Line #20 Film/IVitelloni


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3	''I Vitelloni'' is a 1953 film directed by Creator/FedericoFellini.
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5	It involves five slackers living in a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy, and their supposedly carefree lives. One of them, Fausto, blows this when he gets his girlfriend pregnant and is [[ShotgunWedding forced to marry her]]. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t try to [[TheCasanova seduce other women]], though.
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7	Fausto's friends ''try'' to be supportive while keeping their lifestyles: Alberto is supported by his mother and sister, Leopoldo writes a play, Riccardo tries to keep his singing act, and Fausto’s brother-in-law Moraldo tries to get away from it all.
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9	Breakthrough hit for Federico Fellini and his AssociatedComposer, Music/NinoRota. It was one of Creator/StanleyKubrick's and Creator/MartinScorsese's favorite movies.
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11	!!This movie provides examples of:
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13	* AuthorAvatar: Moraldo is usually considered to be one for Fellini himself.
14	* BettyAndVeronica: For Fausto, Sandra is Betty and the woman in the movie theater is Veronica.
15	* BrokenPedestal: Leopoldo holds the eccentric actor Sergio in high regard, but is offended when the old man tries to come onto him.
16	* CampGay: Sergio Natali, the vaudeville performer who makes a pass at Leopoldo.
17	* TheCasanova: All of them, but Fausto is the most noticeable.
18	* CharacterDevelopment: After spending the whole movie as a dishonest, womanizing ingrate, Fausto finally gets scared straight and grows up a little.
19	* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: Francesco, Fausto’s father, is furious at his son by the end of the film and whips him with his belt.
20	* HeelRealization: When Sandra runs away, Fausto is devastated and finally realizes what a louse he’s been this whole time.
21	* LikesOlderWomen: Fausto becomes attracted to the much older wife of his boss.[[note]]Random trivia: Lída Baarová, the actress who plays the boss's wife, was 15 years prior to this movie TheMistress of the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.[[/note]]
22	* MasqueradeBall: Carnival, although not many people are wearing masks.
23	* MonsterClown: Alberto, while drunk, sees some clown faces like this.
24	* ObnoxiousInLaws: Not that obnoxious actually, but Moraldo feels scorn to his brother-in-law because he sees how he cheats on his sister.
25	* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: All of the five Vitelloni want to get out of town and make it big in the wider world and they keep making plans to escape but most of them stumble and fail to act on their plans. Moraldo is the only one who manages it, and the finale is a poignant montage of him in the train leaving the town intercut with small vignettes showing his friends adjusting to their small time lives, surrendering their dreams and hopes forever.
26	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Sandra runs away from him, the normally happy-go-lucky Fausto becomes dazed and depressed. In this state he runs into the woman he was hitting on at the movie theater earlier, who now takes an interest in him, but the up-till-now philanderer turns her down and seems for the first time to only pine for his wife.
27	* OutOfFocus: There are five ''Vitelloni'', but Alberto and Riccardo largely disappear in the second half of the film, as the story centers on Fausto and Moraldo, plus Leopoldo to a lesser extent.
28	* ShotgunWedding: Fausto has gotten Sandra pregnant at the start of the movie, and though at first he plans to run away, his father forces him to take responsibility.
29	* TheSlacker: The five protagonists.
30	* SmallTownBoredom: Moraldo wants to go out of his little town. He does it at the end.
31	* TheSmartGuy: Leopoldo is the most intellectual of the five and wants to be a playwright.
32	* UntranslatedTitle: ''I Vitelloni'' ("The slabs of veal") was an insulting term for [[TheSlacker Slackers]] in the dialect of Fellini's home region of Romagna. The original American release retitled it ''[[CompletelyDifferentTitle The Young and the Passionate]]'', but it's gone by the original title since then. Interestingly, this trope also applied for ''I Vitelloni'' in most regions of Italy, where they'd never heard that bit of slang before.
33	* ZanyScheme: Fausto's plan to steal the statue and sell it to a church.
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