00:00:01:It's not difficult to predict|for this story of mine 00:00:04:biased, ambiguous|and scandalized judgments. 00:00:08:In any case, i want to state here and now|that however la ricotta is taken, 00:00:12:the story of the passion,|which la ricotta indirectly recalls, 00:00:16:is for me the greatest event|that has ever happened 00:00:18:and the books that recount it|the most sublime ever written. 00:01:16:Damn it. 00:01:21:Got a temperature? 00:01:23:Stracci, you're finished. 00:01:26:Yes, of course. 00:01:28:I slept outside last night.|The garbage man woke me up. 00:01:32:Then you're not eating? 00:01:33:Not eating? Yeah, right. 00:01:35:Better hide your lunch,|or i'll eat that too. 00:01:37:What did you say? 00:01:43:That reminds me: The wife and kids|are coming to eat today. 00:01:47:Who knows what saint will help me. 00:01:49:You've got your pick here today. 00:01:51:With all these saints,|it's like a museum around here! 00:01:54:Anything wrong with the saints? 00:01:55:St. Sly there stole from god|to feed the dog. 00:01:59:Just look how it eats: 00:02:02:Caviar, steak... 00:02:04:saints, did you eat|the whole last supper? 00:02:07:I'm a poor starving man. 00:02:09:Nothing left?|You ate it all? 00:02:13:Shut up|or i'll excommunicate you. 00:02:28:The crown. 00:02:29:The crown! 00:02:45:Places, everyone! We're ready! 00:02:49:The record! 00:02:53:Not that one! 00:02:55:You're worse than the men|who rolled dice at the foot of the cross! 00:03:00:Publicans! Blasphemers! 00:03:03:The scarlatti record! 00:03:18:Camera! 00:03:20:2050, take one. 00:03:22:Action! 00:03:24:Come on, prompter.|Do your job. 00:03:27:O sorrowing spirit. 00:03:29:O bewildered mother's son. 00:03:33:O desperate mother's son. 00:03:36:O martyred son. 00:03:39:O chaste, rose-pink son. 00:03:42:O peerless son. 00:03:44:No, valentina! 00:03:46:What's with that face?|This isn't the com�die fran�aise! 00:03:50:Action! 00:03:52:O sorrowing spirit. 00:03:54:O bewildered mother's son. 00:03:57:O bewildered mother's son. 00:03:59:O martyred son. 00:04:01:Get the negro out of there! 00:04:06:Sonia, remember|you're at christ's feet! 00:04:09:Stop thinking about your dog! 00:04:13:Camera! 00:04:14:2,050, take three. 00:04:17:Action. 00:04:19:Prompter, wake up! 00:04:21:O sorrowing spirit... 00:04:35:half-wits! Now we'll have|to start all over again! 00:04:39:Sonia, step out please.|We've got to start again. 00:04:43:- Camera.|- 2,050, take four. 00:04:46:Action. 00:04:50:Amorosi, stop picking your nose|and take your position! 00:05:21:Giovanni, did you get some lunch? 00:05:24:Here it is. 00:05:29:Eat up. 00:05:31:- What about you?|- Me? 00:05:33:I'm out of luck, as usual. 00:05:37:What can you do? 00:05:39:Enjoy it. 00:05:40:Thanks, giovanni.|See you tonight. 00:06:34:- Where are you going?|- I've got business. 00:06:38:I'm gonna get work as an extra. 00:07:08:- Where are you going?|- I've got business too. 00:07:36:Finished the whole thing already? 00:07:39:What an appetite! 00:07:41:I want to go to terracina 00:07:45:and have lunch on the plain 00:07:48:i'll eat a cow whole|and a sheep still in its wool 00:08:43:you look like my dad. 00:08:45:Idiot. 00:09:41:Hey, you bastard! 00:09:43:That's my lunch! 00:09:46:Damn you! 00:09:48:Drop my lunch|or i'll throttle you, 00:09:51:you dirty thief! 00:09:55:Bastard! 00:10:13:Think that was a nice thing to do? 00:10:16:Think you're better than me|'cause you belong to a star? 00:11:03:May i have a word? 00:11:09:Excuse me.|I hope i'm not disturbing. 00:11:12:I'm a journalist. 00:11:16:Go on. 00:11:18:I'd like to get a little interview. 00:11:21:- No more than four questions.|- Thanks. 00:11:25:First: What do you mean to express|with this new work? 00:11:32:My intimate, profound, 00:11:35:archaic catholicism. 00:11:42:What do you think|of italian society? 00:11:46:The most illiterate masses 00:11:49:and the most ignorant|bourgeoisie in europe. 00:11:54:And what do you think of death? 00:11:57:As a marxist,|i never give it any thought. 00:12:02:Fourth and last question: 00:12:03:What do you think of|our great director federico fellini? 00:12:09:He dances. 00:12:14:He dances. 00:12:17:Thank you, congratulations|and good-bye. 00:12:27:"I am a force from the past..." 00:12:34:it's a poem. 00:12:37:In the first part, the poet describes|certain ancient ruins 00:12:42:whose style and history|no one any longer understands, 00:12:44:and certain hideous modern buildings|that everyone understands. 00:12:50:Then he resumes: 00:12:54:"I am a force from the past. 00:12:57:Tradition is my only love. 00:13:01:I come from the ruins, churches, 00:13:04:altarpieces, forgotten hamlets 00:13:08:in the appenines|and the foothills of the alps 00:13:11:where dwell our brothers. 00:13:14:I walk the tuscolana way|like a madman, 00:13:17:the appian way|like a dog without a master. 