Satyricon, the Novel

The novel was not much help really, the only help that it really allowed me was to realize that the weirdness of the movie was not the director’s choice but it was the only option if he wanted to stay true to the novel.  Fellini, though a weird director, I think he did the best he could do with the novel.  I watched clips of his other film La Dulce Vita and even though they were not as strange as Satyricon, I can imagine that they were not as weird because the script was probably complete.  I also am kind of glad that Fellini was the one that directed Satyricon because I think that if someone else would have directed this movie it would have done really bad and the movie would not have probably left you wondering as to what was going to happen next.  Even though the movie was very fragmented, like the novel, in general I can see this movie being a movie centered for a specific genre.  I do not think that the movie or the novels are bad movies, I just find them strange, and after class I can understand that why Satyricon is incomplete. I did like that the novel did give a little bit more to the story but I was still confused, but I think it is okay, because I does not take a lot to confuse me so I was really lost for this movie but overall by reading some of the novel I was able to understand a little bit better what was going on in the movie and maybe if I were to read the entire novel I would probably understand it a lot better but not completely because of all the missing pieces.  I really wish that the whole story were available because I would have really liked to know what really happened and how the story really ended.