The shadow of fascism is no longer a swan. It is slipping under our nose very nose, dressed with acquaintances, feeding disgrace and re -preparing ourselves for modern taste. Joe Wright, Oscar winner behind the choice of British filmmaker The deepest hour, atonement, And Proud and prejudice, It knows This is why his latest adaptation to the novel named Antonio Scruti, climbing from a rabbit-rousing socialist defactor of Benito Mussolini to fascist dictator, is unavitated as a pseudo-hygiene warning to repeat herself on history.
“I think it was important for the audience to understand why he was able to manipulate the population with the force of Will and Karishma, as he was,” what he said. “His character had to be tempted and really seduced the audience. And his actions were so low that one lended into a Brachtian idea, where many times we allow the audience a level of sympathy, and then draw the stream from under them and ask them to implement some important thinking.”
He is a test between the attraction of democracy and the recognition of its violence Mussolini: Saddy’s sonThe balance is very high on the great Italian actor, Luka Marineli, who shaved his head, gained weight, and immersed himself in Mussolini’s skin.
Benito Mussolini is still from ‘Mussolini: Sade’s son’ as Luka Marinelly Benito Mussolini. Photo Credit: Mubi
“Luka is one of the actors who have such a magical imagination, which says. “He is capable of action and cuts himself completely under the circumstances of the character. And then on the cut call, snap it. He is about the kind person you are likely to meet anytime, so at any point I was not worried about his purity or his soul.”
It constantly frames Mussolini as an avatar of manhood, which plays Sonorus for a contemporary audience. “What we had revealed was the idea that fascism is the politicization of poisonous masculinity, which says. “At that level, we were able to connect it to many people within today’s society and see ourselves as men, how we use our power.”
Even its absence was preserved. At one point, Mussolini on screen in a white pilot suit and glasses on screen, in a fit Porko rosoThe image of the Duce was inadvertently cusplinging Miazaki, who swooped both a fascist and a pig, almost on the nose. It was in me in partition.
“We really find pictures of Mussolini wearing that dress,” who laugh. “He was completely absurd in so many ways. A very easy goal of humor. But we had to be careful that it is not just a clown, because it is very easy then. We sometimes allowed ourselves to be called back home, ‘is taking urine.”
Benito Mussolini is still from ‘Mussolini: Sade’s son’ as Luka Marinelly Benito Mussolini. Photo Credit: Mubi
Although the subject was the rise of Mussolini and fascism, but in the atmosphere. Joe tapped the Tom Rowlands of Chemical Brothers to score a series with fast, propulsive beats, which could be an unexpected option for the 1920s political drama. But which emphasizes the energy of futureism and the energy of the techno is cousin.
“In the late 80s and 90s, I was quite involved in the entire Rev culture scene in London,” he says. “When I was searching for the aesthetics of fascism and looking at Futureism, I saw a lot of similarities between futurism and techno. This idea of ​​speed and movement and energy. I wanted to express that atmosphere to a contemporary audience. Using Tom’s music, I wanted what it really liked to happen.”
The urgency is also deliberately. Joe was not interested in treating Mussolini like a sepia-tinted residue of the past. “I think Mussolini wrote a playbook for far-flung populistism,” he says. “The idea that you take the legitimate concerns of disgruntled people and exploit their own ends, are constantly played and are being played all over the world. In France, in France, or with a pen, or in America, or even in America, or even for you.”
Asked if today’s smooth, digital, liberane-inflated distance also resembles the blackshirts of Mussolini, which does not hesitate. “Of course, I could not put it on myself better. Fascism is almost branded almost. External signators look very different, but at its root, the functioning is similar.”
Which creates complications as the subject of the series as Mussolini. “He was not present in a void. He was capable on a slipping scale of complexity by many people, which says. “Even at that time the Samajwadi would go out of the Parliament and stage the protest, which meant that they were not for important votes. This was enabled to Mussolini. The very final view of the series is about the complexity and silence of others.”
Silence is something that has been chosen to protest for the protest of how he structured the story. But he insists that the audience should be raised heavy. “When we started researching and developing on the script, I was ready for similarities between then and now, and there was more ideology in my drawing of those similarities. But as we developed the show, I realized that it was not useful to be very clear. To show the facts to the audience and make their own minds.
In Luka Marineli and Francesco Ruso still Russo in one from ‘Mussolini: Son of the Century’. Photo Credit: Mubi
Known for its succulent literary conversion for a filmmaker, Sandy son Which is the biggest task, the best work (in the best ways). It is deliberately abducted, infected with political anxiety, and provoking to cut with a sound design. Nevertheless, he frames it within a large tradition.
“I think one of the most important films for me was Viscononi DamnedWhich had a profound effect in the context of depiction of corruption of the soul of a family, “who says.” I was brought to Britain in the 70s and 80s, looking at people like Alan Clarke. And then the culture was again, before it was coemed, there was a lot of installation; There was a lot of movement which was an installation. ,
Their hope, eventually, is that the audience will not only be seen by Mussolini, but the self – and the system that continue to nurture leaders like them. This is the reason why fascism is a ghost on any suggestion that is a ghost.
I stopped by asking Internal management and Had crossed his radar, seeing that Star wars The chain can double as a shadow partner Sandy son“I haven’t seen it, no. And now I am going to do it. I am a big fan of Tony Gillroy, so I look forward to it.”
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Mussolini: The son of the century is currently streaming on Mubi
Published – September 11, 2025 07:50 pm IST