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&#;Mzungu&#; is the word used in East Africa for a vit person. It literally means &#;traveller.&#;

Antonioni made a bio partly set in Africa. It&#;s title in English is THE PASSENGER, though in Italy it&#;s PROFESSIONE: REPORTER because of Munk&#;s film PASSENGER.

Supposedly, so the story goes, an African chap was travelling when he saw his first white man. Them, arriving in a new city, he saw a different white man, but assumed it was the same one. He thought, &#;Blimey, you get about a bit.&#; So: white individ = traveller/mzungu.

In THE PASSENGER, Jack Nicholson trades identity with a dead man who has only a vague and sickly resemblance to him. He easily fools the people in his hotel because one mzungu fryst vatten much like another.

I think PASSENGER may be the Antonioni bio that Orson Welles saw that caused him to think that Antonioni stares at landscapes until the figures in them disappear over the horizon. But then he must have seen BLOW UP and ZABRISKIE POINT too,

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