In Search of Fellini Page #4

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This is Lucy.

[speaking in Italian]

[Sylvia] She's from Ohio.

[speaking in Italian]

[chuckles softly] Hi.

Robert.

Guido.

[chuckles]

[Sylvia speaking Italian

on TV]

[dramatic music playing

on television]

There are three things

I like most:

love, love...

and love!

[applause]

Brava.

Oh, it's nothing,

it's nothing.

A memorable performance,

darling,

particularly

by your left breast.

I thought you were beautiful.

Of course you did.

You directed it.

[Robert] Tell me, Guido,

have you ever actually

directed anything

with a plot, hmm?

How about a love story?

Why is European cinema

so obtuse?

Oh, oh! And here's an idea...

clothing!

See, darling, you're clearly

missing the point.

[Robert] Lucy, tell me, what do

you think about Italian cinema?

How would you describe it, hmm?

Hmm?

Oh, I don't know.

That's perfect.

[speaking in Italian]

The beautiful confusion.

[laughs]

There's no lack of

beautiful confusion over here.

You're not supposed

to understand his films.

You're supposed to let them

wash over you like a dream.

Yes, a visionary is

the only true realist.

To overblown,

egotistical films

that make no f***ing sense!

[laughs]

Just to you, maybe.

Time to go. [laughs]

[Robert] Lucy, darling!

It's our song!

[indistinct chattering

and laughter]

[both speaking indistinctly]

[Sylvia] Come on.

[speaking in Italian]

[upbeat music playing

on television]

[Kerri]

What... what's going on?

[Claire] This is so weird.

Did I miss something

in the plot?

- There's no plot.

- There's no plot, right?

Whoo! [laughs]

[applause]

[Guido]

Come here.

["In the Hall of the

Mountain King" playing]

So, tell me.

Do you have a boyfriend?

A husband? No?

Mmm... [kissing]

[laughs]

Make a slutty face for me.

Make a slutty face.

Oh!

No? No?

No?

[laughs]

Okay.

Life is nothing

more than an illusion.

It is a tale told by an idiot,

full of sound and fury,

signifying nothing.

[laughing]

Guido can be such a bear.

Let's drink.

That always helps.

Cheers.

Oh, what's this?

[gasps] Oh, no, no,

please, please...

How cute!

It's little cartoons.

[laughs]

Did you do all these?

They're so adorable!

- They're awful!

- Oh, looks like abstract realism.

Completely derivative.

[Sylvia] Or you could

just say "bad."

[laughter]

Here, Lucy.

[whispers] Draw me.

["In the Hall of the

Mountain King" continues]

[whip cracks]

[whip cracks]

[music stops]

[crickets chirping]

[music box playing]

[distant conversations

and laughter]

[footsteps]

[man speaking in Italian]

I draw you next to the statue,

that is beautiful!

Is that okay?

Uh... I draw you, okay?

[gate creaks]

[whimpers]

[gate creaks]

Okay?

Okay.

Okay.

Um... [speaking in italian]

Thanks.

Um...

Hey.

Hey.

Um... are you...

um, uh...

are you hungry?

Hungry? Eat?

Mm-hmm.

Now?

Yeah.

Um... okay.

Okay.

Okay.

[thunder rumbles]

[rain pattering]

There is bar.

There.

Okay.

[Lucy chuckles softly]

[speaking in Italian]

[speaking in Italian]

Uh... c-cappuccino.

[speaking in Italian]

Can we do three?

[speaking in Italian]

[speaking in Italian]

Two coffee?

This one?

My mama.

She likes three sugars.

Three?

In her coffee, yeah.

Wow.

It's very sweet.

I... I don't like it.

- Sweet. Dolce.

- But...

- Dolce.

- Dolce.

"La Dolce Vita."

You know Fellini?

[chuckles] Yes.

I love Fellini.

I like Fellini.

I want to meet Fellini.

- I love "La Strada."

- "La Strada."

- Gelsomina.

- Gelsomina.

