"But who's introducing?" "I'm introducing!" "When all is said and done, is silent film dead or not?" "If it's dead, it makes no sense to use intertitles." "So, I prefer, "47: the Deadman Who Speaks"." "The production of this film has been made with enthusiasm and zeal by my nice friend, Alessandro Blasetti." "Thank you." " Don't mention it." "No need for compliments between us." "Also, Carlo Montuori, cinematographer;" "Maestro Pietro Sassoli;" "Giovanni Paris, sound technician;" "Mario Pompei, set designer." "And now we come to the three Graces." "No, sorry!" "Of the Graces, we have only one and that's Grazia Del Rio." "Here she is, seen and taken." "Of course, for this movie I got a good reward." "I am not speaking of wages, I'm talking about Mercedes Brignone!" "Elma Krimer!" "Do you understand what she said?" "No?" "Let me explain." "She said," ""Any ballyhoo that I do, well, I won't dish."" ""But I warn you, I've no clue where I'll finish."" ""Let me say, that today, may not be something new."" ""So don't say, 'Hey' or look grey, if you think there's a mistake or two."" ""Because there are never mistakes."" "An unforgettable actor with his original voice, reproduced from some of the first sound films." "For Ettore Petrolini, living" "He who left us, said:" "I'm convinced that when an actor disappears, everything disappears with him." "And since I love longevity," "I think that if I pass away, when you hear me or see me or read me, I'll be able to return and I shall live again." "And if I were convinced that when they speak of me, I could return to hear it?" "Would that not be enough, even if it were an illusion?" "But yes, yes!" "This nonsense is infusing in me a feeling of discontent." "I'm going to cry out!" "Yeah, take it to your wardrobe!" "# Pulcinella did have, did have.." "# what nobody else had." "# Pulcinella had a rooster, all day he went a-riding. #" " Pulcì!" "Pulcì!" " Old hen!" " This is no time for jests!" "This letter warns me that my farm is in flames!" "Oh!" "How nice, how nice!" " Nice?" "Stop strumming and get to the farm." " What's with you?" "For now, you'll have to be like a second father to my daughter." "And to my maid, a second master." "You already know there hangs the soul of.." " Your mama?" " No." " Your sister?" "No, the soul .." " Whose soul is it then?" "The weapon, the rifle, the shotgun!" " Oh, shoot!" "Shoot!" "Remember, nobody must be let in!" "For my daughter, a second father." " Don't worry." "For my maid, a second master." " Master!" "I'll go, but be back." " Goodbye!" "Oh, my!" " Farewell, my son!" "My poor son!" "My poor son!" "Oh, mama mia!" "The pain that poor thing feels!" "He goes to a farm in flames, my poor boy!" "Oh, the pain!" "Pulcinella!" "Pulcinella!" "Get inside!" " No!" "Get inside!" " No!" "You'll need to remember that for you I'm like a second father and for you a second master." "Then I become your father, your mother, and your grandpa." "Get inside or you'll feel my authority!" "Oh!" "Pulcinella?" " What's this?" "If you let us go out, I'll give you a plate of macaroni." "Mama Mia!" "Macaroni!" "For a little stroll, two plates of macaroni." "Oh, double mama mia!" "No, sir!" "You must stay inside." "Father and master!" "Pulcinella!" " Pulcinella!" "How's this?" "I'm talking before me and I hear a voice from behind me." "Voice of God!" "Voice of God!" "I'll give you such a scene!" "Such a scene!" "Now, I know what to do!" "I'll lock them inside and they won't get out anymore." "Naughty!" "And mischievous!" "Night is coming." "March!" "Overflowing with pain!" "I came here to relieve myself." "What, do you take me for a maternity ward or a hospital?" "Eh?" " No." "I'm burning." " Fine, call the firemen to cool you off." "I burn with love for the maiden who lives in there." "In there, you cannot pass." "Pulcinella, I'll hang myself!" " Well, go hang but I'll still shoot!" "No!" "Watch out for the dog." "The dog!" "Where's a dog?" " The dog." " Where's a dog?" "Pulcinella!" "Pulcinella!" "The.. the.. muzzle low." "Muzzle low." " Who's "Muzzlelow"?" "No!" "the butt.." "I'll butt you!" "What do you want?" "You can't pass!" "And you can't enter!" "I'm the second master and father!" "Watch out, I'll shoot!" "Pulcinella.." " What's this?" "Can you be seduced?" "Fine." "Take my virtue." "Now what?" "What kind of guardian am I?" "Pulcinella?" " What's