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Rudolph Valentino, the French version and the Italian version

As I wrote in one of the first post of this site, Rudolph Valentino, before his return to Italy in 1923 was not widely known, but can not be said that no one had heard of him (as someone wrote after his death). I told of the proposal to make the film Particle Claudia, it seems that the bid of Joseph Jar, head of the Union of Italian Film, Valentino did not convince. This would explain why certain hostile attitude of the press (some of the press), against him? I shall return to this later.
Valentino Let's see how he was received in France, second-home mother because her mother was French, as he liked to recall.
Even the French film press had devoted much attention to Valentino first of 1923. In France, as in Italy, was the great success of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to attract the attention of the press. Artistic merits e. .. for a change, a lot of gossip about turbulent private life.

"On a surnommé Rodolph Valentino" the idole du public américain. " Ce jeune premier remporte En effet aux Etats-Unis here a succès jusqu'à ce jour Eclipse celu remporté par n'importe autre artiste that. Son dernier film, during which the has appeared with Gloria Swanson behind the mountains, is welcomed by American audiences with genuine enthusiasm.
Valentino has just completed the bloody arena, based on the novel by Blasco Ibanez, and will start to turn Don Cesar de Bazan the Famous Players Lasky. In France
Rudolph Valentino is not well known to the public, although it appeared in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the film adapted from the novel by Blasco Ibanez, which was screened at the Vaudeville.
The history of divorce and remarriage of Rudolph Valentino's worth telling.
The artist had married a pretty young woman. John Acker (USA much women carry this man's name of John), but after some time, there was the quarrel in the household; Valentino pleaded for divorce and obtained it.
Think a leading man as Rudolph Valentino is intended not to stay long ... single. He made the experience and became enamored of a famous painter in the United States, Natasha Rambova. The latter worked with Nazimova and beautiful artist is very well known in the American film community. She fell in love
turn of Valentino and the young couple decided to marry. But ... but the law is explicit in the United States. Every divorced person must wait some time before entering new relationships. Natasha Rambova and Valentino saw themselves unable to marry. Instead be patient and wait, they devised an expedient and one day, crossed the border, because we must not forget that Los Angeles is a relatively short distance of Mexico. In the latter country, it is the law with standard facilities, and the lovers were married. Everything was for the better, at least they thought.
Alas! When they returned to Los Angeles, the sound of their marriage spread quickly. There were articles in newspapers and all the newspapers published the movie portrait of Natasha Rambova. The young couple
lived in the greatest tranquility, when one day Valentino learned that he was prosecuted for bigamy. You think if
d ^ were fighting passionately followed by the female audience in Los Angeles.
The verdict was satisfactory to everyone and even morality has some special courses in the United States. The judges have decided in effect that Valentino could not be accused of bigamy, since he was divorced and in fact have paid. But they have banned the artist to live with Natasha Rambova ... for one year. Will there be policemen on duty outside the house of Valentino, and before that of Natasha Rambova prevent lice lovers go visits?

This news was published in the journal Mon Ciné is September 14, 1922. I will spare you the Italian version of the story, published several months later, where Natacha Rambova become "a rich American heiress, Mrs. Hudnut, kidnapped by Valentine, and not a word that the artist was well known in the Rambova American cinema. What matters are the dollars
"Rudolph Valentino, the actor who for some time is found ... Featured in the chronicles worldly, artistic and sentimental, it seems he intends to form a company of its own. Following the loss of his suit against Famous Players, will not be able to work all year round for another house, since his current contract expires in the spring of 1924, hence the decision to manufacture its own account of the film, which he put on the market in 1924.
Meanwhile, the beautiful Rodolfo sings to a Society of phonographs, and he says he gets $ 10,000 for each disc, at the same time is dedicated to the manufacture of perfumes: Rudolph Valentino Parfums, the elegant America's dispute with zeal. "

The description of the character in the delivery of the readers of the most prestigious Italian film is, with slight variations from 1923 to 1925, this: "Rudolph Valentino is Italian - - South, his first profession was that the dancer in the café-concerts and cabarets, film making in America came in and did just luck because his body is very much like to stage managers over there. If we were to tell you frankly our view, we could not hide that we Valentino, as an artist, like very little. E 'with a married American heiress, with whom he escaped before marrying her. It is found today in the United States. "
After 1925, the tone will become even heavier.

Governor Springs Briggs And Stratton

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Valentino, and criticism

Cinema Umberto, Bari . The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Metro). I say it now: a great Movie! Great in terms of technical and artistic. If the movie as critics have ruled competent Naples, tends to a political propaganda for a nation, this is not the least impressed the audience of Bari, which is not at all gone into a frenzy for this, or that patriotic scene, but rather follow the unfolding of the drama, just watching the players and the events of the drama, at times uttering exclamations of irony, to some exaggerated scenes of the orgy of German troops. Just as the time of Nero! Most admired throughout the unfolding of the drama, the art of the two excellent main characters. Rudolph Valentino, Italian, and most of Puglia, southern brown with that nice guy, gives life to the character he most admirably flesh, Alice Terry assisted by dignity, a true gem of beauty overseas. Replies Number and huge audience.

Modernissimo, Florence . The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Metro). As I wrote at the beginning of my short film reviews, the success of this work was really indescribable, when you think of successfully holding the bill for over a month and almost always sold out with salt.

