Guest of Passepartout Festival, President Aurelio De Laurentiis he also talked about Naples and Superlega, as well as about the cinema of the Neapolitan city: “There is not only cinema for the big screen, but also television series. I talked about Draghi a year ago, there is an interview of mine in December in which after winning the appeal against Juve they asked me for the compliments of Draghi that I had received and I said that it was what we needed, here it was not never made an economic speech, it has always been said that future generations will pay, but it will not be so, the past is dead and a door has been opened to the future. In addition to the recovery money, it is necessary to borrow by construction site and unify a territory that has never been unified. The problem is organized crime, which the state is unable to limit, and territorial unity. Naples was the capital in the 17th and 18th centuries, third only to Paris and London, and many came here as painters and writers. In 700 it had a sewer system and in the south there are cities that still do not have it, first of all as running water. I don’t want to be a Bourbon, but Cavour was paraculo by sending a film character like Garibaldi to play with the mafia to conquer and unite Italy, the Bourbon wealth was gigantic and they took it away, all the gold reserves are been taken away, unification did not take place at the territorial level. I was pleased, my friend Napolitano was very keen on the flag, seeing everyone sing the hymn compared to the Turks.
Have Neapolitans in the national team heartened you? Yes, well, they scored two goals out of three I think. How heavy is the event? Then they ask me for the increase, let’s hope we weigh less (laughs, ed) without taking anything away from Italy “.
Good relationship with De Luca? “I wanted to meet him many years ago, before joining Napoli. As much as it may be contested, he is someone who puts his face on it, works, stays on track. Decisions must be made, otherwise what are you going to do … we are already behind. centuries. Its management? Its management is an inexcusable management, as is the whole Italian territory, given that for two years there has been Covid, which is like a third world war even if less bloody. anguish are the children and the very young, the schools and teachers not up to par, the underpaid professors. There is also a lack of facilities, computers, useless that they show us the desks bought for shit, the problem is substantial. How can we be competitive. ? We are in the penultimate place for consumption of European funds because there is a bureaucratization of the system with all the possibility of being blocked and reported and then no one moves “.
Naples model to copy compared to the city model? “I arrived, but I didn’t know her very much, my family is Neapolitan, but I didn’t know the transformation of the Neapolitans, disheartened, fatalistic, but fate must try to dominate it. I saw that everyone said no to me, to any idea, so I did on my own, as I am used to. They took me for crazy, but at most I am a visionary, for example there are beautiful boats but they cannot dive, I said that the port of Salerno instead was progressing because here the seabed was too shallow, but they do not Nothing. Why can’t the port area be redesigned? Therefore De Luca is unpleasant to politicians, because he is one of doing things, whoever does it becomes unpleasant. I can say it, I have no skeletons in the closet, others are silent but it’s worse, but Italy is like that “.
What relationship do you have with other industrialists? “For example, a great Neapolitan is Aponte, has MSC, ships, the son-in-law then added cruises. He spends 1 billion and a half per ship only for the cruise ship. Where do you live and work? Geneva. Why? He in Naples has the entire fleet with connections to the islands, yet he is not here. I have an escort at the matches, but in Naples alone I refuse it, I want to feel free. Even if they write to me ‘we kill you’ ‘you are a shit’ because maybe I had him arrested, with me the compromise will never exist! When I go to sleep I don’t have to have any problems, in fact I fall asleep immediately and wake up very early. Will I die in the morning? But I will not have problems of conscience “.
What needs to be done to get started? “There is a great Neapolitan culture, also made up of streets, it should not be abandoned, but it must also be used to attract visitors. Reviewing the Italian wedding, with Loren and Mastroianni, two Oscars, you saw a Naples that was immediately internationalized, even to the most distant in the world. The city has great strength, it lacks a ruling class with balls, the courage you give it if you give it money to invest, but 80 billion is not enough, it is not Naples but the south … if you have to get to Reggio Calabria in many hours risking his life with stones then the territory does not work. The railways have changed our lives, in 2 hours and passes you are in Milan, you write, you work, you arrive at the center, but even there you are late because the Trenitalia administrator told me we can go at 500km / h but the track is not adaptable and there is an infrastructure work. Bari-Naples are now making the railways, on a project of 10 years ago, already outdated. Therefore Italy does not work. The superintendencies, have you ever talked to any of these? Some are extraordinary, but I feel that in Florence someone like Commisso, who has already thrown more than 350 million into Fiorentina, wants to build a stadium and is told that he cannot be touched because a monument. But a monument to what, it is for people who are harassed for life by wives and lovers and work and want to go to a stadium to vent and you prevent them from modernizing it because a monument of what … the bureaucracy is then politicized, it is against Commisso as an American, for them Commisso is a power to be annihilated. The state is losing, but it wins because we are silent and appecoronato “.
