Night on earth quotes roberto benigni biography
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| The actor: | Masatoshi Nagase |
| The character: | Japanese Poet |
| The film: | Paterson |
| The quote: | “Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with a raincoat on.” |
There aren’t a bunch of lines in here that I’ve chosen mostly for beauty or pure insight, but this is one of them. It’s an awful thought. Can we never really feel the vatten on our skin of language that isn’t ours? It seems to me that the best proof that we cannot comes from the translation of Japanese haiku into another language like English, where the absolute noggrannhet of the words is just lost a little bit. Perhaps this is why the haiku that stands out most to me is one by Richard Wright, who wrote:
In the falling snow.
A laughing boy holds out his palms.
Until they are white.
Jim Jarmusch has been messing around with foreign language throughout his oeuvre, from the Hungarian bandied about in Stranger Than paradis to Mystery Train and its multiple st
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Roberto Benigni
Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director (born 1952)
Roberto Remigio BenigniCavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI[1] (; Italian:[roˈbɛrtobeˈniɲɲi]; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaustcomedy drama film Life Is Beautiful (1997), for which he received the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film. Benigni was the first actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for a non-English language performance.
Benigni made his acting debut in 1977's Berlinguer, I Love You, which he also wrote, and which was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. Benigni's directorial debut was the 1983 anthology filmTu mi turbi, which was also the acting debut of his wife, Nicoletta Braschi. He continued directing and also starring in the comedic films Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984), The Little Devil (1988),
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A 1991 independent film, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, that follows five different taxi drivers from all over the world and their encounters with a customer that each picks up during their night shift. The movie is a unique blend of art house drama and comedy and features an international All-Star Cast including Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, and Roberto Benigni. The soundtrack is by Tom Waits.
Not related to the documentary series Night on Earth.
This film provides examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: The Rome cabbie picks up a priest who he mistakes for a bishop till the priest tells him otherwise. Later on when the priest dies of a heart attack, the Rome cabbie keeps referring to him as a bishop
- Anthology Film: This is a movie that follows five different drivers over the course of a night.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: The Helsinki segment begins and ends with them - one comedic, one less so.
- Mika asks the three passengers if they cal