this?" "If Don Pasquale comes, how will you warn me?" " Ah, you're right!" "I'll tell him that you're a painter and that you came to do a portrait." "And then I'll sing a song that goes:" "# The shepherdess who comes from outside.." "And you escape." "You understand?" " What insight!" "And what talent!" "What talent!" "What a talent, what talent, what talent!" "Now when Don Pasquale comes, I must sing this song:" "# The shepherdess who comes from outside.." "Forgive me, Don Pasquale!" "Forgive me, Don Pasquale!" "Ah!" "It's you!" "I won't come out anymore!" " How odd he is!" "He's really a fool!" "It's meet what you do!" "Truly a faithful servant!" "Meat?" " Yes, meet." "Beef?" " No!" "Your actions are meet." "You're a loyal instrument!" "An instrument?" "A cello?" " What cello?" "But have you just now come back?" " Yes, exactly this moment." "How did your business go?" "All went well." " It went well there?" " Nothing happened." "Did you have fun out there?" " Yes, quite." "And that one doesn't come out!" "And you remember that song that goes:" "# The shepherdess who comes from outside.." "Yes, I know it." "Want to sing it?" "# The shepherdess who comes from outside.." "I know it." "If I don't project my voice, that one will never come out." "# The shepherdess who comes from outside.." "I know it." " Then why don't you sing it?" "Do you remember when we went to see that opera?" "In the theater, there was the tenor who did that opera.." "What was it called?" " "The Two Foscari"." " Huh?" " "The Two Foscari"." "I only saw one of them." " No." "Two." "Two Foscari." "The tenor had such a voice!" " It was excellent." " Such a voice!" "And then they called out.." " It was a frenzy!" "A frenzy!" "They applauded." " Of course!" " What were the people saying?" ""Come out!" "Come out!" "Come out!" "Come out!"" "Oh, God, poor thing!" "Why are these two here?" "The tenor.." "and the prima donna, no?" " Have mercy on a poor man!" "Blind in one leg and crippled in one eye!" "No, Pasquale." "The day is done, time has shed its light." "You too must shed light in your head." "Forgive and let him marry your daughter." "My papa, I swear that I won't do it again!" "Why, you want to do it again?" "What behavior is this?" "No!" "This is an unqualified ambush, an unqua.." "Qua, qua, qua, qua, qua, qua." "How strange you are, like a chicken!" "I don't want to know nothing!" "This is an insult." "I don't want to know anything." " Be good, tell him yes!" "No!" " Tell him yes!" "Ok, be fruitful and multiply." " Ah!" "My bones!" "No, no." "Pasquale!" "To be truly sweet.." "you still have to give me permission." " For what?" "I'd like to nibble a bit with the maid." "Have you been up to this too?" "Where's the harm?" "She's so beautiful!" "How precious!" "How pretty!" "She looks like the Mona Lisa." " Oh, alright!" "You know what I'd like to have?" "A little family." "Are you happy?" "How could I not be happy?" "My cucumber!" " Cucumber?" "Pulcinella!" "Then, we'd like to say this:" "We play the bells, the firework do light, we trip the light fantastic, the entire night." "And to this lovely audience who gave us an ear, a hundred salutations and kisses quite dear!" "Bravo!" "Encore, encore!" "One moment, one moment." "One moment.. one moment." "Yes, yes!" "But no Pulcinella!" "No Pulcinella." "Pulcinella is out of the program." "It's not part of my repertoire." "It is not even a slip on the stage." "It's love for the traditional Commedia dell'Arte." "Now, I work on commission." "The ladies in the boxseats.." "who if I'm not mistaken, we're entertained, do they have any preference for my repertoire?" ""Giggi er Bullo"!" " "The Sausages!"" ""The Magician"!" "One moment, one moment!" "One moment." "What do you want? "The Sausages"?" " "The Magician"!" " Yes." "Sausages with spinach?" "One little moment." "I'll do everything you want." "If you want, I'll even bring your trunks to the station." "Now, in order to please all of you.." "I'll do what pleases me!" "Hey, call the comedian, the curtain's going up." " Yes, a moment." "Melancholy.." "with tomato sauce and oregano." "Whenever I take a stroll down the street, people.." "smile at me." "Women smile at me." "But this isn't bragging." "Those smiles.." "are the continuation of the hilarity at the theater ignited, for the comedy I just recited, for the nonsense that delighted." "This