Greenfinch movie on Amazon? “Yes, a great success, before the release there was the blockade of the theaters, more than a year passed and we went to Amazon. The future? I see audiovisual well, less well that in theaters, at the cinema, and says one who has movie theaters. But this also in America. They spend 50-60 million just on advertising, but not everyone can go the first week for various reasons. It is anti-democratic not to give everyone a chance to see a ‘work and at the same time I said that it was necessary to go out on TV, as if it were pay per view. I have always said it, but only with Covid did it start, starting with Disney after Netflix made huge films that the exercise gave you in a few rooms to punish him. They are long trials, but now it is accelerating. TV series have become important because they are films that last 10 hours, so they develop more characters than before in a 1 and a half you could have put only with the cameo. “
Pennac stages Maradona in Naples. “It was unique and unrepeatable, luck and bad luck and that the Neapolitans had it. The bad luck is that with a sick football of the institutions you cannot always win the Scudetto, Maradona brought him two championships because he really came from elsewhere. My son is doing a fiction about it. We will do 3 seasons, it will be like the Jordan series with interviews, 150 characters: from before the birth of 1926, when the symbol was the horse which then became a donkey due to disasters, the famous ‘pacifier “, until 1984, then from 1984 with Maradona to 2001, and then my management”.
Business interests? “We also entered ice cream, construction, the world of cars, as well as football, cinema and series. Bari? The Mayor called me and asked me to be interested. He told me that he had failed and how Napoli could resurrect him. asked to write him 2 pages, 30 came out and he bombed me ‘get it get it’. My son was in London for an Amazon series, I told him to be interested but he said ‘I don’t want to know anything’, then after 2 hours I he calls and tells me that he has changed his mind because ‘basically football and cinema are in our DNA, but let me do it … “and I told him that he would do everything and he is very happy. If people know how to do it, I let them do it. Sometimes they tell me you also take care of this low butcher’s shop, but nothing is, everything can be done in an extraordinary way “.
A failure? “I managed to unmask Blatter when he was at Fifa, Platini at Uefa, now I have not yet managed to completely write off football on a world level. This fact of the Super League is the daughter of the football organizations they think they are making institutions with our money. who is interested in a Real or a Napoli in making the Champions League, getting into debt to be able to invoice 70-100mln more? If I have already spent 200 million there is something wrong. I am part of the ECA and I am interested in marketing, I immediately told Andrea Agnelli that they were making a mistake with the Super League because they want to become their main players! Instead, UEFA must be kept, even if as a secretariat, paying us them with the income, and not them us! Now we have many players at the European Championships, if they break and I don’t get back healthy, who will pay me back the 100 million of the objectives? Why do I have to lend it to you? You made 3 billion in 15 days and then you have to sit down to review everything. Agnelli, Perez and the others were wrong, but it is ch However, I am sure that football is failing for the institutions. Gravina said he would make big changes, but it’s been 2 and a half years, why doesn’t he go to the government to abolish the law that dates back to 91 ‘? That Bossi-Fini on non-EU citizens who cost less to smaller teams? It’s from 2001. Why don’t you dismantle the melandri law that was written by Gentiloni, people who don’t understand football and football changes after 25 years, it already changes from year to year “.
Against the journalists? “But no, many speak well of me, see Polito you mentioned, even if I don’t know them. I’m not against journalists, journalism is in decline. If you read Corriere dello Sport, Gazzetta and the other one from Turin, they write the same What, is it possible? But even journalism on TV, it is possible that while they are concentrated in the locker room, kissing the holy cards or are naked, the ones with the cameras arrive claiming a contract with a guy, so football doesn’t work. Sky at the beginning was a lady television, very strong, now Rai and Mediaset have become better “
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