Musa tv n. 17 del 24 aprile 2024

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(Adnkronos) - Il regista e scrittore Antonio Centomani parla all’Adnkronos di ‘Il Mercante di Seta Nera’  Oscio ‘Il Santone’ torna in tv per la seconda stagione, e stavolta è una donna  La fiction basata sul personaggio di Federico Palmaroli da venerdì 19 aprile  su Raiplay

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00:00I'm Antonio Centomani and I'm a director.

00:27You usually deal with everything else. How did the idea for this book come about and what is the core of it, without revealing too much?

00:35The idea came about as I secretly revealed to Dario Salvatore, who curated the prefaction of the novel, from a dream.

00:43It came from a dream that then obviously wanted to become a script and a cinematographic treatment,

00:50but then I transformed it into a novel, so a first work that I didn't think I could do.

00:56How did you come up with the idea and the theme of the book?

01:01I wanted to talk about love, because I'm a romantic, in the sense that I wouldn't like people to appreciate the word itself more.

01:09I wanted to tell a story, obviously making it up, of an impossible love,

01:14or rather, making it even more impossible, because it's set in a racist English settlement,

01:20where slavery was commonplace, and I punish my protagonist by making him madly in love with a slave.

01:27Could it also be a film?

01:30Well, this is the hope of all writers, I think.

01:34Actually, this novel was born with the idea of making it a cinematographic treatment,

01:40but then I realized, obviously doing this job,

01:43that in Italy it is not very easy to produce a film in costume set in the English settlement.

01:48Listen, treat the main characters with a few words, so the reader has an idea of what to expect.

01:56So I imagined a beautiful young English Nord, Sir Oliver Wellesley,

02:03who is actually ready to replace his father in the navigation company,

02:09who, like all the great companies of that time,

02:14so during the period of the company of the Indies,

02:17the transports between the Indies and England of precious fabrics, spices and even artisanal furniture.

02:28He does not believe in love at the beginning of the story,

02:30so he is actually very far away.

02:32His mother tries in every way to make him marry,

02:35but he stays far away from these ideas, even in the world of English nobility.

02:43And during one of these trips, unexpectedly,

02:47at the first landing in Africa, where they acquire new slaves on board,

02:54among these slaves there is a beautiful woman, Afua,

02:59a spectacular woman with black silk leather.

03:04I would like the word love, in the highest meaning of the word itself,

03:11to be more present among young people,

03:15less materialism and more concreteness in human relationships.

03:21So loving does not just mean enjoying life with a person you get along with.

03:29Loving has a very broad meaning.

03:32I hope that in these lines you can perceive exactly what my personal vision of love is.

03:48A great success, so much so that we return with the second season,

03:52where suddenly Santoni becomes a woman.

03:57Yes, Santoni becomes a woman, played by Carlotta Anatoli.

04:01Let's say that this was already foreseen,

04:03that Enzo Baroni would not be there in the second season.

04:08I like to imagine that the first woman Santoni

04:14arrives at the moment when there is the first female premier.

04:17So let's say that we can also read it from this point of view,

04:22to break the prejudices.

04:25We are metaphorizing.

04:27It can also be a nice message,

04:30because at a certain point Carlotta Anatoli finds herself in the condition

04:35of having to improvise in the clothes that were the husband's

04:42and therefore overcome the prejudices that were created around her

04:49in this role in the community.

04:51But let's say that she faces it very well and it is very funny,

04:57having to do with an antagonist, a competitor,

05:02in this case Francesco Paola Antoni,

05:04who is the second season,

05:08which makes it even more fun than the first.

05:10If you had to say the highlights of this season, what would you say?

05:18I always try to remember that we tell the periphery

05:27in a way that it is nice to tell these realities,

05:31since we are usually used to seeing them told

05:35under the aspect of crime,

05:38also in the series of great success.

05:41We tell them in the most positive section,

05:45which is that of the boutique under the house,

05:47the pizzeria, the door,

05:49and also of the saint,

05:51which becomes a spiritual guide,

05:55but also an element of comfort for the members of the community.

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