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Bitter Rice

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Bitter Rice	comment	Bitter Rice (Riso amaro) is a 1949 film from Italy directed by Giuseppe De Santis.The setting is northern Italy during rice-planting season. Seasonal workers, all women, head north to the rice fields for planting and harvesting. Hiding among those workers are two petty thieves, Walter and his moll/partner Francesca. They have graduated from petty thieves to big-time thieves after Francesca, at her controlling, abusive boyfriend's urging, stole a very valuable necklace from the hotel where she worked as a maid.Walter and Francesca are at the train station when the cops show up. Before he can be arrested, he shoves the necklace into her hands and throws her on the train. So that's how Francesca finds herself on the train headed north to the rice fields. She isn't a very good or subtle thief, and another worker, Silvana (Silvana Mangano in her Star-Making Role) notices Francesca hiding the bundle under the blankets of her barracks-room mattress. Silvana filches the necklace and is torn between wearing it herself and turning Francesca in...but all is not as it seems. Eventually Walter shows up at the rice farm with a new scheme: to steal the whole season's rice crop.
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Bitter Rice	processingComment	Dropped link to Fanservice: Not a Feature - IGNORE
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Bitter Rice / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Bitter Rice / int_132d93f1	comment	When the detective at the train station fires a warning shot, Walter grabs Francesca and yanks her in front of him to serve as a Human Shield.
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Bitter Rice / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Bitter Rice / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The movie opens with a close-up shot of a man's face as he looks directly into the camera and talks about how northern Italy is rice-growing country, and how every year when it's time for planting, young women travel to the rice fields for seasonal work. The man is eventually revealed to be a radio broadcaster.
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Bitter Rice / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Bitter Rice / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: The first shot of the film is a long tracking shot that starts on the close-up of the man talking, then pulls back to reveal that he's a radio announcer, then turns to show the women arriving, then completes a near-360 degree spin to show women boarding the train, before ending with the two police that are there hunting after Walter.
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Bitter Rice / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Bitter Rice / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Francesca is Walter's moll/victim. She's obviously attracted to Marco, the buff soldier. Marco has little interest in her but is smitten with gorgeous Silvana. Silvana flirts with Marco relentlessly but eventually cleaves to Walter, and becomes Francesca's replacement as moll and thief.
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Bitter Rice / int_491b0105	type	Sexy Sweater Girl
Bitter Rice / int_491b0105	comment	Sexy Sweater Girl: Every top that Silvana wears over the course of the film is stretched to the snapping point.
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Bitter Rice / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Bitter Rice / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Silvana shoots Walter to death, then kills herself.
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Bitter Rice / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Bitter Rice / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Her face a mask of guilt and horror after she shoots Walter to death, Silvana climbs to the top of the observation tower and throws herself off to her death.
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Bitter Rice / int_766aca68	type	Italian Neorealism
Bitter Rice / int_766aca68	comment	Italian Neorealism: As with many Italian Neorealism films, it's a drama of the working poor shot in black and white on location instead of a stage. However it also has plot elements more associated with Film Noir or crime movies, like a stolen necklace, a Love Triangle, a heist, and a scantily-clad Ms. Fanservice.
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Bitter Rice / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Bitter Rice / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: When the detective at the train station fires a warning shot, Walter grabs Francesca and yanks her in front of him to serve as a Human Shield. The first shot of Silvana shows her dancing provocatively to the accompaniment of her portable record player, not to earn money or anything, but just because she wants to dance.
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Bitter Rice / int_81939da2	type	MockGuffin
Bitter Rice / int_81939da2	comment	MockGuffin: The necklace that Silvana stole, the whole reason that she went on the run and wound up at the rice paddy in the first place, turns out to be a fake.
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Bitter Rice / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Bitter Rice / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: Even more fanservice from Silvana, as the rice pickers bathe in a stream.
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Bitter Rice / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Bitter Rice / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A whole sequence in the film shows how the rice fields are irrigated. Workers chop the ropes holding sluice gates shut; the gates then open and water pours through the sluice gates to flood the fields. Towards the end, when Walter is trying to pull off his heist, Silvana chops the ropes in the same way, flooding the fields and distracting all the guards.
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Bitter Rice / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Bitter Rice / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Only in Italian. The Italian word "riso" can mean either "rice" or "laughter", and "Bitter Laughter" fits with the film's Downer Ending.
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Bitter Rice / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
Bitter Rice / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: Doris Dowling (Francesca) was American; her voice was dubbed. Silvana Mangano was Italian but got her voice dubbed anyway.
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Bitter Rice / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Bitter Rice / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Ends with all the rice pickers walking back to the train that will take them away, the rice-growing season having ended.
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Bitter Rice / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Bitter Rice / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Silvana, who spends the whole movie in tight sweaters, or tight tops and short shorts, or (when she's in the barracks) lingerie. Sexy Sweater Girl, Leg Focus, Toplessness from the Back—Silvana Mangano is deployed to the maximum advantage that Italian cinema of 1949 would allow.
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Bitter Rice / int_cd0637d2	type	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Bitter Rice / int_cd0637d2	comment	Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: People at the train station hawk newspapers announcing five million in jewels stolen at the Grand Hotel", which is how the audience learns what Walter and Francesca have done.
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Bitter Rice / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Bitter Rice / int_dceccabf	comment	Cat Fight: The biggest cat fight of all time, possibly. Bad feelings between the contract workers and the "scabs" (non-contract workers) suddenly erupt into a massive brawl. The scene that follows has hundreds of women thrashing around in a muddy rice paddy, with hair-pulling galore.
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Bitter Rice / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Bitter Rice / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: A crowd literally wielding torches and pitchforks comes rushing back after Silvana floods the fields. But since they don't know she's the one who did it, she passes through unmolested, her face contorted with guilt.
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Bitter Rice / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Bitter Rice / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: A great chunk of exposition at the beginning of the movie, as the radio host explains how Northern Italy has a large seasonal rice farming industry, and how young women flock north to plant and harvest the rice crop.
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Bitter Rice / int_f2b365c1	type	Libation for the Dead
Bitter Rice / int_f2b365c1	comment	Libation for the Dead: An unusual non-alcohol example. The rice pickers are all leaving, carrying the sacks of rice that are part of their wages. Silvana lies dead on the ground, covered by a sheet, after she killed herself. The workers all sprinkle grains of rice on the sheet as they pass.
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Bitter Rice / int_f62b8d00	type	Sinister Switchblade
Bitter Rice / int_f62b8d00	comment	Sinister Switchblade: Walter has one. When he finds Francesca unwilling to help him steal the rice, he says "Jail isn't the worst thing that could happen to you," and he flips open his switchblade creepily.
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