Hi Everybody -- Tonight we hear from Dr. Rubin, who is coming to Sicily, and Rick is going to give his famous presentation on packing. On Thursday or next week we'll discuss the movie, how art and culture shape our experiences of "place," and the "traveler vs. tourist" as discussed in "Lard is Good for You" and "Storming The Beach."
Writers: Continue reading "The Stone Boudoir." Alex and Jenna are scheduled to do the next Italian vignette and we'll continue peer editing the latest blog posts next time we meet.
Refreshments: Tuesday -- Sarah C., Thursday -- Lindsey D.
Some of us saw a different "Cinema Paradiso" last week -- the 173-minute-long director's cut! (I've got a copy, if anyone wants to borrow it.)
The shorter version, which everyone who was in class Thursday saw, is the one that was an international hit -- except you missed the ending, because it was moved to the end of the longer version.
Spoiler alert about the ending of the shorter and longer versions: Both end with the grown Toto watching a moving tribute to romance that Alfredo made by splicing together all of the love scenes he had been forced to snip from the movies shown at Cinema Paradiso.
Longer version spoiler alert: Toto looks for and finds Elena, his long lost love and discovers that she really did try to find him at Cinema Paradiso, before her family whisked her away. Alfredo had discouraged her from contacting Toto. So, thanks to Alfredo, Toto loses the love of his life but becomes a beloved, famous director instead.
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