Article: LA DOLCE VITA OF MARCELLO MASTROIANNI

NEW YORK - I don't like men who think they know exactly," says Marcello Mastroianni. "I like men who are confused, a little superficial. It would be beautiful to be a clear man, a strong man. But I am not so. I can understand such men as I play. It's the only thing I am capable to do. Nobody asks me ever to do a character like Clark Gable or John Wayne." Ever since he played a hollowed-out journalist in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" in 1960, Mastroianni has personified flawed modern man. "I choose Marcello when the character is man in all his contradictions," Fellini says. "He is the imperfect man, the unheroic man," says Michelangelo Antonioni, who cast him as a novelist drained ...

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