isn't bragging." "Yes.." "I could brag.." "because I am a man who's a pleasure to remember, who stirs up pleasant memories." "If my memories were as pleasant.." "as I am a man who's a pleasure to remember, it would be a pleasure for me too." "But, alas, it's not so." "What a bitter disappointment!" "What a terrible mortification!" "Instead, I would like that a woman.." "seeing me.." "God!" "How I would love that!" "Am I telling you this?" "Yes." "I'm on the verge of telling you." "I want to say it." "Fine." "I will tell you." "I swear that all my sins I'd atone, if you'd smile at me and me alone." "Turning his thoughts to it entirely, forgetting the little salami." "Women don't care though I'm a crooner." "It's not me they look at, but the piano tuner." "What a damn scoundrel you are, if you're Gigetto!" "But how nice you are, when you're Gastone!" "Gastone.." "is a savage satire of a photogenic actor, exhausted, sorry, white with powder and vice." "Empty, without any horror of himself." "Gastone the diseur, the danseur, a man ruined by the war." "Always sought after." "Sought after for his conversation, sought after for his dress, sought after by the police." "The Divo of the music hall, the fine speaker, the aristocratic singer, the three hours worth of a good time, the laughter, laughter, laughter." "Author, interpreter of his repertoire, the creator." "To create means to put something in the world that was not there before." "I come from a family of creators:" "My father, an inventor." "He invented a machine to cut butter:" "a trifle out of nothing:" "a piece of wood with a piece of wire." "This is my little thing here." "I invented it." "I haven't even patented it." "It's in the public domain." "My brother is an inventor too." "Now he has invented a device.." "for the destruction of mosquitoes." "It's an contraption with a sling." "You wind it up and unleash it out the window and it goes, "Pst, pst, pst."" "The lady mosquito in the room, hearing, "Pst, pst, pst"" "goes outside thinking to find a man mosquito." "Taking advantage of the moment, you close the window." "It's over." "It's over here." "It's irretrievably over." "# Gastone, you're an Adonis truly." "# Gastone," "# Gastone." "# Gastone, I have a profusion of women." "# and I'm making a collection." "# Gastone, Gastone." "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "Oh!" "My rump!" "My shoulders!" "What a blow!" "Oh, idiots!" "Finally, are you a doctor, yes or no?" "But yes, I'm a doctor, two doctors, three doctors." "I'm a pharmacist, an apothecary.." "Anything you want!" "Then, I'll get the horses." "Pray, who is this object?" " The nurse." "Oh, I'm so happy, nubile nurse!" "I'm enraptured by this meeting!" "And my medicine is the humble slave of your nursing." "And I'd like to be the lucky brat.." "who suckles the milk from your good graces." "All my remedies, all of my science is at your disposal, oh nubile nurse." "Excuse me, Mr. Doctor!" "Ease off." "I wasn't easing on, was I?" "I'm her husband!" " And so?" "Aren't you content to be the husband?" "You also want to give orders?" "It is the office of a doctor to visit the dairy of the family." "And now if you please, announce my fee." "# Let's go, Lucinda, truly you do, # me a great honor to cure someone like you." "# You other, magnates, it's the truth I do tell, # waiting with anxiety to speak to her for a spell." "# Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, silent, silent, oh, what horror!" "# And so delicious, fine, fine." "# A woman who doesn't speak is worth a treasure." "# Lucindina, how modest!" "I'll make you talk without a head." "# If you don't talk, we'll faint." "And not till Friday, we'll awake." "# Lucindina, how modest!" "I'll make you talk without a head." "# If you don't talk, we'll faint." "And not till Friday, we'll awake." "# Long live, Lucindina!" "# Mute maiden!" "# Now you have someone to help you:" "#The great doctor!" "Hippocrates said.." "that we must put on our hats." "Where does he say that?" "In his chapter on hats." "If you please," "Is this the patient?" "Oh, no!" "She's the wetnurse of my child." "You have a child?" " Of course!" "Why?" " What?" "Do you know the father of your child?" " But.." "Although, if you have the certitudine, go ahead and raise it." "# The honor, the favor, to wait for her here." "# You other, magnates, it's