To Rome With Love Page #5

I can't imagine it!

I can, perfectly.

Shoot, I'm gonna be late to class.

- Could you take Monica around today?

- No, I can't. I'm working on my drawings.

Oh, please.

She doesn't know Rome at all.

No, I can't.

I do not have time to go...

- ...to the Colosseum for the millionth time.

- Please... just...

Just, please, for me.

Could you do it for me?

- Er... OK.

- Thank you.

- That is so impressive.

- Oh, I know.

- The lines, the empty space...

- Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of negative space.

Are you sure I'm not taking you away

from anything important today?

No, I think... I'm just worried

I was taking you away from something,

- if you had work to do.

- No, no, I'm fine.

This is actually my favorite thing to do.

Yeah. If you weren't here,

I'd probably be doing this alone.

I mean, it's incredible

that the Colosseum

is still standing after

thousands of years.

You know, Sally and I have to retile

the bathroom every six months.

These guys were truly...

truly brilliant architects.

I just find it so ironic

that there was once this

magnificent civilization

and now just these ruins.

I... I call that futile feeling

"Ozymandias melancholia".

OK.

This is just kind of

thing you wanna build?

Oh, I would be very

proud if I'd done this.

Did you always wanna be an architect?

Ah, you'll laugh if I tell you

what my ambition is.

What? No... no, I won't.

To build radical structures, I mean, to be

scandalous, to change the architectural landscape.

Are.. are you interested in architecture?

I'm interested in Gaudi,

Antonio Gaudi.

I mean, for me La Sagrada Familia

is poetry in stone.

Oh, bullshit!

You went six months of college.

You know nothing about architecture

but a few names.

You saw the movie, The Fountainhead.

I just find something so sexy

about an uncompromising artist.

I mean, I would do anything

to spend a night with Howard Roark.

Oh, God save me, save me!

Another young woman who wants to

give her body to Howard Roark.

Come on, I mean, she is fun to talk to.

Yes, and you buy into her bullshit because

she seems to know all the right things to say.

She knows names,

she knows buzzwords,

she knows certain cultural phrases

that imply she knows more than she does.

The Anxiety of Influence,

the Bartok's string quartets,

the perversion of the dialectic,

La Sagrada Familia,

"The gong-tormented sea".

So what? I should press her and not let

her get away with the namedropping?

But you didn't.

Yeah, I mean, it's sort of charming

that she's a con artist.

Yes, she does have a certain

something which trumps logic.

So, go ahead, walk into the propeller.

So was it OK with Monica today?

Or did she just drive you crazy?

Yeah. I don't have enough time to spend

squiring her around, you know, I'm trying to work.

I started having those insecure

thoughts again today.

- Please stop.

- No...

Because I thought maybe it was a bad idea that

I put you guys together for the whole day,

because what if you ended up attracted to her.

Please stop worrying. She's a

self-obsessed pseudo-intellectual.

I mean, she's pretty, but so what?

- She is, she's very pretty.

- Yes, she's very pretty.

- I mean... I mean, not conventionally.

- I'd like to see her with someone.

Who do we know?

We must know someone...

- Grazie.

- ...to fix her up with?

- Yeah, I'm sure we can scare somebody up.

- Who?

What about Leonardo Basso?

Yeah, we exercise together. He's...

he's nice-looking, and he's smart,

and he makes good dough.

Actually, I think he broke up with

some girl who was also an actress.

I think he'd be the perfect

choice for Monica.

That's great. Could you...

can you call him.

- Yeah. I'll be the matchmaker.

- Great.

Please sit down, Mr. Pisanello.

- This will be your new office.

- My new office!

.. but I'm not an employee.

Very funny.

Serafina, come. Look. We have

a famous person in our company.

- Good morning.

- Take care of him, Give him everything he needs.

- All day.

- With pleasure. - Thank you.

- You will take care of me all day?

- Yes

- Whatever you need, I'm here.

- Yes

Calm down.

- How was your day?

- My day?

- Yes

It's been good.

Oh, I did spill coffee on some documents,

but I avoided spilling all of it.

The rest of the day went good.

Did you hear that? Mr. Pisanello

happened to spill his coffee.

But his reflexes avoided a tragedy...

.. with no probable loss of human lives.

Why did he spill the coffee?

It will be on the news at 9 pm,

with our distinguished guests...

.. the leaders of Italy,

the ambassador of Brazil, and the UN.

Mr. Pisanello...a statement.

- A statement!

- Yes, a statement.

- A statement... so?

- Tell us anything. - So?

I think... I think...

Ah, maybe it's going to rain.

You heard it. Pisanello Leopold

says it might rain.

Can you tell us how you will sleep tonight?

Normally I sleep on my back.

Leopoldo Pisanello says

he sleeps on his back.

You never sleep on your stomach?

No, I suffer a bit 'of gastritis.

Not a serious thing...

- On my belly I don't like like it that much...

- How much?

- Enough! Please! Stop it!

- It 's important! - Enough!

Enough! Go!

What do you want from me?! How to sleep...

What do you think? I only have these printed dresses.

I have to buy something now that you're so famous.

Sofia, I'm tired, I have a headache.

Forget it.

I had a terrible day.

Let's not go to the premiere of the film.

But we must go!

We have to keep up our image.

Sofia, but who cares!

Do you really think anyone cares if Leopoldo Pisanello

doesn't attend the premier of a film?

- Sure!

- But Sofia, I am Mr."Any Fool".

And you're my wife, the wife of

Mr. "Any Fool".

But you said you'd go.

It's Gina Francone.

Ah! It's Tony Branca.

There he is. Good evening.

Good evening.

But who do I see? Here he is!

Leopoldo Pisanello.

He is accompanied by the lovely Sofia.

Very elegant, with that dress.

Yes, Sofia is wearing a printed cotton dress.

.. And a coat that seems to match.

- Yes, definitely.

- And I I've never... a ripped stocking.

We're checking. Yes,

it is a run in the left stocking.

Lady Pisanello, the run in the stocking,

tell us, is it intentional?

- I have a run?

- Yes, very impressive, very fashionable.

You see, Martina?

- Then we will see you soon in Cannes?

- Absolutely.

- Well, sorry, but there's Gina Franconi.

- Please.

- Mr. Pisanello.

- Yes?

I am Marisa Raguso,your fan.

- Thank you.

I think you are very, very sexy,

more than all these "frocetti" actors...

.. Making superhero movies.

Sure.

It would be nice to have a

little more time to talk.

Let me know what you think of the

cultural situation in Italy.

Me?

Tell you what, I'll give you my phone number.

Call me.

- Your Number?

- Anytime.

All right.

- Mr. Pisanello, tell us the truth.

Do you wear briefs or boxers?

- Boxers, large, white.

- I knew it! I always knew!

It 's clear, a type of boxer.

It 's cool! I knew it!

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