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Cinema Paradiso

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Cinema Paradiso	label	Cinema Paradiso
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Cinema Paradiso	comment	Cinema Paradiso is a 1988 film from Italy, written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.It is a romantic drama about a famous Italian film director, Salvatore Di Vita, who recalls his childhood in the little town of Giancaldo. As a boy there he fell in love with the movies at the "Cinema Paradiso" theater, and formed a deep friendship with the theatre's projectionist, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret).It also tells the story of his return to his native village for his friend Alfredo's funeral. Ultimately, Alfredo serves as a wise father figure to his young friend who only wishes the best to see Salvatore succeed, even if it means breaking Sal's heart in the process.Ennio Morricone composed the music.Re-released in 2002 in a Director's Cut version that ran 173 minutes. For tropes found in the director's cut, see the bottom of the page.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Cinema Paradiso / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Tornatore appears as a film projectionist working for adult Salvatore near the end of the film.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Cinema Paradiso / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: In the theatrical version there's a comment near the end of the movie, where Alfredo's widow, Anna, says that Alfredo's last words were of Salvatore, saying "He must never know." This pretty much dangles out there with no explanation. The Re-Cut version explains what that means; see the bottom of the page.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Cinema Paradiso / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: When Salvatore returns to Giancaldo for Alfredo's funeral, he finds the Nuovo Cinema Paradiso derelict. Ciccio, the former owner, tells him it closed down six years earlier after people stopped going to see films in the cinema and instead stayed home to watch them on television or video cassette.note Giuseppe Tornatore claimed while making the film that this was deliberately intended as an obituary for the classic cinemagoing experience, although he stopped mentioning this after the film became a box-office smash.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Cinema Paradiso / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Twice - once when Alfredo talks about the dangers of fire in the projector room and it happens, then the censored bits of film make an appearance at the end, as Alfredo's last gift. And a third time in the director's cut. Alfredo mentions the importance of keeping the invoice slips and that is where Elena leaves her note to Toto.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Cinema Paradiso / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Salvatore's dad went missing in action in Russia during World War II. Eventually, the Italian government declares him dead and, although they cannot determine where he was buried, authorise Salvatore's mother to receive his army pension.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Cinema Paradiso / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Alfredo dies, and the Cinema Paradiso, which has been abandoned for years, is demolished. And Salvatore never did find love, apparently. But he did become a film director of great renown.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Cinema Paradiso / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: As a little boy Salvatore forms a friendship with Alfredo the projectionist, who has to be at least 40 years older than he is.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_4da296fc	type	All Cloth Unravels
Cinema Paradiso / int_4da296fc	comment	All Cloth Unravels: Salvatore's aged mother is knitting when he shows up. She runs to the door, needle in hand. Her knitting, stuck in the seam of the seat cushion, unravels.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_4f995f60	type	Train-Station Goodbye
Cinema Paradiso / int_4f995f60	comment	Train-Station Goodbye: When Salvatore leaves the town for good. Amusingly, it's the priest who shows up late and runs after the train waving goodbye.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Cinema Paradiso / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: In an early scene, Boccia, one of Salvatore's classmates, is being beaten by their teacher for not being able to multiply 5 by 5. After he guesses 30, then 40, Salvatore tries discreetly showing him a picture of a Christmas tree in a magazine in the hope that he will connect it to 25 (December). Instead, when the teacher gives him a final chance to multiply 5 by 5, he guesses "Christmas", prompting her to beat him harder still while Salvatore buries his face in his hands.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Cinema Paradiso / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: This version only has an adult Elena telling Salvatore that Alfredo got her to break up with him, so that Salvatore wouldn't get tied down in their little village.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Cinema Paradiso / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: A middle-aged Salvatore and Elena bonking in the car after their reunion.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Cinema Paradiso / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: One of the posters on Salvatore's wall is of a movie called The White Sheik, which starred Leopoldo Trieste, Father Adelfio in this film.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_7d260070	type	Corporal Punishment
Cinema Paradiso / int_7d260070	comment	Corporal Punishment: A staple of Italian grade schools in the 1940s. When Salvatore's classmate Boccia can't multiply 5 by 5, his teacher smashes his face against the chalkboard, to gales of laughter from most of the other students.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Cinema Paradiso / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Most of the film is taken up by Salvatore remembering his childhood.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Cinema Paradiso / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: A despairing Salvatore finally gives up his month-long nightly vigils outside Elena's apartment on the night of New Year's 1954-55. (Apparently small-town Italians celebrate the new year by chucking glass bottles out the window.)
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Cinema Paradiso / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Cinema Paradiso / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: In the international theatrical version that won the Oscar, we never find out why Elena didn't show up for her meeting with Salvatore. In the re-cut version we do; see Re-Cut at the bottom of this page.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_8c5f5c97	type	The Movie Buff
Cinema Paradiso / int_8c5f5c97	comment	The Movie Buff: Alfredo loves the films he's projected, and can quote most of them extensively (in Italian, as they're dubbed).