the.." "# Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, silent, silent, oh, what horror!" "# And so delicious, fine, fine." "# A woman who doesn't speak is worth a treasure." "# Long live, Lucindina!" "# Mute maiden!" "# Now you have someone to help you:" "#The great doctor!" "And now if you please, introduce me.." "into the room.." "of the corpse." "Here's a fine sick maiden.." "who a healthy man could get used to with all of his heart." "You've made her laugh!" "I touched her on the chinny chin." "So, what pains do you feel?" "A.." "E.." "I.." "U.." "Let us summarize." "A.." "E.." "I.." "I got it!" "She ate a spelling book." "She's become mute." "For this reason we delayed the wedding." "And why did you delay?" "Who is that blockhead of a husband who wants his wife to speak?" "Doctor!" "Use all of your science!" "I'll use it." "I'll use it." "Do you feel very upset?" " Very much!" "Very good." " What?" "Because when the sick are very sick, that means they're less sick." "These are words that Cicero has said." "Do you understand Latin?" " No." "Do you understand Latin?" " No." "Cabrigia sarcituras.." "nominativo ales." "muse.. muzala bonam etiam si quaram.." "etesubstantivo,eteadiectivo.." "aeterum rum ete concordum et casus." "Now, these vapors.." "coming to pass in the left side where we have the heart.." "it occurs at the lung, which in greek which is called "hormian".." "having communication with the brain which in Latin we call "cubile".." "met in that way the aforesaid vapors.." "that fills the ventricle with the shoulder blade, for whose bones, bands repiti nechipitibus.." "And that's why your daughter is mute." "Put her abed.." "and put her achair." "A single cure is possible:" "the cure idropolosichinoterapeutica.." "conmassaggioturcoeginnasticabolero., onde causes the rotondificapidudinigrazione.." "of the part." "Sir, I'd like to pay you for your trouble." "What are those vulgar sounds?" "I can't take any." " Sir!" "What do you take me for?" " Please!" "Not at all." " Please!" "There, it's done." "Are they all good?" "I'm not a mercenary doctor.." "and interest doesn't rule me at all." "The pulse is not working." "But I'm not sick, sir." "You are not sick.." "and you have the audacity to present yourself before a surgeon?" "Go and get a disease!" "I would like to ask you a favor:" "I'm in love with Lucinda." "And her father wants to marry her to another." "Do you dare call upon me to be of service in your love?" "Sir.." "Lower." "Lucinda's sickness.." "is an invention to get rid of a loathed marriage." "Sir, you've made me feel an inconceivable tenderness.." "and I at the risk of using up all my medicine either will kill the patient.." " Sir!" "or will be at your service." "Now, listen to me:" "I will give you the proper instructions." "So, remember my instructions." "But I don't know anything." "Neither greek, nor Latin nor medicine." "You don't know anything about medicine?" " No." "Wait here a moment." "Now you're a doctor." "I have never had any other degree." "What?" "You're not a doctor?" " No." "No, I'm not and I've never been, but if it goes on like this," "I'll stay in medicine the rest of my life." "A doctor's career is not really so difficult." "Because in all cases.." "it's always the patient's fault who goes to the other world without your doctor's advice." "What's beautiful about our profession.." "is that you'll never hear a corpse complain.." "about the doctor that killed him." "Cover the father's eyes." "Who's that?" " A bodysnatcher." "A body.." " ..snatcher." " Oh!" "But he's not here to snatch the dead, but to snatch the living." "He's the apothecary." "Draw near." "Did you bring.." "your ointment?" "Take your time." "Do you want to.." "listen to his instructions?" "I recommend: dilution, profusion, and thenceforth ablution." "Do you know Hippocrates?" " Of course not." "Hippocrates was a great man." "Hippocrates was Hippocrates!" "And now there are many hypocrites today." "But a hypocrite like Hippocrates, can't be found." "Attention!" "No!" "I'm not capable of changing my opinion." "The miracle of science!" "My daughter speaks!" "Speaks!" "I recovered my speech only to tell you that I'll marry none but Leandro." "Oh!" "What speech!" "Rebellious daughter!" "Any argument is useless." "I want it so, and so it will be!" "What a flow of words!" "Doctor, make