The The Thing Italian Dubbed Free Download
Sacha Weakland
Hi Benedetta, sorry you got upset by this. It was really meant all in good fun. Of course not all Italians do all these things, and of course, some Americans do this as well. They are very big generalities meant to be taken in fun and not bash anyone. We LOVE Italians and Italy, so none of this was meant to put them in a bad light. I think if you listen to the podcast, you can see we were just having fun with it, and maybe some of that got lost in the show notes.
We spent four wks driving through Sicily and never saw anyone throwing stuff out their windows. Plus saw very little garbage along the roadside.
That being written, everything else on the list I agree with.
Currently live south of Rome and am half Italian. You are spot on. To all the people getting huffy: no not every single Italian does these things, however in my experience and in my city they 100 percent do.
Most Italians love bitter flavours. This is something I missed when I was abroad. Bitter vegetables such as radicchio, come di rapa and catalogna are popular. Many people enjoy a bitter drink such as Crodino or chinotto as an aperitif before dinner or bitter liquors after dinner.
What baffles me is why this isn't just a thing everywhere across the country? I mean, there used to be an authentic Lucky Dog in Austin that shipped product in from Chicago and had actual Italian beef, but it went out of business. As far as I'm concerned, Portillo's should be a national (make that international) chain.
We don't have any up here in U.P of Michigan, but we do have seasoned bear meat. It's not really served in restaurants, but hunters sell it all the time and it is delicious. We also have a lot, and I mean A LOT of venison. And if fish is your thing, you can always get some freshly caught from one of the great lakes.
I think it's something to do with how you can get some really good deep dish pizza in Chicago but, in places like New York, it's like they're all about the thin and crispy crust. It can be a pain if your palate is used to certain foods, but some foods just don't transfer well regionally due to lack of demand.
Italian beef as it is named isn't everywhere, but some delis make things pretty close. I've had italian beef in chicago several times, and here in Houston we have several places that do italian beef sandwiches and several delis that make a similar sandwich without calling it italian beef.
I've been to the Portillo's in Buena Park, CA and the italian beef sandwich is pretty good. Also tried getting the beef, gravy, rolls from the To Go area and that was awesome. You can make the sandwiches as meaty or soggy as you wanted all from the comfort of home. The time consuming part was separating the beef to get the fluffiness.
Many movies talk about it but do not go for those that glamourize it if you want anything but entertainemnt: opt for high-quality Italian documentaries and productions if you want to learn about it in a more realistic way.
Yeah, that is true! italians do hate mixing flavors and putting lots of ingredients!
The simpler, the better.
I am glad you are correcting the common mistakes as caffé latte or biscotto (as the singular of biscotti). What impressed me the most? that people never drink lots of coffee! they like it short, so when I asked for something bigger I was asked if I wanted a bottle of coffee lol
Italians may argue on what are the highlights of Italian cuisine and how to prepare them, on one thing they all agree: Italy is the home of good food. The further away they get from their country of origin, the worse the experience: from fattening over tasteless to toxic.
From the standpoint of volume, of course, Abruzzo is already a big thing. Abruzzo boasts 33,000 hectares (over 80,000 acres) of grape vines, of which more than half are planted to its signature red wine grape, Montepulciano. Total production is 3.2 million hectoliters or more than 35 million 9-liter cases of wine each year. About a quarter of the wine is designated DOC.
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-smallfont-size:85%.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-smallfont-size:100%Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa -], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing"[3]), also referred to as simply Mafia, is an Italian Mafia-terrorist-type[4] criminal society originating on the island of Sicily and dating to at least the 19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their protection and arbitration services under a common brand. The Mafia's core activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions.[5][6]
While there was a time when people were reluctant to pronounce the word "Mafia" ... nowadays people have gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become an overused term ... I am no longer willing to accept the habit of speaking of the Mafia in descriptive and all-inclusive terms that make it possible to stack up phenomena that are indeed related to the field of organised crime but that have little or nothing in common with the Mafia.[16]
According to Mafia turncoats (pentiti), the real name of the Mafia is "Cosa Nostra" ("Our Thing"). Italian American mafioso Joseph Valachi testified before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations in 1963 (at what are known as the Valachi hearings). He revealed that American mafiosi referred to their organization by the term cosa nostra ("our thing" or "this thing of ours" or simply "our cause" / "our interest").[17][18][19] At the time, Cosa Nostra was understood as a proper name, fostered by the FBI and disseminated by the media. The FBI added the article la to the term, calling it La Cosa Nostra (in Italy, the article la is not used when referring to Cosa Nostra).
The actual structure of any given clan can vary. Despite the name decina, they do not necessarily have ten soldiers, but can have anything from five to thirty.[141] Some clans are so small that they don't even have decinas and capodecinas, and even in large clans, certain soldiers may report directly to the boss or underboss.[142]
Other than its members, Cosa Nostra makes extensive use of "associates". These are people who work for or aid a clan (or even multiple clans) but are not treated as true members. These include corrupt officials and prospective mafiosi. An associate is considered by the mafiosi nothing more than a tool, someone that they can "use", or "nothing mixed with nil".[20]
The prohibition on documenting anything also explains why the Mafia uses a bizarre ritual to initiate new members (see above). Since new members cannot sign membership contracts, the initiation of a new member is instead done in a ceremony with witnesses, and the initiate performs a specific series of bizarre actions so that there is no ambiguity as to what is being granted.[164] Likewise, since mafiosi cannot introduce themselves to each other by presenting membership cards, they must ask a third mafioso who knows them both to introduce them to each other and vouch that they are both members.
The need for secrecy and inconspicuousness deeply colors the traditions and mannerisms of mafiosi. Mafiosi are discouraged from consuming alcohol or other drugs, as in an inebriated state they are more likely to blurt out sensitive information. They also frequently adopt self-effacing attitudes to strangers so as to avoid unwanted attention.[170] Most Sicilians tend to be very verbose and expressive, whereas mafiosi tend to be more terse and subdued. Mafiosi are also forbidden from writing down anything about their activities, lest such evidence is discovered by police.[171]
An open question near the end of the film is whether Mookie "does the right thing" by throwing the garbage can through the window, inciting the riot that destroys Sal's pizzeria. Some critics have interpreted Mookie's action as one that saves Sal's life by redirecting the crowd's anger away from Sal to his property, while others say that it was an "irresponsible encouragement to enact violence".[31] The quotations by two major Black leaders used at the end of the film provide no answers: one advocates nonviolence, the other advocates armed self-defense in response to oppression.[31]
Lee has remarked that only white viewers ask him if Mookie did the right thing; Black viewers do not ask him the question.[32] Lee believes the key point is that Mookie was angry at the wrongful death of Radio Raheem, stating that viewers who question the riot are explicitly failing to see the difference between property damage and the death of a Black man.[29]
In the 2021 Cannes Film Festival award ceremony, Chaz Ebert, the wife of the late film critic Roger Ebert, noted that her husband had been appalled that the film had not received any awards from the Cannes jury in 1989, and had even threatened to boycott the festival as a result.[37] Lee noted that the U.S. press at the time thought the film "would start race riots all across America". Drawing a loud applause from attending press, he pointed to the continued relevance of the film's story, more than three decades on, saying: "You would think and hope that 30-something motherfucking years later that Black people would have stopped being hunted down like animals.[38]
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