History Film / TheGreatBeauty

** Romano means "Roman" although he was not the born in Rome. In the end he leaves the metropolis (the Roman leaves Rome) returning to his native city.

*** The first and second acts are divided by the scene when Jep is in a small church where the upset mother looks for her lost daughter. Jep sees the daughter which is on the lower level of this church. Then a child asks Jep who he is abd answers herself that he is a nobody.

** Subverted for Alfredo Marti, the husband of said Elisa de Santis who first says that he intends to go oin adoring Elisa now after he death. Then he starts a relationship with a much younger and not very sophisticated woman.

* NoAntagonist: Jep's antagonist is the futility of existence.
* NobodyPoops: Subverted by the nihilistic Lello Cava who brings up this topic at the table. He states that the stiff Viola should never poop. As opposed to him and his wife.

* CharacterFilibuster: Cardinal Bellucci is always ready to change the subject of the conversation to various recipees. Pushed UpToEleven as he doesn it more than one-two times.

*** The first and second acts are divided by the scene when Jep is in a small church where the upset mother looks for her lost daughter. Jep sees the daughter which is шт the lower level of this church. Then a child tells him that he is a nobody.
*** The second and the third acts are separated by the scene where Jep goes through the photos of a man who first was shot by his father then by himself every day throughout his life and now exhibited their collection. Even though the last scene with Stefania follows this scene thus she is also barely present in the third act.

* StealthHiBye: Jep has a stealth bye when he is invited by Orietta at hers to have sex. They do but later Orietta tells that she is always making photoes of hersself. Then she goes to another room to bring her collection of photos to show them to Jep. He is suddenly disinterested and quits her apartment in the manner of this trope.

* MayDecemberRomance: A failed one for Romano with his much younger and callous "girlfriend".

* TheMourningAfter: Jep attempts to subvert this trope as after he is told Elisa de Santis is dead he starts a romance with Ramona.

* OldShame: In-universe. Jep and Romano consider the participation of Stefania in the reality show "Girl Farm" as as a host to be this trope though Stefania herself believes that it was a useful experience.

* NotSoDifferent: When Stefania says that her life is full as she has a husband and four kids of whom he takes care Jep invokes this trope.

* NotStayingForBreakfast: Jep does not stay even for supper with Orietta as he leaves very soon after their sex.

** Ramona thinks that after she asks Jep why he has not written another novel Jep gives her the one. In fact he answers that he always spent too many nights out and never properly concentrated on his writing.

* NobodyPoops: Subverted by the nihilistic Lello Cava who bring up this topic at the table. He states that the stiff Viola should never poop. As opposed to him and his wife.

** Also Cardinal Belucci's names might be meaningful.

Many characters who are presented in the chaotic manner follow their paths which can be discerned. The film has a number of [[BrickJoke brick jokes]] when the second scene with a certain character is a development of the theme established in the first scene. As a result each character has his own arc, all of which eventually come to a resulution of sorts.

* FriendlessBackground: Very interestingly zigzagged for Andrea. When a priest after the end of the funeral service urges the friends of the deceased to come to the coffin and carry it out at first no-one moves. However after some pause four usual suspects go out: Jep (a famous writer), Sebastiano Paff (Italy's greatest poet for the moment as per Jep), Lello Cava (a hugely rich toy seller) and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Romano]]. That implies that on one hand Andrea did not have any true friends among people of his age however on the other hand his coffin is carried by several people of importance.

Many characters who are presented in the chaotic manner follow their paths which can be discerned. The film has a number of [[BrickJokes brick joke]] when the second scene with a certain character is a development of the theme established in the first scene. As a result each character has his own arc, all of which eventually come to a resulution of sorts.

Many characters who are presented in the chaotic manner follow their paths which can be discerned. The film has a number of [BrickJokes brick joke] when the second scene with a certain character is a development of the theme established in the first scene. As a result each character has his own arc, all of which eventually come to a resulution of sorts.

Many characters who are presented in the chaotic manner follow their paths which can be discerned. The film has a number of BrickJokes when the second scene with a certain character is a development of the theme established in the first scene. As a result each character has his own arc, all of which eventually come to a resulution of sorts.

