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The conceit is that Benigni tries to keep the 5-year-old from realizing what's going on by pretending that the whole thing is a game and that if the boy gets through it without crying or complaining he wins a tank.
She said in an interview with the paper that during the Oscars she gave Benigni the original bowler hat that Chaplin wore in The Gold Rush .
Life Is Beautiful, written and directed by and starring Italian Roberto Benigni (he starred in Down by Law , 1986), has won international acclaim for wedding sentimental, Chaplinesque slapstick to a story that finishes up in a concentration camp with Jews being gassed and roasted.
In an essay in the New York Times , Edward Rothstein refers to the "enchantment of fascism" being "undone" by "other spells, some recalling the innocence of childhood"--and, indeed, Benigni's routines are sometimes childishly liberating, conjuring up Fo, Harpo Marx, and Danny Kaye in his double-talk mode.
Imagine Harpo Marx giving the hot foot to a pompous official, who takes out a machine gun and blows him away: That's how cheap Benigni's hash of farce and tragedy is.