my daughter mute again!" "No." "I prefer.." "to make deaf.." "the parent." "Unharness me." "Don't take offense." "I'll medecinize this little business." "So, you have well understood:" "take an "escape" purgative mixed with the "marry" pills." "Have you well understood?" "Go medicinize her." "In the garden, I'll wait under the trout tree." "Never will Leandro marry my daughter!" " Never!" " Never!" "Ever!" " Never!" " Forever." "Master!" "Master!" "Your daughter has eloped with Leandro!" "He's the traitor here!" "Prevent his escape!" "I'll have him hanged!" "Forgive!" "Forgive!" "Forgive!" "Forgive!" "Forgive!" "Forgive!" "Forgive!" "Forgive!" "Yes, forgive, I say!" "Forgive!" "Forgive, yes." "Forgive!" "I can already see the bars of my horrible prison!" "The candles!" "The torches of my funeral!" "My dead body!" "My dead hiney!" "One moment!" "Sir, I didn't want to kidnap your daughter." "I would like to receive her from your hands." "The death of my uncle has left me heir to all his wealth." "Then, I'll give you my daughter's hand." "Medicine has had a narrow escape!" "Ah!" "Rascal!" "Beggar!" "Rogue!" "Look where morality ends up!" "For you, I'll be your servant." "For you, I'm still the doctor!" "For this kind public, you're humble actor!" "I am a man of aesthetics, asthmatic, lymphatic, cosmetic." "I love Libya, the balboa in the garden of certain women." "They are breezy, easy, sneezy at the speakeasy." "I have a special fondness for "The Girl of the West", the North Pole and flypaper." "# But everything that I am, I couldn't tell you." "# To show I'm no good, I'll prove in my song. #" "# I'm a man graceful and mellow." "I'm a lucky fellow." "# I'm healthy and sane." "I'm an airplane." "# I'm quite terrible, I'm a dirigible." "# I trod on the sod." "I'm a lightening rod." "# I'm one without a flaw." "I'm 24." "# I'm quite consummate." "I'm illegitimate." "# I'm observant." "I'm the son of a servant." "# I'm without conceit." "I take my coffee sweet." "# I'm asymmetric." "I'm apoplectic." "# I'm a Scorpio." "I'm an Eskimo." "# I'm worth little." "I like to scribble." "# I have no quota." "I'm a pagoda." "# I weigh a gram." "I'm a telegram." "# I'm from Istanbul." "I'm a parasol." "# If you don't get this, I've bronchitis." "# I'm condescending." "I'm unending." "# I'm of the league." "I'm a blitzkrieg." "# I do everything well." "I'm a scoundrel." "# But everything that I am, I couldn't tell you." "# To show I'm no good, I'll prove in my song. #" "Encore, encore, encore!" "An encore, no!" "Now is the time to transform myself.." "and finish it with Nero." "Some light buzzing." "# Long live the sparkling wine, of Frascati and Marino." "# Live forever the sparkling Asti, the Champagne and the Bordeaux." "# Among the eating and drinking, with women close beside, # we'll be entertained on the springs of the sofa." "# Long live the sparkling wine, of Frascati and Marino." "# Live forever the sparkling Asti, # the Champagne and the Bordeaux." "# Among the eating and drinking, with women close beside, # we'll be entertained on the springs of the sofa." "Ave, Caesar!" " Ave!" "Ave, ave." "What's so funny?" "Never seen an emperor?" "# Where am I?" "Who is this mob, # watching me?" "But where do I find myself?" "# Heaven!" "What do I see?" "My vision dazzles." "# Is it an old world or is it a new world!" "# They've just dug me up." "Oh, oh.." "# Oh, la la la." "# But I do not know how to explain it well, # if I came here by myself, or if they sent for me." "Tomorrow, if you go to stores to purchase this article in the Cathedral, you'll find that it's cheap." "I work in the public square, for the Bomb Norcia company." "I want to spit blood but I can't." "Stand back, boy, let me work!" "Not for your needs, because needs, we already have enough, thank God." "Tell me, 4 is too much, 3 is too much, it's still expensive." "How much do you sell?" "A pound per meter!" "Toh!" "Take it away, let them see." "If you don't like it, we have other articles." "Oh, the old days of brave warriors!" "Hearts of steel and tempers of glass." "Where is that Muzio, good old Muzio." "Muzio!" "Muzio Scaevola, who fought the Etruscans, so strong, he put his hand in the fire and let it burn!" "But is that story true?" "The historians say so." " Sounds like a tale for the fireplace." "And the rule of Atilius Regulus?" "A rule