Jep Gambardella is a witty, wealthy socialite who after writing a modern classic in his youth has been dining out on it ever since in an endless succession of parties among Rome's artistic elite. However, after his 65th birthday party he's informed by a tearful widower that his first girlfriend, and the subject of his one and only book, has died. This triggers a slow but profound HeelRealisation from Jep that, despite best intentions, he's been wasting his talents and goes on a search for... something.

The second omportant character here is Romano played by Carlo Verdone, a famous Italian director. He is like Jep a provincial who came to Rome but never reached success comparable with Jep's. His plans usually fail and he cannot attract the girl whom he adores.

''La Grande Bellezza'' is yet another outing for ProductionPosse Paulo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo in a particularly resplendent production. The film has received great acclaim from critics, and has been favourably compared to the work of Creator/FedericoFellini and indeed bears more than a passing similarity to ''Film/LaDolceVita''. It might appearthat there's no story as such, however in fact all scenes are tightly interwoven with each other and the film follows its logic. Even though the plot threads can de followed only after several viewwings.

** Jep and Ramona do have sex [[spoiler: before she dies]].

* BigEater: Played with for Cardinal Belucci. He states that he likes to cook and eat the dishes, the recipes of which he cites. However he is not fat and does not it very much onscreen.

''La Grande Bellezza'' is yet another outing for ProductionPosse Paulo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo in a particularly resplendent production. The film has received great acclaim from critics, and has been favourably compared to the work of Creator/FedericoFellini and indeed bears more than a passing similarity to ''Film/LaDolceVita''; there's no story as such, just a series of vignettes that align to tell Jep's story.

* MaleFrontalNudity: Played straight for Andrea whose private parts are shown albeit from some distance in a scene when he encounters his mother totally naked and painted red.

* MeaningfulName: Romano means "Roman" although he was not the born in Rome. In the end he leaves the metropolis returning to his native city.

* CosmeticHorror: Played straight for Jep as he listens to the novel by Pirandello while he has a facial mask applied on his face. CucumberFacial is averted though.

* ShoutOut: Jep once reads aloud ''Il fu Mattia Pascal'', a novel by Luigi Pirandello.

* OnlyOneName: Wildly zigzagged. Some characters have both a name and a surname; (Jep Gambardella, Lello Cava, Lillo De Gregorio, also Elisa De Santis, his LostLenore). Most of them have only name (Romano, Dadina, Ramona, Stefania, Viola, Andrea and others)

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Romano's girlfriend is a off, just having sniffed the substance when Romano recites her the beginning of the second act of his play. He asks her how it is and she answers that he's written a pile of shit.

* {{Bookends}}: The film starts with an {{Epigraph}} made by the opining lines of JourneyToTheEndOfTheNight. It is ended by the camera travelling by Tiber passing under the bridges and arches exactly like the same book ends.

* {{Epigraph}}: The film starts with a quote of starting lines from ''Literature/JourneyToTheEndOfTheNight''.

** Romano is also a writer.

* {{Epigraph}}: The film starts with a quote of starting lines from JourneyToTheEndOfTheNight.

** Also hie neighbour Giulio Moneta who prefers Rebecchi to Catellani among the suit tailors.

** Later Trumeau states that she looks loke a character from Pirandello.

** The second starts when Jep is notified about the death of his old flame by her husband. It is a point of no return event for him. Then he starts the romance with Ramona. It ends with [[spoiler: the death of Ramona and departure of Romano]]. (Also briefly before that [[spoiler: Andrea commits suicide and his mother Viola volunteers as a missionary and departs for Africa]]). Also in the last scene of the act Jep and Stefania clear up things between them as they have dance and Stefania is also absent from the third act. Also the mysterious neighbour of Jep proves to be Giulio Moneta, an acclaimed criminal and he is arrested so he leaves him too in a way.

* KnifeThrowingAct: Geronimo masterfully performs the one on Trumeau. The knifes land very close to her as they should.