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After a showing at the cinema,
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a TV team asked some youths
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who told them: 'This movie
has already been made 20 years ago'
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'by our director
Ruggero Deodato.'
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From then on, I realized
its existence.
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I went to see it.
And to be honest,
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it cannot be compared to mine,
:36:30
as a spectacle.
:36:32
Yet, what was similar was
the way the film was split.
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It copied everything from
our movie.
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Instead of a crocodile,
for instance,
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you could see a tree trunk
floating.
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Instead of the lost woman,
there was
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a tree set up in a particular way.
:36:59
It totally looked like
how our movie was divided.
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And there was something else.
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When the movie was released
in Italy,
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it was as successful as
in the States.
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Oliver Stone came to Italy.
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At the restaurant with a friend of mine,
he said: 'Did you see'
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'the impact of this movie
on the young Americans?'
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'The impact that Cannibal Holocaust
had on those young Americans'
:37:33
'who made up The Blair Witch Project?'
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'What about Deodato'?.
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'What do you think?'
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'Does he wish he had earned
as much money as they did?'
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That's the story.
:37:50
With him, I also did
Inferno in diretta.
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And I found once again
his capacity to entertain.
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Unfortunately, he lives in Italy.