Da grande voglio danzare a Hollywood. Umberto Eco bon vivant e bon voyant

A memory of Umberto Eco, the generous professor and, among many other things, the cinéphile, passionate about popular and Hollywood cinema, so steeped in pop culture that it was truly his match. If need be, it is demonstrated by his writing on Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943), where, evoking Eliot rereading Hamlet, the charm of this movie is fully captured in the sublime that springs from excess, in the orgy of sacrificial archetypes that crowd the plot, in the eternal myths that dance dizzily with clichés reaching Homeric depths...