- Tullio Pinelli
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occupation = Playwright and screenwriterTullio Pinelli (born
June 24 ,1908 ) is an award-winning screenwriter best known for his work on theFederico Fellini classics "I vitelloni ", "La strada ", "La dolce vita " and "8½ ".Biography
Born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, Pinelli began his career as a civil lawyer but spent his free time working in the theatre as a playwright. Descended from a long line of Italian patriots, his great-uncle General Ferdinando Pinelli quashed the bandit revolt in Calabria following Italian unification. [Tullio Kezich, "Federico Fellini: His Life and Work", Faber and Faber, Inc., 2006, p. 96.]
He first met Fellini in a Rome kiosk in 1947 while they were reading opposite pages of the same newspaper. "Meeting each other," explained Pinelli, "was a creative lightning bolt. We spoke the same language from the start... We were fantasizing about a screenplay that would be the exact opposite of what was fashionable then: the story of a very shy and modest office worker who discovered he can fly; so he flaps his arms and escapes out the window. It certainly wasn't
Italian neorealism . But the idea never went anywhere either." [Kezich, "Federico Fellini: His Life and Work", p. 96] The anecdote about flying, however, presages their 1963 masterpiece,8½ , where the protagonist, a famous film director, dreams of escape by flying out of his car caught in a traffic jam.References
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