber, the Iranians threaten cataclysmic response, and Giancarlo Giannini's translator provides a Beat poet's words set to a jazz tempo aria that could serve as opening soundtrack for yet another BushCo disaster. . .

[timtom]

1. I just checked this out

from our library. Wertmueller is one of my favorite directors.

And I had forgotten about that opening canticle. Masterful!

[pinkpops]

2. This is the film where the prisoner makes eyes at the lady warden in the boxer shorts.

[Journeyman]

4. Yes. The lengths to which Giannini's character goes to survive are limitless. . .

his seduction of the Nazi prison camp director is but one of many acts he willfully endures, all in the interest of life at any cost.

[The Count]

3. K&R! ONE OF THE GREATEST ANTI-WAR MOVIES OF ALL TIMES!

Thanks for this. Always timely!
Loved that it mentions those who don't get involved in politics.

[Journeyman]

5. The entire film, as well as all of "Swept Away," is evidently available on YouTube. . .

and yes, this opening sequence stays with you -- it's haunted me since I first saw it, some thirty years ago.


"The ones who believe Christ is Santa Claus as a young man. . . oh yeah."

[Blue_Tires]

6. thanks for this

i never heard of this film, but now i gotta see the rest of it

[Journeyman]

7. Good to hear. . .

I thought the entire film was available on You Tube, but learned last night not all 14 parts are available. Best to rent it. Great, great film.