that you nor I have ever observed." "What a time!" "That Golden Age of the great Ulysses!" "The most fearless warrior who ever lived to fight." "Times sung by Homer and 'Bignose' Ovidius, and later by Virgil, and then Nero, the famous singer." "Mucrone, would you like a drink." "Give me a drink." "Would you fancy, listening to my latest verse?" " Now!" "The tench fish said to the pike:" "'What are you doing, oh pike?" "'" "Replied the pike:" "'I do what I like.'" "Moral:" "Or tench, or pike, do what you like." "Well!" "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "We want him undressed." "Gourmet!" "Moral:" "Who falls gets hurt." "You can't spell service without vice." "But this is the imperial triclinium and I do not see Poppea." "There's Poppea?" "Do not be jealous:" "Poppea is no longer popping." "Where's Poppea?" "What is it?" "You wanted me, dear Caesar?" "Greatly!" "I longed for you." "Hi, matron!" "Hail!" " Hail and thunder!" "No longer matron, but godmother now, huh?" "Ripe as fruit in Autumn, worthy of being immortalized in marble by Phidias." "Too bad you put on weight!" "Melius est abundare deficere quam." "Unlike you, you're bones, skins, nerves, but flesh.. nothing!" "Tell me, do you want to take a walk?" " Yes." "Und spazieren?" " Yes." " Space enough.." "Are you tired?" " Nein." " Nein?" "My biggest darling, give me a kiss." "You will always be my chick?" "And Acte and Calvia?" "They're only substitutes." " I can't stand them." "Well, let's have some fun by abolishing them." "Take 100 slaves from Acte, and give them to Poppaea." "Thank you." "I withdraw." " Then I withdraw too." "Ave." " Ave." "Ave." " Ave." "Bye, Caesar." " Bye, Caesara, see you tonight." "And I?" "And how shall I cope without the slaves?" "Careful or I'll give you one in the face to send you to that post!" "Pluto's tail, I am jealous!" "By the navel of Nebuchadnezzar!" "Watch yourself!" "Where there's smoke, there is fire.." "there is fire.." "Did someone light a fire?" "Hamilcar?" " Hamilcar." " Hamilcar." "Take her away from me, before I crush her, splinter, pulverize her, like the glass of a watch between the gears of a dynamo." "Hail, Caesar Augustus!" "Petronius, the arbiter of taste." "# What news.." "do you bring me?" "Christians.." " How many times have I told you," "I do not want you to enter the triclinium with a pipe in the mouth?" "You took the triclinium for a smoking room?" "Hm?" "By the poet!" "And you who are the poet and artist, you smoke like a steam engine." "If I do not hit you on the head, it's because the top hat is mine." "Caesar, the population complains!" "They want bread, oil, sesterces." "Says Terces?" "Who is Terces?" "Chastise these ignorant plebeians, is the advice of Tigellinus." "Tigellinus, are you there?" "Stay." "Let's.." "Let's burn Rome, and rebuild it in reinforced concrete." "What do you think of my plan?" "Yes." "It'll take courage." "Well, I'll go." "Are you leaving?" "I wanted to dismiss you, it's even better if you're already going." "Hamilcar!" "Here, burn all of Rome, make it a fire well done." "Caesar, I go." " Go." "# Go, go and come back soon, I'll wait here." "Farewell!" "Mucrone!" "Mucrone, bring me my lyre." "Caesar, it sounds false." "Of course it is false.." "That's why it's called a li-ar." "But no matter:" "Brilliant people will improvise without the lire." "Music and words worthy of Nero." "Piripi, Piripi, Piripi!" "Poropò, poropò, poropò!" "Parapira, parapappa, piraparapappa, piraparapappa, piraparapappapà!" "I'm composing the second part." "Parapiraparapappapà, pappapà, pappapà!" "Oh, oh, oh.." "Pom, pom, pom.." "I forgot to close the tap." " Pom.." "Tigellinus, the empire is mine." "When you want to poop, make your own empire." "Lie down." "Let's return to antiquity, that would be progress." "A fire!" " What?" " All of Rome!" "Light of Helios!" "Don't you know that was my order?" "Beard of copper!" "Why did you do this?" " Because Rome is mine!" "But what about my savings!" "Save my savings!" "But I am not the fire brigade." "Wait!" "I must make a call." "Speaking?" "Speaking!" "Of course!" "If I am speaking you must be listening." "You're receiving me?" "Oh!" "What reception!" "Ha ha ha." "No, Miss, connect me to the station.." "No, no!" "The fire station." "Huh?" "Right now?" "All right, go ahead." "What is it?" " They're coming." "This is it?" " No, but