Talk:8½

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Contents 1 Working title 2 What about the Sound Track? 3 Unsupported claim 4 Title Math 5 Maria Antonietta Beluzzi

[edit] Working title

The film's working title was La Bella Confusione (The Beautiful Confusion).

Meaning 8½ or the SF film being worked on in 8½? (I think the former is meant.) | Utilitaritron

You are correct, it's the former that is meant. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 00:21, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I fixed that then. | Utilitaritron

[edit] What about the Sound Track?

I haven't seen the movie yet. Can someone add a paragraph or two about the soundtrack? Does the movie evolve as time goes on, with more and more (or maybe fewer) instruments getting mixed into the soundtrack? The article could be improved if it dealt with the way sound was added to the picture, and made it fuller (or shallower, as the case might be).

[edit] Unsupported claim

"It is critically accepted as one of the finest films ever made"

Needs some sort of source for this and some other spots in the article. As it stands right now, the article talks about how great the film is without bringing much support in. Could easily be interpreted as biased, in my opinion. Opblaaskrokodil 07:22, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Please view the Awards section. Ron g 19:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Title Math

"The title refers to the total number of films Fellini had previously directed: six films plus three collaborations (each counting for one-half of a film), making this one 8½."

6+(.5*3)=7.5 previous films. Leviathon32 02:32, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Plus one more (this one) makes 8.5. Lakata 71.141.234.180 06:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

This essay considers it an 'opus number'. This essay says, "When it came time to choose a title, he picked the cabalistic 8 1/2, which should have corresponded to the number of movies he had shot, although this isn’t even accurate." HTH. - mako 08:22, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Answer:The film is named 8½ because Fellini was superstitous of the number 9, and this would be his ninth film. He named it 8½ so it wouldn't be unlucky. -Daniel Montanarini

Even this masterpiece has a bit of "product placement"; in the scene at the bar where for the first time sandra milo meets the wife, a huge advertising of coca cola appears several times. [enzo]

[edit] Maria Antonietta Beluzzi

Maria Antonietta Beluzzi is credited as "Bit part". Does anybody know what does "Bit part" mean and what does she actually do in this movie? 10 years after this movie she had a big part (pun intended) in Amarcord, but what about this movie? -Lwc4life 23:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)