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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Miranda's death, it's clear that Aurelio wants to make Lallo's life a living hell, and coldly dismisses the latter's grief by telling Titta that someone should take Lallo to the brothel. Then again, [[HateSink Lallo]] deserves all of it.
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Also notable as the first film given the {{Letterbox}} treatment in a home video release (the 1984 UsefulNotes/{{CED}} edition).

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How does one go about describing such a movie? This is surely among Creator/FedericoFellini's best movies, exquisitely filmed and with a haunting soundtrack by Music/NinoRota that might follow you for the rest of your life. It is also a movie so fantastically nostalgic, filled with wondrous, larger-than-life characters, with an almost universal appeal. It's probably one of those movies that's best experienced.

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How does one go about describing such a movie? This 1973 comedy-drama is surely among Creator/FedericoFellini's best movies, exquisitely filmed and with a haunting soundtrack by Music/NinoRota that might follow you for the rest of your life. It is also a movie so fantastically nostalgic, filled with wondrous, larger-than-life characters, with an almost universal appeal. It's probably one of those movies that's best experienced.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/IVitelloni'', particularly the first quarter of the film. After that, ''Amarcord'' spins off in its own unique direction.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Most of the town's male population has an understandable crush on Gradisca. A whole squad of teen boys watches her bottom move as she walks down the sidewalk in a tight dress.

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* HeroesWantRedheads: RedheadsAreRavishing: Most of the town's male population has an understandable crush on Gradisca. A whole squad of teen boys watches her bottom move as she walks down the sidewalk in a tight dress.

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* UpperClassTwit: The resident Count is a ScatterbrainedSenior as the rest of his family, the Podestà is vicious and bombastic, and so on.



* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: Seriously; almost all the town is shown as a bunch of ignorant buffoons. As an ingenious TakeThat, one woman proudly declares that almost all the town is a member of the Fascist Party. Think about it. They also all go out in boats to see the big cruise ship SS ''Rex'' go by, only to be swamped in its wake.

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* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: Seriously; almost all the town is shown as a bunch of ignorant buffoons. As an ingenious TakeThat, one woman proudly declares that almost all the town is a member of the Fascist Party. Think about it. They also all go out in boats to see the big cruise ship SS ''Rex'' go by, only to be swamped in its wake. That said, the [[UpperClassTwit upper echelons fare even worse]].
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* HateSink: Lallo at first seems to be just a buffoon but, as the film progresses, he's shown to be a lazy freeloader, a dumbly proud fascist who tells the Podestà about Aurelio's anti-fascist sympathies and a DirtyCoward who needs to be protected by Miranda from Aurelio's fury after the latter has been forced to drink castor oil. His only redeeming feature is his grief at his own sister's death, but it's lessened by the fact that his irresponsible lifestyle has contributed to her declining health.


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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Miranda's death, it's clear that Aurelio wants to make Lallo's life a living hell, and coldly dismisses the latter's grief by telling Titta that someone should take Lallo to the brothel. Then again, [[HateSink Lallo]] deserves all of it.


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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Lallo is Miranda's younger brother and a huge pain in the ass to Aurelio. Not only he's a lazy, vapid [[TheLoad sponge]], but also a spineless fascist who [[TheStoolPigeon denounces Aurelio to the local authorities]].
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Four of the kids combine it with AutoErotica, in a deeply weird scene where four of them get together in a car and have a mutual jerkfest in which they call out the names of the girls they're thinking about. (One is fantasizing about Creator/JeanHarlow.)

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