THE FALSE LIAR English Sub - Vincenzoni - De Laurentiis - Scarpelli and The Great War # 5

THE FALSE LIAR English Sub - Vincenzoni - De Laurentiis - Scarpelli and The Great War

The False Liar - Life and Adventures of Luciano Vincenzoni a film by Claudio Costa

This documentary was subtitled
thanks to a contribution of the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and International Cooperation

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This story collects testimonies of Luciano Vincenzoni’s life, a scriptwriter who was involved with the cinema for half a century.
Appreciated in Italy, Europe and Hollywood he collaborated with Pietro Germi, Carlo Lizzani, Mario Monicelli, Mauro Bolognini, Sergio Leone, Billy Wilder, Peter Bogdanovich, Renè Clemont and many others.
Pietro Germi called him "the false liar" because he told incredible stories that later turned out to be true ...

DE LAURENTIIS
From that moment on, Vincenzoni worked a lot with me until we did The great war that he wrote together with Age and Scarpelli.

SCARPELLI
And I met him in the room of Dino De Laurentiis who spoke of this young man from Veneto full of lively ideas and after some time his story of The great war came about, which he said was vaguely inspired by the idea of a story by Maupassant.

LUCIANO
Strangely I owe everything to Stanley Kubrick, because I went with Peppino Amato to see this film, Paths of Glory, we were amazed, it was a beautiful film, and when we came out, Peppino Amato, a good Neapolitan, took off his hat, threw it on the ground, trampled it "these are the films we need to do, we are not able to do them!" , in short, all of this urged me, so when I got home I remembered that I had read a story by Guy de Maupassant entitled Deux Amis, two friends, which is about two guys that during the spring of '70, 1870, while Paris was surrounded by German armies one day, as they were used to fish, they go fishing, they were walking, talking, fishing and basking in the sun, without realizing it they enter the ground occupied by the Germans who arrest them ...
not only they arrest them but they are convinced that they know a word, the passepartout, to get out of the city, so they are clearly ordered, to either tell them the word they used to come out with, or they would get shot, they did not know the word, they had not been told it, because they were just wandering around, they did not know what to say and they were shot, I liked this story of two unaware heroes, so I jotted down a story which I imagined took place in Italy during the First World War, the two were two antagonists, a Roman and a Milanese, but as they keep teasing each other, they became great friends, then they find themselves in a situation very similar to that of Maupassant, and they end up ... two cowards in reality... who also confess that they are cowards, but they end up being shot like two heroes, it was a story of 20, 30 pages.