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🎥3 December 2004. Venice in Movie Series.
The Merchant of Venice, a 2004 romantic drama film based on William Shakespeare's 16th-century play of the same name, is released. It is the first full-length sound film in English of a Shakespeare's play, other versions are videotaped productions which were made just for television.
Entirely filmed in Venice, representing life and history in the Jewish Ghetto (some of you remember my #WalkingTour? 😉 The First Ghetto in the world!), it is directed by Michael Radford and stars 🔝 actors such as Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino.
The title character is the merchant Antonio (#JeremyIrons), not the Jewish moneylender Shylock who is the antagonist (#AlPacino) and the more prominent character. This adaptation follows the text, but omits much, the film Director believed that Shylock was #Shakespeare first great tragic hero who reaches a catastrophe due to his own flaws. The film begins with text and a montage of how the Jewish community is abused by the Christian population of Venice and brings attention to the fact that, as a convert, Shylock would have been cast out of the Jewish #Ghetto: as often happens in these cases the movie treatment of antisemitism has been object of controversies.
Have you seen this film?
#VeniceMovies #VeniceFilmFestival #3December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdbzRtxVtns

📜🎶1222. 800 years ago Leonardo Bonacci from #Pisa, #Italy, later worldwide known as Fibonacci, introduced his numbers sequence, still today one of the most used and referred formulas in mathematics.

#Fibonacci was son of the most important merchant in Pisa at the time, and he travelled for years in North Africa and Middle East countries for trading. His passion for numbers grew in those years and he is considered the main "responsible" for introducing the "Indo-Persian-Arabic" numbering system (1-9) in Europe and in the Western world.
He added to it the "0" which was unknown: 👉 Venice (another prominent Maritime Republic in the Mediterranean, longtime rival of Pisa) later named this figure as "zero".

The #FibonacciSequence (today denoted as "Fn") is a sequence of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144...)
Later studies confirmed that this sequence can be found everywhere in nature 🌳 and applied in all fields of life, from physics, to medicine, to economy...

The Fibonacci Sequence was often applied in Cassical Music too, by "translating" numbers into notes which resulted in repeating the same sequence after 16 notes... uncountable examples can be found in modern music too, especially in Progressive Rock.
This track👇🎧 is presented as one of today examples, Lateralus by #Tool: I'm not a musician so I confess I don't quite get it, but I'm sure some musician here can help.

#VeniceHistory #MaritimeRepublic
https://youtu.be/Y7JG63IuaWs

🎥7 December 1976. Venice in Movie Series.
Fellini's Casanova (Italian title: Il Casanova di Federico Fellini) is released.
Directed by #FedericoFellini, unanimously regarded as the most important film director in #Italy history, the movie stars actor Donald Sutherland as Giacomo Casanova and is mainly concentrated on the sexual encounters of the Venetian adventurer, all surrounded by the typical "Fellinian" atmosphere.
#Casanova #Fellini #VeniceMovies #VeniceFilmFestival #7December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOkiSgBakz4

🎥8 December 1996. Venice in Movie Series.
Everyone Says I Love You, an American musical comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen is released. Partly filmed in Venice, the movie testifies once more #WoodyAllen love for Venice, a city where he often filmed, and played with his orchestra at #LaFenice theater, which he actively contributed to rebuild after the last devasting fire of 25 years ago (29 January 1996).
Everyone Says I Love You stars alongside Woody Allen, #JuliaRoberts (another actress strongly tied to Venice), Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, Natasha Lyonne and Natalie Portman. Set in New York City, Venice and Paris, the film features singing by actors not usually known for their singing.
#VeniceMovies #VeniceFilmFestival #8December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa2VdDbE6lI

🎥8 December 2000. Venice in Movie Series.
Italian for Beginners (Danish: Italiensk for begyndere) a Danish romantic comedy film written and directed by Lone Scherfig is released. It stars Danish actors Anders W. Berthelsen, Lars Kaalund and Peter Gantzler, together with Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk and Sara Indrio Jensen.
The movie, mainly filmed in Venice, was made by the austere principles of the Dogme 95 movement, including the use of handheld video cameras and natural lighting, and is known as Dogme XII.
#VeniceMovies #8December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0I4l3J9ljA

🎥10 December 2010. Venice in Movie Series.
The Tourist, American romantic thriller film co-written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and starring Angelina Jolie, #JohnnyDepp, Paul Bettany, and Timothy Dalton is released.
Despite the poor critical response, the film had a great success in terms of public and awards.
Needless to say it is almost entirely filmed in Venice, here's the Trailer👇
#VeniceMovies #VeniceFilmFestival #10December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R0vcopCNG0

🎥12 December 1999. Venice in Movie Series.
The Talented Mr. Ripley an American psychological thriller film written and directed by Anthony Minghella is released. An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of the same name, the film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood, Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddie Miles.
Mainly set in #Italy, most scenes were shot in Venice, San Remo and Rome.
#VeniceMovies #VeniceFilmFestival #CaffeFlorian #12December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4e-Si4oGEw