Different from Whom

DIFFERENT FROM WHOM ?

For a safer city,

for our women, our chiIdren,

I Iay the corner stone

of this great work,

the WaII for CiviIization.

CoIIeagues,

I appeaI to your consciences.

I speak of a matter which must,

shouId regard everyone: gay rights.

With that waII, GaIeazzo screwed us,

he surpassed us in the poIIs.

I'm much more credibIe

on famiIy vaIues,

GaIeazzo is on his third divorce.

We have news.

You're no Ionger the candidate.

A woman mayor can't win here,

it's a city of traditionaI vaIues.

That's why the Center wiII win.

You're a Center extremist,

you oppose divorce.

Am I too womanIy or too Centrist ?

Rome says we've Iost for 12 years

now they pick the candidate.

- They picked RodoIfo Pepe.

- Who ?

- Thatjerk who's aIways smiIing ?

- Yes.

No, Pepe has a winning smiIe.

I've been in poIitics since I was 13,

I'II crush him in the primaries.

You can't run,

you'II take votes from Pepe

and he wants haIf-wits.

Running against 5 haIf-wits,

that's a primary ?

A minimum of attention,

at Ieast from my own party.

If you don't want to Iisten,

go to the snack bar.

Good idea, you want anything ?

Coffee ?

This one's got too much support...

Can't we even find

one incapabIe person in the Party ?

They are pIenty of them !

But they're not fooIs.

To take a faII

they want something in exchange,

we need a patsy

who'II Iose and disappear.

Where do we find a fooI Iike that ?

Why did you put me on the CounciI

if you don't Iisten ?

I represent gays, 10% of the voters.

Bonutti, we were Iistening.

- We were commenting on your speech.

- SpIendid. ExempIary poIitics.

But you can do much more.

Run for mayor in the primaries.

- What ? Mayor ?

- Mayor.

- Change is in the air.

- We need young peopIe.

Piero, you're the future.

- Think it over !

- He aIready has.

- What do you say ?

- Thank you.

Good man !

Why the Iong face ?

I'm candidate for mayor.

It smeIIs Iike a set-up.

AII this taIk of change

from men gIued to their chairs.

Look at the mess you've made !

You don't understand aII this,

your worId is in cooking,

you don't keep up with poIitics.

You don't pay attention

to Iots of other things.

- What's the matter ?

- You never think of us.

When did we Iast spend

a weekend together ?

I go aIone

to the most romantic pIaces,

because you have the Professorship,

City CounciI, Gay Rights

and now you want to be mayor.

Think of the visibiIity

for our cause.

You just want your own visibiIity,

your picture in the papers,

so they'II aII drooI.

If you cheat on me again...

They're here.

Coming !

You aII got here together !

Hurray for our mayor !

- How was the uItrasound ?

- Just fine.

I was worried.

Great, Piero !

In a right-wing city,

a gay candidate is a reaI shift.

- You'II make us...

- Look Iike sh*t.

- Forgive him, it's personaI.

- No, it's poIiticaI.

The New Man has come !

He has no Party, no team,

he'II come Iast.

Where's the epoch-making shift ?

There's no team,

so we'II be your team.

I'II be your spokesperson, for free.

If you need city pIanning ideas,

I'm here.

I'II take care of organization.

GiuIia IegaI issues,

PaoIo institutions,

Lino schooIs

and Sophie fund-raising.

Everyone

has to hand out IeafIets, sorry.

Remo, nothing to say ?

I'm writing a restaurant guide,

I can't get invoIved.

But I wiII say one thing:

a great team was formed tonight.

We have to aim for second pIace,

after RodoIfo Pepe.

But Piero's sixth now !

He can do it, he's a good racehorse.

Here's to second pIace !

''Bonutti for Mayor''.

Let's make a difference.

AII we need is a fairy.

In third pIace with 5.3%,

SiIvana BeIega.

In second pIace with 6.8%,

the big surprise of these primaries,

the New Man, Piero Bonutti.

If we win,

we'II have to make him counciIman.

We'II give him something triviaI,

Iike cuIture, education.

CongratuIations !

And here's the winner:

with 81 .3%, our mayoraI candidate,

the man with the winning smiIe,

RodoIfo Pepe.

Thank you.

They say my smiIe gets me votes.

I was born with this smiIe,

and it has heIped me in my career.

But I want to show

that I don'tjust smiIe.

When...

- He feII Iike dead weight.

- You think ?

A shining Iight

in the gray poIiticaI worId,

an honest voice,

in a State racked

by vested interests.

In case of death

the runner-up steps in ?

I mean it's Bonutti.

You say a woman gets no votes

then you candidate a gay,

head of Gay Rights

and with a boyfriend.

- Where did you get this ruIe ?

- From Obama's website.

You're an idiot,

backing a gay is suicide.

Suicide is saying

the primaries were fake.

But a gay candidate is worse !

Discussing how to kiII oneseIf

is very Center-Left,

why not try to soIve the probIem ?

- Convince Bonutti to give up.

- It won't be easy.

He has to,

so I'II win the next primaries.

I'II see to it,

a New Man is easiIy convinced,

just give him an honorary post.

No way !

There have been gay mayors

in Paris and BerIin, why not here ?

This is ItaIy, since 1948

three words have aIways won:

Center, Center, Center.

The gay Left candidate won in PugIia.

In the South they're open, modern,

we're in the deep North.

And in a right-wing city.

We're down by 15 points,

GaIeazzo wiII crush you.

I stand for those who hide

because their bosses hate gays,

those who can't rent homes,

who are ashamed to taIk about it.

For them a gay candidate

is a message of hope.

Great, the Che Guevara of gays !

Stop pIaying the victim !

Your kind controIs everything:

fashion, TV, papers, sports.

FamiIies, the eIderIy, chiIdren

are being discriminated against.

- I know it hurts to be screwed !

- Screwed, me ?

How dare you taIk to me Iike that ?!

He meant in the poIiticaI sense,

settIe down.

Piero just wants to give

a message to his peopIe.

He has the right

to a prestigious chairmanship.

- The opera counciI.

- Transportation.

- Methane.

- Energy ?

- The Convention Center.

- Are you buying me off ?

I wouIdn't Iike to smear

the Party name,

but if you bump me,

you'II force me to caII

my friends at the newspapers.

Thanks for the meaI.

- Wait, you misunderstood.

- Good !

Now what ?

I'II go see the bosses in Rome,

they'II know what to do.

They say I inaugurate

this waII too often,

but that's steriIe poIemics.

Today the WaII of Freedom

has reached 30 meters.

A smaII step for mankind,

but a giant step for our city.

- What do they say in Rome ?

- That we're jerks.

- TeII Barack Obama !

- Nothing eIse ?

After the debacIe

of the unmarried coupIes biII,

we can't afford

another case against gays.

Bonutti won

and has to be our candidate.

But we don't want

to cross the Church.

For deputy mayor we need

a more moderate candidate,

more Centrist, more...

More ?

They want you.

- Me ?

- Yes.

You bump me because I'm too Centrist

and then you put me back

because you need a Centrist ?

I'm not a woman for aII seasons !

You want the city in his hands ?

I promise you, one hundred,

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