I get in Vittorio Cecchi Gori’s house with just one thought: whatever the result of our meeting will be, this event will stuck forever in my life, and will mark the edge between before knowing Cecchi Gori and after I met him. Whoever I will be, whatever job I will have, from now on I can say at the age of 27 and with no big studio backing me I’ve been able to set up an appointment with the biggest Italian Producer, 3 times Grammy winner, in his home, to tell him about my project.
I’m with the giants now, that is Cecchi Gori’s Christmas tree, and the bathroom I get in is the same Cecchi Gori uses.
We are at the end of a busy day for both of us, he has just finished a meeting with his management, he’s tired, but welcomes me in his studio like I were one of his lot.
I’m struck by the humanity I find in this room: his collaborators treat him with an intimate respect, because he’s the boss, but is also a man for whom they have feelings.
But most of all I’m struck by the humanity the man I consider the biggest one shows to me, who am still no one, and I don’t feel anymore I’m the professional who is leading a very ambitious project, but a little boy deeply inadequate.
Despite his tiredness, I see a charisma in him I never saw elsewhere, and if in my other experiences I faced bureaucrats who seemed interested just in delaying my projects, he seems to try to find a way to help me before any valid reason not to.
Cecchi Gori doesn't tret me with the patience of a teacher with a student, but as a professional who talks to another professional. He doesn't just talk about his ideas, he fights for them: he slaps the table and cries Films have to be made in Italian and subtitled in English, that’s the way you win Oscars! Americans have 10 professions to do what just one can do, and Financiers can’t say anything. I’ve always been a Producer, Executive Producer and so on… like [he names a film I don’t understand] they had to shoot in a villa full of mirrors in the woods, and nobody thought that the cameras were going to be reflected in the mirrors! Then they called the agency to make things straight. Hey, that little joke costed me 2 million dollars!
He’s not just a person with the right intuitions, who treats all the film as products that grant him money: he is someone that still puts his soul in what he does, he puts his face in his projects.
At the end of our meeting he asks me for the script, and tells me we will meet up again. His sentence appears to me meaningful and a lot more real compared to the usual We’ll let you know that people use in the show business.
But most of all I’m struck by the humanity the man I consider the biggest one shows to me, who am still no one, and I don’t feel anymore I’m the professional who is leading a very ambitious project, but a little boy deeply inadequate.
Despite his tiredness, I see a charisma in him I never saw elsewhere, and if in my other experiences I faced bureaucrats who seemed interested just in delaying my projects, he seems to try to find a way to help me before any valid reason not to.
Cecchi Gori doesn't tret me with the patience of a teacher with a student, but as a professional who talks to another professional. He doesn't just talk about his ideas, he fights for them: he slaps the table and cries Films have to be made in Italian and subtitled in English, that’s the way you win Oscars! Americans have 10 professions to do what just one can do, and Financiers can’t say anything. I’ve always been a Producer, Executive Producer and so on… like [he names a film I don’t understand] they had to shoot in a villa full of mirrors in the woods, and nobody thought that the cameras were going to be reflected in the mirrors! Then they called the agency to make things straight. Hey, that little joke costed me 2 million dollars!
He’s not just a person with the right intuitions, who treats all the film as products that grant him money: he is someone that still puts his soul in what he does, he puts his face in his projects.
At the end of our meeting he asks me for the script, and tells me we will meet up again. His sentence appears to me meaningful and a lot more real compared to the usual We’ll let you know that people use in the show business.
We’ll meet up again, he says, Nobody does a film in just one meeting.
P.S.: I’d like to thank very much the Head of the Press Office of Cecchi Gori Group, Mr Emilio Sturla Furnò: a very nice guy without whom I wouldn’t be able to have this meeting.
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