Bourdain’s Roman holiday takes a cinematic turn influenced by his tour guides actress Asia Argento screenwriter/director Abel Ferrara and a host of larger-than-life Romans who take him inside a Rome for the locals.
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I've read that Argento directed this episode. A certain kind of architecture dominates the locations, and it is not classical, beautiful. Visually and thematically perhaps out of sorts with the series, except for some great restaurant scenes. Sadly, prophetic as well. How much respect do you have for your audience when Pasolini and Anna Magnani are prominent in the show? And of course, the prophetic discussion of fascism in the United States. Brilliant.
"Anthony Falls in Love with Rome" e anche con quella zoccola, purtroppo. 😞😢
one of his best episodes for so many reasons.. the grit, the contrast, the love .. miss you immensely T-Bone!
Anthony is an uncultured American drunk who committed suicide. I've never liked him. Greece single-handedly destroyed Italy in WW2. The Greeks destroyed Benito Mussolini and the Italians. The Greeks were the first to stop the Axis forces and Gave Joseph Stalin enough time to defeat the Germans. My Great-grandfather described Italy Germany and the British American presence in Europe as quite pathetic. Italy Germany Britain act all Big because the US funds them to fight Russia. The US Truman funded Churchill to invade Greece and butcher our Greek Heroes and families. Just let that sink in for a second. The British Italians Americans turned the Jews back to Germany to be killed.
History is clearer with a Greek classical education, and someone who speaks like a native Greek and not as an outsider/foreigner who learned Greek. Dionysius Pyrrhus requests the exclusive use of Hellene in his Cheiragogy: "Never desire to call yourselves Romans, but Hellenes, for the Romans from ancient Rome enslaved and destroyed Hellas." And George Gemistus Plethon pointed out to Constantine Palaeologus that the people he leads are "Hellenes, as their race and language and education testifies". Ducas Vatatzes, wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation". He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors. His son, Theodore II Lascaris, was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes […]. What do you, O Rome, have to display?"
The Romans had a society of peasants. The Romans gained all from the Greek influence in trade, banking, administration, art, literature, philosophy and earth science.
In the last century BC it was a must for every rich young man to study in Athens or Rhodes and perfect their knowledge of rhetoric at the large schools of philosophy. It was also a must to speak Greek as well as Latin. Greece was anti-Romans Indeed, Greeks had every reason to hate the Romans, who had devastated their home, robbed temples and public buildings, decimated the population and brought many Greeks to Rome as slaves. Aemilius Paulus, the victor of the Battle of Pydna in Greece in 168 BC, is said to have sold 150,000 Greeks to Rome as slaves all by himself. There were many revolts against Roman rule. The Greeks regarded the Romans as barbarians with a crude culture. Emperor Julian considered himself culturally Greek and praised Hellenization as the foundation of the Roman Empire.
No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit.
HELLAS! The birthplaces of Western civilization. The Greeks gave birth and raised Europe. Not Rome. So get educated before you come on here and talk gibberish.
In fact. There is no such name as Balkans. The name Balkans comes from Germanic people and was used by the Germans Americans Turks to invade Europe.
A time when Romans thought of war. Greeks thought of philosophy in Alexandria, they thought of thought itself.
The ancient Greeks used the name "Italia" In addition to the "Greek Italy" and it was Ulfilas, a Greek Who Created the Early German Alphabet.
The Greeks created it, the Romans / Germans copy it, and the English exploit it. 😅
In the beginning… God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world …
He called that ship…HELLAS! 🐬🏛⚓🏛🐟🔱
No such thing as Romans in Europe, the Germans invaded them. Italians copy every Greek Byzantine , food, culture, everything.
Same with the Turks and Germans, they copy everything Greek.
This is an unpopular take but I would love feedback or a counter POV. I love Bourdain, his writing, his TV work, his daring. He cuts an impressive on air figure. Occasionally the takes on food are a little repetitive but how many different things can you say in real time. But when he artfully dispenses life advice, I pause. He deserves great compassion and respect. Still, do I want to take life philosophy tips from someone whose personal life was apparently in shambles and decided his own life was worth ending? Is there a balanced view of the guy besides unadulterated praise? I saw the doc on the guy in a theater and adore him but do we embrace him as a model for modern living?
