Dave - Good morning how are you? Says something about today being very humid
Ital Rider - Va a ddiabo....Go to hell...is what I think he says.
Ital rider changes Daves gear...
Ital Rider - Scuzi...Sorry
Dave catches back up....
Dave - something about if it they will get rain
Ital Rider - Filare....spin??
Best I could come up with using Netflix and Google Translate.
I don't know what they say, but it's definitely rude.
The Italians had a reputation for being ruthless as racers in those days. I don't know if it still goes. Even the fans were treacherous in defeat.
Back about the time of this film, in 1978 or 1979 I read a story about the Giro d'Italia. It's a circuit race around Italy like the Tour de France. A French or Spanish rider was ahead of an Italian hero near the top of one of the peaks in the climbs through the Italian Alps. Several fans charged into the road when the foreign rider neared the peak. They knocked him off of his bicycle. Tossed the bicycle aside, and beat up the rider. Costing him the stage. I don't remember from the story if he was able to recover and challenge for overall.
Like the scene of Dave drafting behind the Cinzano truck, it is very unrealistic that Dave could have kept pace with a professional racing team who would know how to draft.
Also, a team is generally made up of at least ten riders. There is usually a champion caliber rider, an understudy, and the rest are 'domestiques,' support riders who are strong but not expected to be strong enough to challenge for overall win in the big races. If this is a promotional tour it would make sense for them to take only a portion of the team. They might only have a handful of the domestiques. Nevertheless, they would be strong and skilled professional bicycle racers with years of experience. Dave has been riding for a year or two, at most.
The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank.
Dave could have kept pace while drafting the truck. I know this to be a fact, because I've done it. As for the Italian rider sticking his pump through Dave's wheel, it wouldn't have happened, because riders don't carry pumps with them during races.
shareJust saw the film and couldn't help but wonder if someone had asked this question.
The first thing he says is probably the most infamous curse in Italian that I'm sure you've come across-- va fa cula (go eff yourself).
The Italians then say to give to go ahead (vai avanti), where they then change his gears.
Then Dave returns again, saying that it's a humid day, don't you think.
The leader gives him the good ol' elbow gesture (crossing one arm over the other and retracting the bottom arm up, like a bicep curl), and then say "him again"
And finally after Dave falls and they speed away, they say "ritire" which is like "fall back" towards Dave.
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Just saw the film and couldn't help but wonder if someone had asked this question.
The first thing he says is probably the most infamous curse in Italian that I'm sure you've come across-- va fa cula (go eff yourself).
The Italians then say to give to go ahead (vai avanti), where they then change his gears.
Then Dave returns again, saying that it's a humid day, don't you think.
The leader gives him the good ol' elbow gesture (crossing one arm over the other and retracting the bottom arm up, like a bicep curl), and then say "him again"
And finally after Dave falls and they speed away, they say "ritire" which is like "fall back" towards Dave.
My List of Movies I've Seen in Less Than Two Decades: http://www.imdb.com/list/NvSxbrwe4wQ/
The first thing he says is probably the most infamous curse in Italian that I'm sure you've come across-- va fa cula (go eff yourself).