Carlo Verdone is an actor, a director, a comedian, a showman, but more than anything else is a man of culture. One of those who know that there is no difference between “high” culture and “low” culture, that culture – in a broad sense – of a people is made of poetry but also of Grevi jokes, surrealist cinema and jokes, masterpieces and objects. “This is culture” had shouted as he had Pierino’s costume put back to Alvaro Vitali: so, with respect and immense affection, Carlo Verdone reminds him.
The sweet memory of Carlo Verdone
Alvaro Vitali belonged to that group of well -known characters that everyone knows but that nobody calls anymore. The creator of Pierino was far from the scene for a long time and, at his funeral, the world of entertainment was absent. Lino Banfi recalled his friend/enemy with a message on social media. All the others simply they did not show up. The only VIP at the appeal was Carlo Verdone, who had recently worked with Vitali and who also recalled with a touching social message.
“The disappearance of Alvaro Vitali makes me feel so much sadness why We had really become friends. – explained Verdone – On the set it was a safe of anecdotes of that beautiful 70s, 80s, Fellinian cinema, above all, because he was born with Fellini and thanks to his intuitions, he knew how to choose the faces, the characters. And Alvaro Vitali was an incredible mask, as well as being a very deep, very cultured man. He made beautiful reflections. “
Carlo’s memory continues: “What I was pleased to be happy is that he was happy to be back on a great set, with many actors, such as that of Life by Carlo. I tried to enhance it as I could best. I will miss a lot and I will always remember him with affection And with love, but above all because he will always remind me of the great cinema of Federico Fellini. It was also Pierino, a moment of a carefree cinema, but for me he was Federico Fellini’s cinema “.
Alvaro Vitali’s latest work
Alvaro Vitali collaborated in the fourth season of Life by Carlothe Paramount+ series directed and interpreted by Carlo Verdone, in which the actor tells his real life, with fictional elements and a pinch of surreal comedy. Participation in the show, whose filming ended a few months ago, therefore represents Vitali’s latest work, which for the occasion returned, more than 40 years later, to wear the role of Pierino.
Appearing to the protagonist in a dream, Alvaro asks “what is the difference between life and death?” And then he jokes, says a dirty word, he laughs unguedly on it. So Verdone wanted him, as he really was, deep of thought but very light in the approach. For so much to the most important questions there is not an answer, and then it is so appropriate to laugh about it. “It was wonderful Working with Carlo “: thus ends the free video published on the Paramount profiles, to say goodbye with the respect that deserves to an artist who would be unfair not to treat as such.
