So there really is a script?
Absolutely
Good! From now on you will work on it with my associate
Producer, Stephanie Necrophorus. She writes for
Les Cahiers du Cinema under the name Robespierre
Signora Contini, I'm, uh, not an admirer of yours. So, if you would
Now please tell me what your film's about, perhaps I can help you
With its plot, which has always been one of your, uh, weakest points
Oh, well, thank you. That's, uh, very generous of you. Um
Let me see. Where do I begin? At first, nothing. Then, music!
The action begins in a graveyard
A man has been buried alive
He's scratching and clawing
Poor fellow, he's caught in a terrible crunch
He's fighting his way to the surface
It's likely he'll never survive
He hardly can breathe and he's desperate
To keep an appointment for lunch
An appointment for lunch? But that's absurd!
It's humorous
Well, it sounds depressing
It does
In fact, we begin with a wedding
A prologue to what I described
We're happy and gay and in love and it's spring
And the trees are all green
A tree of capuchin monkeys insinuates into the frame
They chatter a bit and then one disappears
But the others remain
Have I mentioned the train?
The train?
Of course, there are trains in all Contini films. It's my signature
With a bold, clean and master stroke
A bold, clean and master stroke
Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly
We see fire and smoke
With a bold, clean and master stroke
A bold, clean and master stroke
Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly
There's a train
With a bold, clean and master stroke
A bold, clean and master stroke
Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly
One colossal joke
The monkeys all get on
The monkeys all get on
Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly
They're all gone, ciao
Fellini! This is not what I want! There's no train in a spa. There's
No monkeys in a spa. And where is the dancing? Where is the singing?
What singing and what dancing?
When we had lunch in Paris, you told
Me you couldn't wait to do a musical
A musical?
Why did you think I gave you this contract?
What was I drinking at that lunch?
Oh, mais c'est pas vrai! Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai fait au bon
Dieu pour avoir un homme comme ça dans ma vie? Madonna Madonna!
Le cinema today's in a crisis
Directors are so existentialist
The movies are not well
They're at trance prices
If no one sings a love song when they're kissed
Fellini, I want a musical
Love cannot be love without le singing
A string, a clarinet, a saxophone
Take a lesson from this old Parisian and
The finest entertainment she has known
Folie Bergère
What a showing of color, costume and dancing
Not a moment in life could be more entrancing
Than an evening you spend at Folie Bergère
Folie Bergère
Not a soul in the world would be in despair
When he is glancing
At the fabulous stage de Folie Bergère
Think of the footlights bright and gleaming
The striptease, the cancan we all adore
Life is too short without dreaming and
Dreams are what le cinema is for
Folie Bergère
La musique et la danse sous la lumière
Les jolies petits seins, les belles bouquetières
Sur la passerelle des Folies Bergère
Pas de mystère
Le spectacle est tout à fait découvert
The trouble with Contini
He's the king of mediocrity
He's a second-rate director
Who believes that he is Socrates
He never makes a movie or a picture or a flick
He makes a film, get it? A film
A typical Italian with his auto and biography
A mixture of Catholicism, pasta and pornography
A superficial, womanizing, moderately charming Latin fraud
Prego
And what are his movies about?
Just beauty, truth, death, youth, love, life, anguish, angst
Thanks to him, we have boredom at the movies
Grazie
Prego
Darlings
Folie Bergère
The trouble with Contini
He's the king of mediocrity
He's a second-rate director
Who believes that he is Socrates
He never makes a movie or a picture or a flick
Lost in pornography
Superficial womanizing
Audibly charming
Blackened fraud
And what is this world about?
Just you, who, dead
You, love, life
Thank you, thanks
The extremely important
And the rubies
This soir avec moi
Au Folies Bergère
Regarde, regarde
C'est des plumes
C'est des plumes de mes souvenirs
On va faire la couture à tout le monde
Regarde, regarde comme c'est merveilleux
Regardez, regardez
I love it!
Ah, merci beaucoup
Ah, merci beaucoup
Yeah!
Folies Bergère
The music, the lights and the laughter
The answer to what you are after
Inside at the Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère
To your modern ideas
I simply compare
One day in year
At the Folies Bergère
The answer to what you are after
The music, the lights and the laughter
Of the Folies Bergère
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