Excelsior Cinema, Palermo . The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , the Metro, a film is justifiably exalted from advertising. The first and second parts are not of great importance, the other four elevators work at a height, rarely achieved until now.
admirable movement of the masses, the constant and precise synchronization between the assembly and details, talented artists, all well together for the sole purpose of a balanced and tend to emphasize the role entrusted to them, great pictures, the beautiful interweaving , nice, clear and moral symbolism, which emphasizes the cruelty of war.
our enthusiasm is not unwarranted. In the presence of such films feel obliged to remind those who work among us, to study and observe, and shouting agl'inattivi: Shame!

Film Bios Bologna . The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse . The film has come to us after the resounding triumphs reported in other Italian cities and abroad, and then was expected, almost morbidly. He held a sign for fifteen days continuously and drew immense crowd.
Speaking of the work is unnecessary, after which courses are rivers of ink on the film, the protagonists, etc. used on the masses. I will only say that here too there has been a remarkable success, but that many were expecting a more comprehensive and more responsive to the instrument, to be honest, you need a booster.
I am convinced that the work loses much of its value in the Italian edition. The titles of the paintings are badly translated, and even technically unappealing. In some ways then the film has too obviously incomplete and incomprehensible for not being mutilated to somewhere interesting. However, this does not hurt that I'm in the complex vastness of the work, attention to detail and plays with rare skill.
Rudolph Valentino is imposed for serious, fair and nice acting, the other very well.

Oriental Cinema, Modena . The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , the well-known production of the Metro. Talking about this movie and describe the wonderful impression given is how to repeat for the millionth time the praises of past critics. I will only say that this cinematic gem you had to present with all that optical and mechanical precision that he deserved.
E 'inexcusable misconduct by the management of the hall, in neglecting not only the framed panel proeizione, but also the operations of the cabin.
little light, even in low light so that it becomes difficult to read the wonderful captions. Despite this drawback, which we hope will soon be eliminated, the public has found true and intimate moments of emotion, especially in the love scenes of Valentino and the fascinating Terry; those of trench warfare and the time of the departing troops, where he able to vent its unanimous favor with warm applause.

Ferret Recurrent Sores

1923 The Four Horsemen in the cinema Ambrosio 1923

Making the criticism of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" - come to us from overseas, accompanied by a loud drum roll and dall'encomio solemn critics of the capital - presents serious difficulties for organic complexity of work and for the thesis, I dare say, psychological - if I did not stop them a legitimate desire not to insult the psychology - that we wanted to study and play through the romantic action movie.
But the writer, not a likeness of the Roman critics and New Yorkers, equipped with the paradoxical wisdom of the glasses. It is a deep lover of cinema (as a explanation of international business), and especially a humanist.
The "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" appeared to the public in Turin under the seal stamped by a primary interpreter casanoviana adventure and fame of male beauty that has no reason to exist. Especially impressed by the fact that the work has cost millions and has occupied hundreds of thousands of individuals.
The mentality of our audience is still in the child has not yet fine arts education so as to make him feel at first glance the value of a film. Add to this factor, but not least, the ignorance that the public has of our cinema. Ignorance, of course, takes away the power of analysis and meets with superficiality. The "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" are undoubtedly of considerable artistic merit, but you know you submerge in the absolute emptiness of the "subject" of which you search in vain for the reason of being artistic. In fact we wanted to make this film a propaganda tool antigermanica, praiseworthy within certain limits of national development, and exaltation of martyrdom and courage, typically Francophile. There is, first of all, who does not see the inappropriateness of extolling martyrdom France and Germany for the occupation of the Ruhr groans !..., during which - newspapers teach - repeating the same episodes of inhumanity committed during the war by the Germans and now by the French, without nullifying the state of war.
All this has nothing to do with the content of the film, that it seemed colorless and lacking the vitality necessary to highlight the major strengths and real drama. All
terrible tragedy unleashed on the world dall'eccidio of Sarajevo in November 1918, educated in its most atrocious is summarized in the film and, scenic, well-represented. But it is the romantic action matters for the public, and the action does not follow with equal intensity dramatic background of the fierce war.
There are, indeed, moments of "pathos," there are also brutal reality that sometimes force us to take to ourselves and to listen to the nagging whisper of the soul: but this is the product of a subjective impression - responding to the particular state of mind and spirit of the viewer - and objective examination of the work will reveal the impressions saturated with banality.
The pipeline of the "subject drama 'is reduced to very poor thing if it separates the horrible scenario of the war - but with a few vigorous strokes path - from the intimate and personal and spiritual drama of the protagonists: it is true that the two elements - the substantial 'one, and the other formal - should be inseparable, but still should find in themselves the reason for being and then seek and identify with each other in the same torment. This does not happen. We say two episodes tied together badly fragmented, whose union is invisible to both.
In conclusion I believe that 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse "are classified in the category of films' discreet', but not be worthy of such fame (and here it is worth remembering that our Union Italian Film Festival has created many jobs even among poor , from the great masterpieces that have come to the soul of audiences around the world, without being trumpeted American). This
as regards the artistic content of the subject.
For its ethical content I think that magnificent means of spiritual penetration which is the cinema should not be used to teach hatred between peoples, but rather to elevate the human spirit towards the common ideal of love and brotherhood.
and pondered deeply on the words that wonderful character who is the "philosopher" pronunciation (originally) in the cemetery of the fallen French extending their arms with a gesture as if to close them in the spirits of the dead on both sides:
All I know them ! ... All are brothers ...
So be it. Dova
Amilcare (cinema, April 22, 1923)