La Dolce Vita story
La Dolce Vita (Italian pronunciation: ; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life") is a 1960 Italian drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. La Dolce Vita won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Costumes. The film was a massive box office hit in Europe with 13,617,148 admissions in Italy and 2,956,094 admissions in France.
17 total · 1 choice · 9 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| celebrity culture in society | choice | hordes of photographers pursued famous stars. Wikipedia notes that "cafe culture" was the overarching theme |
| celebrity worship | major | hordes of photographers pursued famous stars |
| choosing between job opportunities | major | Marcello didn't like his cheap job as a journalist and contemplated being a writer |
| coping with being famous | major | hordes of photographers pursued famous stars |
| engaged couple | major | Marcello and Emma, Sylvia and Robert |
| figuring out what to do with one's life | major | Marcello was depressed with his meaningless life and wanted something more |
| love triangle | major | Marcello, Emma, Sylvia, Robert |
| male lasciviousness | major | there were several sexed up male characters |
| romantic infidelity | major | Marcello cheated on his fiancée by sleeping with Maddalena and then courted the loose Swedish actress Sylvia |
| womanizing man | major | Marcello romanced many different women and could not stay faithful to his partner |