00:13:21:I behold the twilight,|the mornings over rome, 00:13:25:over ciociaria, 00:13:27:over the world, 00:13:28:like the first acts of post-history, 00:13:31:which i witness|by privilege of birth 00:13:34:from the utmost edge|of some buried age. 00:13:39:Monstrous is the man born 00:13:41:from the bowels of a dead woman. 00:13:45:And i, 00:13:47:adult fetus, 00:13:49:wander, more modern|than any modern... 00:13:54:in search of brothers... 00:13:59:who are no more." 00:14:02:Did you understand anything? 00:14:05:Sure, a lot. 00:14:08:You walk the tuscolana way... 00:14:12:write down what i tell you. 00:14:15:You understood nothing|because you're an average man, right? 00:14:20:Well, yeah. 00:14:22:But you don't know|what an average man is. 00:14:25:He's a monster. 00:14:26:A dangerous criminal. 00:14:30:Conformist, 00:14:32:colonialist, 00:14:34:racist, 00:14:36:slave trader, 00:14:37:a mediocrity! 00:14:45:Have you got a bad heart? 00:14:47:No, thank god. 00:14:49:Too bad, because if you|were to drop dead right here, 00:14:51:it'd be good publicity|for the film's release. 00:14:54:You don't exist anyway. 00:14:57:Capital acknowledges|the existence of labor 00:14:59:only insofar as it serves production. 00:15:02:And the producer of my film|is the owner of your paper as well. 00:15:07:Good-bye. 00:15:41:- What are you doing picking flowers?|- Nothing else to do. 00:15:44:Nothing else to do. 00:15:50:- And what are you waiting for?|- That's our business. 00:15:53:Your business. 00:16:04:What a nice dog.|What kind is it? 00:16:06:What breed is it?|A pomeranian? 00:16:09:He's adorable. 00:16:12:What's his name? 00:16:14:Bastard. 00:16:15:He's so sweet.|If he could just talk, he'd be perfect. 00:16:20:You like him? 00:16:21:A lot! 00:16:22:- Want to make a deal?|- What kind of deal? 00:16:31:I'll sell him to you. 00:16:33:I don't have much on me.|Will you take a check? 00:16:36:Give me a thousand lira|and we'll call it even. 00:16:39:I've got a thousand lira.|Here. 00:17:01:Cheese man! 00:17:02:I'll buy all you've got! 00:17:45:The good thief! 00:17:47:The good thief! 00:18:02:Nail them up. 00:18:05:Here i am. 00:18:09:Come on, slaves. Nail me up. 00:18:13:Climb on|and i'll nail you down good. 00:18:15:Boy, i ate too much.|My stomach's about to explode. 00:18:19:- Did you eat, stracci?|- What kind of question is that? 00:18:23:Here, stracci, have a bite. 00:18:46:You thirsty? Want a drink? 00:18:57:Natalina! 00:18:59:Come here a minute. 00:19:04:Whaddaya want? 00:19:08:Don't make a fuss.|Come here. 00:19:10:Listen, do us a favor. 00:19:13:Do a striptease for us.|See stracci over there? 00:19:16:You have to do it in front of him. 00:19:18:What have you got to lose? 00:19:21:We'll pay you. Come on. 00:19:24:Give us a tune. 00:19:25:Play some of that arab music. 00:19:34:What are you waiting for? 00:19:37:Start stripping. 00:19:41:Silence! 00:20:00:Musician, don't swallow|your instrument! 00:20:23:- Begone, she-devil!|- Flower of the orient! 00:20:26:Ali baba's mistress! 00:20:39:Carry the crosses up. 00:20:48:Get a move on with those crosses!|You're like slugs this morning! 00:20:52:We ought to have a whip! 00:20:54:Run! Come on, run! 00:20:59:Start the record, please. 00:22:04:Come with me. 00:22:13:Ettore, you're some angel!|What are you doing? 00:22:17:- I can try, can't i?|- Try spreading your wings. 00:22:24:She's the one who should have|done the striptease. 00:22:30:What scene are you setting up? 00:22:34:Listen, darling, you shoot my scene|or i take off. Fair is fair. 00:22:37:Right. I'd forgotten. 00:22:40:Do the other scene. 00:23:16:Leave them nailed down. 00:23:18:Leave them nailed down! 00:23:28:Take it easy. 00:23:34:I'm hungry.|I'm gonna start cursing. 00:23:38:You do and i'll let you have it. 00:23:41:A fine christ you are.|Think i've got no right to grumble? 00:23:45:Suit yourself, but i won't take you|into the kingdom of heaven. 00:23:48:I'd settle for the kingdom of earth. 00:23:51:Especially now that|your party's in power. 00:23:53:As if yours is any better?|They're all the same. 00:23:57:I don't get you. 00:24:00:You're always hungry, yet you stay|with those who starve you. 00:24:04:Some have one calling,|others another. 00:24:08:My calling must have been to starve. 00:24:15:Places, please.|We've no time to lose. 00:24:17:Get the seamstress out of there! 00:24:22:Put on the record. 00:24:26:No, not that one, you heathens! 00:24:36:Remember, the director|wants you to keep perfectly still. 00:25:00:- Camera.|- 442, take one. 00:25:06:Action. 00:25:10:No, not like that. 00:25:11:Do it again.|More rapture, more piety. 00:25:16:No, i told you to keep still. 00:25:19:Stop waving those arms around. 00:25:21:Stop! 00:25:23:You're a figure on an altarpiece.|You got that? 00:25:30:What a shame! What a shame! 00:25:35:I'll bash your heads in,|you lazy cowards! 00:25:39:You have no respect,|yo...
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