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Father's response to uncle climbing tree


It's been quite a while since I saw this movie, so my memory may be a little vague, but as I recall, when the family goes on the picnic and the crazy uncle climbs a tree and refuses to come down, the frustrated father, his brother, takes off his hat, throws it on the ground, jumps up and down on the hat, while hollering "I'm a horse's a$$! A horse's a$$ !"

Am I correct? That scene has stayed with me because, at least as I recall it, it portrays one of the classic comedy images that we've all seen at least once somewhere: a man jumping up and down on his hat in outrage. It's almost an archetypal image in some ways.



And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him

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Hi
I'm Italian , and I live in the region where the movie is set ( Romagna ) , so I can understend dialect too .
In that scene the man is saying half in italian and half in dialect : " Sono un pataca " that means "I'm a pataca" , pataca is a famous word in romagnolo dialect , difficult to translate!
It could mean somebody who trust people too much but in the end is always screw over.
In the other scene where he holds the hat in the mouth he's saying
"am'amaz " in romagnolo dialect that means : " I'm gonna kill myself ".
Hope this was helpful , sorry for grammar errors :)

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Italian language sucks hard with its dialects.

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