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Maschere romanesche http://www.belsito.it/roma/terme/maschere/maschere.htm#MASCHERE Activities
boom del teatro in vernacolo http://www.ilmessaggero.it/hermes/19990111/01_NAZIONALE/21/TEATRO.htm

 

 performances
Fra Cinema e Teatro: Carlo Verdone
Le Maschere di Carlo verdone http://www.italica.rai.it/principali/argomenti/cinema/cedrone/comicita.htm

battute celebri dei caratteri di Carlo Verdone (audio)

quiz su Carlo Verdone
dx1.jpg (11962 byte) http://www.carloverdone.com/  in Gallo Cedrone

 

 viaggi3.jpg (9880 bytes)
http://www.tempimoderni.com/1995/interv/verdone.htm
Viaggi di Nozze who are the famous couples of Viaggi di Nozze?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Activities

Answer the following questions

  • who is Carlo Verdone?
  • Why has he become so famous in Italy?
  • In what way is his movie-making connected with theatre?
  • what tradition does he come from?
  • what characters made him famous?
  • where did he get these characters from?
  • is there any link between Carlo Verdone's comic force and Toto'd comic force?
  • why are his characters so tragic sometimes?
  • what is meant by : Carlo Verdone's fatalism?
  • what characters appealed most to the Roman audience?
  • why?

 
performances.
  • make up 6 pairs (boys and girls)
  • each pair select a couple from Carlo Verdone's movies
  • allow yourself time to look for film scripts (Viaggi di Nozze + Un sacco bello)
  • select passages where comic dialogues between man and wife are meaningful representations of mainstream Italian clichés
  • act them out
  • act them out in English
  • see why the English version is not as comic as the vernacular Italian one.

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