Seven Beauties (1975)

Piero Di Iorio: Francesco

Quotes 

• Pasqualino Frafuso : You know what I used to be called? Pasqualino Seven Beauties.

  Francesco : They did?

  Pasqualino Frafuso : Yes, because I'm ugly.

  Francesco : You look terrible, all right.

  Pasqualino Frafuso : But that was the point. In spite of my looks, I appeal to women. They loved me. People were amazed. They'd say, "It's unbelievable. He's repulsive." Others replied, "He must have the Seven Beauties." That's how it came to be my name.

• Francesco : In this war I've killed bastards I didn't even know.

  Pasqualino Frafuso : I killed before the war, but I had my reasons.

  Francesco : I kill like an idiot, for no reason.

  Pasqualino Frafuso : I did it for a woman. I killed for a woman. A woman.

• Pedro : The more children you have, the faster the end will come.

  Francesco : In what sense? Exactly what do you mean?

  Pedro : In the year 1400, there were 500 million people on earth. By the year 1850, the amount had doubled to one billion. Now we're all extremely indignant because of the death of 20 million men. But in 200 or 300 years, there'll be a lot more of us, 30 billion more. So anywhere you go on earth will be worse than here. That's when men are going to butcher one another and murder an entire family for a piece of bread or an apple and the world will end.

• Pedro : I believe in man. But soon, very soon, a new man - a new man will be born. He'll have to be civilized. Not this beast who's been endowed with intelligence and obliterated the harmony in the world and brought about total destruction just by disturbing nature's equilibrium. A new man able to rediscover the harmony that's within.

  Francesco : You mean, put things in order?

  Pedro : Order? No, no, no, no, no. The orderly ones are the Germans. No. A new man in disorder is our only hope. A new man - in disorder.

• Pasqualino Frafuso : Damn! Who were they?

  Francesco : Maybe they are the Jews.

  Pasqualino Frafuso : That's impossible.

  Francesco : It's possible. And we're as guilty as they are. We're accomplices to those rotten shits.

  Pasqualino Frafuso : Why do you think that we're accomplices?

  Francesco : Because we didn't make a sound, didn't come out an spit in their faces. We could have, be we ran instead.

  Pasqualino Frafuso : That's crazy. How could we have? They'd have come after us and we'd be shot. Useless suicide.

  Francesco : No, it wouldn't have been useless because in the face of certain things you've got to say no, and instead I said yes to Mussolini, to duty, and to all that crap.