Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Fellini's 8 1/2

In this scene, taken from Fellini's 81/2, we see an image of a prostitute, Saraghina, doing a strip tease for the young boys who escape school to come and see her. They are frightened and intrigued. Fellini has always been well known for his depictions of odd characters and disturbing, circus-like images from his dreams. Saraghnia is shown as a very sexual, aggressive, frightening creature who speaks only with her body language and her eyes. Fellini somehow takes these disturbing looking characters and makes them attractive. There is something .........
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"How many film directors make films to satisfy their sexual fantasies"

This is a trailer to Peter Greenaway's 1999 film, 8 1/2 Women. Greenaway has always been known to shock audiences, particularly with his depiction of both full male and female nudity. It's something that he says only American audiences have a problem with. This film is about 8 1/2 male sexual fantasies. A father and son turn their Swiss mansion in to a house of sexual pleasure. The line, "How many film directors make films to satisfy their sexual fantasies" occurs when the father and son are watching Fellini's 81/2. Ironically, Greenaway is doing this very thing with his movie where the two men grow to be sick of sex by the end of their story. These fictional characters are a representation of Greenaway's provocative, perhaps, secret fascinations with women and sex. Greenaway's movies are very hard for certain people to watch because of their bizarre uncomfortable feeling. Women might feel this film to be sexist or misogynistic. Undoubtedly the film portrays a very erotic depiction of women and sex.
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"A Woman is a Woman"

This is a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's 1961 film, A Woman is a Woman. The woman is Anna Karina, who was Godard's wife at the time of shooting, and she plays a prostitute who longs to to have a baby. This portrays a very sweet strip tease where Karina is singing a very optimistic, innocent song. Notice the music is omitted every time the verse begins. This was one of Godard's elements of surprise. The atmosphere couldn't be more depressing yet somehow Karina lightens the mood and makes a strip tease look like a sweet, naive, cute dance number. Godard portrays Karina's natural beauty in a way that gives us the idea of sex in our mind but doesn't convey it in an explicit or predictable way.
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