Ettore (Ettore Garofolo) Pasolini’s “Mama Roma” (1962)
DYING YOUNG ETTORE
“The lingering shots of Ettore,
strapped to a prison bed
in his underwear are seductive
and haunting”—Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamma_Roma
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When Ettore dies in a prison hospital—
Pasolini recreates Mantegna's Lamentation
over the Dead Christ.
Ettore is lying on the wooden bed—
stripped down to a shirt and underpants
his body tied to the prison bed
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The light coming down from the—
ceiling makes Ettore's pale skin glow
his hairy armpits glisten with sweat
The camera shot shoots upward—
toward his body from Ettore's feet
similar to the Mantegna painting
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