The Easy Life (1962)

Vittorio Gassman: Bruno Cortona

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• Bruno Cortona : [Picks up a photo from Roberto's desk]  Who's this fatty?

  Roberto Mariani : My mother.

  Bruno Cortona : Wow! Beautiful woman.

• Zia Enrica : You live in Rome. What's Sophia Loren's like?

  Bruno Cortona : To me, she's like Etruscan tombs and Mount Fumaiolo. I'll explain some other time.

• Bruno Cortona : Put this one on. Its Modugno. Poetry doesn't do much for me. I like music. This song's really great. Mystical. Really gets you thinking. Ah, music. I really like Modugno. This song really drives me crazy. It seems so simple, but it's got everything - - loneliness, inability to communicate, and that stuff that's all the rage now - - alienation, like in Antonioni's films. Did you see "L'eclisse"?

  Roberto Mariani : Yes

  Bruno Cortona : I fell asleep. Had a nice nap. Great director, Antonioni. I saw him in his Flaminia Zagato once. I couldn't stop gawking.

• Bruno Cortona : So you don't smoke?

  Roberto Mariani : No.

  Bruno Cortona : Careful. That can be bad for you.

• Bruno Cortona : [singing]  I took her down to the river thinking she was a maiden, but she had a husband.

  [Speaking] 

  Bruno Cortona : I know that one by heart. I played it all the way to Rome. What's it called again? "The Unfaithful Wife." By that Spaniard who's sort of that way -...

  [tugs on his ear] 

  Roberto Mariani : Garcia Lorca

  Roberto Mariani : Ah, you have that record too?

• Bruno Cortona : I like nothing more than driving. It relaxes me. I'll go anywhere as long as I'm driving.

• Bruno Cortona : Nice, eh? I kid around but I really enjoy talking to nuns. If anyone shows a little interest, it's a big deal for them, and thy tell the other sisters. Those nuns are all right.

• Bruno Cortona : What beautiful raven-black hair, ma'am! Spanish blood?

  Zia Enrica : My mother was from Barcelona.

  Bruno Cortona : I was right! Granny must have fooled around with a bullfighter.

• Bruno Cortona : And here's Occiofino, always neat and attentive like a good housewife.

• Bruno Cortona : Bravo. That's how I like to see you. I like it when you laugh. Robe', leave all that sad stuff behind.

• Bruno Cortona : You know what the best age is? I'll tell you. The age you are, day by day. Until you croak, of course.

• Bruno Cortona : Jerks! I wasn't supposed to pass 'em? They wanna put a Fiat 600 up against a Lancia Aurelia Sport!

• Bruno Cortona : What do you think? Not bad, eh? Should have seen her a few years ago.

• Bruno Cortona : One day she dumped me. Maybe we just didn't click. I think she was a little jealous. It wasn't another woman. It was my Cisitalia. She said I loved that car more than her.

  Roberto Mariani : And did you?

  Bruno Cortona : A little. That thing had some pickup.

• Bruno Cortona : You got a cigarette?

  Roberto Mariani : No. I don't smoke.

  Bruno Cortona : That's not good.

• Bruno Cortona : [Driving in his convertible]  Robe', look behind you. See 'em?

  Roberto Mariani : Who?

  Bruno Cortona : Those two chicks. I'll get the 'em to pass so I can follow 'em.

  [as they pass] 

  Bruno Cortona : Hi, cuties!

  [to Roberto] 

  Bruno Cortona : Deutschland! Those German chicks are easy!

  Roberto Mariani : You speak German?

  Bruno Cortona : No, I just fake it.

• Bruno Cortona : The food is great here. Do we let those two go?

  Roberto Mariani : Whatever you like. I'm not hungry.

  Bruno Cortona : Spoken like a man. The food here stinks anyway: donkey hooves and fig wine. Where'd those Germans go? Let's chase 'em.

• Bruno Cortona : A crossroads!

  Roberto Mariani : They vanished. Which way could they have gone?

  Bruno Cortona : Let me smell.

  [sniffs] 

  Bruno Cortona : That way. I'm a regular truffle hound when it comes to women.

• Roberto Mariani : How can I commit to a girl right now? I have to finish my studies, find a job, and then...

  Bruno Cortona : So? Meanwhile you go out, you sleep together. It could be over in a month. Why do you have to commit? This isn't the Middle Ages!

• Roberto Mariani : We had another chance to talk once, but something awkward happened. On Via Salaria, where those women, you know -...

  Bruno Cortona : Sure do! There's a brunette with a streak of white hair: Aida, 3,000 lire.

  Roberto Mariani : I'd just stopped - - that is, they stopped me. I was explaining I had no money when guess who walks by.

  Bruno Cortona : Who walks by?

  Roberto Mariani : Valeria, with her sister.

  Bruno Cortona : So? What happened? And then?

  Roberto Mariani : "And then?" She saw me!

  Bruno Cortona : It bugs you 'cause now she knows you're broke. Is that all? I was expecting some big deal. I'd understand if it turned out Valeria and her sister were hookers too.

• Roberto Mariani : He was always hugging me.

  Bruno Cortona : I believe it. I've never seen a country queen before.

  Roberto Mariani : What?

  Bruno Cortona : Don't tell me you didn't know? It's obvious. Why you think they call him Occhiofino?

  Roberto Mariani : It's just a nickname.

  Bruno Cortona : A nickname? Occhiofino - - finocchio - faggot - .

• Bruno Cortona : Maybe I shouldn't have gone along to see your relatives.

  Roberto Mariani : What are you talking about? It's just that we all have distorted memories of our youth. You know why we always say it was a wonderful time? We don't really remember what it was like.

• Bruno Cortona : Another minute in that morgue and I'd have exploded. Let's go. Live in the country? You gotta be crazy.

• Moglie del commendatore : My husband's right. You're not to be trusted.

  Bruno Cortona : He said that about me?

  Moglie del commendatore : Yes, but he was talking about business. It keeps him awake at night.

  Bruno Cortona : And what were you talking about?

  Moglie del commendatore : The way you dance. You squeeze a girl tighter than a girdle.

  Bruno Cortona : Forgive me. I didn't mean it.

  Moglie del commendatore : Oh, I wasn't criticizing. Quite the contrary.

• Bruno Cortona : If you hold me too tight, I'll get excited.

• Moglie del commendatore : [Dancing close together]  Oh, la, la!

  Bruno Cortona : We aim to please.

• Bruno Cortona : What beautiful tiger teeth!

  Moglie del commendatore : No one's ever told me that before.

  Bruno Cortona : What a firm, beautiful body. You've got tiger teeth - and a nice -...

  Moglie del commendatore : Dirty man!

• Bruno Cortona : This is crazy! You'd never find a couple like that even in India!

• Bruno Cortona : You know, if I had a brother, I'd like him to be like you.

  Roberto Mariani : Well, tonight we'd be fighting.

  Bruno Cortona : You know that Jewish saying? My grandma used to use it. "Love for a woman is fickle as the moon. Brotherly love is steady as the stars." Nice, huh?

  Roberto Mariani : What about Cain?

  Bruno Cortona : What's Cain got to do with it? He was a criminal.