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* MyNaymeIs: Alfried, the friend of von Aschenbach is spelt thus, not Alfred.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Alfried, the friend of von Aschenbach is spelt thus, not Alfred.
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Then an epidemic breaks out in Venice. The protagonist wants to leave but then changes his mind. He goes on following the boy around the city from some distance. Meanwhile the Venice decays as the disease takes its toll. Cholera in this movie might be a metaphor for the looming WWI.
A documentary chronicling on actor Bjorn Andrésen's time playing Tadzio and the aftermath, ''The World's Most Beautiful Boy'', will be released in 2021.
A documentary chronicling on actor Bjorn Andrésen's time playing Tadzio and the aftermath, ''The World's Most Beautiful Boy'', will be released in 2021.
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Then an epidemic breaks out in Venice. The protagonist wants to leave but then changes his mind. He goes on following the boy around the city from some distance. Meanwhile the Venice decays as the disease takes its toll. Cholera in this movie might be a metaphor for the looming WWI.
A documentary chronicling on actor Bjorn Andrésen's time playing Tadzio and the aftermath, ''The World's Most Beautiful Boy'',will be was released in 2021.
A documentary chronicling on actor Bjorn Andrésen's time playing Tadzio and the aftermath, ''The World's Most Beautiful Boy'',
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* AdaptationalJobChange: Aschenbach is changed from a writer in the novel (being an AuthorAvatar for Thomas Mann) to a composer in the film (being loosely modeled on Music/GustavMahler, whose music appears on the soundtrack).
* AuthorFilibuster: Gustav von Aschenbach and his friend Alfried discuss at length aesthetical questions in the scene closer to the beginning of the film.
* AuthorFilibuster: Gustav von Aschenbach and his friend Alfried discuss at length aesthetical questions in the scene closer to the beginning of the film.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: Aschenbach is changed from a writer in the novel (being an AuthorAvatar for Thomas Mann) to a composer in the film (being loosely modeled on Music/GustavMahler, whose music appears on the soundtrack).
soundtrack).[[note]]Specifically, the fourth movements from each of his Symphonies Nos.3-5 (though that of No.4 only appears briefly in a piano reduction as played by Alfried). Like his fictional counterpart (and unlike Thomas Mann), Mahler actually ''did'' die of a heart ailment a few years before UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, although in a sanatorium in Vienna rather than on the beach in Venice.[[/note]]
* AuthorFilibuster: Gustav von Aschenbach and his friend Alfried discuss at length aesthetical questions in the scene closer to the beginning of the film.[[note]]Mark Burns, who played Alfried, later admitted that he had no idea what his character's speeches meant.[[/note]]
* AuthorFilibuster: Gustav von Aschenbach and his friend Alfried discuss at length aesthetical questions in the scene closer to the beginning of the film.[[note]]Mark Burns, who played Alfried, later admitted that he had no idea what his character's speeches meant.[[/note]]
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* DepravedBisexual: From a moralistic point of view Gustav von Aschenbach is exactly this. He has sex with a female hooker and falls for an adolescent Polish boy.
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* DeathOfAChild: In the flashbacks to Aschenbach's younger days, we see him enjoying happy times with his wife and daughter, but in the last flashback to feature Frau von Aschenbach, they are crying as they watch a team of pallbearers carrying a small wooden coffin, implied to contain their daughter's body.[[note]]This parallels the death of Gustav and Alma Mahler's elder daughter Maria from scarlet fever and diphtheria at the age of 5.[[/note]]
* DepravedBisexual:From Gustav von Aschenbach, from a moralistic point of view Gustav von Aschenbach is exactly this.view. He has sex with a female hooker and falls for an adolescent Polish boy.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Aschenbach is a thinly-veiled allusion to Gustav Mahler. Creator/DirkBogarde based his appearance on photographs of Mahler, even initially wearing a false nose to better resemble the composer.
* TheOner: Those long takes. Probably several of them. Especially the very last one when [[spoiler: TheHeroDies]]. The music is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPACef2_eY adagietto ]] by Mahler.
