Bonnie_Parker wrote: |
I'm sure many of you guys would be interesting in knowing what the godfather of gore did before his obsession with eye gouging began  |
Eheh, Fulci really did all kind of things... I guess you know you can see a very early glimpse of him in "Toto' a colori", in the famous scene in the sleeping-car of a train, he is the one who knocks on the wall complaining about the noise

And then he went on working with Alberto Sordi (he is a guest star again in the legendary "Un americano a Roma"), and he wrote the hit songs "24000 baci" and "Il tuo bacio e' come un rock" for Adriano Celentano

A crazy life!
I never really liked his comedies, but this one is actually somewhat subtler than it seems... or at least
it was, if you were an italian in the '70s (I was not - I mean, yet born), this movie was full of very clear (and raw) references to the untouchables, all-powerfull political elite of the time, the corrupt, cynics bible-kissers Democratic Christians.
Fulci had some
REAL problems with this one, as one important politician saw himself in the title role and panicked. Movie theaters got telephone calls threatening not to show the movie, and Fulci was summoned at the Interior Ministry. He gaves a lot of funny details in one of his interviews, but I don't have it with me now...