[Film] City Island - Raymond De Felitta

Raymond De Felitta writes and directs the picture of an ordinary family where every body has their own secrets and hidden ambitions.

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- Alright, fellas. Stand up for the count. Stand up.

- Hayman.

- Here.

- Hathford.

- Here.

- Morning ladies, morning. Ellersby ...Madlock ...McChaughney. Let's move it.

"You asked me about my worst secret. My most personal secret. The secret of all my secrets. But first, I'm Vince Rizzo. I wanna begin by telling you about where I live."

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- My life is falling apart. It's all crumbling. 

Louder, I can't hear you. 

I need to know you love me.

- I... 

Say it.

...

Jesus Christ!

Yes ... I love you.

- Wait a minute, why did you need to pause here? What were all those pauses for? What were they?

- What do you mean?

- You said 2 lines and I counted 4 pauses in 2 lines. Why do you need a pause before you say what?

- Oh, he's stalling for time.

- Why? I mean does he love her or does he not love her?

- He does love her.

- So what the hell you need to pause for? Listen. We have the Collar Moratorium on pauses. Five years of my life is going out the window listening to pauses in this room. I can't do it anymore. So we gotta cut out the pauses. In 2000 years of theatre history you'll never find anybody pausing. No body pauses, they either talk or they listen. They did their acting while they were talking. All of a sudden, Marlon Brando comes in to the picture about 45, 50 years ago. And everybody says: "Oh my God, the man is a genius." Did you see him thinking? Did you see Brando in 'The Fugitive Kind'? Anybody see that? You saw that. Ok. Somebody asked Brando what his name is. He's gonna think about it. Why does he have to think about that? Takes me half an hour to get back to the guy. It's not acting and it's not thinking. It's just... Well, it's just bullshit. No more pauses! If you wanna think, think in

the privacy of your own heart.

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- The other day, you asked me my worst secret, my most personal secret, the secret of all my secrets. At the time, I didn't understand it. But now I get it. First, I wanna begin you telling you who I am, where I'm from... My name is Vincent Rizzo and I'm from City Island...

Somehow with Tony's appearance a lot of good things happened. Every busy city needs an island of peace. Just like every busy soul needs a place to pause. Me, I was lucky. Because God, he has a way of busting you when you most need it. And he has a way of giving you a second chance. To attend for your screw ups. Now, I got my second chance.