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Federico Fellini

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Italian filmmaker referenced in contrast to Harry Potter as an example of highbrow artistic taste that younger generations dismiss as pretentious

Mentions (6)
"Like "The Critical Drinker" and all the other channels that make videos complaining about marvel and star wars. A friend of mine is into this shit, and made me watch it with him on saturday. Like holy fuck, watch a Fellini movie or something. Read a James Joyce novel, IDK just put down the fucking a"
"I get stuck standing there with a strained smile plastered on my face, wondering which of us is the true autist as they explain how Batman getting jumper cables on his balls is as artistically valid as Fellini or w/e."
Capeshit rant (I know, I know, 'touch grass') · u/PutTheSlugInSluggard · ↑130 · 2022-07-05
"It doesn't seem to occur to them that some people might have actually better taste than them and might not secretly prefer Harry Potter over Fellini or whatever."
"I find what Fellini discusses here as prescient and an issue many people around here care about when it pertains to media. It also shows all the current problems with media today start far before social media platforms."
Director Federico Fellini on his problems with current media. · u/Cop_Party_ · ↑78 · 2025-05-12
"City-state patronage produced the Renaissance and the Italianate opera tradition. Then they got a got a unified country and they're just coasting on Puccini and Fellini"
In retrospect, Italian unification was a bad idea · u/nistam · ↑44 · 2023-04-23
"I find what Fellini discusses here as prescient and an issue many people around here care about when it pertains to media. It also shows all the current problems with media today start far before social media platforms."
Director Federico Fellini on his problems with current media. · u/Cop_Party_ · ↑78 · 2025-05-12
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