Author: Andrea B. Nardi, Giuditta Simi

Year: 2025

Pages: 303

Publisher: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; Sabinae

ISBN: 9791280023957

Series: Grande cinema

Description

Although the American dream is at the heart of his great Western successes, Carlo Simi has achieved much more, by translating Sergio Leone’s vision of the American heyday (as in C’era una volta in America, 1984) and Pupi Avati’s equally powerful concept of the American myth (Bix. Un’ipotesi leggendaria, 1991) into images, sets and costumes. This book, which is accompanied by floor plans, drawings, preliminary studies, architectural plans, photographs and stills, is enriched by interviews and accounts from the stars who worked with him and descriptions that Simi himself collected in his diaries. It is a tribute to the man who understood that, in the film industry, a good story, beautiful lighting, a capable director and great actors were no longer enough; but that it was also necessary to build a world around it. A world that would truly make people dream. And he did build it. What Carlo Simi created through the motion picture will remain forever.