"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
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Ok, nice job! Interesting - when Tancredi marries Angelica, the irony is that he gains power and wealth, even love - but in marrying to the middle class, determines loss of his family's nobility. RD
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