Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[marc]

In at least three scenes, when the four "villains" enter a room, they walk over a beam of light that's coming from outside.

[jessie]

The film only earned proper censorship approval from the Australian authorities in 2010.

[addison]

The story is divided in an "Antinferno" (Hell's vestibule) and three "Gironi" (Hell's circles). This structure is a reference to Dante Alighieri's "Inferno".

[oscar]

One of the top ten favorite films of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

[richard]

The "excrement" in the coprophagia scenes was a mixture of chocolate, orange marmalade, and some other clashing ingredients. The disgusted reactions were real.

[jessica]

Body count: 23 (8 on-screen, 14 mentioned, 1 supposed). Exist still-photos of the mentioned deaths because there were filmed, but probably were into some film reels stolen during the edition with which Pasolini was blackmailed, or simply deleted into the editing. Eva's character appears by last time as a witness in Ezio's killing scene, and never was explained her destiny. It's supposed that after Ezio's killing, she tries to escape from the castle, and was shot by back by the four villains in the garden. This scene was filmed but it was also into the stolen reels.

[ivan]

According with the initial text, the movie is set between 1944-45, but according with Pier Paolo Pasolini in Salò d'hier à aujourd'hui (2002), the movie is set on the spring of 1944.

[brent]

Unsure how to bring his film to a proper conclusion, Pier Paolo Pasolini shot 4 different endings.

[oscar]

The bibliography given on the opening title is: Roland Barthes, "Sade, Fourier, Loyola" (1971); Maurice Blanchot, "Lautréamont et Sade" (1949); Pierre Klossowski, "Sade, mon prochain" (1947); Philippe Sollers, "L'écriture et l'experience del limites" (1968); Simone de Beauvoir, "Faut-il brûler Sade" (1955).

[charlie]

Salo is a town in northern Italy which Benito Mussolini's Fascist government effectively made their capital from 1943 until they fell from power in 1945. The place had particular relevance for Pier Paolo Pasolini because his brother was killed there.

[ray]

In 'Sul Ponte Di Perati' scene, two male victims appear singing. They are the only two male victims who survive at the end.

[brent]

The film had an extremely limited release worldwide, and was banned in many countries. It got a wide release in Sweden in 1976, and sold 125,000 tickets, meaning 1.5% of all Swedes saw the movie. It also grossed more than The Omen.

[frederick]

During the filming, the crew played a football match against 1900 (1976) crew, which was directed by Pasolini's friend and disciple Bernardo Bertolucci.

[tammy]

Ennio Morricone, who composed the jazzy soundtrack, said he was very uncomfortable watching the movie. He only agreed to score the film due to being friends with Pasolini.

[gerald]

Placed #65 in the "100 Scariest Movies of All Time" list by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006.

[leo]

Despite the grim subject throughout the film, in an interview on the second disc of the Criterion Collection box set, actress Hélène Surgère claimed the mood was actually rather jovial on the set and that none of the teenage actors were actually harmed or traumatized. She said the abundance of teenagers who had never acted before led the mood to be happy and at times, even fun, with the cast often playing practical jokes on each other. She also said that the movie was literally "made" in the editing room and the filmmakers had no idea how grim a movie it was until they saw the finished product at the premiere.

[toni]

Screened at Locarno International Film Festival in 1976 in the "Programme principal / Longs métrages Hors compétition" section. It won the International Critics Special Award.

[jeffrey]

Maurizio Costanzo worked on an early version of the script.

[carla]

None of the four villains speak with his voice, because all were dubbed. Paolo Bonacelli was dubbed by Giancarlo Vigorelli, Giorgio Cataldi by Giorgio Caproni, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle by Aurelio Roncaglia, and Aldo Valletti by Marco Bellocchio. Curiously, of the four actors, only Bonacelli was a professional actor, and of the four dubbers, only Bellocchio had previous experience in acting (although his main job is as a director and as a screenwriter). The other three dubbers were writers.