LIFE_IS_BEAUTIFUL completo[1]

English Project : 

English Project Teacher: Marcela Barrueto Participants: Arrieta Aldave, Nancy Liliana Burga Moreno, Ileana Olenka Carrión Kajatt, Jackeline Dávila Paz, Monica Cecilia Santiago Cabello, Gloria Milagros

“LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL” : 

“LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL”

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Social aspect

Social aspect : 

Social aspect The movie takes place during II World War, in an Italy which was submitted to fascism by the power of the dictator Mussolini. The story develops during the Nazi dictatorship in Germany and the repression against the Jews.

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Racism, is the theory based on the prejudice by which the human races present biological differences that justify relations of domain like behaviors of rejection or aggression. Xenophobia, repugnance or hostility towards the foreigners.

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The movie is filmed in Cortona, Arezzo. This city is in the region of Toscana ( Florence),it’s to the east of the country

Stages : 

Stages Its landscapes splashed with cypresses and olive trees. Toscana is a famous region. It is a very well preserved cities. The Piazza della Libertà The Piazza San Francesco you can see the sign that blocks the way of dogs and Jews

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The sloping Piazza Grande where Guido and his family rode at full speed The Piazza della Badia the Palazzo della Fraternità dei Laici

Guido and his family are deported to a concentration camp where they are submitted to all kinds of sub human works : 

Guido and his family are deported to a concentration camp where they are submitted to all kinds of sub human works THE NAZI CONCETRACION CAMP

PLOTThe life is beautiful : 

PLOTThe life is beautiful

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Guido annd his friend traveled …

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Guido met Dora

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Dora fell in love with Guido´s clownish charm

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A few years passed. They had a nice family

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When World War II began

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Dora wasn´t Jewish but she wanted to go, too.

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At the camp

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Guido told Josué “This is a game you should hide and remain silent to win. The price was a tank

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Josué was excited with the idea

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When the war finished

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Guido told Josué to hide in cabinet until everyone was gone.

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Guido was captured by guard

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Guido was killed.

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The next day

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Americans arrived and Josué thought that the tank entering the city was his prize

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Finally he met his mother.

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Roberto Benigni - Guido

ROBERTO BENIGNI - GUIDO OREFICE “Life is Beautiful” : 

ROBERTO BENIGNI - GUIDO OREFICE “Life is Beautiful”

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Roberto Benigni was born on October 27th 1952 in Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and director of film and television. He won an Oscar for best actor in 1998 by his performance on the film “life is beautiful”. Appeared in several Italian productions as the Monster or Johnny Palillo, usually written, directed and staged by him.

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He is regarded as best Italian comic actor of the 90’s. Benigni has been compared with comic actors as Buster Keaton or Chaplin humorous nature. He has also participated in French productions as Asterix, where gave life to the pretty but brilliant Detritus. He is currently married to the Italian actress Nicoletta Braschi who he worked with in 8 different films. In “Tiger and snow” they are the main characters.

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Benigni is known for “Life is Beautiful” (La Vita è bella) an Italian film released in 1997. As narrated in the film, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni) is a Jewish Italian who invented a kind of romantic story opposed to the terrible world around him and his son. Guido, an Italian descendant of Jews, lived in the city of Arezzo in 1939 during II World War. He falls in love and then married to Dora. They had a son named Joshua. Their happiness last a short period because Guido, his uncle and Joshua are deported to a nazi concentration camp.

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Guido makes Joshua believe that everything is a game and that he will only win if he is not seen by “grumpies” German guards. Every day he invents new games for his child and uses his imagination to save Joshua’s life. The child, tempted by the tank which, according to his father, will be the prize, lives the Holocaust as a game without realizing the atrocities that surrounds him, thanks to the ingenuity of Guido. Later, German soldiers had to leave the concentration camp because the allied soldiers arrived but first they were told to kill all prisoners. Guido achieved to hide his son before being arrested and murdered.

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Guido at all times shows great love for his son. His attitude reflects a way in which you can control thoughts and facts, disguising and changing them. It shows that sometimes it is necessary to maintain a positive attitude to face life challenges.

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Joshua

Giorgio Cantarini : 

Giorgio Cantarini He was born on December 5th1992. He´s an Italian child actor who, to date, has appeared in two Academy Award winning films: 1997's Life Is Beautiful and 2000's Gladiator.

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Born and raised in Florence, Italy, Giorgio Cantarini is an only child born to Rimazio and La Tina Cantarini. The couple separated and subsequently divorced shortly after Giorgio's fifth birthday. His family nickname is "Gio".

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Giorgio Cantarini made his film debut in the 1997 Roberto Benigni directed comedy-drama Life is Beautiful, playing Benigni's five year old son 'Giosué Orefice', who is sent with his Jewish-Italian father to a German concentration camp during World War II. The film won three Academy Awards. In 1998, Cantarini was awarded alongside castmates of Life Is Beautiful with the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

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His second film appearance was in the 2000 Ridley Scott-directed period action/drama Gladiator. Cantarini was cast as the son of Oscar winner Russell Crowe's character 'Maximus'. The film would win five Oscars at the 73rd Academy Awards.

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In 2001, Cantarini appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame American television film adaptation of author Eric Newby's autobiographical novel Love and War in the Apennines as 'Slavko'. The film was shot on location in Italy.

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Cantarini currently resides in Florence, Italy with his father, but in summer he lives with his mother in Los Angeles, California, USA

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Message of the film

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The message offered by the film is reflected in the happiness and The beautiful things of live.

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The father shows his son a beautiful world when real life is different.

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. It shows a positive attitude in life

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The way someone can control thoughts and face life challenges

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It also shows that it Is important to be in a good mood even in difficult situations.

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