they're coming." "Already coming." "Oh!" "I admire your diligence." "Yes, I'm speaking with the fire fighters, you fine fighters!" "Yes, it's burning!" "This is Mr. Nero, from the Palatine, yes!" "What is burning?" "A fire, of course!" "Do not forget, huh?" "Make a knot in your the handkerchief, tell your friends when they arrive!" "Huh?" "No!" "No!" "You're lying!" "Intentionally!" "No!" " What is it?" "Tell me it's not true!" "It's not true!" " What?" "!" " No!" "He says a firefighter came and left an umbrella, look.." "Huh?" "But no!" "These are burning matters!" "Death to the arsonist!" "Death!" "They fight!" " But no, it's there." "It's the people!" "What.." "What does this vile multitude want?" "Mama Mia!" "Mama Mia!" "We want your blood!" " Take Butter's blood!" "Butter, lend me your blood, come!" "See?" "When you need it most, the butter melts away." "Tigellinus, would you burn for me?" "Do you not fear my death will make the praetorians revolt?" "Death to the mother-killer!" "Death!" "Death to the mother-killer?" "I am an orphan!" "Caesar, why do you not flee?" " Enough." "The public must forgive me this professional flirting." "At times like this, the actor disappears,.." "and vanity takes over, the vanity of technical theater and cinema." "These internal choruses I seem to have done well, right?" "But the public did not take them." "I will repeat them." "Do it again." "Death to the mother-killer!" "Death!" "For what I pay them, they do miracles." "I'll make them do it a dozen times." "Caesar." " What is it?" "They want to kill you." " But why?" "To make you pay for starting the fire!" " But why?" "Who told you that?" "They told me so." " They will make me pay?" " Yes." "But no!" "I am insured against fire!" "Talk to the people!" "Wait, I'll talk to the people." "How exciting, addressing the crowd!" "No!" "Those guys want money!" "Ah!" "Wait!" "What an idea!" "The people are mine!" "I hold them in my hand!" "3!" " 6!" "7!" " 8!" "4!" " 9!" "You see?" "It is the people!" "Make them play, and they bite the bait!" "Look: 5!" " 7!" "8!" " 7!" "Another pint to be refilled!" "6!" "6!" "6!" "Stupid!" "Ignoble mob, is this the reward for the sacrifices made for you?" "Go home, prove yourselves men, and tomorrow Rome will be reborn more beautiful and magnificent than before!" "Bravo!" " Thanks!" "You like this word, 'before'?" "The people love it when they hear difficult words." "I will repeat it to them:" "More beautiful and magnificent than before." "Bravo!" " Thanks!" "More beautiful and magnificent than before!" " Bravo!" " Thanks!" "More beautiful and magnificent than.." " Bravo!" "More beautiful.." " Bravo!" " Thanks!" "Beautiful, thank you!" " Bravo!" "Thanks!" " Bravo!" "You!" " Thank!" "Bravo!" " Thanks!" "Bravo!" "You see?" "The people, when they often say that you are good, will say so even if you do nothing." "Look." "Brrr!" " To you and your grandfather." "Tomorrow, tomorrow.." "How many tomorrows are there in one month?" "Tomorrow there will be large distributions, of wine, oil, of flypaper, and sesterces." "Bread and circles." "Bread and circuses!" "Look who's speaking gibberish!" "But I am made of stronger stuff!" "I will give you everything, as long as you don't ask for anything!" "Now go, beloved rabble!" "Death!" "Death!" " No!" "Encore!" "Encore!" "This little applause was a little weak, if I'm not mistaken." "Just think of the sacrifice: to wash off Nero and present myself in this manner." "Thank you, thank you." "Good!" "I like things that are sincere, spontaneous, natural." "Given that the applause is my pay, I'll make do with a dozen more." "# Look at the sun, which has come out, Nanni, # the scent of roses, of carnations and pansies." "# How everything is paradise!" "The Castelli are like that!" "# Look at Frascati, where is all one smile, # one delight, one love, one beauty which enchants." "# You see, here's Marino, the festival of the grape." "# Fountains that pour wine, what an abundance there is." "# Nearby there's Genzano with picturesque Arbano." "# Let's go there, Nanni!" "Nanni!" "# What a night that has stars.." "# that mantle the sky with gold." "# and the young girls from Velletri begin to sing." "# A folk song is sung, responding with a refrain." "# What a chorus, you'll hear, Nanni!" "Nanni!" "English subtitles by sineintegral, SpinyNorman and edam17@KG."