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Urbano was prominent salesman of confectionaries and preserves, and dreamed of training his son for the bar. Ida, who had a vibrant personality and a flair for art, was mainly in charge of raising Federico and his younger siblings, Riccado and Maddalena. Fellini was a fairly good student, though not wonderful. He was sent to a parochial school and did fairly well, though not wonderfully. He learned to be terrified of his teachers (who were nuns), and basically of religion in general. He remembers one incident where he was admonished by a nun during an outside gathering at which he was assigned to hold a candle : "Don't let the candle go out because Jesus won't like it." Federico became so overwhelmed with the responsibility of holding the candle that he completely broke down crying. Such memories about religion would later affect his work. Going to the cinema, though, was one of Fellini's favourite passions. He would often go with his father and .remember specific details regarding the movie and even the theatre. Also, he seemed obsessed with the circus and often claimed that he had run away with them when he was seven. Fellini had a small group of friends, of which he seemed to be the ringleader. They would play jokes on the other children and on the teachers in his school. During confession, Federico would often make up sins just to hear the reaction of the priest; setting fire to his own home, causing the deaths of hundreds of people, axing a priest to death, and kicking a friend during recess. The director was born tow years after Mussolini came to power and introduced fascism to Italy. Like all students, Fellini joined a fascist youth group and wore the uniform required for member ship. As a small, personal revolt against the norm, Federico would often make minor "mistakes," like not having his fez, or wearing brown shoes instead of black. All of these aspects of his personality, including his love for women and his incredible artistic qualities could be readily seen in his films. His most famous movies are often considered grotesque, many of which are scored by Nino Rota and starring Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masini. Fellini collaborated as a scriptwriter with Roberto Rosselini on the films The Open City and Paisan, which he directed some of. His first film as solo director was the White Shark, which as followed by I Vitelloni. La Strada won international recognition with its Oscar for best foreign film. Fellini's second Oscar was with the Nights of Cabiria. He became best known for his film, La Dolce Vita, in 1960. His third film to win an Oscar, 8 ½, used stream of consciousness to explore the inner feelings of a film director himself during the course of the production. In Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini's wife portrayed a housewife driven purely by her own fantasies. Fellini-Satyricon became a cult movie for the late 1960's; Roma, though often ignored, may be one of Fellini's most artistically impressive films. His final Oscar winning film, Amacord, was meant to represent Fellini's adolecence in Rimini. His later work has not been held in as high esteem. His most recent movies, Casanova, City of Women, And the Ship Sails on, and Ginger e Fred, show the lack of reality in our society and its replacement by television. Even though he did not like television, Fellini made two television movies called the Clowns, and the Orchestra Rehearsal. In 1989, Fellini made a movie called La Voce Della Luna, about inmates in an asylum, which has not yet been released in North America. Though he is often considered by modern critics to be self-indulgent and sexist, the death of Federico Fellini on October 31, 1993, left a large gap in the world of movies, but at the same time showed the new way of filmaking that Fellini has ushered in. Bibliography: BIBLIOGRAPHY Alpert. Hollis. Fellini.Atheneum. New York: 1986. Baxter, John. Fellini. St. Martin's Press. New York:1993. Films: La Dolce Vita....directed by Federico Fellini....1960 Fellini-Satyricon....directed by Federico Fellini....1969 Word Count: 733
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