Marty, life of a shy

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Marty, life of a shy ( Marty ) is a 1955 film, directed by Delbert Mann, winner of the Oscar for Best Film and the Golden Palm at the 8th Cannes Film Festival. [first]

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New York, 1950s, Marty Piletti is an Italian-American Abruzzo family, who works in a butcher in the Bronx and lives at home with his mother. Celibate, the good -natured but socially clumsy Marty face continuous pressure from family and friends to settle down, since they underline that all his brothers and sisters are already married, most of whom with children. Not against marriage but discouraged by the lack of perspectives, Marty has resigned with celibacy reluctance.

After being molested by his mother to go to Stardust Ballroom on a Saturday evening, Marty connects with Clara, a simple science teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School, who cries silently on the roof after being insensitively abandoned in the dance hall by his appointment in the dark. They spend the evening together dancing, walking on the busy roads and speaking in a hot table. Marty enthusiastically tells his life story and his ambitions, and encourage each other. He brings Clara to his house and awkwardly express their mutual attraction, just before his mother’s return. Marty takes her home by bus, promising her to call her at 2:30 in the following afternoon, after Mass. Very happy as he returns home, he punches the sign of the bus stop and slips between the machines, instead looking for a taxi.

Meanwhile, Marty’s aunt, Catherine, goes to live with Marty and her mother. He warns his mother that Marty will soon get married and put her aside. Fearing that Marty’s love story can mean his abandonment, his mother diminishes Clara. Marty’s friends, with a background of envy, derive Clara for his simplicity and try to convince him to forget and stay with them, celibate. Arented to submission from the attraction of his friends, Marty cannot call Clara.

That night, again in the usual routine, Marty realizes that he is giving up a woman who not only likes it, but who makes him happy. Despite the objections of his friends, he rushes into a telephone booth to call Clara, who is watching television disconsolate with his parents. When his friend asks him what he is doing, Marty blurts out saying: you don’t like it, I don’t like my mother, she is a dog and I’m fat and ugly! Well, everything I know is that I had fun last night! I’ll have fun tonight! If we pass quite good moments together, I will kneel and pray that girl to get married! If we make a party on New Year, I have an appointment for that party. Don’t you like it? Sin! Marty closes the door of the telephone cabin when Clara replies to the phone. In the last line of the film, it provisionally says “Hi … Hi, Clara?”

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Marty, who in the meantime received from his boss the offer of detecting the butcher, decides to call a girl that he and Angelo had known some time ago, to meet again: her refusal makes him fall even more in discouragement. At dinner the mother, who hopes in the wedding of the son, proposes to go to dance to Stardust (As recommended by Tommy): Marty takes the answer bad then, so as not to hurt the mother, he decides to go to the ballroom in the company of Angelo.

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So that Saturday evening, Angelo and Marty go to Stardust : While the friend gets a dance, Marty is approached by a man who proposes, for 5 dollars, to keep company with Clara, a girl with whom they had given him an “blind” appointment, but who now wants to download. Marty refuses, but shortly afterwards the girl who, crying for the treatment received, is about to leave the club. Marty thus squeezes friendship with Clara, a twenty -ninth -year -old school teacher, not very attractive, with whom, however, it is very well agreed. The two spend a splendid evening together, talking and telling themselves of their lives. Then Marty takes the girl home, and here she confesses to her to be attracted to her: Clara is hesitant, but does not reject Marty (while refusing to kiss him) and finds herself very comfortable with him.

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While the two speak, Teresa enters the house, who had gone to the sister to prepare the transfer: the three discuss briefly, then Marty and Clara leave because she has to go home, given the late hour. While the two go to get the bus, Marty meets Angelo, who treats him badly for abandoning him to Stardust , and two of his friends in the car who, having tracked three girls, propose to him to go with him (leaving Clara), receiving a refusal. Marty, very happy for the past evening, leaves Clara under the house, with the promise to call her the next day to spend Sunday evening together.

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That evening Teresa has a long conversation with her sister Caterina: the latter, widow and pessimistic nature, convinces the sister of how terrible for a mother the experience of seeing all the children who get married and who live with with their family. Struck by the words of her sister, Teresa completely changes her mind about the possible marriage of Marty: the fear of no longer having someone to look after and of no longer being able to cure the house of children convince her that the marriage of her last child could cause her great unhappiness to her . After meeting Clara and having noticed Marty’s happiness for the beautiful evening spent with the girl, Teresa begins to worry.

On Sunday morning, Tommy and his wife bring Caterina to her sister’s house: yet another quarrel of the evening before she brings tension between the two spouses, and the poor Marty is expenses. The cousin not only does not consider him when he is asked about economic issues relating to the possible purchase (towards which Clara herself had pushed him) of the butcher shop by Marty, but advises against taking wife (although not aware of the story by Clara, but only exasperated by the quarrel with Virginia).

While the mass is about to begin, outside the Marty Church and the mother begin to talk about Clara: Teresa does everything to divert her son from continuing the story, insisting mainly on Clara’s physical aspect, on the fact that she lied to her age And that it is not Italian. When Marty tells her that Clara is also graduated, the mother insinuates that she is of easy costumes: “Between the university and the sidewalk it runs little”. Marty, contrary, goes to the bar where it is used to spend your free time; Shortly thereafter, returning home, the friends go on to call him and try to convince him to spend the evening with them and not with Clara, defining it, according to Angelo’s words, a “gather”. Marty does not call Clara at the established time and goes with friends to the usual bar, without ideas on how to spend the evening.

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While friends discuss in an inconclusive way, Marty, exasperated by the situation, and not wanting to waste time with his friends while there is a girl who only awaits her phone call, calls Clara, ironically reproaching Angelo, amazed, not to be not yet married:

“” What do you want to do tonight? ” “I don’t know, what do you want to do?”. The striptease, the cinema Paradise , and I am here, disheartened, alone and stupid? But what am I crazy by chance? I have something to do. Why do I waste time with you? ”

( Marty )

«You don’t like you, my mother doesn’t like it, she is gathered and I’m ugly and big. Well, I only know I had fun with her last night, and I want to do it too tonight! And if we still be fine together I will pray to her knees, I will beg her to get married! And if there is a party for New Year, I will come and come with her! Don’t like you? Worse for you! ”

( Marty )

“Angel, when did you get married?”

( Marty )

In 1994 he was chosen for the conservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Congress Library. [2]

After the release, the reviews of the film were widely positive, including those of Ronald Holloway ( Variety ) and of Time . Louella Parsons liked the film but expressed doubts about her Oscar nominations. In the face of a budget of 343,000 dollars, the box office film obtained a remarkable result by collecting $ 3,000,000 in the United States alone.

  • The film inspired an register of Dylan Dog (comic character created by Tiziano Sclavi and published by Sergio Bonelli Editore), exactly the number 244 of the regular series, entitled, in fact, Marty . Always in an register of Dylan Dog, entitled Mantis crimes And number 71 of the series, one of the aforementioned characters is called Marty Piletti, a shy bachelor and only who lives with mother and aunt. Rai also broadcast a theatrical piece, where the role of the protagonist was played by Renzo Palmer.

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