Il discorso degli archetipi in Good Morning Babilonia

The filmography of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, among numerous adaptations of literary works and "original stories", proposes a set of plots and characters that seem to draw from the sources of the history of Western narrative, as if the process of stylisation which narrative forms and figures are often submitted to, up to mythical patterns, let the archtypes emerge. This essay examines such filmic corpus through the categories of structural critique of the archetype proposed by Northrop Frye, in his study. In particular, it focuses on Good Morning Babylon. Here the story of the film, focused onthe american adventure of Andrea and Nicola, two Young Tuscan brothers who restore cathedrals, and the affirmation of David W. Griffith's Hollywood, up to a fatal point of fall and Death, involves the combination of the mythos of the romance and that of the tragic. Such is a variant of the generating dialectic which represents a "structural constant" in the work of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.