Get a load of that!
Our Father...
By God, they're kissing!
I won't watch pornography.
Three cheers for Ciccio!
Any room for me in this new paradise?
Alfredo!!
Bring him home after you close.
I'm going, Alfredo.
It's great that you came!
How are things at school?
Fine, but now that I'm working maybe I won't go any more.
No, no, Totò, don't do that.
You'll end up regretting it.
What do you mean?
What I mean is...
this isn't your real work.
Right now, the Paradise needs you...
and you need the Paradise, but it's only temporary.
One day you'll go on to other things.
Things...
that are more important.
Definitely more important.
I know. Now that I've lost my sight, I see better.
Things I never saw before.
All thanks to you, who saved my life.
I won't forget it.
And don't look that way. I'm not senile yet.
- You want proof? - Yes.
For example...
the projection is out of focus, right now.
Check it.
You're right! The image is out of focus!
- How did you know? - It's difficult to explain.
What are you doing? You dirty pigs! Watch the movie!
Hold still!
I told you. It doesn't catch fire any more.
Progress always comes too late.
Workers!!
She's a new schoolgirl.
She looks nice.
She's the daughter of the new bank's director.
They're terribly rich.
Go! Come on!
Go, man, go!
Excuse me.
You dropped this.
Oh, thanks. I didn't even notice.
My name's Salvatore. What's yours?
Elena. My name's Elena.
I wanted to tell you... well... the other day, at the station...
It's at the start.
The small projector? Your footage?
- Yes. - What do you see?
Slaughterhouse workers killing a heifer.
Blood all over the floor... like a lake.
Over the lake comes another heifer...
about to die.
Why did you stop? What do you see now?
Nothing. We don't see anything. It's all fuzzy.
A woman.
It's a woman.
Yes, a girl I saw at the station.
What's she like?
She's very nice.
My age... slim... long brown hair.
Big eyes, very blue... honest and direct.
A little beauty mark on her lip.
Very small. You only see it up close.
When she smiles, you feel like...
- I don't know... - Love.
Love.
I know how it is.
The blue-eyed ones are the worst.
No matter what you do, there's nothing you can do.
The bigger the man... the deeper his imprint.
And if he loves, he suffers,
knowing it's a dead-end street.
That's nice, what you just said... but sad.
John Wayne said that in "Shepherd of the Hills".
You old sneak!
- Hello, Elena. - Why are you running?
Because...
I... wanted to tell you...
you remember when... we...
Nice day, isn't it?
Yes, really nice.
Excuse me. I have to go. Bye.
What a jerk!
"Nice day, isn't it?" Of all the stupid things!
I told you so. You thought I was joking.
But take it from me,
the blue-eyed ones are the worst.
Why? There must be a way to make her understand.
Don't even try. With feelings...
there's nothing to understand and no way to explain.
Oh, you made the world!
With due respect to the Lord, who made it in 2 or 3 days...
I'd have taken a bit longer...
but, in all modesty, I would've done it better.
Like I said, you always have an answer.
Just for you, Totò, I'll tell you a stow.
Let's sit down a minute. Misery of miseries!
Once a king gave a feast...
for the loveliest princesses in the realm.
Now, a soldier who was standing guard...
saw the king's daughter go by.
She was the most beautiful of all, and he fell in love.
But what is a simple soldier
next to the daughter of a king?
At last he succeeded in meeting her,
and he told her he could no longer live without her.
The princess was so taken by the depth of his feeling...
that she said to the soldier...
"if you can wait for 100 days...
and 100 nights under my balcony,
at the end of it I shall be yours."
With that, the soldier went and waited...
one day, two days... then ten... then twenty.
Each evening the princess looked out,
and he never moved!
In rain, in wind, in snow, he was always there!
Birds shat on his head, bees stung him...
but he didn't budge.
At the end of ninety nights...
he had become...
all dry, all white.
Tears streamed from his eyes.
He couldn't hold them back.
He didn't even have the strength to sleep.
And all that time, the princess watched him.
At long last, it was the 99th night...
and the soldier stood up,
took his chair and left.