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Cinema Paradiso / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Cinema Paradiso / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Salvatore, though not a priest, sneaks into the priest side, and Elena comes in the other side to make confession. She figures it out, but takes it well.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Cinema Paradiso / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Salvatore's dogged pursuit of Elena triumphantly concludes with her rushing into the projection booth and kissing him, a kiss passionate enough that Salvatore doesn't notice the reel ending, much to the displeasure of the cinemagoers.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_953a8ee8	type	Age Cut
Cinema Paradiso / int_953a8ee8	comment	Age Cut: Alfredo touches Salvatore's face affectionately. He drops his hand, and Salvatore has aged from schoolboy to young man.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Cinema Paradiso / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: The village priest insists on previewing every film shown at the cinema and makes Alfredo censor all the "sexy" bits, including if the characters so much as kiss. The cut bits will later turn out as a tearjerking Chekhov's Gun in the end.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Cinema Paradiso / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: When Toto returns home from his conscripted service in the army, he has found that his home town is very different. Alfredo advises him to leave forever and he does, until Alfredo dies.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Cinema Paradiso / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: The whole movie is a grown-up Salvatore remembering his past.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_a12e893f	type	The General's Daughter
Cinema Paradiso / int_a12e893f	comment	The General's Daughter: Salvatore comes back from the army and tells Alfredo this anecdote:
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Cinema Paradiso / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Cinema Paradiso / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The triumphant scene where Alfredo projects a movie out onto the town square is directly followed by the film catching fire and burning the whole theater down.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_a78f8506	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Cinema Paradiso / int_a78f8506	comment	Timeshifted Actor: Salvatore is played by three different actors (child, teenager, adult). The director later admitted that Jacques Perrin, the grown-up Salvatore, was way too tall and looked nothing like the child and teen versions.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
Cinema Paradiso / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: Philippe Noiret spoke in French and all his dialogue was dubbed into Italian.note Noiret provided Alfredo's voice for the French dub, however.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Cinema Paradiso / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: One of Salvatore's classmates, Peppino, is the son of a worker who waits in the town square for announcements regarding available jobs but is repeatedly passed over by the foremen for being a Communist sympathiser; they snark that he should ask Stalin for a job if he needs money. Eventually, he has enough and moves the whole family to Germany; one of Peppino's classmates shies away from saying goodbye before they leave, as his parents have told him about Peppino's father's politics.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_af26b36a	type	The One Who Made It Out
Cinema Paradiso / int_af26b36a	comment	The One Who Made It Out: Alfredo urges Salvatore not to stick around Giancaldo working the projector and listening to his stories. He tells Salvatore that he has to get out, so he can become the success that Alfredo knows he can be. And he's right, as Salvatore leaves and becomes a film director of great renown.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Cinema Paradiso / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: A rather bitter example.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Cinema Paradiso / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Many films shown onscreen at the Cinema Paradiso.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Cinema Paradiso / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The first version of the film was unpopular with Italian audiences and reduced to 2 hours for its international cinema release, which was highly successful. Later, around 50 minutes were re-added for the director's cut of the movie, available on DVD. One scene shows a teenaged Salvatore getting serviced by a prostitute at the Paradiso. Most of the new material has Salvatore meeting Elena again and finding out she got married, which doesn't stop them from enjoying a little adulterous Auto Erotica. She tells him that the reason she didn't come back for their meeting was because Alfredo intercepted her, and convinced her to give up Salvatore, so Salvatore would be free to leave town and become a big success.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Cinema Paradiso / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Philippe Noiret gets an "And With" credit.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Cinema Paradiso / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: From the priest ringing his little bell to signal what has to be censored from the movie, to the church bells ringing. From a teenaged Salvatore burying his face in his hands after Elena doesn't make their rendezvous, to an adult Salvatore doing the same.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_f51e530a	type	Romantic Rain
Cinema Paradiso / int_f51e530a	comment	Romantic Rain: During an outdoor screening of the 1954 Kirk Douglas film Ulysses, a sudden thunderstorm blows through as Salvatore is lying on the ground; suddenly, Elena surprises him by lying on top of him for a kiss, much to his surprise. As people run for cover, and the movie still plays, Salvatore and Elena enjoy a nice make-out session.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_f6f2bd52	type	Melting-Film Effect
Cinema Paradiso / int_f6f2bd52	comment	Melting-Film Effect: A film that's being projected is melting on the screen, just before it disastrously catches fire. Of course we're talking about nitrate film here, pre-safety stock.
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Cinema Paradiso / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Cinema Paradiso / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: When the original Cinema Paradiso is gutted by fire, the locals ruefully survey the wreckage and wonder aloud where they'll find the money to re-build it... just as Ciccio, who won a fortune in the football lottery a few scenes earlier, shows up dressed in smart clothes befitting his new wealth. Cut to Ciccio presiding over the grand opening of the Nuovo Cinema Paradiso.
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