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The Night Porter brings counsel ... "
Liliana Cavani

Night brings consigliere ... "
Vito Corleone

St. Bartholomew's Night brings counsel ... "
Admiral Gaspard de Coligny



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Night brings counsel
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Dictionary of Proverbs: Night brings counsel

Religion & Spirituality Proverbs
At night comes counsel to the wise;

Latin
in nocte consilium

in night is counsel.
advice comes over night
I.e., "Tomorrow is a new day."
Motto of Birkbeck College, University of London.

Russian

Утро вечера мудренее

German

Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde

French

"On dit que la nuit porte conseil."

DE NOCTE CONSILI
(лат.) de nocte consilium|de in nocte consilium - ночь пpиносит совет. утро вечера мудренее.


Night is the mother of Councels.
[1640 G. Herbert Outlandish Proverbs no. 746]
Well might the Ancient Poets then confer

On Night the honour'd name of Counseller.
[1660 Dryden Astr©«a Redux l. 93]

The saying that night brings counsel is often true.Peter woke next morning with a plan of campaign fully developed.
1928 L. Thayer Darkest Spot

Home you go, boy. Night brings counsel. Night did bring counsel. Or rather Verbiest, the young inspector, brought it.
[1967 N. Freeling Strike out where not Applicable 184]
Related to: advice

Bibliography of major proverb collections and works cited from modern editions is available here.

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The Night Porter

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The Night Porter
 
Italian promotional poster
Directed by Liliana Cavani
Produced by Robert Gordon Edwards
Esa De Simone
Written by Liliana Cavani
Starring Dirk Bogarde
Charlotte Rampling
Philippe Leroy
Gabriele Ferzetti
Isa Miranda
Music by Daniele Paris
Cinematography Alfio Contini
Distributed by The Criterion Collection
Release date(s) France:
3 April 1974
United States:
1 October 1974
Running time 118 minutes
Country Italy
Language English
The Night Porter (Italian: Il portiere di notte) is a controversial 1974 art film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling featuring elements of Naziploitation.

Synopsis

Dirk Bogarde plays Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer, and Charlotte Rampling plays Lucia Atherton, a concentration camp survivor who had an ambiguous sadomasochistic relationship with Aldorfer. Flashbacks show Max tormenting Lucia, but also acting as her protector. In an iconic scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song "Wenn ich mir was wuenschen duerfte" to the concentration camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max "rewards" her with the severed head of a male inmate who had been bullying the other inmates, a reference to Salome.

Thirteen years after World War II, Lucia meets Max again. He is now the night porter at a Vienna hotel and a reluctant member of a group of former Nazis, attempting to cover up their past by wiping out witnesses to their wartime activities. Max and Lucia soon fall back into their sadomasochistic relationship which eventually threatens them both.

Themes

The film depicts the political continuity between wartime Nazism and post-war Europe and the psychological continuity of characters locked into compulsive repetition of the past. On another level it deals with the psychological condition known as Stockholm Syndrome. The movie also raises the issue of sleeper Nazi cells and their control, and possibly hints at what could have spurred the 1960s reaction to the Red Army Faction (aka Baader-Meinhof).

More basically, it explores two people in an uneasy yet inextricably bound relationship within the context of a greater political malaise during and after World War II. Lucia (Rampling) is not specifically identified as Jewish but as the daughter of a socialist. Her name may be a pun of "light" and St. Lucia, the patron saint of the blind. Max seems to have a guilt complex, given he's afraid of the light, and lives a modest lifestyle after the war. Allusions to sexual ambivalence can be seen in his relationship with the nearly naked male ballet dancer.

Criticism

In responses to The Night Porter, Cavani was both celebrated for her courage in dealing with the theme of sexual transgression and, simultaneously, castigated for the controversial manner in which she presented that transgression: within the context of a Nazi Holocaust narrative. The film has been accused of mere sensationalism: film critic Roger Ebert calls it "as nasty as it is lubricious, a despicable attempt to titillate us by exploiting memories of persecution and suffering."[1] Given the film's dark and disturbing themes and a somewhat ambiguous moral clarification at the end, The Night Porter has tended to divide audiences. It is, however, the film for which Cavani is best known.

See also Sadism and masochism in fiction
Footnotes
Ebert, Roger (February 10, 1975). "The Night Porter". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
External links The Night Porter at the Internet Movie Database
The Night Porter at AllMovie
"Synopsis". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
Insdorf, Annette (Jan 11, 2000). "Criterion Collection Essay". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
Scherr, Rebecca (February 2000). "The Uses of Memory and the Abuses of Fiction: Sexuality in Holocaust Fiction and Memoir". Other Voices, Volume 2.1. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 

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Consigliere

The Consigliere (also known as Consigliori) is an advisor to the family and sometimes seen as the Boss's "right-hand man". They are used as a mediator of disputes, representatives or aides in meetings with other families. In practice the consigliere is normally the third ranking member of the administration of a family and was traditionally a senior member familiar with how the organization is run. They are also often the liaison between the Don and important figures, such as politicians or Judges. A Boss will often appoint someone close to him who they trust as their consigliere.

A consigliere's main job is to act as the Don's "auxiliary brain", helping the Don formulate plans. A consigliere, by the very nature of his job, cannot afford to simply be a yes-man to the Don, and is one of the few in the family who can argue with the Don on family matters. When the Don comes up with a business plan, the consigliere has to constantly challenge that plan's weaknesses until it's foolproof. The consigliere is the only one in a family who knows all of the Don's contacts and secrets, and if made to talk, could bring an entire family to ruin. However, there is neither a future nor potential for profit in this, and so long as he keeps the faith, he and his family will continue to collect his rather substantial wages whether he is imprisoned or dead.

Consiglieres are usually viewed as civilians or foreign diplomats, and are not generally targeted by rival families. It is almost an unspoken rule that a consigliere is a Sicilian, or at least an Italian, and always a family member or a trusted friend outside the Don's personal family. This rule was broken when Vito Corleone made the German-Irish Tom Hagen his full-time consigliere, causing a great controversy in the New York underworld.

Notable consiglieresNew York
Corleone family
Tom Hagen
Genco Abbandando
Tattaglia family
Tattaglia's consigliere
Osvaldo Altobello
Barzini family
Barzini's consigliere
Stracci family
Elio Nunziato
Other families
Forlenza family
Salvatore Narducci
Tramonti family
Tramonti's uncle
Agostino Tramonti

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Massacre de la Saint-Barth;lemy

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The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barth;lemy in French) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre took place five days after the wedding of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre (the future Henry IV of France). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris.The massacre began in the night of 23-24 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside. Modern estimates for the number of dead across France vary widely, from 5,000 to 30,000. The massacre also marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion. The Huguenot political movement was crippled by the loss of many of its prominent aristocratic leaders, as well as many re-conversions by the rank and file, and those who remained were increasingly radicalized. Though by no means unique, it "was the worst of the century's religious massacres."[2] Throughout Europe, it "printed on Protestant minds the indelible conviction that Catholicism was a bloody and treacherous religion".[3]