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John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
John Turturro
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Fictional 90s mafia queer movie set on the 60s The plot follows Pipazzio, a young trans adult who has just won the top prize in the grand cooking contest with his sweetheart, Marion. The couple returns to Palermo, Italy, the protagonist's hometown to build a life for themselves but P's plans are interrupted thanks to his own reckless spendthrift soul and the proposal of Marion to throw a big party that ends up using up much of her wealth. This combined with unnecessary purchases by his parents end up burying the family in debt. desperate to reclaim stability, he is lured into a mafia that masquerades as a legitimate racing agency. Here, he confronts a world rife with toxic masculinity and oppressive hierarchies, mirroring the extremist fascism of the era, in wich freedom is only for male hegemony. It has a style unseen in the most known man centered crime movies in this case Pipazzio always had this risk clear, but because of being out of tune with the attitudes of the average mobster, he ends up being seen as an enemy to the rest and a constant threat to his most loved ones, wich choose symbolic affairs over a conceited glorified life, making pipazzio feel his expression as a man only encapsulated him more . In terms of direction this movie doesn't invent nothing new, but uses the elements stablished by previous films in the most complete and sublime way possible creating a satyrical and predictable tension and mystery.