What happened at the end?
This "is" the end.
And don't ask what it means. I don't know.
If you figure it out, you tell me.
Only one print? You know I need two!
One for the Paradise and one for the next town!
You promised!
I put up posters, made commitments!
If you screw me, watch out!
One print for two theaters!
You'll pay for this!
I'm from Naples! You'll see Naples and die!
We see the crib. The child's asleep.
Do something!
"The lawyer told me. Now I know."
The lawyer told me. Now I know.
"And everyone must know. Yes... everyone must know."
Everyone must know.
"You... believe me?"
"Yes... I believe you."
"Our own home! How I've dreamed of it."
"Tonino!"
"Mama!"
"The End."
I don't like it! I don't like it!
I cut the end credits to go faster.
Hurry back with Part One. I'll show a newsreel.
- Okay. - I'll call the police!
Take him! Just a minute!
Give me Part Two! Here's Part One!
Hurry, the house is packed!
Come on, slowpoke! Get her rolling!
Bunch of animals! Quiet!
Come on, Totò! They'll explode!
- It's been half an hour! - What can I do?
Where is that son of a bitch? I'll be ruined!
Calm down!
I'll have you know, just to see this movie...
I left my wife home sick in bed.
And I haven't seen a thing.
If it's not here in 10 minutes give us back our money
me and everyone here, or with this I'll wreck the place!
Calm down and let me talk!
I'll show Part One again.
Quiet! I've seen the whole movie.
I'll tell you the plot.
- Alfredo, what is it? - Father Adelfio!
I can't! The Host is on the altar.
Father, I need you urgently because...
I have doubts, terrible doubts tormenting my soul!
- Your soul?! - Yes.
- Father, I've sinned... - Do that after.
- But, who? - Stay there. Don't move.
Just act normal. It's Salvatore.
How did you get in here?
Alfredo, that's a terrible thing to say.
I know. But take the miracle...
- of the loaves and fishes. - What about it?
I always wondered, how is it possible?
I had to talk to you.
You're beautiful, Elena. That's what I wanted to tell you.
When we meet, I can't say anything right because...
you give me shivers.
I don't know what others do in these cases.
It's my first time.
But I'm in love with you.
Father, I've sinned...
I absolve you in the name of the Father, Son...
and Holy Ghost. Go in peace.
When you laugh, you're even prettier.
Salvatore, you're very sweet, and I like you very much...
but I don't love you.
- I don't care. I'll wait. - For what?
For you to fall in love with me.
Now, listen.
Every night, after work, I'll come stand...
outside your house and I'll wait. Every night.
When you change your mind, open your window. That's all.
- You understand now? - Yes... finally...
I see the light.
Next time, don't talk heresy.
You survived the theater fire, but from the Eternal Fire...
that is, Eternal Fire... no one can save you!
15 seconds to the New Year!
14... 13... 12... 11...
10... 9... 8...
7... 6... 5...
4... 3... 2... 1...
Oh, great! "Never been driven", he says.
How will we get home?
Oh, God, it's my father.
Hello, Mr. Mendola.
OUTDOOR MOVIES: TONIGHT AT THE IMPERIA.
Standing room only!
Come on in! The show just started.
Have your tickets ready!
Salvatore, my love... A whole summer...
with my family, far from you. My days here go on forever.
I see your name everywhere, in a book...
in a crossword puzzle, a newspaper...
you're always before my eyes. Today, alas, I have bad news.
In October we move to Palermo, where I'll go to the University.
So we won't see each other every day, but don't worry.
Whenever I can get away,
I'll come to you at the Paradise.
I'm blind!
By God's might,
by man's cunning! Rise up!
When will this rotten summer end?
In a film, it would already be over.
Fade-Out, cut to storm. Wouldn't that be great?
Tell them I am Ulysses!
- Elena! But, when? - Today.
You can't imagine the excuses I made up to come here.
I'm doing my military service in Rome. I leave Friday.
I'll come say goodbye to you. Thursday on the 5 p.m. bus.
The army made a mistake. Anyway, Rome is beautiful.
Load the reels for tomorrow,
ready for the new man.
