Checco Zalone: ​​«I have two daughters and I seem to speak a different language: Buen Camino is the journey of a man who learns to be a father. Yes, we expect to make a lot of money”

A sort of pressure similar to what Zalone could feel at the moment given the great expectations they are pouring on him Good Wayeven if the sale of forecasts of the film seems to already give a very rosy vision. «Yes, we expect to make a lot of money», admits Zalone without arrogance, but with extreme honesty. «However, what the producers tell us is that if we make good money, in reality, it is good for the whole sector. Therefore, if pre-sales continue to sell like this, on December 26th James Cameron should wake up and ask himself: who is this Checco?». We also wonder how the public might react to a certain incorrect comedy of the filmwith jokes about Schindler’s ListGaza and September 11th.

«Bildungsroman novels start from assumptions», begins Nunziante. «The bad lieutenant by Abel Ferrara, if you leave the theater ten minutes into it, you’re left with the idea that he’s a terrifying piece of shit. But you have to wait for the endings, the difference is all there. In Italian comedy this is what makes all the difference. Does an Italian protagonist remain the same from beginning to end? Let’s do Americans a favor. Does it change? Then the goal is achieved. Our films have always told this. The difference lies in a man who we take from his misery and then see grow.”

Good Way will it be able to conquer a young audience?

«I maintain that instead of complaining about political correctness we need to be intelligently incorrectso I don’t notice this problem”, says Zalone on the topic of comedy. «The thing that really scares me is what reaction the younger audience might have because, if I think of my daughter, she can’t pay attention to content that lasts more than forty seconds. I wonder how young people can handle an hour and a half comedy at the cinema. Let’s see how this segment of the public will react. If kids today seem to know me it’s because I think they see clips of me on Instagram and TikTok. But for me the important thing is to maintain the underlying dramaturgy of a story.”

In the words of the manufacturer Pietro Valsecchi who, interviewed by Couriersaid that Checco Zalone was worried about the opinion of a certain “left-wing intelligentsia”, the comedian simply replied: «I love him». So all that remains is to wait December 25th to see what results it will bring Good Way to Italian cinema, with a release of approximately one thousand copies of the film distributed throughout the country.