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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })1900 (Italian: Novecento) is Bernardo Bertolucci's first Epic Movie (The Last Emperor is his second), released in 1976.On the same day and practically at the same moment, on a wealthy pastoral estate in turn-of-the-century Italy, January 27, 1901; two boys are born. Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro) is the grandson of the estate's padrone (patriarch). Olmo Dalcò (Gérard Depardieu) is the bastard grandson of the estate's head labourer. As children, the two develop an unlikely but close friendship. As they grow up together, Olmo becomes a socialist; however it is Fascism that manages to gain a foothold in the country. Alfredo does not, in turn, strictly become a fascist himself. In fact, he is somewhat distasteful of the ideology and adherents of it, such as his father. Nevertheless, over the years the friendship of the two men, representing the Italian lower and upper classes respectively, is tested; as the country undergoes both World Wars, as Alfredo's father hires the sadistic, anti-communist Attila Mellanchini (Donald Sutherland) as his foreman as the film charts 45 years of Italian history.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })An Epic Movie. (The Italian version, which runs for five hours was released in theatres as a Two-Part Diptych. For the American release a shorter version cut by Bertolucci was released but the latest home video features only the longer version.) The film's $6 million budget was supplied by three different sources: $2 million each from United Artists, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox. Even then, it went over-budget by $3 million. Its All-Star Cast includes Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu and Dominique Sanda. It's scored by Ennio Morricone. Over 12,000 extras were employed.A particular note about the title. In English, "Novecento" literally means "1900" but as Bertolucci confirmed in interviews, this is a misunderstanding. In Italian dating conventions, Novecento signifies "the nineteen-hundreds" and not the year nineteen-hundred. A more apposite English equivalent would be "The 20th Century".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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Rasputinian Death
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Rasputinian Death: Attila. He's pitchforked several times in the chest and still has enough power to stagger halfway across a field...and his attackers still need to shoot him to finish him off.
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Protest Song
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Protest Song: A real-life one, "Sebben che siamo donne" a feminist-socialist song.
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Lady Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth: Regina to Attila.
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Kick the Dog
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Headbutt the Cat: Attila does this, comparing the cat to a communist and explaining the act as sparing the lives of everybody else, at the end of Act One. He also kills Signora Pioppi's cat in an effort to intimidate her (albeit offscreen).
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Woman Scorned
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Woman Scorned: Regina sides with Attila in part because she loves Alfredo and resents his marrying Ada.
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Bourgeois Bohemian
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Bourgeois Bohemian: Alfredo and Dominique Sanda's character are shown as this. They attend trade union meetings and communist dance gatherings but neither of them actually care about the issues and eventually they lapse back and become the idle rich who sit back while fascists run the country.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: Attila murders a child on Alfredo's wedding day.
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Chummy Commies
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Chummy Commies: Italy had a vastly different experience with communism, which was suppressed in favour of Fascism, and many of them suffered and fought as Partigiano during the war. At the end, when Olmo leads everyone in a trial on Alfredo, Olmo denounces Alfredo for being a padrone, a landowner, and a class traitor, but he also says that he wants to free Alfredo from being a padrone and doesn't want to execute him.
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Male Frontal Nudity
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Male Frontal Nudity: Alfredo and Olmo when they have a threesome with a prostitute. As well as several other scenes.
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Author Tract
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Author Tract/Anvilicious: Fascism = bad. Socialism/communism = good. Sex Is Good (which is actually quite unusual for communist movies to state, many of them being a little staid).
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Drowning My Sorrows
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Drowning My Sorrows: Ada.
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Three-Way Sex
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Three-Way Sex: Alfredo and Olmo visit a prostitute together early in the film.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Attila and Regina are devoted to each other, and towards the end of the movie have several children. It doesn't make them sympathetic, though.
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Working-Class Hero
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Working-Class Hero: Olmo and his grandfather Leo.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Attila. Evil Is Hammy
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Gainax Ending
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Gainax Ending: The finale where Alfredo is denounced in a quasi-Maoist denunciation which ends with Olmo saying that the Padrone Alfredo is dead but Alfredo will live. Then we have a Beckett-esque finale of Alfredo and Olmo growing old and bickering and fighting each other, until they fight by train tracks and Alfredo and Olmo seemingly get run over by a train.
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Token Good Teammate
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Token Good Teammate: Signor Pioppi is the only landowner who refuses to donate to the fascists at the outset. He dies in debt and his widow is murdered by Attila and Regina, who take over their house.
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Aristocrats Are Evil
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Aristocrats Are Evil: Actually the bourgeoisie landowners are evil, from the perspective of the peasants and proletariat.
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Odd Couple
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Odd Couple: Olmo and Alfredo. The son of the peasants and the son of the Padrone, they become friends and kids and become Heterosexual Life-Partners mid-way and during fascism, Alfredo protects Olmo and other peasants from persecution.
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Upper-Class Twit
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Upper-Class Twit: Alfredo has been one all his life. He has his good qualities and redeeming moments, but his inertia leads him to become a fascist collaborator.
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Black Shirt
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Black Shirt: Attila is one of them.
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CloudCuckooLander
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Ada often seems to be this, as in a strange scene where she pretends to be blind as a joke (which her friends don't find amusing at all). As the film wears on, she appears to have depression or a similar mental disorder (worsened by her husband's diffident behavior) and copes with it using drugs and alcohol.
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From Nobody to Nightmare
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Attila's introduced as something of an affable doofus whom nobody takes seriously. When he joins the fascists he commits immediately to their ideology and becomes unapologetically evil.
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StrawmanPolitical
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Strawman Political: The movie's politics are not subtle.
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Epic Movie
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Epic Movie: The '70s deconstructive/political/surrealist/absurdist take on the genre (Bertolucci's The Last Emperor is a bit more traditional). Huge cast of international actors, a lot of grand scenes and sets. It was also the biggest box-office hit in Italy in its day but not successful in America.
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Meta Casting
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Meta Casting: The fact that European and Italian actors play peasants while American actors play landowners is a little too on-the-nose even by Bertolucci standards. The one exception is Sterling Hayden, the only American to play a peasant. He's Olmo's father. Bertolucci based it on Hayden's roles as Working-Class Hero in The Asphalt Jungle.
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Evil Is Hammy
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Evil Is Hammy
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