The.Barefoot.Contessa.1954.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC-RARBG Subtitles

00:01:46,148 --> 00:01:47,HARRY: I suppose
that when you've spent

00:01:47,358 --> 00:01:49,most of your life
in one profession,

00:01:49,193 --> 00:01:50,you develop what could be called

00:01:50,653 --> 00:01:52,an occupational point of view.

00:01:53,614 --> 00:01:54,So, maybe I can be forgiven

00:01:55,032 --> 00:01:57,for the first thing
I thought of that morning.

00:01:57,952 --> 00:01:59,Because I found myself

00:01:59,703 --> 00:02:02,thinking that the staging
and the setting,

00:02:02,540 --> 00:02:04,even the lighting
of Maria's funeral,

00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,were just what she
would have wanted.

00:02:07,545 --> 00:02:09,My name is Harry Dawes.

00:02:09,755 --> 00:02:11,I've been a writer
and a director of movies

00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:13,for longer than
I like to remember.

00:02:13,884 --> 00:02:15,I go way back,

00:02:15,344 --> 00:02:19,back to when the movies had
two dimensions, and one dimension,

00:02:19,056 --> 00:02:21,and sometimes
no dimension at all.

00:02:22,268 --> 00:02:24,I wrote and directed
all three of the movies

00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,Maria Damata was in.

00:02:26,397 --> 00:02:29,Her short, full career,
from start to finish.

00:02:29,984 --> 00:02:32,I wrote it and directed it,

00:02:32,611 --> 00:02:34,on the screen, that is.

00:02:35,281 --> 00:02:36,What was I doing there?

00:02:36,907 --> 00:02:38,The Fates or the
Furies or whoever

00:02:38,826 --> 00:02:39,wrote and directed

00:02:39,910 --> 00:02:43,her short, full life,
they took care of that.

00:02:44,248 --> 00:02:45,Anyway, there I stood,

00:02:46,458 --> 00:02:49,halfway around the world
from Hollywood and Vine,

00:02:49,587 --> 00:02:52,in a little graveyard
near Rapallo, Italy,

00:02:52,423 --> 00:02:56,watching them bury
the Contessa Torlato-Favrini

00:02:56,343 --> 00:02:59,in grounds she never
heard of six months ago,

00:02:59,972 --> 00:03:02,with a stone statue
to mark the spot.

00:03:04,226 --> 00:03:05,Life, every now and then,

00:03:05,686 --> 00:03:08,behaves as if it had seen
too many bad movies.

00:03:08,606 --> 00:03:10,When everything fits too well.

00:03:11,025 --> 00:03:13,The beginning,
the middle and the end.

00:03:13,777 --> 00:03:16,From fade-in to fade-out.

00:03:16,614 --> 00:03:17,And where I faded in,

00:03:17,823 --> 00:03:19,the Contessa was not a contessa.

00:03:19,825 --> 00:03:23,She wasn't even a movie star
named Maria Damata.

00:03:23,162 --> 00:03:24,Where I faded in,

00:03:24,538 --> 00:03:26,her name was Maria Vargas

00:03:26,457 --> 00:03:27,and she danced in a nightclub

00:03:28,083 --> 00:03:29,in Madrid, Spain.

00:03:29,877 --> 00:03:33,(FLAMENCO MUSIC PLAYING)

00:03:44,934 --> 00:03:46,(CASTANETS CLICKING)

00:03:47,937 --> 00:03:49,ALL: Ol�!

00:04:01,742 --> 00:04:02,ALL: Ol�!

00:04:39,530 --> 00:04:41,(INAUDIBLE)

00:04:50,749 --> 00:04:52,(INAUDIBLE)

00:05:03,137 --> 00:05:04,- (MUSIC STOPS)
- (ALL CHEERING)

00:05:27,953 --> 00:05:29,HARRY: And so,
once upon a time,

00:05:29,538 --> 00:05:30,three years ago,

00:05:30,622 --> 00:05:31,we came to Madrid

00:05:31,832 --> 00:05:34,to a not-very-fashionable
nightclub to see

00:05:34,168 --> 00:05:36,Maria Vargas dance.

00:05:37,004 --> 00:05:39,Let me tell you who we were.

00:05:39,590 --> 00:05:41,The man with the sweaty face
and the frightened eyes

00:05:41,925 --> 00:05:44,was and is Oscar Muldoon.

00:05:44,511 --> 00:05:46,He's a public
relations counselor,

00:05:46,430 --> 00:05:49,which can be many things,
some of them punishable by law.

00:05:50,434 --> 00:05:52,The blond was made
in Hollywood, USA.

00:05:53,062 --> 00:05:55,Her name was Myrna,
and she traveled.

00:05:56,106 --> 00:06:00,I was a writer and or director
who hadn't been doing too well.

00:06:01,195 --> 00:06:04,We were all in the
employ of Kirk Edwards.

00:06:04,114 --> 00:06:05,Meet Kirk Edwards.

00:06:06,784 --> 00:06:09,You're saying to yourself,
"So that's what he looks like. "

00:06:09,745 --> 00:06:13,"That's what a man looks like
whose grandfather made good,"

00:06:13,123 --> 00:06:15,"whose mother left him
with 200 million dollars."

