Beach Scene - Death in Venice Clip

[Materva-hvsz]

One of the best movies or one of my very favorites anyways. I think this novella by Thomas Mann and The Stranger by Albert Camus shaped my thinking and philosophy about life in my 20's and they still have a profound effect on my worldview today

[feedmeastraycat]

the REAL male version of lolita, terrifying.

[bred-ibmj]

The dance scene around the poles on the beach is the essence of the film. Explain everything. I don't think Tadzio was making fun of Gustav, the reason is simple. A 15 year old noble boy with some education would never make fun of a man who could be his father, rich, titled (baron), famous as a musician. Gustav is an authoritative figure. At most, a boy of that age could have made fun of an ugly peer, with crooked teeth, plump, with glasses... or a homeless person, a disabled person, but certainly not a distinguished and authoritative person like Aschenbach. I think that in the film Visconti wanted to make it clear that the blond boy wanted to experiment something with the older man, perhaps also because the boy had understood that Gustav is rich and wealthy (the same old story in short...). The famous shot in which Gustav seems to be "on top of" Tadzio from behind and the fact that both were sexually "involved" in this scene (objective data visible to all, if you want to understand...) speaks for itself.

[bchplease]

The fact that he was straight and everyone treated him as a gay because of his girly like body. The old man kept him in a cage because of his beauty

[MacaulayFergusson]

this film is so beautifully, painfully sad,

[stephenroney]

This is based on a real life Polish noble family Thomas Mann was obsessed with in May of 1911. A little 10 year old boy in Venice with his mother and sisters. Baron Wladyslav Jan Gerard Nepowok Marya Moes. (17th November 1900 to 17th December 1986). 0:11

The text written by Thomas Mann is superior than Visconti's movie, but the movie is memorable.

[vexsaz]

Gustav and Tadzio are very cute together, the boy seems very seductive and mischievous, but in reality he is very fragile and alone, without a father figure next to him. Gustav appears gruff and hysterical, but in reality he is very shy and sweet and really falls in love with the blonde teenager.

[NOACCEPTANCE]

I wish someone knew the name of the song playing...

EDIT: Gustav Mahler Symphony 3, movement 4th

[trae]

Ahmm sorry but the writer and director of this Movie is hot and handsome when he is Young😭

[bergbaubergbau]

Bezüglich der Größe dieses Filmes finde ich zwei Dinge sehr aussagekräftig: Golo Mann sagte über diesen Film, dass sein Vater über ihn begeistert gewesen wäre und bezeichnete ihn als "beinahe zu schön". Und dem Hauptdarsteller Dirk Bogarde soll vollkommen bewusst gewesen sein, dass er nie wieder eine Rolle dieser Qualität haben wird.