La Dolce Vita you have definitely heard about it or even better, you have seen it, it comes from Italy in Rome. Right next to the most famous and richest streets in Rome. The name Paparazzi started right there, armed with plenty of Vespas and motorinos, expensive cars and famous people… Rome’s celebrity snapping photographers summed up the city’s Dolce Vita in the 1950s, securing a starring role in Federico Fellini’s film.
La Dolce Vita for Italian, meaning The Sweet Life or good life, is a world wide famous comedy-drama written and directed back in 1960 by Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist’s week in Rome, and his search for both happiness and love that will never come.
The origin of the name Paparazzi started right in this movie , Fellini took the name from italian dialect in Napoletano, the name describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito, as the erall paparazzi taking shoots of famous people are, they are really annoying, as Fellini said ones in interview that this mosquitos is like him , a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging…
January 16, 2012
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