Italiene Neo-Realism and Bicycle Thief

Italian Neo-Realism first started during early 1935, when anti-Facist journalist Leo Longanesi urged directors to "go in the streets, into the barracks, into the train station;only in this way can an Italian cinema be born". American films influenced the age of Italian Neo-Realism because American movies portrayed the good life, which only could be found in America and did not show the images that reflected [Americans] lives".Very few films showed whats was actually going on in Italy during that time period, such Italy's transition from agricculture to manufacturing, which cause people to strruggle econimicaly. Once the neo-realism age of film making began it was characterized as a anti-Fascist movement. Cerare Zavattini stated that the aim of neo-realism was to show Italian life without embellishment and without artifice. Some films that showed the Italian Life were films such as Ladri di biciclette or Bicicle Theif and The Pastman Always Rings Twice, all these films used long takes and complex shoots and as well as street shooots to show the neo-realism between characters and surrouindings. Roberto Rossellini shows most clearly neo-realism link between the Resisitance movemen, whith his film Open City,1946 because this film shows actual footage of Nazi occupation of Rome and shows the hard times people had living under that rule. Another characteristic of neo-realism is the documentary type of shooting, which is clearly seem in the movie The earth Trembles,1948, because this movie relies on a nonprofessional cast. Once the movement sarted to fade away its prints keeped on moving forward because neo-realism influenced the French New wave filmmakers, also the ideas of neo-rea;ism carried over with "the emphasis on class conflicts and the use of non-professional actors".