"Movies about tennis? Very boring. The protagonist is never credible. You can't imitate certain things, certain movements. Of the last one I saw,
BORG MCENROE
, however, I appreciated the actor who plays the part of Borg (Sverrir Gudnason, ed.): it is really identical to the Swedish sample, at least in terms of expressions ".
Thus, at the fifth edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival by Tiziana Rocca, Adriano Panatta, one who knows about tennis.
The champion, one of the protagonists of the documentary
UNA SQUADRA
by Domenico Procacci - went first to the cinema, in an abridged version, and then as a docu series on Sky Documentaries - with the story of Italy's victory in the Davis Cup in 1976 against Chile, a true cinema lover immediately says.
"When I was a kid, I didn't have much time to go to the movies, but when I could I had a good feast watching everything from very light comedies to films like TRANSFORMERS and CALM CHAOS."
Favorite
movies
?
"All those who amazed me and amaze me today. While among the most beloved actors there are certainly Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi. Just yesterday this morning - says Panatta in Forte Village - I saw
POOR BUT BEAUTIFUL
on Raitre. That was really cinema d ' avant-garde ".
Where is the sport going?
"Surely it is no longer what it once was, it is now more biomechanics than talent. All practiced by super-trained athletes, taller, stronger and faster than before: talent, given the extreme speed, is more difficult than emerge ".
How has tennis changed?
"Totally. There is much more professionalism, interests and business. Just think that in my time when I had to play at
In the life of Adriano Panatta also the great passion for the Offshore.
"How did I get there? It's simple: my two great passions are the sea and motors and so I could only practice this sport that I have been doing for 25 years, much longer than tennis. A sport in which I risked dying at least three or four times, but if you have that passion inside you go ahead and do it at risk ".
How do you see
Rome
now that you live in Treviso?
"I come to Rome every month and I see her as
a beautiful lady with many wrinkles
, but a lady that you should go to the hairdresser more often".
As a child, he confesses, "I wanted to be a doctor, but then it is the life that he chooses for you", however no repentance: "I know I have made many mistakes and today with the experience of a 72-year-old man I would certainly do less. Anyway. - he underlines - I've always been myself, my voice has only changed a bit ".
Those red shirts in the Davis Cup final against Pinochet's Chile?
"No. We had no political conscience. We were unconscious, but very angry and we saw what was happening as an injustice."
