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...Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince, finds the corpse of a royalist soldier. It is 1860, Garibaldi and his redshirts have landed in Sicily on their way to overthrow the Bourbon monarchy in Naples, and the dead sharpshooter signals the death of a way of life. In his elegiac novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa chronicles this transformation. But The Leopard is more than a retelling of aristocratic decline. It is also a voyage through the consciousness of Don Fabrizio, who struggles to make sense of the paradox presented to him by his revolutionary nephew, Tancredi: "If we want things to stay...
...novel, The Leopard is striking both for the richness of its prose and for the subtlety of its characterization. The movie version, directed by Luchino Visconti, communicates the luxuriant prose with exquisite photography, but, in the process, redraws many of the characters with overly broad strokes...
...Olympian Don Fabrizio is memorable. Played with strength and restraint by Burt Lancaster, the Prince becomes more and more detached as the aristocrats pander to the now-powerful bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie pander to the well-bred aristocrats. At the end, as he waits for death, the bewhiskered leopard evokes pathos for the passing of real nobility. But even then, it is only the old story of aristocratic decline, for Visconti has ignored a most central aspect of the novel by observing the Prince only from the outside...
Rampage. "The enchantress," the director of the zoo explains excitedly, "is a magnificent accident of nature, half tiger and half leopard." But when the great white hunter (Robert Mitchurn) arrives in Malaya to trap this exotic specimen, he encounters an enchantress (Elsa Martinelli) who is patently another breed of cat. Her eyes are brown, her claws are red, her coat was made by Oleg Cassini. As she glides through the jungle, her tail twitches wickedly and Mitchum's thinning hair stands...
...bags both of his enchantresses. The one is obviously quite a catch. But what in Southeast Asia is the other one? Is it a tiger? No. A leopard? No. A cross between the two? Nosirree. It's just a little old jaguar painted purple...