VIPs with De Sica: “Ostentation, influencer and boor”

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17 August 2022 | 16. 20

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For Enrico Vanzina there is an “excessive and self-referential use” of social media, but also a lot of positivity, while Iva Zanicchi defines bragging about the things one owns as “vulgar”. Massimo Boldi instead points the finger at the addiction to smartphones and images

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All agree with Christian De Sica who in mid-August with an outburst on Instagram stigmatized the use that influencers make of social media, where they show photos of dinners, discos and dives from motorboats luxury. And he called them “peasants”. “I agree with Christian if he is referring to the vanity fair on breasts, B-sides, photopostats muscles to make friends gnaw. On this he is absolutely right “, he tells Adnkronos Enrico Vanzina , director, producer and screenwriter, who has made several films with De Sica.

“But it is also true – continues Vanzina – that there is not only this on social media. I entered Instagram from 7 months and I saw that if a person puts content to deepen and talk about many things, humor, cinema, literature, feelings, music, then he finds an overwhelming majority of wonderful people who communicate affection, people of a incredible kindness, who want to learn more, people who know a lot of things and you can learn from. There is a double face of the coin on social media , as in everything in life “.

“I was surprised by the rate of feelings that, instead, many people convey – observes the director and producer – And since Christian De Sica is a much loved artist, he too will receive many feelings of affection. If on the one hand, therefore, there is an excessive and self-referential use, very superficial, on the other also on social media there is something very profound from which turns out to be a much better Italy than one imagines. If you put high content on social media, the response is extraordinary. If stimulated well, Italy is better “, comments Vanzina.

For the singer Iva Zanicchi, if on the one hand “it is right that the influencer because we are in an era in which social networks have become the norm “, on the other hand” ostentation la I find it really in bad taste. ” And he adds: “ We were poor and my mother when I went to school with the new shoes my mother told me: ‘You don’t have to brag about it, please’ – the singer tells Adnkronos – They have always taught me humility, there is no need to brag about what you have. I also go to social media – admits Zanicchi – I have my Instagram profile but I don’t post everything I do. I understand that people dream of becoming like them, of getting on the yachts or to have villas by the sea, but I don’t find this ostentation to be classy. My parents taught me not to make others weigh what you have – she stresses – because there are people less fortunate than you who struggle and who do not make it to the end of the month. So it’s okay to show but don’t overdo it otherwise you risk becoming vulgar ”.

“In recent years we are experiencing a new reality . You live attached to your smartphone in a relationship of total dependence. Everything else comes as a consequence: the selfies at every turn, the photos posted of everything you do. Christian is right about this, “he tells Adnkronos Massimo Boldi , companion of De Sica in the millionaire cinepanettoni. According to the actor, however, what lies behind all this is “the dependence on a life ‘connected’ to everything that is outside, in the space of a cellphone. It is enough to be at the table with a teenager to understand it or on the beach, anywhere, and try real concern “.

That said, according to Boldi “i social media are a big mess . It is not clear who uses it for work, who for fun, who to be a braggart. Juggling is not easy. And it is a real virus that has changed our lives, putting us in the conditions of an addiction that must be overcome “, underlines the actor. And to the criticisms leveled at De Sica for stigmatizing that world he represented in his cinepanettoni, Boldi replies sharply: “But it has nothing to do with it. Films with rich peasants were films that photographed a moment of society and cheered people up” .

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