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What did Paul Dooley say?


In his first scene in the movie, Paul Dooley is complaining, "He's become an Eyetie!" What did he really say in that scene? The lip movements didn't match and the word is obviously dubbed. Never been able to figure it out.

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I've found the other thread and see you're still promulgating an improbable theory. Looking at his lips, it really does look like "d a g o" as others noted. And that is a real and offensive slur, real enough that IMDb censored it and I had to edit that last sentence. It makes no sense that he would have had "idee" dubbed that one time but not any of the other times it was said in the movie.

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Again, he says "idee" several times clearly in the movie. Why would they dub one but leave the others alone? Unless you can provide an actual script, I'm afraid you are not credible on this. You're relying on memory, which is notoriously unreliable. You're the only one claiming this is what he said. You also claim Cyril says the other term, but that also makes no sense whatsoever. Who would he be referring to? Dave no longer thinks he's Italian, so it couldn't refer to him.

Sorry, but you write a lot of stuff that is clearly wrong, which doesn't help your case. You claim all the classical music used in the movie was composed by Mendelssohn, when anybody who knows classical knows there was Rossini and von Flotow in there too. You even inexplicably called Mendelssohn an Englishman. He was German.

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I probably didn't say that "all" the music was Mendelsshon' if I did it was an offhand mistake.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/board/nest/225626634
Probably Mendelshon, like the rest of it-

I always though the music was Italian, until recently- but it's all written by an Englishman.

What Englishman would that be? Mendelssohn wasn't English, and neither was anyone connected to the music department in this movie. And "rest of it" and "all" seems to contradict your denial.

I don't care what you think Cyril said, it still makes no sense and Tesich wouldn't have written something that dumb. At that point in the movie, Dave doesn't think he's Italian anymore and doesn't want anything to do with them, so there's no reason for Cyril to refer to him with an ethnic slur for Italians.

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Dennis Quaids character says the d word during the race.

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