Oh well
Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Lady Gaga, Adam Dreifer and Jared Leto, "House of Gucci" landed in North American theaters last week. Currently, it has a 62% positive rating from professional film critics on its film review site Rotten Tomatoes. Judging by this word-of-mouth performance that has just passed the passing line, it is difficult to make a big difference in this awards season. Compared with the artistic value of the film itself, the old case of a dog bloody and bizarre giant that it focuses on is more talked about by the outside world.
Poster of "Gucci Family"
Based on the 2001 documentary literary work by writer Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, about the former head of the Gucci Group, Murricio Gucci. The true story of Maurizio Gucci being hired and killed by his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani.
A jewel in the Italian luxury kingdom, the Gucci brand was founded in Florence in 1906 by Guccio Gucci, and by the early 1980s, Guccio's grandson, Murricchio Gucci, had the most shares, becoming the third generation of the group's head.
Murricio Gucci (left) and Patricia Rejani
On Monday, March 27, 1995, before 9 a.m., Muricchio was ambushed in front of his office building in Milan, Italy, and killed four times in the body, at the age of 46. After the incident, the direction of the police investigation was mainly in the operation of the Gucci Group, because just over a year ago, Murichio sold all the Gucci shares in his name to the investment bank from Bahrain, completely ruining the family business that his grandfather and father had worked hard to run for decades, causing a lot of criticism and accusations. But the police investigation soon reached a dead end, and it was not until more than a year later that a breakthrough was rediscovered with an unexpected tip-off.
The informant who took the initiative to find the Milan police, code-named Gabriel, came to Milan from a South American country, and during the staycation hotel, he heard someone boast that he had planned the famous Gucci assassination a year ago. Gabriel, seeking favors, found the police and helped arrange a wiretapping plan, and finally helped the Italian police obtain ironclad evidence that a small group of four people planned and carried out the assassination of Muricchio.
It turned out that the Assassin in charge of the shooting was named Benedetto Ceraulo, and it was Orazio Cicala who drove him away from the scene, both Sicilians but had no previous convictions. Benedetto, who originally ran a pizzeria business in Milan, was in debt due to poor business, which temporarily turned into a professional killer. To kill Murricio Gucci, the two received a reward of six hundred million lira (about 2.6 million yuan), paid to a station porter named Ivano Savioni. It was Ivano who was in the hotel who boasted of his involvement in the Gucci case, and it was a Neapolitan fellow named Giuseppina who found him and asked him to help find the killer.
Salma Hayek plays Patricia Rejani's girlfriend
Police quickly locked up Giuseppina Auriemma (played by Salma Hayek). She is a professional psychic and a longtime friend of Muricchio Gucci's ex-wife, Patricia Rejani! At this point, the real culprit behind the case has finally surfaced. On January 31, 1997, Rejani was formally arrested and imprisoned.
Patricia Rejani was born in 1948 to a single-parent family in the Italian town of Vignola, whose original surname was Martinelli. At the age of 12, her mother, who was a hotel waitress, married the local upstart Ferdinando Rejani, and Patricia changed her surname to Rejani, thus escaping poverty.
The film restores the acquaintance of the two protagonists
In 1970, she and Murricio Gucci met at a party, and a red-clad Rejani made Gucci fall in love on the spot. After two years of love and a happy marriage, Rejani subsequently gave birth to two daughters.
After their marriage broke ground in the mid-1980s, Murichio had a near-public new girlfriend, Paola Franchi, a designer five years younger than him. Gucci and Paula have similar family backgrounds, or two small guesses, and although they later had their own families, they encountered a marriage crisis at the same time in the 1990s. A chance encounter ignited the love of the old acquaintance and led a cohabitation in a mansion in Milan. In 1994, the two completed their divorce procedures and began to raise funds to formally marry, but their wishful thinking was eventually ruthlessly shattered by the killer's bullets.
The scene of the trial
On 27 March 1995, Murricio Gucci was killed on the streets. On the same day, Patricia Rejani rewrote two words in her diary: Heaven. It was also on this day that she had her lawyer issue an ultimatum to ask Paula French to move out of the mansion where she and Mericchio had lived together in the name of their joint property. Soon, Rejani moved in with her two daughters and lived there until the day of her arrest on January 31, 1997.
A recent photo of Paula French
Why did he buy a murderous ex-husband, Rejani has never explicitly admitted, but she resents him for abandoning him and forgetting his feelings, worried that the interests of himself and his two daughters will be damaged after he remarries, and complains that he has no way to operate and the group is left behind by others. In short, Patricia was eventually sentenced to 29 years in prison, and the other four were all imprisoned.
Patricia Rejani appeared before trial
In 2014, Patricia Rejani, who had spent sixteen years in a prison window, was finally released on early parole. Looking back on this life, the 72-year-old said in a recent media interview that she actually had a good life in prison. With the help of her lawyer, she managed to persuade the judge to get permission to keep a ferret named "Bambi" in prison and plant flowers and grass in the yard. However, "Bambi" later died in prison, and it is said that a fellow inmate accidentally sat on it. Fortunately, soon after, she was released on parole for "good performance".
Recent photo of Patricia Rejani
After being released from prison, Rejani worked as a so-called design consultant in a vintage-style jewelry store according to the agreed parole conditions, and became a migrant worker for the first time in her life, and for this "Gucci Family" about her life story, she was basically very satisfied, but she was a little disappointed that the lead actor Lady Gaga did not take the initiative to talk to her before and after filming.
Lady Gaga plays Patricia Rejani (left) and Adam Deliffer plays Merikio Gucci
Also disappointed is Tom Ford, who was the creative director of Gucci Group from 1994 to 2004 and had actual contact with the film's protagonist. In an afterthought, he criticized the film, although luxurious and well-made, but the overall style was more like a farce than a tragedy. There is also Paul Gucci, played by Jared Leto, who is more than exaggerated and very different from the real Paul Gucci he knows. Tom Ford also pointed out that it is not true that Mericchio Gucci, played by Adam Deliffer, congratulated himself on the success of his first Gucci fashion show, played by Reeve Carney.
Tom Ford thinks That Paul Gucci, played by Jared Leto, is overly exaggerated
In addition, Tom Ford complained that there were many scenes in the film that felt that they were forced to show the big-name stars who participated in the film, and had little effect on advancing the narrative itself. You know, ford, who is sixty years old this year, is not a movie layman. In addition to designing and operating his own brand, he has written and directed two films, "Single Man" and "Nocturnal Animals", which have received quite good reviews. Therefore, Ford's comments on "Gucci Family" have also made many readers think: If he were to let him, an "insider", direct such a movie, what would be the effect?
However, it is true that both Patricia Rejani and Tom Ford have nothing to do with the Gucci Group. So, what does Gucci think about this movie? Will you worry that this old matter will be revived and let the Gucci brand be related to the family scandal? The group did not say so, but given that Francois-Henri Pinault, the husband of Salma Hayek, who participated in this film, is the chairman of the Kering Group, the parent company of the Gucci brand, and Jared Leto, who plays the role of Paul Gucci, is also the official brand ambassador of Gucci in life, I believe that Gucci does not mind the release of "Gucci Family".
According to US media reports, in the few days since the film was released, the search volume for Gucci clothing and Gucci bags on the Internet has increased by 73% and 257% compared with the previous week, and it seems that many times, scandals are not always bad.
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