House of Gucci, the Ridley Scott film
Heirs Aldo Gucci against House of Gucci: “It affects dignity”. The members of the family reserve every initiative against the film to protect the name and image as well
“The members of the Gucci family reserve every initiative to protect the name, image and dignity them and their loved ones. ”Thus ends, Ansa reports, the harsh letter signed by the heirs of Aldo Gucci, against the film by Ridley Scott, House of Gucci, in cinemas from December 16 in Italy. The heirs complain that the production ” did not bother to question them before describing Aldo Gucci ”, and they judge “even more censurable” the reconstruction “of a woman definitively condemned for having been the instigator of the murder of Maurizio Gucci” painted in the film and in the “declarations of the cast members, as a victim”.
Already last March, Patricia Gucci, daughter of Aldo and heir of the Florentine maison, had lashed out against Scott’s film in a long post on facebook. “After seeing the preview images of ‘House of Gucci’, which is due out in November, I can’t stand and watch. My father – Aldo Gucci, who transformed Gucci from a single store in Florence to a global phenomenon during his 30 years as President – is portrayed as a tiny, overweight thug, when in reality he was tall, thin and blue-eyed. He was the personification of elegance, applauded by royalty, heads of state and legendary Hollywood stars “(Read more here).
In the letter he accuses himself of “a narrative that is anything but accurate”, a view of “Gucci family members as thugs, ignorant and insensitive to the world around them” and especially “the indulgent tones towards a woman who, definitively convicted of having been the instigator of the murder of Maurizio Gucci, she is portrayed not only in the film, but also in the statements of the cast members, as a victim trying to survive in a masculine and macho corporate culture. “
According to the heirs, a circumstance far from the truth: “Gucci – reads the letter – was an inclusive company. Indeed, in the 1980s, the historical context in which the film is set,” there were several women who held positions at the top: whether they were members of the family or strangers to it “.
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