The beginning of his end this episode lol
The grocery shop scene was so cuntyy
I still don’t understand why he topped himself…
Strange and sad to see the blossoming of the relationship that eventually made him take his own life, R.I.P.
there never was or will be a better mate to do this. tony just had a nose for capturing life itself.
If only he had never gone to do this episode 😔
idols you create them you can destroy them…..
I have goose bombs in the end of eposode …. so goodd
Mussolini=Hitler=Trump=Putin=Orban
Che coraggio ammirare qualcosa che prima si ha manipolato dal 1945 ad oggi
100% accurate and realistic. Literally, 'parts unknown' of Rome if you do not live there. But it is also sad and poetic, especially if you watch this in perspective. As someone else has observed, it was the beginning of the end for him.
This episode felt less about food and more a preposterous political lecture from those who fund CNN… 🤣
Argento should have been edited out of the episode…
So this is where it started with Asia.
That little boy was mature as hell haha he even apologized for not liking it because he knows it was Anthony's favorite
The gaze in his eyes when he's in her presence. Makes me really sad.
soo eerie
What is the song starting 36:44
Could Coppola had been involved in the edition of this episode?? It's marsterpiece.
Around 10 years ago now. Many things have changed since then. Especially in some parts of Europe. We have to be careful that our way of living and our culture will not fade away and isn't replaced.
Why is it that Italians have got so much right and yet modern music is the one thing that completely eludes them? I mean – name one widely regarded Italian band/group/singer. Exactly. But food, cars, fashion . . . they kick everyone's arse. Weird, isn't it?
Can someone give me the names of the musical themes in this episode?
What is the name of the music played at 40:14 please??? Desperately been trying to find it. Such a beautiful melancholic music.
Sapete come si chiama la donna che canta?
4:06 it's happening now in America.
39:25 Cassandra's prophecy
Monday Christchurch, South Island NZ(New Zealand) . Although Bourdain, is dead. His cooking adventures, will forever? Be ? Celebrated, and said.
per Anthony Bourdain roma e chi ha conosciuto li' e' stata fatale !!
Il modo in cui Bourdain riesce a far risaltare l'umanità e la varietà di ogni luogo in cui viaggia è incredibile. Non è nemmeno un programma di cucina è un programma di civiltà.
Of course CNN was already shoehorning their Leftist political agenda into absolutely EVERYTHING back then 🙄😂
This see you next Tuesday ruins this episode
Asia 👎
Wish he never went there. He may still be alive today if he missed it.
how I adore this guy…. very sad to loose him..
A ridiculous number of viewers want to blame Asia Argento for Anthony Bourdain's drug and alcohol dependency, the breakdown. Of all his relationships and his mental health problems .
Do not blame Asia or anyone else for Anthony's alcohol and drug dependency the break up of all his relationships and his mental health problems.
Any time I meet people from Italy, Germany, Russia or any other countries that have endured totalitarianism or autocracy, I notice that many of them seem to have a completely different world view to the rest of us. They tend to be relatively cynical, and have a sense of indifference regarding their surrounding political landscape. They see the world in black and white, but have a capability to word their perspective in such a colourful, poetic way. They have no utopian ideals, or at least not any that they want to share.
It's a sort of wisdom that I'm glad I can observe, but can't help but be thankful not to possess, and a powerful reminder of our complexity as a species, that our minds are formed not only by our own experiences, but by those that our parents and grandparents had, too.
Despite being American, Anthony seemed to have plenty of this cynicism within himself. Whether it was a symptom of, or a cause for his struggles with his mental well-being, it gave him his signature, beautiful but blunt way of speaking, and is also likely what Drew him so close to Ms. Argento.
Rest in Peace, Anthony
Anthony was a great soul….🦋