Mafioso (1962)

Alberto Sordi: Antonio Badalamenti

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• Marta : [seeing a dead person in a bed surrounded by people eating]  Look!

  Antonio Badalamenti : It's nothing. A man died. It's an old custom. His friends are throwing a party for him.

  Antonio Badalamenti : [to one of the mourners with a plate of food]  Cumbari. How'd he die?

  Man at wake : [matter-of-factly]  Two bullets.

  Antonio Badalamenti : [with urgency to the driver]  Right. Let's go!

• Antonio Badalamenti : Why do you say Sicily's uncivilized? It's very civilized and we have to live up to that.

  Nino's father : No, we have to act like men - and that snake was right - you are a woman!

  Antonio Badalamenti : No, Papa! Please don't say that!

  Nino's father : [contemptuously]  Fuck off!

• Don Liborio : [passing a street vendor]  Now, a nice cap for the gentleman. What color do you want... black or checked?

  Antonio Badalamenti : Black.

  Don Liborio : Want to try it on?

  [Nino looks at himself in a mirror.] 

  Don Liborio : Now you're really one of us.

• Antonio Badalamenti : [looking ahead on the ferry]  Look over there!

  [enthusiastically] 

  Antonio Badalamenti : Sicily! Island of the sun and Cyclops! The inspiration to all the poets!

  [noticing his wife's lack of enthusiasm] 

  Antonio Badalamenti : What's the matter, Marta?

  Marta : [wistfully]  Nothing. I was just watching Italy fade away.

• Antonio Badalamenti : I may live in Milan, but I'm still Sicilian.

• Antonio Badalamenti : Remember when I said there were four hares. I bagged two of them. But if I'd had a Winch... a Winchester, I'd have bagged them all.

• Antonio Badalamenti : [Having arrived at his family home in Sicily, greeting his various relatives]  Dear Catella! Have you cooked me spaghetti with sardines?

• Antonio Badalamenti : [At lunch table, asking about Rosalia's engagement]  To whom?

  Nino's father : Domenico Licasi... for more than two years.

  Antonio Badalamenti : I didn't know.

  Nino's father : It's not official.

  Antonio Badalamenti : What does he do?

  Nino's father : He sits.

  Marta : [Unfamiliar with the term "sit"]  Office worker?

  Antonio Badalamenti : Unemployed. That's how we put it here.

  Nino's father : If they marry, I'll have another mouth to feed.

  Rosalia : [In protest]  Domenico wouldn't accept! He's a worker!... but unlucky.

• Antonio Badalamenti : [At the lunch table, asking about old acquaintances]  - How's Ignacio?

  Nino's father : He left.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Ciccio?

  Nino's father : Emigrated.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Alfio?

  Nino's father : [Answers in local dialect]  "in jail"

  Antonio Badalamenti : In jail?

  Nino's father : Crime of honor.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Filo?

  Antonio Badalamenti : [Everybody at table suddenly becomes uncomfortably silent]  Dead?

  Nino's father : Went astray

  Marta : [Turning to Uncle Turi]  What's that mean?

  Uncle Turi : Betrayed his friends.

  Nino's father : Goes around on a motorbike, agitating among the farm laborers.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Tota? And Nicola? And Jano?

  Nino's father : All sitting. You were lucky, even though you deserved it. Don't forget that.

  Antonio Badalamenti : I won't... And after lunch, I'm going to see Don Vincenzo. I've a favor to do for an important businessman - an American from Calamo.

• Antonio Badalamenti : [Nino's wife has succeeded in removing noticeable mustache hair from Rosalia's upper lip]  Rosalia, come. Let me look at you! You're like porcelain. Smooth. White. Take my advice. Marry before your mustache grows again!

• Antonio Badalamenti : [Don Vincenzo has helped settle a land purchase dispute for Nino's father. Nino is overwhelmed with gratitude]  Blessed Don Vincenzo, may you live a thousand years in our gratitude!

  Don Vincenzo : It's a small thing. We should all help each other.

  Antonio Badalamenti : If you need me one day, just say the word. Your word is my command.

• Antonio Badalamenti : Don Vincenzo, what is it I'm doing?

  Don Vincenzo : What are you doing? Something very important. But if you wish... you can say no. Do you say no?

  Antonio Badalamenti : Do I say no?... I say yes.