Ro.Go.Pa.G.
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| Ro. Go.Pa. G. | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard (segment "Il Nuovo mondo") Ugo Gregoretti |
| Produced by | Alfredo Bini |
| Written by | see directors |
| Release date(s) | 19 February 1963 (Italy) |
| Running time | 122 minutes |
| Language | Italian |
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Ro. Go.Pa. G. (also known as "RoGoPaG") is a 1963 film, which consists of four segments, each written and directed by one of the four film directors - French Jean-Luc Godard (segment "Il Nuovo mondo"), and three Italian: Ugo Gregoretti (segment "Il Pollo ruspante"), Pier Paolo Pasolini (segment "La Ricotta") and Roberto Rossellini (segment "Illibatezza").
The movie title is an abbreviation of the author's last names: Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini, Gregoretti.
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[edit] Illibatezza
"Illibatezza" (Chastity) by Roberto Rossellini is a story of a beautiful stewardess which attracts unwanted attention from one of the air travellers - a middle aged American. The two overnight by chance in the same hotel. She has a fiance back home, to whom she sends video recordings made with her portable camera.
[edit] Il Nuovo Mondo
"Il Nuovo Mondo" (New World) by Jean-Luc Godard is set in Paris and shows the end of the world, caused by a nuclear explosion in the sky 120 000 meter above Paris. The main characters are a young French couple. A man notices big changes in all the people around inclusive his girlfriend, like mechanical behaviour, lack of logic, and swallowing big amounts of pills. The post-apocalyptic world in the same as pre-apocalyptic, but with these changes in people. The main male character is beware of being soon influenced by the global mental changes himself too, and writes down his observations regarding the catastrophe in a writing-book.
[edit] La Ricotta
- Main article: La ricotta
Pasolini's "La Ricotta" (Curd Cheese) tells a story of filming a movie about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ at the slightly hilly waste ground near the residential area. The main character is a simple man, who is playing a bit part there - one of the two men who were crucified with Christ, the one who asks Christ to take him in heaven. After giving his ration to his wife and children, he has a strong hunger. Masked with the women clothes and wig he gets another ration, but needs to hide it before eating, being in a hurry because his scene is filmed. When he gets back, he discovers that a dog of the film star diva has found his hiding place. Afters that he sells a dog to the reporter and buys enough a big amount of curd cheese and bread. At the end, he dies of thirst on cross while filming.
When a film director (Orson Welles) is interviewed by a reporter, he calls a reporter a middling man and conformist, telling that if he would die right now, it would be a nice development of the plot. Then he reads to the reporter from Pasolini's book titled "Mamma Roma".
[edit] Il Pollo Ruspante
Gregoretti's "Il Pollo Ruspante" (Free Range Chicken) shows an Italian middle class family with two children traveling via an "autostrada" (highway) to the site of a real-estate project where they could be interested in buying a detached house.
While they do a laringotomized marketing executive presents a lecture to a businessmen' seminar, reciting passage after passage in an impersonal, mechanical tone through a vocalizing apparatus.
The lecturer teaches the businessmen how to "stimulate consumption" via the substitution of small shops (where the customer was forced to talk to the shopowner and so was allowed time to rationalize each buying action) with large supermarkets, where people could more easily give over to their istincts, grabbing frivolous or useless articles from the shelves thanks to the diffraction of the moment of bill presentation and payment.
The family visits an highway service station with an adjoining supermarket and restaurant. In the supermarket the children clamor to have candies and toys bought for them and the parents give in for fear of "letting people think they're poor"; then they all sit down to consume a drab standardized meal where the father can't convince the waitress to bring him "just one egg" (since all the portions must contain two) and has to explain his children the difference between battery-bred chicken and free ranging ones (in itself a metaphor of regimented urban life compared to the rougher, but more free, rural existence).
The family finally reaches the development site where an enthusiastic real estate agent pressures them to reserve a yet-to-be-built house while telling off the warden (a southern Italian, representing the agricultural past of Italy) for having planted cabbages and other vegetables in a small patch of land, trampling over it and destroying the plants.
The lecture goes on, in a harrowing enunciation of tricks and strategies to push consumerism to ever higher heights, all exemplified "in corpore vivo" by the family's odissey.
Finally, when in the evening the family is getting back to Milan, the father having decided against buying the house, a car accident befells them, probably killing them all.
The robot-voiced marketing executive concludes his exposition and is cheered by the businessmen' crowd, who congratulate him as they all leave the meeting room.
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