* TheOner: Those long takes. Probably several of them. Especially the very last one when [[spoiler: TheHeroDies]]. The music is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPACef2_eY adagietto ]] by Mahler.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Aschenbach is a thinly-veiled allusion to Gustav Mahler. Creator/DirkBogarde based his appearance on photographs of Mahler, even initially wearing a false nose to better resemble the composer.
composer. (He had to drop the idea as the nose wouldn't stay put; his moustache and pince-nez glasses thus made him look more like Creator/ThomasMann than Mahler.)
* TheOner: Those long takes. Probably several of them. Especially the very last one when [[spoiler: TheHeroDies]]. The music is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPACef2_eY adagietto ]] by Mahler.Adagietto]] from Mahler's Symphony No.5.
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* StalkingIsLove: The movie implies exactly this.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between the character of Dirk Bogarde and Tadzio a pretty Polish adolescent.
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* StalkingIsLove: The movie implies exactly this.
this. Aschenbach is captivated by Tadzio's beauty, but he spends most of the movie following the latter's family around Venice or watching him from afar; although Tadzio is aware of Aschenbach's attention and occasionally returns his glances, they never say a word to each other.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between the character of Dirk Bogarde and Tadzio a pretty Polishadolescent.adolescent.
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* MusicOfNote: Third and fifth symphonies by Music/GustavMahler are used in this film.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Aschenbach is a thinly-veiled allusion to Gustav Mahler. Creator/DirkBogarde based his appearance on photographs of Mahler, even initially wearing a false nose to better resemble the composer.
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It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by Dirk Bogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
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It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, character Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played intellectual (played by Dirk Bogarde Creator/DirkBogarde), arrives to in Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
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* SensualSlavs: Tadzio is Polish. And sensual too. Without meaning to be.
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* SensualSlavs: Tadzio is Polish. And sensual too. Without Although without meaning to be.be so.
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''Morte a Venezia'' is a film by Creator/LuchinoVisconti made in 1971. Its translated title is ''Death in Venice''. It is an adaptation of a [[Literature/DeathInVenice novella]] by Creator/ThomasMann of the same name written in 1912.
It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by Creator/DirkBogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by Creator/DirkBogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
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''Morte a Venezia'' is a film by Creator/LuchinoVisconti made in 1971. Its translated title is ''Death in Venice''. It is an adaptation of a [[Literature/DeathInVenice novella]] by Creator/ThomasMann Thomas Mann of the same name written in 1912.
It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played byCreator/DirkBogarde Dirk Bogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by
A documentary chronicling on actor Bjorn Andrésen's time playing Tadzio and the aftermath, ''The World's Most Beautiful Boy'', will be released in 2021.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: Aschenbach is changed from a writer in the novel (being an AuthorAvatar for Creator/ThomasMann) Thomas Mann) to a composer in the film (being loosely modeled on Music/GustavMahler, whose music appears on the soundtrack).
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It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by Creator/DickBogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
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It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by Creator/DickBogarde Creator/DirkBogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
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* CanonForeigner: Alfried and Gustav's wife did not exist in the novel and are largely used to illustrate Gustav's views on art and human nature.
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* MrExposition: The travel agent who explains in detail the spread of the cholera pandemic from India to Venice.
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Then an epidemic breaks out in Venice. The hero protagonist wants to leave but then changes his mind. He goes on following the boy around the city from some distance. Meanwhile the Venice decays as the disease takes its toll. Cholera in this movie might be a metaphor for the looming WWI.
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* DyingTown: Because of cholera the city gradually collapses. Lampshadeв by the name.
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Morte a Venezia is a film by Luchino Visconti Creator/LuchinoVisconti made in 1971. Its translated title is Death in Venice. It is an adaptation of a [[Literature/DeathInVenice novella]] by Creator/ThomasMann of the same name written in 1912.
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Morte a Venezia is a film by Luchino Visconti made in 1971. Its translated title is Death in Venice. It is an adaptation of a [[Literature/DeathInVenice novella]] by Creator/ThomasMann of the same name written in 1912.
It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by Creator/DickBogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
Then an epidemic breaks out in Venice. The hero wants to leave but then changes his mind. He goes on following the boy around the city from some distance. Meanwhile the Venice decays as the disease takes its toll. Cholera in this movie might be a metaphor for the looming WWI.
