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Flirting
Titolo originale:	Flirting
Lingua originale:	inglese
Paese:	Australia
Anno:	1991
Durata:	99'
Colore:	colore
Audio:	sonoro
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Genere:	drammatico
Regia:	John Duigan
Soggetto:	John Duigan
Sceneggiatura:
Produttore:	Terry Hayes, George Miller
Produttore esecutivo:
Casa di produzione:	Kennedy Miller Productions
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Interpreti e personaggi
Noah Taylor: Danny Embling Thandie Newton: Thandiwe Adjewa Nicole Kidman: Nicola Bartholomew Rose: 'Gilby' Fryer Felix Nobis: Jock Blair Marc Aden: Christopher Laidlaw Les Hill: Greg Gilmore Jeff Truman: Mr. Morris Cutts
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Episodi:
Fotografia:	Geoff Burton
Montaggio:	Robert Gibson
Effetti speciali:	Roger Cowland
Musiche:	James D'Arcy
Tema musicale:
Scenografia:	Roger Ford
Costumi:	Roger Ford
Trucco:	Sherry Hubbard
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Premi:
3 AFI Award: Miglior montaggio (Robert Gibson); Miglior sceneggiatura (Roger Ford); Miglior film (George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Terry Hayes)
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Flirting è un film drammatico australiano del 1991, scritto e diretto da John Duigan e interpretato da Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton e Nicole Kidman. È il secondo film di una trilogia autobiografica basata sulla vita di Duigan e parla di un storia d'amore sorta tra due adolescenti.

Indice [nascondi] 1 Trama 2 Critica 3 Note 4 Collegamenti esterni

 

Trama [modifica]

Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) è un adolescente dal carattere difficile, afflitto da sporadici attacchi di balbuzia, che frequenta un collegio scolastico interamente maschile nel Nuovo Galles del Sud, in Australia. L'anno è il 1965 e Danny ha da poco intrapreso un rapporto con una ragazza (un ex ragazza, Freya). L'amore precedente viene ben presto dimenticato e il ragazzo s'innamora di Thandiwe Adjewa (Thandie Newton), una giovane africana, di padre ugandese e madre britannica. Tra i due inizia un'intensa vicenda romantica, contrastata da motivi razziali e convenzioni sociali.

 

Critica [modifica]

Per i suoi personaggi complessi e per l'atmosfera particolarmente intensa, il film è stato largamento acclamanto dalla critica. È stato infatti citato nell'elenco dei "10 Migliori Film del 1992" del critico Roger Ebert. Il film ha vinto l'Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film del 1990 e ha raggiunto la posizione numero 46 nella classifica, fornita da Entertainment Weekly, dei "The 50 Best High School Movies".^[1]

Il film presenta una delle ultime comparse dell'attrice Nicole Kidman in film australiani, prima del suo definitivo trasferimento ad Hollywood; nonostante tutto, l'attrice ha nuovamente lavorato col regista Duigan, interpretando un ruolo nella miniserie australiana "Vietnam".

 

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Collegamenti esterni [modifica]

• Scheda su Flirting dell'Internet Movie Database

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Flirting is a form of human interaction, usually expressing a sexual or romantic interest in the other person. It can consist of conversation, body language, or brief physical contact. It may be one-sided or reciprocated.

The origin of the word flirt is obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French "Conter fleurette", which means "to (try to) seduce" by the dropping of flower leaves, that is, "to speak sweet nothings". This expression is no longer used in French, but the English gallicism to flirt has made its way and has now become an anglicism.

Flirting is often used as a means of expressing interest and gauging the other person's interest in courtship, which can continue into long term relationships. Alternatively, it may simply be a prelude to casual sex with no continuing relationship.

In other situations, it may be done simply for immediate entertainment, with no intention of developing any further relationship. This type of flirting sometimes faces disapproval from others, either because it can be misinterpreted as more serious, or it may be viewed as "cheating" if the person is already in a romantic relationship with someone else.

People who flirt may speak and act in a way that suggests greater intimacy than is generally considered appropriate to the relationship (or to the amount of time the two people have known each other), without actually saying or doing anything that breaches any serious social norms. One way they accomplish this is to communicate a sense of playfulness or irony. Double entendres, with one meaning more formally appropriate and another more suggestive, may be used.

Flirting may consist of stylized gestures, language, body language, postures, and physiologic signs. Among these, at least in Western society, are:

• Eye contact, batting eyelashes, etc.
• "Protean" signals, such as touching one's hair
• Casual touches; such as a woman gently touching a man's arm during conversation
• Smiling suggestively
• Winking
• Sending notes, poems, or small gifts
• Flattery
• Online chat, is a common modern tactic as well as other one-on-one and direct messaging services
• Footsie, the "feet under the table" practice
• Teasing

While some of the subconscious signs are universal across cultures, flirting etiquette varies significantly across cultures which can lead to misunderstandings. There are differences in how closely people should stand (proxemics), how long to hold eye contact, and so forth.^[1]

During World War II, anthropologist Margaret Mead was working in Britain for the British Ministry of Information and later for the U.S. Office of War Information,^[2][3] delivering speeches and writing articles to help the American soldiers better understand the British civilians,^[4] and vice versa.^[5]

She observed in the flirtations between the American soldiers and British women a pattern of misunderstandings regarding who is supposed to take which initiative. She wrote of the Americans, "The boy learns to make advances and rely upon the girl to repulse them whenever they are inappropriate to the state of feeling between the pair.", as contrasted to the British, where "the girl is reared to depend upon a slight barrier of chilliness... which the boys learn to respect, and for the rest to rely upon the men to approach or advance, as warranted by the situation." This resulted, for example, in British women interpreting an American soldier's gregariousness as something more intimate or serious than he had intended.^[2]

Communications theorist Paul Watzlawick used this situation, where "both American soldiers and British girls accused one another of being sexually brash", as an example of differences in "punctuation" in interpersonal communications. He wrote that courtship in both cultures used approximately 30 steps from "first eye contact to the ultimate consummation", but that the sequence of the steps was different. For example, kissing might be an early step in the American pattern but a relatively intimate act in the English pattern.^[6]

 

[edit] References

1. ^ "Spiegel Online: Scoring a German: Flirting with Fräuleins, Hunting for Herren"—Jun 05 2006
2. ^ ^{a b} Mead, Margaret; William O. Beeman (ed.) (2004). Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory. New York: Berghahn Books, p. 145, 149. ISBN 1-57181-816-2. 
3. ^ Mead's article, A Case History in Cross-National Communications, was originally published in Bryson, Lyman (1948). The Communication of Ideas. New York: Institute for Religious and Social Studies, dist. by Harper and Brothers. OCLC 1488507. 
4. ^ e.g. Mead, Margaret (1944). The American troops and the British community. London: Hutchinson. OCLC 43965908. 
5. ^ e.g. Mead, Margaret. "What Is a Date?". Transatlantic 10 (June 1944). OCLC 9091671. 
6. ^ Watzlawick, Paul (1983). How Real Is Real?. London: Souvenir Press, pp. 63-64. ISBN 028562573X. 

 

[edit] External links

• SIRC Guide to Flirting
• Nonverbal Courtship Patterns In Women: Context and Consequences
• Psychology Today - Flirting Fascination –Reviews several studies on flirting