„Shut your mouth pussy cat and make me a machiato pronto!“
Die Geschichte der Sache:
Wie sooft begann alles mit einem Trailer – nur in diesem Fall nicht mit einem Trailer zum Film sondern eben mit einem Fake-Trailer (diese Erfolgsgeschichte kennt man ja auch von „Machete“ und „Hobo with a Shotgun“).
Der an der südaustralischen Flinders University studierende Dario Russo aus Adelaide, seines Zeichens sicherlich Über-Nerd bzgl. italienischen Superhelden-TV’s, hatte mit Freunden im Rahmen eines universitären Filmprojekts einen Trailer gedreht und am 08.11.2007 bei YouTube veröffentlicht. Dieser war authentisch auf 16mm gefilmt und mit zeitgemäßem Sounddesign und entspr. Musik versehen worden. Er stellte eine Parodie auf italienische B-Movies und auch entsprechende TV-Serien der 60er und 70er Jahre dar.
Inhaltlich dreht es sich also um das titelgebende, übergewichtige Proleten-Pendant zum amerikanischen Spiderman.Dario Russo: An Italian superhero whose primary superpowers include drinking coffee, smoking, occasionally teleporting, and we thought this would be an excellent concept to realise in a trailer format shot like a 1960s Italian film, along the lines of Mario Bava, De Laurentiis productions.
Fingerspitzengefühl, Authentizität, Beobachtungsfähigkeit und offenbar extrem „nerdiges Fachwissen“ wurden mit millionen Klicks weltweit honoriert (ich nehme mal an, dass es gar nicht so leicht ist etwas glaubhaft alt aussehen zu lassen!). Bereits zu diesem Zeitpunkt wurde um den fiktiven Film die Geschichte gesponnen, dass er seit 1964 verschollen war. Hier also nun der Trailer zum selbstüberzeugen (das Ding ist pures Gold!):
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Die dazugehörigen – in dieser vorliegenden Version schon durch die kommenden Ereignisse modifizierten - Infos:
auf den Erfolg wurde nämlich auch die South Australian Film Corporation aufmerksam und bot den Machern ausreichend Geld um einige Web-Episoden zu drehen.Alrugo Entertainment, bring you: ITALIAN SPIDERMAN
Unearthed for the first time in 40 years and lovingly restored at Alrugo Studios Milan, this rare theatrical trailer for the 1968 Italian classic 'Italian Spiderman' is a real treat. Featuring Franco Franchetti of 'Mondo Sexo' fame in his last ever role before being killed in a spear fishing accident in 1969. Alrugo entertainment will be releasing the FULL, remastered ITALIAN SPIDERMAN film on the web starting MAY 22. STAY TUNED
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Diese sollten im Wochentakt auf einschlägigen Videoportalen veröffentlicht werden:SANDY CAMERON [Anmerkung von purgatorio: sie gehört zur South Australian Film Corporation]: He'd already cultivated a really large audience, more than a lot of Australian feature films. So we just decided to take a bit of a punt on him with a low risk investments and not much money and just and see how far he can push it and he's come up with the ten episodes.
Attention Italian Spiderlovers!!!! The wait has ended! Part one of the full Italian Spiderman movie will hit the net MAY 22!!! The full movie will be posted in weekly installments, beginning MAY 22 on Youtube, Myspace and Yahoo, so slip on your excitement gloves!
Apropos Erfolg:
Hier gibt’s den Soundtrack zum reinhören:SPIDERMAN SOUNDTRACK available through SOULFUL TORINO RECORDS and RECORD KICKS
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Und der dazugehörige, interessante Fakt wird auch noch am Rande notiert: Der Soundtrack ist tatsächlich vom italienischen Plattenlabel "Soulful Torino Records" als 7inch Vinyl-Platte aufgelegt worden!
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Es ging also rapide vorwärts mit dem Projekt. Dazu gehörten auch diverse Teaser, die ich hier im Einzelnen aber mal ausspare.
Witzig Wichtig aber ist: es ging das MySpace-Profil der fiktiven Produktionsfirma Alrugo, wo diverse (lies: „fiktive“) Details zur wechselvollen Geschichte der Produktionsfirma und des Films veröffentlicht wurden.
Absolutes must read:
The Story of Alrugo Entertainment..
Alrugo Entertainment was founded in 1961 in Palermo, Italy by Orange Farming mogul Alfonso Alrugo. After collecting huge wealth in the citrus trade Alfonso decided to start a film production company that produced films that he felt "did the job". Alfonso was very supportive of up and coming practitioners and helped to nurture the blossoming career's of a spate of Italian Directors like Gianfranco Gatti, Massimilliano Buonatempi, Carlo Zoffa and of course Giacomo Dentibiachi.
Alrugo Entertainment began producing low budget, nudie cutie pictures such as Busto Busto (1961) and Sex Cops II (1962). During this period, Alfonso was to discover two men who would play a large role in the next part of his life, director Gianfraco Gatti and Actor Franco Franchetti.
In 1964 Alrugo went into production of Gatti's Opus, Italian Spiderman. Spiderman was a heavily adapted and abridged interpretation of a novel Gatti had read during a summer in Moldova entitled 'Death Wears a Hat'. When applying for the option, however the Author felt Italian Spiderman held such little resemblance to his work that payment was not necessary and felt that his name should be distanced as far a s possible form the production. After three years of turbulent production and about 15 million dollars later (a sum unheard of for any production of the time) Italian Spiderman was finally completed in 1968.
Even though Alrugo had survived the epic production period, a venture that Gatti described as "Opening the gates of hell"* the company was in debt. There was no money left to distribute the picture, Alfonso pulled every last favour he had during the production process. In a desperate attempt to show Italian Spiderman to the world, Alfonso sent the only existing print across the atlantic on a cargo ship to a distributer friend of his in New York, the ship however, never reached it's destination.
In the summer of 1969, Alfonso Alrugo closed the gates to Alrugo Entertainment and donned his orange picking glove once more. Gianfranco Gatti went on to direct hard core pornography and Franco Francheti died in a spear fishing accident.
On Alfonso Alrugo's dying wishes, his two Grandsons Vivaldi and Verdi Alrugo led an expeditioan to scour the Atlantic for the cargo ship carrying the only existing print of Italian Spiderman. On the 9th of January 2006, after four years at sea, they discovered the sunken vessle with the cans intact inside.
In the excitement of this amazing discovery, Vivaldi and Verdi re-opened Alrugo Entertainment and spent two years restoring the full length print of Italian Spiderman from it's water grave.
Vivaldi and Verdi believe that the internet is the best device to expose Italian SPiderman to the world. In November 07, they uploaded the Theatrical Trailer and in 2008, ten remastered excerpts form the feature will be roadcast for free over myspace, youtube, yahoo and other video hosting websites.
Hopefully through the internet, the world will now have a chance to behold Alfonso Alrugo's dream, Italian Spiderman.
*you can read more about the Italian Spiderman story in Gianfranco Gatti's autobiography "Opening the Gates of Hell".
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