Federico Fellini claimed he took LSD in preparation for making this film
You just have to laugh at something like that.
shareWhere did you find this information? It's true that he once took LSD, but it was an experiment in no direct connection to any film - afaik. So I'd be interested to learn who made this conclusion or where you read that Fellini said so himself ?
Regards, Rosabel
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Giulietta degli spiriti (1965)
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Director Federico Fellini claimed he took LSD in preparation for making this film.
Ah, thanks for the info. That's not a very reliable source, I'd say - I never found Fellini saying anything about his LSD experiment in the context of this film, on the contrary some people found it noteworthy that he never liked to talk about his LSD trip and wondered why this was that they couldn't get anything out of him.
Btw, why did it make you laugh?
Regards, Rosabel
I'm not a fan of Fellini's films, and the fact that he took drugs to prepare for a film makes me dislike his movies even more.
shareWell, he didn't take drugs to prepare for a film, that's absolute and plain nonsense. He never took drugs, except for this one LSD experiment - actually he was afraid of drugs, that's why at this exceptional occasion he had a doctor and friends present; the experience was enough for him to never repeat it.
What he did use for his films were dreams. They were as important to him as experiences in wakefulness, that's why for many years he kept a dream-diary with his dream accounts which he often illustrated as well. The background of this was psychoanalytical, of Jungian orientation, to be exact, and the idea that dreams are a way to understand subconscious processes of the human mind, an idea he shared with many artists.
So all I can say is: beware of those overly simplistic imdb trivia!
Regards, Rosabel
It may (or may may not) be true that he didn't take LSD as a planned preparation for this film, but Juliet certainly wouldn't have been what it became without his LSD experiment.
This is what Fellini had to say about his LSD experience:
objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to my self. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.
The dialog during the scene on the beach (at 15 mins into the film) neatly describes the first two stages of the "Three Stages of Trance" model developed by Lewis-Williams and Dowson in 1988 to classify general patterns of perception during hallucinogenic (and similar) states. http://www.wynja.com/arch/entoptic.html
1st stage: entoptic images of a geometric nature ("beautifully coloured balls")
2nd stage: iconic forms, informed by cultural expectations as well as individual dispositions ("castles... wild forests... and little faces looking at me with twinkling little eyes")
The 3rd stage of this model (intensification and interaction, the experience moves beyond that of simile to a perception of the experience itself as being real) would be the events that unfold to Giuletta during the rest of the film.
I was wondering whether his LSD experiment had anything to do with Fellini's next film being his first colour feature, but I guess the popularity of LSD and the final breakthrough of films in colour was just one of those coincidences of the mid sixties. share
>I'm not a fan of Fellini's films
Why are you on this board? Bizarre imdb phenomenon I will never understand.