00:06:16,627 --> 00:06:18,"Poor little rich boy."

00:06:19,254 --> 00:06:21,Don't feel sorry
for Kirk Edwards,

00:06:21,632 --> 00:06:23,not unless you're
a hungry psychiatrist.

00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:26,Kirk was producing
a motion picture,

00:06:27,054 --> 00:06:28,his first.

00:06:28,472 --> 00:06:30,He had as much in common
with anything creative

00:06:30,641 --> 00:06:32,as I have with nuclear physics.

00:06:33,811 --> 00:06:37,Well, we'd been scouting for what
is called, delicately, a new face.

00:06:37,773 --> 00:06:39,By most standards,

00:06:39,233 --> 00:06:42,flying all the way to Madrid
to look for a new face

00:06:42,152 --> 00:06:44,would seem like going
to a lot of trouble.

00:06:44,530 --> 00:06:47,But I've known movie producers
who would travel even further

00:06:47,241 --> 00:06:48,for a good smoked whitefish.

00:06:50,327 --> 00:06:52,(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

00:06:52,329 --> 00:06:53,(GUITAR PLAYING)

00:06:58,335 --> 00:06:59,Hey, um...

00:06:59,545 --> 00:07:00,Hey, Mac.

00:07:01,797 --> 00:07:03,Si, senor.

00:07:03,507 --> 00:07:05,How come the band
is taking a break?

00:07:06,051 --> 00:07:07,(CHUCKLES) Please. No meaning.

00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:08,Signorina.

00:07:08,470 --> 00:07:09,Senorita.

00:07:09,596 --> 00:07:11,You're in Spain now, buster.

00:07:11,181 --> 00:07:14,Senorita what's this,
uh, Maria Vargas.

00:07:14,059 --> 00:07:15,She does not dance no more?

00:07:15,686 --> 00:07:16,No more, senor.

00:07:16,770 --> 00:07:19,You mean, she dance only one time,
then finito?

00:07:19,773 --> 00:07:21,(SPEAKING SPANISH)

00:07:21,233 --> 00:07:22,One time, then finito.

00:07:22,776 --> 00:07:24,Well, maybe she could
dance one more time,

00:07:24,862 --> 00:07:26,just for tonight, huh?

00:07:26,155 --> 00:07:28,She never dance more.
One time and no more.

00:07:29,032 --> 00:07:30,Well, why you not
make her dance more?

00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:32,You the boss, huh?

00:07:32,119 --> 00:07:33,It's Maria Vargas!

00:07:33,328 --> 00:07:35,Nobody boss Maria Vargas.

00:07:35,956 --> 00:07:38,Funny, I always thought
a woman was a two-time thing.

00:07:38,584 --> 00:07:39,Sing it, Oscar.

00:07:39,710 --> 00:07:43,Oscar, have her
come to the table.

00:07:43,046 --> 00:07:44,I'm very sorry, senor,

00:07:44,423 --> 00:07:46,but senorita Vargas does not sit

00:07:46,467 --> 00:07:47,at the tables with the guests.

00:07:48,010 --> 00:07:50,Now, I'm sure, you don't you consider
Mr. Kirk Edwards

00:07:50,888 --> 00:07:52,just an ordinary guest.

00:07:52,431 --> 00:07:55,Well, I have said, it is not possible
with senorita Vargas.

00:07:55,726 --> 00:07:58,Maybe just this once
for Mr. Kirk Edwards,

00:07:58,645 --> 00:08:01,you could make
an exception to your rule.

00:08:01,648 --> 00:08:03,Well, it's not my rule.

00:08:03,233 --> 00:08:04,Is rule of senorita Vargas.

00:08:06,195 --> 00:08:08,I'm sorry. Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.
Excuse me.

00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,Oscar, go get her.

00:08:14,077 --> 00:08:15,We'll be right back.

00:08:23,128 --> 00:08:25,You haven't had
much to say this trip, Harry.

00:08:25,631 --> 00:08:27,I counted on you for laughs,

00:08:27,341 --> 00:08:29,some of your well-known,
bright remarks.

00:08:31,094 --> 00:08:32,Maybe going on the wagon
makes a man dull.

00:08:33,347 --> 00:08:34,Could be.

00:08:35,432 --> 00:08:37,Oscar hasn't
touched his whiskey.

00:08:37,976 --> 00:08:39,No, thanks.

00:08:39,978 --> 00:08:41,How long has it been?

00:08:41,813 --> 00:08:43,Five months next Tuesday.

00:08:44,441 --> 00:08:45,Let that be a lesson
to you, Myrna.

00:08:46,318 --> 00:08:48,It's never too late
to develop character.

00:08:49,071 --> 00:08:50,I've g***t time.

00:08:50,489 --> 00:08:52,The fact that
you don't drink at all, Kirk,

00:08:52,950 --> 00:08:54,is the greatest argument
for drunkenness I know.

00:09:02,584 --> 00:09:04,You want to know why
I went on the wagon

00:09:04,336 --> 00:09:05,when I went to work for you?

00:09:05,921 --> 00:09:08,'Cause I didn't want you around
when my brain was befuddled....