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Mereghetti, Paolo
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
The mafia in films
The liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera asks whether distorted portrayals of the mafia in films are hindering the fight against organised crime, saying there must be other ways of portraying it: "[There must be] something other than the mafia as an 'ugly and evil' bunch who speak poor Italian and come from an economic and social quagmire. Battled by noble heroes who are willing to sacrifice all they have. Is that the reality of it? No, according to examining magistrate [Roberto] Scarpinato, who presents evidence from many trials he has conducted: the history of the mafia is a patchwork of crimes and murders that were commissioned in a 'bourgeois environment by people like you and me who attended the same schools as we did, socialise in the same circles and believe in the same God, … it is a terrible and unresolved family affair in the context of a national leading class …, one of the most pre-modernist, violent and greedy in the history of the West'. Consequently it's difficult to understand the silence and carelessness of many screenwriters and directors, with which they sometimes slide into a cultural bond of secrecy."
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Dialects add flavour to the soup
The Italian Lega Nord party has used the opening of the film producers' pool in Milan - as a rival to the Cinecittà film studios in Rome - as an excuse to criticize films in Roman dialect. The liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Serra writes that federalism, the political goal of the Lega Nord, cannot function in the film world and that nor should it. Dialects add flavour to the soup, it says. "Its criticism reignites the old conflict about an Italy of dialects. But the film duel between Rome and Milan has generated an endless gallery of cult scenes, jokes about the Italian capital and Lombardian stereotypes. ... It would really be a great pity (and a mistake) if in order to facilitate the birth of a film pool in Milan the Lombards of all people were to draw a new linguistic and geographical Gothic line [line of defence along the Apennines during World War II]."
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