Cheer up! I'll wait for you.
Don't worry. The job will be here.
I'll wait. You hear? Don't look so gloomy.
Come on! Hup!
Radioman Di Vita Salvatore, 3rd Battalion, 9th Company!
Transferred her father? No way!
And no one knows where?
Screw you if you won't tell me! Asshole son of a bitch!
ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN.
You're thinner. Put you through the wringer, eh?
They tell me you never go out and you never...
talk to anybody. Why?
You know how it is.
Sooner or later, the time comes...
Whether you talk or not, it's the same thing.
So you might as well shut up.
It's hot in here.
- Take me to the sea. - At a party,
a lieutenant pinches this girl's ass.
She turns around. It's the colonel's daughter.
Terrified, the Lieutenant says: "If your heart is as hard...
as what I just felt, I'm a dead man."
You haven't seen her?
No. And no one knows where she is.
That's probably how it was meant to be.
Each of us has a star to follow.
Get out of here. This land is cursed.
Living here day after day,
you think it's the center of the world.
You believe nothing will ever change.
Then you leave. A year or two. When you come back,
everything's changed. The thread's broken.
What you came to find isn't there.
What was yours is gone.
You have to go away for a long time, many years...
before you can come back and find your people...
the land... where you were born.
But now it's not possible.
Right now, you're blinder than I am.
Who said that? Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Henry Fonda?
No, Totò... nobody said it.
This time it's all mine.
Life isn't like in the movies.
Life... is much harder.
Get out of here. Go back to Rome.
You're young. The world is yours.
And I am old.
I don't want to hear you talk any more.
I want to hear others talk about you.
Don't come back.
Don't think about us. Don't look back, don't write!
Don't give in to nostalgia. Forget about us.
If you do come back, don't come see me.
I won't let you in my house. Understand?
Thank you, for everything you've done for me.
Whatever you end up doing, love it,
the way you loved the projection booth...
when you were a little squirt.
He's gone! Totò, goodbye!
I was too late. What a shame!
It's Totò. I knew it.
See how nice the house is?
We had it all redone. All thanks to you.
I have a surprise for you. Come.
Are you tired?
You have time to rest before the funeral.
No, mama. It's only an hour by plane.
Don't tell me that, after all these years.
Come, I put everything in here. All your things.
He must be glad you come, Totò.
He always talked about you.
Right up to the end.
He really loved you.
He left something for you.
Before you leave, come see me.
When did you close it down?
Six years ago in May. Nobody came any more.
You know better than I, Mr. Di Vita.
The economy, TV, videos.
The old movie business is just a memory.
The city bought the site for a parking lot.
They're demolishing it on Saturday. It's too bad.
What's this "Mr. Di Vita"? You used to order me around.
Now that you're a big shot, it's a little different.
But... if you insist... Totò.
Excuse me.
Who would've believed it? Little Totò.
This is what he left for you.
He never asked to see me?
No... never.
Once, your mother told him...
that if he wanted it, you'd surely come.
He was furious. He said: "No!
Totò must never come back to Giancaldo!"
He didn't say it to be mean. He was a good man.
Who knows what was going through his head?
Towards the end, he said strange things.
A moment before he closed his eyes...
he told your mother she mustn't let you know.
What are you thinking?
Just that... I've always been afraid to come back.
And now, after all these years, I thought I was stronger...
that I'd forgotten a lot of things.
But in fact, I find I'm right back where I was...
as if I'd never been away.
Yet, when I look around I don't recognize anyone.
And you, mama... I deserted you.
I ran out on you like a bandit, without any explanation.
I never asked for any. You don't have to explain to me.
I always thought it was good, what you did.
Why harp on it?
You were right to leave. You did what you wanted to do.
When I call you, a different woman always answers.
But I never hear love...
in their voices. I would've known.
All the same, I would have liked...
to see you... settled...
loving someone.
But your life is there. Here, there are only ghosts.
Let go, Totò.
It's my square! It's mine!
The square is mine!
Check the leader. Roll when you're ready.
Right. And I liked your film. Terrific.
Thanks.