Tinto Brass - First, I check out the butt

Tinto Brass - First, I check out the butt

Italy has been the epic center in film making, in last century Italy was admired for the directors like Federico Fellini, Victoria De Sica they evolved the Italian neo-realism, they inspired  French New wave cinema.
Silvio Berlusconi the 50th Italian Prime Minister arranged a party and then attracted the eyeballs of the world by inviting underage girls in his private party. The eternal romantic county like Italy has the minority age of girls is 15 and not 18. This confused information was churned by press across the globe. Berlusconi is media tycoon and Italy has been famous for its romantic literature, poetry, music, painting, dance, drama and 7th form of art – Cinema.
Tinto Brass was in news for his world’s first 3D erotic film. Brass directed Caligula in 1979 with author Gore Vidal and magazine publisher Bob Guccione.  Now film will be made in 3D. He said "the time is right for 3D technologies to be used to create an erotic film." Tinto claims that this will also be the first 3D film made in Italy.  
The new Caligula would begin after the death of the Roman emperor's sister Drusilla. With Rome's coffers empty, Caligula comes up with a brilliant idea: the wives of the Roman senators should earn the State some much-needed cash by becoming prostitutes. But that doesn't go over all that well in the Roman Senate. As a result, a group of senators attempts a coup d'etat led by Claudius and Messalina.
“The first film discussed the orgy of power; this one will show the power of orgy,” the filmmaker affirmed, calling his 3D project “a magnificent hope.” Brass added that he's all set to begin casting and jotting down the screenplay. Filming should commence in the spring.
Tinto Brass gave an interview on his 75th birthday in March 26th 2008. Brasspointed out a subtle point in beauty and makeup, he quips, a face can be painted over with make-up, conceal its age or impurities; a mouth can spew cruel lies. A butt is definitely more honest than that. Does it mean that he is ass fetish? Perhaps no, he has his unique style of casting. He shared his method, “first, I check out the butt, even if it can't speak - a round behind speaks to me. Of course, I do not consider it detached from the rest.”
Tinto Brass has been in industry for 50 years and still rocking the silver screen.  He claims to keep making movies as long as he lives. He does not see any direct relation of pornography and his films. His work is based upon developing the moments of lust and desire out of the stories themselves.
Tinto Brass says thanks to 70s success of “Deep Throat" in mainstream cinemas which offered him new opportunities of big budget and sponsorship for explicit material. "Salon Kitty" his dream project was made due to it.  He is criticized for using the theme of ‘excessive power’ as central theme in   Be it "Kitty", "Caligula" or "Senso 45" Brass explains his motive to stage the dance on the figurative volcano. As that's exactly what happens when power reaches its zenith: The protagonists celebrate, and in full knowledge of impending doom the excesses become increasingly bizarre.
Brass justifies the use of the morbid charm of decay in his films as it goes with our theatrically inclined soul. He believes final stage of super dimensional power is not an Italian, European as a theme.
Avant-garde cinema of 1960s and 1970s knew Brass as a promising experimental and avant-garde director, and his debut film Who Works Is Lost received many favorable reviews at Venice Film Festival 1963.  In 1964 Umberto Eco commissioned him to create two short films experimenting with visual language for the 13th Triennale di Milano – Tempo Libero and Tempo Lavorativo. Brassdirected films in many genres, including western (Yankee) and crime (Col cuore in gola) throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. He used a very experimental editing- and camera-style.  In 1968, Paramount Pictures offered Brass the job of directing A Clockwork Orange, which did not happen due to scheduling conflicts Tinto Brass is referred as "rebellios   anarchistic and experimental"
Tinto Brass once said, “Pornography is there to give you an erection. Erotica is there to give you emotions” it became his famous quotation.” (I have put this quotation to liberate the view of the reader.)
After Salon Kitty and Caligula, the style of his films gradually changed towards erotic films. Caligula was originally supposed to be a satire on power instead of an erotic film, but the producers changed and re-edited the film entirely without Brass' consent, removed many political and comical scenes, and re-shooting pornographic ones, to make the film a pornographic drama. The director demanded that his name be stricken from the credits, and he is only credited for "Principal Photography". Despite this, the film remains his most widely viewed work (and the highest-grossing Italian film released in the United States). Other notable works of Brass' include The Key and Senso '45.
Brass' films follow an impressionistic style – they tend not to show immense landscapes, bits and pieces of the scenery and peripheral characters and objects through pans and zooms, they imitate how the viewer might see the events. This also gives the films an extraordinarily rapid pace. He often uses a television-like multi-camera method of shooting, with at least three cameras running at once, each focusing on something different.
There are many other directorial trademarks throughout his films. From 1976's Salon Kitty onwards, mirrors play a large part in his set design. Sometimes he begin a scene with a mirror shot, then pan over to the action being reflected, giving a disorienting feeling. His erotic films – especially The Key, Miranda and All Ladies Do It – often accentuate women's ample buttocks and pubic hair as well as underarm hair, almost to the point of fetishizing those particular physical features.
Brass' films in the 1980s and early 1990s had mainly been adaptations of famous literary works usually in the erotic genre, namely The Key (La chiave), The Mistress of the Inn(Miranda), the novel Le lettere da Capri by Mario Soldati (Capriccio), the novel Snack Bar Budapest by Marco Lodoli and Silvia Bre (eponymous), Fanny Hill (Paprika), and the novel L'uomo che guarda by Alberto Moravia (The Voyeur), while 2002 film Senso '45 is an adaptation of Senso, previously filmed by Luchino Visconti.
Many of Brass' works qualify as period drama set during World War II (Salon Kitty and Senso '45, set in Berlin and Asolo respectively), in postbellum Italy (Miranda andCapriccio), antebellum Italy (The Key), and in 1950s Italy (Paprika and Monella). Brass has a piculiear trait to appear in film as cameo for his friend Osiride Pevarello and himself as well. He was also featured as the presenter in the direct-to-video erotic short films compilation Tinto Brass presenta Corti Circuiti Erotici released in four volumes in 1999.
Hollywood actress Cinzia Roccaforte once said in her interview about her  one of the lead roles, as Lucia, in the film FERMO POSTA TINTO BRASS (English title: P.O. BOX TINTO BRASS), To work with Tinto was a dream come true for me. He's one of my favorite directors and a really cool guy. Some critics wrote Lucia as Tinto's Alter Ego.
To sum up my take on Tinto Brass I use his quotation – “I put two balls and a big cock between the legs of the Italian cinema!”