Mm-hmm, Zampano.

He's very...

[laughs] Yes.

You like big man?

[laughs]

No?

[man singing in Italian]

[indistinct conversation]

Mamma mia!

[speaking in Italian]

And most important:

[speaking in Italian]

[speaking in Italian]

[man] My father says,

"Oh, Pietro,

this is stupid."

And I tell him, "F*** off."

And run away crying.

[chuckles]

But I think, this is life.

Um, follow your dreams.

[clears throat]

Thank you.

For showing me.

Oh... pleasure.

You're welcome.

Bye.

- Goodbye.

- Bye.

Hey, um...

Can I show you something?

Yes.

Three... two... one...

Holy sh*t.

Sh*t?

[laughs] Oh my... wow!

Oh, yes.

[clap echoes]

- [gasps]

- You hear?

[echoes] Whoo!

Shh, they might...

they might hear us.

- Yeah!

- [laughs]

[speaking in Italian]

Scream.

No, what if...

we're gonna get in trouble.

[softly] Whoo.

Oh!

What is that?

- Come on. Come on!

- [laughs]

No, I can't.

[speaking in Italian]

Fellini!!

Come on.

Show me.

- No, no. No.

- Show me.

Oh, I think I see someone.

[laughs]

Whoo!

Your lines are beautiful.

And yours?

- You don't wanna see mine.

- Oh, come on!

- They're not... they're not as good.

- Come on. Come on.

- Why is he like...

[gags] - [laughs]

Wow. This is...

[man shouting angrily

in Italian]

[bells tolling]

Fellini!!

Fellini!!

Fellini!! Fellini!!

[man singing in Italian

in distance]

[man singing in Italian

in distance]

[congregation

singing in distance]

[man speaking in Italian

on television]

Who watches this?

Oh, my God, look how short

their skirts are.

[Claire] You can almost see

their balls.

Their balls are coming out

the bottom of their skirts.

Boys, cover up your balls.

[both laugh]

[theme music plays,

music box tinkling]

[Claire] Can you shut that off,

please?

Just trying to remember

what it was like in here.

- When it was my bedroom?

- Yes.

Posters.

- That movie was so wrong.

- "Blue Lagoon"?

It was like light porn.

[Kerri]

You were pretty fun back then.

[Claire]

I was pretty fun, wasn't I?

I'm not so fun anymore.

[glass shatters]

- Sean Cassidy.

- Mmm!

- Mark Hamill.

- [laughs] Mark Hamill.

[Claire] Leif Garrett.

[Kerri] Yes.

[Claire] Who was the other

Hardy Boy?

[Kerri] Parker Stevenson.

The Bay City Rollers.

[Claire]

Woody in the Bay City Rollers.

[Kerri] So hot.

[Claire] So hot.

[Kerri] Is this where

you got knocked up?

- I think so.

- Slut.

- ...than the charcoal.

- You're a pencil person I know that.

I am a pencil person.

The classic...

- Everything has to be at its place.

- Well, I like... Yeah...

and everything

has to be defined.

Your fingers have

to get dirty, come on!

Your fingers don't have

to get dirty.

It's like making love!

Your fingers on the...

- On everything.

- Mm-hmm.

- You have to get messy, come on.

- Very messy.

[stutters]

Charcoal in your bed.

- Charcoal on your floor.

- Yes! You have to touch everything!

- Everything has to touch you!

- Charcoal on your kitchen! Charcoal in your pasta!

Yeah! Charcoal everything!

Why not?

I mean, that's the beauty

of art, come on!

Did you know Fellini

was a cartoonist

before he started

making movies?

- Was he? Really?

- Yeah.

- Wow.

- And he's, like, known for drawing on napkins.

Like, everywhere he is,

he just draws on napkins.

And I know that he prefers

pencils over charcoal.

You love Fellini.

- Yeah.

- Why do you love Fellini? Because he's a big man?

- Powerful man?

- I don't like Fellini that way.

Okay, so you...

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