Mario Brega: Ce Sto
Io… Ce Sta De Niro
Author: Ezio Cardarelli
Country: Italy
Publisher: ad est dell’equatore
Language: Italian
Pages: 198
ISBN 97889579784
EAN: 9788899381493
Life and "works" by Mario Brega. On May 17 it
arrives at bookstores "Ce sto io e poi ce De Niro", the only
biography on the Roman character, stuntman and cult actor of Italian cinema.
The author is Ezio Cardarelli. The text contains the memories of Carlo Verdone,
with an introduction by Marco Giusti and an appendix dedicated to the
filmography edited by Alberto Castellano.
Brega provided an important and personal contribution to
Sergio Leone's Italian westerns. But the line that gives the title to the book
was given by the actor during an interview on the set of "Once Upon a Time
in America".
Apart from Leone, Brega worked with directors such as
Dino Risi, Luciano Salce, Steno, Nanny Loy and Pietro Germi, and, of course,
with Verdone. Who called him for his debut behind the camera: the brilliant
success of "Un sacco bello" in 1980. But Verdone also had Brega play
a role in "Borotalco".
"There's me
and then there's De Niro" is a funny and at times hilarious tale for
Italian cinema lovers and for the "adepts" of the sayings of Mario
Brega. Cardarelli tells anecdotes, legends, improbable situations of an
arch-martyr, who disappeared from the capital city of Rome in 1994, at the age
of seventy-one.
"It is Sergio Leone - writes Giusti - who built the
myth of Mario Brega in our cinema in" For a Fistful of Dollars" and
in "For a Few Dollars More", it is then Carlo Verdone who fixed him
forever as a coitus Roman comic character. Of course, he also asked him that
day, in the studios of Alvaro Mancori in Settebagni, Sergio Leone chose him and
not Renato Baldini or some other Italian actor of the second level. And he
answered himself: "Because I had a good face. I was bad but I had a good
face."
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