Ciao Professore Review

The Professors character in the movie seems like he is seeking some sort of higher pleasure, that he is not only teaching to feed the youth of our nation but also that he gets his jollys from teaching. He is very well with kids and he knows this, through his own frusteration and greed he attempts a transfer to another school in a neighboring town, but we he stays with the students for a little time he knows he is there only and last hope and takes back his transfer.

  We have only got to about half of the movie but so far the children in the school play a huge part in the film. They to me stand for another part of the professors life seeing how he is very lonely and it doesnt seem like he has mucbh family. I predict that later on in the film he will still be with these same kids, or maybe get transfered against his will and he and the children figure a way to get him back as their teacher? who knows.

    

The Leopard Review Part II

    Though I have expressed minor feelings about this film, I feel as if I still have not yet got my true emotions out about how I feel. I was somewhat confused by the order things occured in the movie. Any scene that envolved a ball room dance, or a dance hall scene it completely was irrelevant to what Don Fabrizo or a man of his stature in the position he was in at the time. His times would be full of struggle and constant unsurence of what was to happen. Not to mention Fabrizo's careless attitude towards what revolutionary movement was going on in Italy at the time. It seemed all he was concerned about towards the end of the film was with which valid mistress Don Tancredi was going wedd. The ending was also confusing, especially Tancredi's last scene where he seems to be carelessly wondering down an alley from an abandoned court yard. The movies Historical effort was valid and it was all filmed in a timely chronological order. I wish Garabahaldi was more envolved with the film, to see him an action would have been spectacular

        
                                      

The Leopard Review

   "The Leopard" a classic Italian cinema piece made in 1962. It was an attempt at a modern make of a Sicilian land/Feutal lord, fighting for his exsistance in the world during the new Italian Revolution. The movie closely follows the characters of Don Fabrizo, the Prince of Sardina. Also his clever whitted so called nephew, Don Tancredi, faced with the classic love dilema of marrying for money, power and beauty, or to stay envolved with close family and wed for ambigious  love.

   The movie did have a sence of humor to it, which did contrast nicely with the long, drawn out monologous. The battle scenes were not very intense, the most intense of them was towards the begining, when Garabahldi's 1000 Red Shirts took march on Sicily. Everything tended to be over dramatic but still well played. Don Fabrizo was a cgood captivation of a blue collard Prince during a time period of such change and chaos.  Part I