It is very questionable whether the film could have appeared today in the prevalent moral climate dominated by MoralGuardians. Or if it appeared it still would not be taken lightly.
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* AuthorFilibuster: Gustav von Aschenbach and his friend Alfried discuss at length aesthetical questions in the scene closer to the beginning of the film.
* CerebusSyndrome: The epidemic grows gradually. It goes from bad to worse all the time.
* DepravedBisexual: From a moralistic point of view Gustav von Aschenbach is exactly this. He has sex with a female hooker and falls for an adolescent Polish boy.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed:
** Subverted in the movie as the viewer knows that it is cholera.
* DyingTown: Because of cholera the city gradually collapses. Lampshadeв by the name.
** Played with in-universe as the city authorities of Venice try to conceal the disease.
* TheHeroDies: Yes, it happens in the end. [[spoiler: However he does not contract cholera, he dies from heart disease.]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: This film includes many very long takes.
* MayDecemberRomance: Played with as the romance is at the distance. The characters never approach to each other.
* MrFanservice: Tadzio played by the youthful Björn Andrésen.
* MusicOfNote: Third and fifth symphonies by Music/GustavMahler are used in this film.
* TheOner: Those long takes. Probably several of them. Especially the very last one when [[spoiler: TheHeroDies]]. The music is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPACef2_eY adagietto ]] by Mahler.
* PaedoHunt: Played with. Gustav von Aschenbach did not take any real action so he cannot be indicted. However his attitude is ''problematic'' as they say.
* SensualSlavs: Tadzio is Polish. And sensual too.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Alfried, the friend of von Aschenbach is spelt thus, not Alfred.
* StalkingIsLove: The movie implies exactly this.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between the character of Dirk Bogarde and a Polish adolescent.
It is set in the pre-WWI Venice. Main character, Gustav von Aschenbach, a middle-aged intellectual, played by Creator/DickBogarde arrives to Venice. There he stays in the hotel where he notices a big Polish family. He falls in love with a teenage boy, Tadzio. Much longing ensues as the main character observes the boy.
Then an epidemic breaks out in Venice. The hero wants to leave but then changes his mind. He goes on following the boy around the city from some distance. Meanwhile the Venice decays as the disease takes its toll. Cholera in this movie might be a metaphor for the looming WWI.
It is very questionable whether the film could have appeared today in the prevalent moral climate dominated by MoralGuardians. Or if it appeared it still would not be taken lightly.
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!! Tropes
* AuthorFilibuster: Gustav von Aschenbach and his friend Alfried discuss at length aesthetical questions in the scene closer to the beginning of the film.
* CerebusSyndrome: The epidemic grows gradually. It goes from bad to worse all the time.
* DepravedBisexual: From a moralistic point of view Gustav von Aschenbach is exactly this. He has sex with a female hooker and falls for an adolescent Polish boy.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed:
** Subverted in the movie as the viewer knows that it is cholera.
* DyingTown: Because of cholera the city gradually collapses. Lampshadeв by the name.
** Played with in-universe as the city authorities of Venice try to conceal the disease.
* TheHeroDies: Yes, it happens in the end. [[spoiler: However he does not contract cholera, he dies from heart disease.]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: This film includes many very long takes.
* MayDecemberRomance: Played with as the romance is at the distance. The characters never approach to each other.
* MrFanservice: Tadzio played by the youthful Björn Andrésen.
* MusicOfNote: Third and fifth symphonies by Music/GustavMahler are used in this film.
* TheOner: Those long takes. Probably several of them. Especially the very last one when [[spoiler: TheHeroDies]]. The music is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPACef2_eY adagietto ]] by Mahler.
* PaedoHunt: Played with. Gustav von Aschenbach did not take any real action so he cannot be indicted. However his attitude is ''problematic'' as they say.
* SensualSlavs: Tadzio is Polish. And sensual too.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Alfried, the friend of von Aschenbach is spelt thus, not Alfred.
* StalkingIsLove: The movie implies exactly this.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between the character of Dirk Bogarde and a Polish adolescent.
