[Redcarmoose]

In Fellini movies the main character is typically a married or (in a relationship) male who still wants his gal at home but finds great adventure with a new beautiful female. He is typically a film director or script writer. Finally we come to the realization of how the gal at home deals with or does not deal with the affairs. The Catholic Church gets thrown into the mix along with esoteric belief systems continuing to suggest this is all a personal quest of the soul, if not 100% autobiographical in nature. Thus the public at large embraces the honesty creating a narrative questioning marriage and the church in general.

Yep.....almost every time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Dolce_Vita (the script writer) (live-in girlfriend)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_of_the_Spirits (the wife) (Stars wife with Fellini’s lover as the next door neighbor)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8½ (the director) (the boy) (Fellini’s lover plays the lover, another actress, the wife)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarcord (the young adult) (Fellini’s lover cast as a character but (upon decline) recreated by another actress)


And if not that it’s that character in younger form (Fellini as a youth) attempting the same sexual and spiritual exploration.

Carl Gustav Jung would explain this entire thread as caused by subconscious archetypes shared by all humans.

 

[Spareribs]

I recommend Kevin Smiths movie Tusk. It a masterpiece and there usually are no movie cliches (at least obvious ones) in his films.

 

[rays12]

Also recommend Kevin Smiths movie. Also I recommend you Jasper Jones. It is a story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. I've been writing a review on it with the help of this article https://samplius.com/free-essay-examples/jasper-jones/ . Very interesting how a teenage boy attempts to solve a murder in a small Australian town

 

[Spareribs]

A common movie or TV series cliche is having the female lead characters to be extremely physically attractive or very cute.

Personally I think it can feel cheesy and gimmicky. In real life, most women are overweight and bland looking (at least in the common suburbs in America)

The same thing for male lead characters too. You rarely see a fat balding guy in a romantic drama.

 

[thecrow]

The same thing for male lead characters too. You rarely see a fat balding guy in a romantic drama.

 

[Spareribs]

A lot of later era (post 1980s/90s) Woody Allen movies show a scene where the main characters or supporting actors are having a drink during dialogue

I feel that it’s a homage to the old Hollywood movies where drinking was very common. Casablanca (1942) is a classic example of drinking and dialogue scenes.

On the opposite end a lot of movies in the 1970s and 80s stopped that cliche. My theory is that during that time period, cocktails or upscale style drinks were viewed as out of style and for old people so that cliche stopped (except for James Bond and later era Woody Allen movies)

 

[Redcarmoose]

 

[Spareribs]

From the 1960s to the 1980s, a lot of movies liked to tease or hint nudity. Basically a backlash of the conservative strict rules of the 1940s and 50s where any hint of indecency was not allowed in Hollywood under what was called the Hays Code.

In my opinion, most of those cliches of the 70s and 80s are cheesy. Many people say older movies of the 70s and 80s are better but in some ways, I kind of feel 21st century modern movies are better refined and trying to avoid obvious cliches like with older films

 

[Spareribs]

Another cliche or element in films is rain. I used to think that if it’s raining in a movie, it was not planned and an accidental thing. However a lot of it intentionally added on purpose.

Many reasons why rain is used but rain is a good way to add introspection to a mellow or quiet scene. The quiet introspection while it’s raining is a good cliche that I like in movies.