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Avanti!	label	Avanti!
Avanti!	page	Avanti
Avanti!	comment	Avanti! is a 1972 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills.Wendell Armbruster Jr. (Lemmon), the son of an American millionaire, travels to Ischia, Italy, to recover the body of his father, who died in a car accident. He soon discovers that his father had a mistress who died with him and meets Pamela Piggott, the daughter of said mistress.
Avanti!	fetched	2023-06-03T20:14:13Z
Avanti!	parsed	2023-06-03T20:14:13Z
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Avanti! / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
Avanti! / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: For ten years, Wendell Armbruster Sr. has spent summer in Italy with his mistress, without his relatives knowing. The end of the film suggests that Wendell Armbruster Jr. will spend summer in Italy with Miss Piggott.
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Avanti! / int_17d44dcc	type	Do You Want to Haggle?
Avanti! / int_17d44dcc	comment	Do You Want to Haggle?: Armbruster Jr. thinks he can haggle with the Trottas when they steal the corpses to demand a compensation for the damage in their vineyard, but he ends up agreeing to pay the exact amount the Trottas had asked from the beginning.
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Avanti! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Avanti! / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: There are many of them in Italy, so it is very difficult to get the permit to repatriate the body. In particular, the coroner at the morgue plays with many stamps and forms of different colors.
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Avanti! / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Avanti! / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Wendell Armbruster Jr. is honest with Miss Piggott.
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Avanti! / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Avanti! / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Wendell Armbruster Jr. meets Miss Piggott, the daughter of his father's mistress. They end up acting exactly like their parents (having the same dinner at the restaurant, swimming in the nude...). Miss Piggott eventually becomes Junior's mistress and the end suggests that they will meet each year in the same hotel as their parents.
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Avanti! / int_2bc77899	type	I Am Not Pretty
Avanti! / int_2bc77899	comment	I Am Not Pretty: Miss Piggott (who is played by Juliet Mills) thinks that she is not pretty and cannot attract men. Wendell Armbruster Jr. tells her that he thinks she is attractive.
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Avanti! / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
Avanti! / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: Carlucci, the hotel manager, was offered a job in a hotel in Damascus and asks J. J. Blodgett how safe this job is. Blodgett explains that Damascus is dangerous, because a war could start in the Middle East soon. So Carlucci says that he will accept another job as a hotel manager in New York. Then Blodgett insists he should choose Damascus instead.
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Avanti! / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Avanti! / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Wendell Armbruster Jr. is arrongant and rude in the beginning, but he gets nicer over the course of the film, in particular towards Miss Piggott.
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Avanti! / int_407e5ed1	type	Mistaken for Flirting
Avanti! / int_407e5ed1	comment	Mistaken for Flirting: When Bruno's corpse is found in Miss Piggott's room, the manager decides to transfer her luggage to Armbruster Sr.'s room so that she is not bothered by the police. When Miss Piggott hears that her luggage was transfered to Armbruster Sr.'s room, she assumes that he wants her to sleep with him.
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Avanti! / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Avanti! / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Armbruster Jr. is a bit eccentric, but he is a no-nonsense, efficient American businessman, who does not believe in love and who respects the social standards. Miss Piggott is a romantic woman looking for love. She does not care about the social standards (she is not shocked by her mother's relationship, she does not hesitate to swim in the nude).
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Avanti! / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Avanti! / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The Trottas steal the corpses of Armbruster Sr. and his lover and give them back only if Wendell Armbruster Jr. agrees to pay a compensation for the damage in their vineyard caused by the car accident.
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Avanti! / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Avanti! / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Wendell Armbruster Jr. admired his father. On the train, he starts composing a eulogy describing his many merits. When he hears that he had a mistress, he is disappointed and is not able to compose the eulogy any more.
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Avanti! / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Avanti! / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: The relationship between Wendell Armbruster Sr. and his mistress plays an important role in the film, but they are both death from the start.
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Avanti! / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
Avanti! / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Wendell Armbruster Sr. used to swim in the nude with his mistress. At some point, his son does the same with Miss Piggott.
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Avanti! / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Avanti! / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: When Armbruster Jr. accuses the Trottas of stealing the corpses, one of them retorts: "Stole? That is such an ugly word. Let us say we are keeping them temporarily in, uh, escrow?"
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Avanti! / int_b32d9d96	type	"Ugly American" Stereotype
Avanti! / int_b32d9d96	comment	"Ugly American" Stereotype: Wendell Armbruster Jr. and J. J. Blodgett are both dismissive of the Italian way of life.
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Avanti! / int_b9b5af3e	type	The Film of the Play
Avanti! / int_b9b5af3e	comment	The Film of the Play: The film is adapted from a 1968 theatre play of the same name, written by Samuel A. Taylor.
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Avanti! / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
Avanti! / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: Wendell Armbruster Jr. and his father are millionaires, while Miss Piggott is a shopkeeper and her mother was a manucurist. Miss Piggott's mother never told her lover that she was poor, because she did not want to become a kept woman.
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Avanti! / int_c5caf1e5	type	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!
Avanti! / int_c5caf1e5	comment	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: Armbruster Jr. does not believe in love.
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Avanti! / int_d9723630	type	In My Language, That Sounds Like...
Avanti! / int_d9723630	comment	In My Language, That Sounds Like...: Wendell Armbruster Jr. is surprised that caldo means "hot" in Italian. (He gets burned by hot water in his bathroom because of the confusion with cold.)
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Avanti! / int_e20106a0	type	Spaghetti and Gondolas
Avanti! / int_e20106a0	comment	Spaghetti and Gondolas: Pasta dishes, Vespa rides, strong coffees, and very long lunch breaks feature in the film as typical Italian things.
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Avanti! / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Avanti! / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Wendell Armbruster Sr. and his mistress loved each other, but they saw each other only one month per year. They die together in a car accident. Miss Piggott would like to bury them together, but Armbruster Jr. does not agree at first. In the end, he changes his mind and Armbruster Sr. and his mistress are buried together.
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Avanti! / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Avanti! / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: When he gets to the hotel, Armbruster Jr. notes that it doesn't look like a Hilton. The hotel manager answers: "I accept the compliment."
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Avanti! / int_f70710ae	type	Blackmail Backfire
Avanti! / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: Bruno takes pictures of Wendell Armbruster Jr. and Miss Piggott swimming in the nude. In exchange for the destruction of the pictures, he demands that Wendell Armbruster Jr. helps him to get back to the US to avoid a marriage with his lover Anna. Anna hears his plan, so she murders Bruno in retaliation.
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Avanti! / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Avanti! / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The protagonists must repeatedly wait because something is closed during lunch time (which lasts from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Italy).
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Avanti!	hasFeature	Comedy / int_7b038511
Avanti!	hasFeature	Hollywood Pudgy / int_7b038511
Avanti!	hasFeature	Romantic Comedy / int_7b038511

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