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Walt Disney expressed serious interest in creating an animated feature based on Gelsomina, and there was interest from doll manufacturers and sweets firms to use her name. "I could have lived on Gelsomina for twenty years," Fellini said.
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- Drama
- Federico Fellini
- 1956-07-16
The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road.
May 31, 2024 · “La Strada,” directed by Federico Fellini, is a poignant Italian film that tells the story of Gelsomina, a naive and innocent young woman, who was sold by her impoverished mother to a traveling...
Mar 20, 2020 · Masina isn’t just playing Gelsomina, she is Gelsomina. Upon my research for this piece, I found out that Masina was considered too old for the role of the young woman who is sold to Anthony Quinn’s strongman Zampanò and is forced into a life on the road.
Sep 6, 2021 · Starring the endlessly charming Giulietta Masina as a young, naive girl called Gelsomina, La Strada chronicles the absurd brutality of life by following Gelsomina’s misadventures after she is sold to an abusive strongman named Zampanò (played by Anthony Quinn) by her own mother.
When Gelsomina first wakes up after the Fool's death, he only seems concerned about escaping punishment and presumably about Gelsomina being a witness to his crime. But leaving the trumpet behind is clearly supposed to demonstrate some degree of care.
Mar 18, 2023 · The La Strada score has enough saccharine swells and lighter changes for one of the fairy-dusted Disney films coming out of the US in the 1950s (Walt Disney himself floated the idea of a Gelsomina cartoon during Fellini and Masina’s visit to his new magic park).
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