Baz Luhrmandirector of films like Moulin Rouge or The Great Gatsbywill premiere a very attractive new project in a few months: a biopic about Elvis Presley. The other day I saw the trailer that is already circulating on networks and suddenly I realized: Diego Armando Maradona He was the Elvis of football. Everything coincides: humble origins, his early talent, rebellious character, women and stardom, charisma, drugs, kilos, decadence… A carousel that Elvis compressed into 42 years and Diego gave him to reach 60 , and that turned both of them into legend, myth, religion.
How do you get that ticket to posterity? Perhaps the answer lies in a verse that W. H. Auden wrote in the elegy for the death of another poet, Yeats: “He has become his admirers.” In fact, already in life the essence of Maradona – his soccer – transmigrated to his admirers, but it was his last breath that made him immortal. His physical disappearance immediately triggered the most heartfelt tributes, especially in Argentina and in Naples, but now, over time, new signs of that fascination come out. there it is in Netflix the beautiful film with airs of confession of Paolo Sorrentino, It was the hand of Godand in amazon the Serie Maradona: blessed dreamvery plausible biographical reconstruction.
The bookstores are also stocked. In Maradona: the kid, the rebel, the God, William Balague traces the idol’s biography with his usual precision for detail and historical context. As an intimate counterpoint, the reading of My Diegofrom Alexander Duchini, whose subtitle already says it all: “Sentimental chronicle of a gambeta that defied the world”. On Italy They are not far behind and a friend who returns from Naples brings me a little gem: Il Vangelo secondo DiegoI. Ten writers tell of their passion for the Big 10, including three theologians and a parish priest who turns one of the songs dedicated to him by the Neapolitan tifosi into a prayer: “Maradona, make us dream, make the scudetto land on this land…”. A religion, yes.
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