The companies are internationally oriented and expect their employees to communicate with their clients in their native language. In a globalized working world applicants with a diversity of languages are in great demand and are more likely to climb the job ladder. But co-writer Ennio Flaiano tells a different story, saying that he lifted the name from a character named Signor Paparazzo in George GissingвЂs вЂњ By The Ionian Sea.Learning a language can change our life completely and open doors to a completely new way of life. Fellini claims the character was named after someone he met in Calabria, and that it was inspired by a word in a certain Italian dialect for вЂњsparrow,вЂќ saying that the photographersвЂ™ movements reminded him of the birds. The film is responsible for coining the term вЂњpaparazzi.вЂќД¬elebrity-pursuing photographers, Lady Gaga songs, instantly-forgotten Cole Hauser-starring action movies: all of these would have been called different things were it not for вЂњ La Dolce Vita.вЂќ MarcelloвЂ™s friend Paparazzo ( Walter Santesso), who accompanies the journalist to the reported sighting of the Madonna, ended up popularizing the term, and it soon passed into common use (paparazzi is the plural) for a particular kind of relentless photographer. We wouldnвЂ™t recommend you try and replicate the scene when youвЂ™re in Rome, however: the Italian police will fine you 500 Euros if they catch you in there.Д¤. Despite the shoot taking place in freezing January, Ekberg happily went in, but Mastroianni was made of less hardy stuff, insisting on wearing a wetsuit under his clothes, and not going in the water until heвЂ™d downed a bottle of vodka. When they arrived, the water was filthy and Fellini despaired until an employee of the airline SAS, who happened to be on set, volunteered the use of his green sea dye marker - used to help attract attention in case of an emergency landing at sea. But the scene wasnвЂ™t the easiest to get on film. Undoubtedly the most iconic sequence in the film is when Marcello and actress Sylvia ( Anita Ekberg) splash around together in RomeвЂ™s famous Trevi fountain. When he shot the famous Trevi fountain scene, Mastroianni was stinking drunk. The two went their separate ways, and rather than recast the part, Fellini cut the scene altogether.ДЈ. Rainer got as far as travelling to Rome for the shoot, but fell out with Fellini, possibly because of a reluctance to shoot the sex scene, possibly because she wanted to rewrite all her dialogue. However, she also became the first victim of the Oscar curse, and as roles dried up, she returned to Europe. The part was written for German actress Luise Rainer, who with 1936вЂ™s вЂњ The Great ZiegfeldвЂќ and 1937вЂ™s вЂњ The Good EarthвЂќ became the first actress to win two Academy Awards.

In the intial draft of the script, there was a sequence where Marcello had an affair with an older writer. An entire sequence, which was to have starred Oscar-winner Luise Rainer, was scripted, but never shot. At the urging of his friend Pier Paolo Pasolini, he went with Cuny.Дў. Fonda turned the part down, so the director was torn between Enrico Maria Salerno (вЂњ Escape By Night,вЂќ the voice of Clint Eastwood in the Italian versions of Sergio LeoneвЂs trilogy), and Alain Cuny. Fellini wasnвЂ™t against American stars in principle as he wanted to cast Henry Fonda as Steiner (a character based on the real-life writer, Cesare Pavese) at first. ItвЂ™s hard to imagine вЂњLa Dolce VitaвЂќ without Marcello Mastroianni in the lead role, but the original producer, the legendary Dino Di Laurentiis, considered the actor вЂњtoo soft and goody-goody a family man rather than the type who flings women onto the bed.вЂќ He pushed Fellini to cast Paul Newman at first, and then French star GГ©rard Philipe (вЂњ Devil In The Flesh,вЂќ вЂњ The Lovers Of MontparnasseвЂњ), but Fellini was commited to Mastroianni, and Di Laurentiis quit as a result.

Paul Newman and Henry Fonda were considered for roles.

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