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We know well the Hannibal's producers never gave Florentines a great importance,
but renaming our Major Domenici in "Dominici" is really too
much!!!
You don't believe us? Have a look at the credits at the end of the movie,
the name was surely misspelled in the Italian version and we bet the mistake
is also in the international version.
Since the 4th of May no one in Florence is talking of anything else. The
Americans are shooting a film. In the beginning, great enthusiasm. Adoring
crowds for the actors/stars, the doors of the Palazzo Vecchio wide open
for the event, all the city in raptures. Then ..... on the Ponte Vecchio
they were to shoot the scene where Chief Constable Pazzi (Giannini) was
buying a bracelet. There was pandemonium. In order to placate the shopkeepers
who were in revolt De Laurentiis himself intervened.
The incautious production team had organised unlicensed vendors on the
bridge, who were not well accepted by the Florentines, particularly by
the shopkeepers in the historic centre. Again from the beginning. The
film is shot with an empty bridge and contented shopkeepers.
In the meantime, in Palazzo Vecchio the political powers were undergoing
a confrontation with some Council members, convinced opposers of the permission
to give Florence into the hands of these Americans.
Further embarrassment.
Shooting takes place in the stateroom "dei Cinquecento" and
in Piazza Signoria everyone is hurrying to carry out this important shot.
Inside the stateroom, however, there is not enough light. Why ? Because
the difficult legal bureaucracy regarding security had, for many years,
forbidden the cleaning of the windows. Nothing feared, Hannibal will fix
it. So, thanks to the film production team, from today the stateroom "dei
Cinquecento" has clean windows.
Then even from Rome comes disappointing news.
The film production team had ordered from a printer in Rome the printing
of various police identity badges, residence permits, identity photos
and other things, obviously all declared false, everything that could
be needed to shoot the film in the Florence Police Headquarters where
Chief Constable Pazzi (Giannini) worked.
Well, the owner of the printing shop had been denounced for falsification.
So the representatives of the production had to go to the Rome Police
Headquarters to explain everything to the suspicious Italian Police.
It is difficult to understand how the centre of Florence with its narrow
little medieval streets, which all year are crossed over by tourists coming
from all over the world, could support the huge lorries necessary for
the shooting of this film already well known to us before it opens in
the cinemas.
And after Hannibal the heat arrived as well !
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