During a party at Steiner’s place that is filled with artists and intellectuals, Steiner and Marcello huddle together and discuss how one should live life. For Marcello, who seeks to abandon journalism and become a serious writer, Steiner is his ultimate role model.
He is wealthy, cordial, and sensitive to all those around him. Steiner is a refined intellectual with aesthetic taste, a beautiful wife, and adorable young children. Marcello has a friend, Steiner, who represents another path. Marcello is immediately infatuated with the luscious beauty, but what he sees is only a voluptuous mirage, not the promise of a fulfilling relationship.
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In perhaps the most famous sequence of the film, the extravagantly buxom movie star Sylvia visits Rome and so, unsurprisingly, comes to the attention of Marcello and the other media hounds. Thus from the outset, one sees Marcello torn between two unsatisfactory choices: the lascivious Maddalena, who only offers momentary pleasures, and Emma, whose obsessive possessiveness is oppressive to him. These early sequences also introduce the viewer to Emma, Marcello’s clinging fiancé, who is literally suicidal whenever she suspects Marcello might stray. To amuse themselves with a game, they go off and pick up a prostitute so that they can use her place to have their own sexual tryst.
Maddalena is so rich that she is bored with all of Rome but Marcello says he likes Rome, because it is a jungle in which he can conceal himself behind many different roles. At a nightclub, Marcello runs into an old friend, the beautiful and engaging Maddalena. He is often accompanied by Paparazzo, who seeks to take candid shots of celebrities in distress. The opening scenes feature the frenetic life of Marcello, the tabloid journalist, who frequents nightlife on the Via Veneto in search of celebrity scandals.
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