"South, North"
are two highly similar scripts, France's 2008 "Welcome to the North Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis" and Italy's 2010 "Welcome to the South Benvenuti al Sud (2010)".
The male protagonist who works in a small place under the State Post Bureau, because he wants to go to a big city, does not hesitate to disguise his disability.
The French blueprint was originally sent from Provence in the south to Begues, a small town in the north. In the eyes of a southerner like the protagonist, the small town in the north means a cold place where the hillbillies live. What is even more frightening is that the residents there say that it is a cold place. An incomprehensible dialect.
The Italian blueprint was sent from a small town in Brianza in the north to a small town in the southern region of Campania, approaching Sicily. In the eyes of the hero, Alberto, it is a southern land full of gangsters, trash and idlers.
The final result is beyond the protagonist's expectations. Quiet, peaceful, and even family-like to describe the small and medium-sized towns in northern France and southern Italy are all appropriate!
According to data from France's "Welcome to the North", the film with a total investment of only 11 million euros has a box office of 20.44 million people in France, that is, one out of every three French people has gone to the cinema to see this film.
There is also data that "Welcome to the South" became the best Italian film at the box office in 2010. Since its release in Italy on October 1, it has occupied the top spot at the box office for four consecutive weeks. Italian box office champion.
The two films have almost the same influence, yet they can achieve such results. The main reason is that the subject matter attracts local audiences. The economic and cultural differences between the North and the South in a region or country are always mentioned in various ways and reasons. The result, if it is properly vented in the form of comedy and humanistic spirit, will always be recognized by the local audience and even receive real applause.
Can the directors of our country also refer to such ideas and outline them?
Here are some off-screen texts, please see:
"Welcome to the South" became the best-grossing Italian native film of 2010. Luca Miniero's comedy, focusing on the southern town of Cilento, transplants the story of the French film "Welcome to the North" to Italy, celebrating the beauty of that particular Mediterranean way of life. Of course, the theme of the film is inevitably brought together in the political direction: the economic and cultural differences between the North and the South are mentioned again, and the director Minello hopes that Umberto Bossi, a politician who advocates self-control/independence in northern Italy, can watch this film.
"Welcome to the South" can be called the first successful example of the new Italian film era, and its production company Medusa MEDUSA has announced that it will be shooting a sequel, possibly with the same name as the French version: "Welcome to the North", this time The story will be the opposite. A person who grew up on the Mediterranean side of southern Italy and came to the Po River plain, who knows what hilarious things will happen? Are northern Italians really as indifferent as the snow in the legendary Alps?
The director Luca Miniero is a southerner born in Naples, and the screenwriter Massimo Gaudioso is also a Neapolitan. Miniero admitted that he thought the movie should be good, but to be honest, he really didn't expect such a sensation.
According to Alessandro Siani, one of the leading actors, the soul of "Welcome to the South" is to break people's stereotypes, bring people to re-understand this beautiful land, and praise the lovable and lovely people raised by this land.
In interviews with Luca Miniero, the name Umberto Bossi is always seen, an Italian politician, former singer and now the leader of the Northern League, an Italian party dedicated to southern Italy autonomy/independence. The predecessor of the Northern Alliance, known as the "Lombardy Grand Alliance", was established in 1984 and won wide support in the administrative elections in 1987 and 1992, defeating the traditional major parties and becoming the sole ruler of the city government of Milan. power, and also holds two-thirds of the seats in the city council. From February 8th to 10th, 1991, the alliance organizations of the six regions of northern Italy held a congress in Milan, and established the "Northern Alliance", and Bossi was elected as the secretary of the alliance. The main views and propositions of the "Northern Alliance": Oppose the traditional parties in Italy to manage the country according to the old system, think the traditional parties are corrupt, advocate the establishment of a federal state in Italy, and divide the country into three republics: South, North and Central; Opposes the current policy of supporting the South, believing that the South has devoured the wealth created by the North and dragged down the North in economic development; on the immigration issue, it advocates adopting strict policies to restrict foreign immigration. Economically opposed to the state monopoly capital, in favor of relying on small and medium-sized enterprises, and advocated the implementation of the "people's shareholding" system. They demanded that the central government delegate power to local governments and advocated local autonomy; they opposed the current tax system, believing that it burdened the people too heavily, called on people to refuse to pay taxes, and demanded that the central government delegate the power of tax administration to local governments.
Luca Mineiro's original words are: "Actually, I would rather watch "Welcome to the South" with his son, Renzo Bossi, than Bossi. Every time he gives a speech, he scares me." Renzo is a post-80s generation, 1988 He was the youngest son of the Bossi family who was born in 2000. However, relying on "nepotism", his political career was very smooth, and he successfully became one of the members of the Northern Alliance. Bossi has also become the most powerful political surname after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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