A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
For Fellini, vitelloni were "the unemployed of the middle class, mother's pets. They shine during the holiday season, and waiting for it takes up the rest of the year". We could call them shiftless layabouts or something else disparaging. Between the 1950s and today (2015), we may see this somewhat different, as it is increasingly common to live with your parents until early adulthood.
Are there translation issues on the Criterion disc? Apparently the pageant early on is "Miss Siren of 1953", but the Criterion translation has her as "Miss Mermaid". Clearly one is alluring and the other is a bit more questionable.
The film influenced Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets" (1973), George Lucas's "American Graffiti" (1973), and Joel Schumacher's "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), which makes this film important if for no other reason. Was there not a film that Scorsese was influenced by?
For Fellini, vitelloni were "the unemployed of the middle class, mother's pets. They shine during the holiday season, and waiting for it takes up the rest of the year". We could call them shiftless layabouts or something else disparaging. Between the 1950s and today (2015), we may see this somewhat different, as it is increasingly common to live with your parents until early adulthood.
Are there translation issues on the Criterion disc? Apparently the pageant early on is "Miss Siren of 1953", but the Criterion translation has her as "Miss Mermaid". Clearly one is alluring and the other is a bit more questionable.
The film influenced Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets" (1973), George Lucas's "American Graffiti" (1973), and Joel Schumacher's "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), which makes this film important if for no other reason. Was there not a film that Scorsese was influenced by?