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This Might Be the Most Ambitious and Delirious Thing Joe Wright Has Ever Done
Before he made M. Son of the Century, he was “watching the rise of the far right across the world” and growing “very concerned.”
But then producer Lorenzo Mieli came to him with an even crazier idea: M. Son of the Century, a miniseries, in Italian, about the rise to power of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. But also I’m using the Chemical Brothers music, and the whole thing is a mashup between Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera and Howard Hawks’s Scarface and ’90s rave culture — it’s really an attempt to express the energy and the dynamism and the kinetic momentum of the period. Long after the silent era ended in Hollywood, Cinecittà movies were still being shot without sound and Italian filmmakers were adding dialogue in post-production.
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