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Italians Talk with Hands

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Italians Talk with Hands	comment	It's an old and well-established stereotype that Italians gesticulate wildly whenever they talk. This is entrenched enough in western culture that it is sometimes used to communicate that a character is indeed Italian — if you have an Italian character (or a character with Italian origins) and you want to point it out clearly, you're probably going to have them gesticulate every time they say something relevant. While often exaggerated in fiction, this is not just a stereotype, and it is a fairly common practice in Italian culture to accompany speech with various gestures and hand and arm movements. This isn't strictly Italian, though, the custom being common around the Mediterranean (Greeks, Lebanese, Spaniards and Egyptians are all widely noted for their fondness for gesticulation), owing to a long history of trade and other interaction between peoples who speak different languages (gestures can get a message across well even with the most limited of speech). This is a common theme in Italian comedies, and of course in virtually any movie about the Italian Mafia. Not necessarily related to Signed Language. Subtrope of Idiosyncratic Cultural Gesture.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_16aa3232	comment	Desperate Housewives: Bree Hodge gesticulates while trying to impress some Italian clients of her catering agency.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_17dcb96c	comment	Look Around You has one video end with "In the next program, we will look at: Italians". Showing a man with electrodes all over his body and yes, gesticulating wildly.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_1d8b71dd	comment	Earth (The Book): When discussing the development of verbal language, the book notes that when early humans developed the ability to produce more complex sounds, vocal languages replaced physical gestures as the main form of communication "for all human beings except Italians".
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_2126592a	comment	Anchovy from Girls und Panzer isn't actually Italian,note Her real name is Chiyomi Anzai hailing from the Italy-themed Anzio High School, makes heavy use of this trope as befits the Large Ham that she is.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_22b5dea1	comment	In one episode of Maury, an Italian-American guest named Salvatore tries to counter this trope, arguing that:
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: This is quite common for Italian and pseudo-Italian characters such as Chef Luigi Risotto and, on a lesser grade, Fat Tony and the rest of the Springfield mafia. When getting kicked out of Fat Tony's mob by Tony's son Michael, Homer asks "Can I still talk with my hands?" and Michael tells him he can't.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: Lila Rossi accentuates her hamminess with some spectacular gesticulation — or, as Volpina, her flute. Marinette and her father are noted for some spectacular gesticulation, and season 2 reveals that Marinette's paternal grandmother is actually Italian — and much hammier and showy than them.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_474397c1	comment	Mickey Mouse (2013): In the episode "Wonders of the Deep", a brief cameo of Pinocchio and Geppetto note who were implied to live in Italy in the original film has Pinocchio do a hand gesture as he talks.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_5209cf3c	comment	Mario & Luigi: Mario and Luigi can do this as part of their gestures whenever they "talk" in the games.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_5c61f66e	comment	Fugget About It posits that this came about due to everyone being too afraid to talk aloud around the Mafia.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_72e3811f	comment	Mediterraneo: Apparently they do, because this is an actual Italian movie which shows Italians talking with a lot of wild gesticulation. The soldiers in a Mildly Military Italian World War II unit do this a lot, specifically in stressful/emotional moments, like when Farina nearly gets shot by friendly fire from his squad mates.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_7bf6a74c	comment	The Beverly Hillbillies: Jethro was dating an Italian woman and claimed he knew Italian because he could make the gesture pictured.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Morelli, an Italian barber in "Four Leaf Clover", lives this trope. He never speaks without gesticulating.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_84bbf8df	comment	Death on the Nile: "Signor Richetti’s hands flew expressively up in the air" as he expresses his horror over Linnet Doyle being murdered.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The very first time Percy spots siblings Bianca and Nico di Angelo from across a room, he notes they're doing this. However, it doesn't seem to be a habit (neither of them are ever mentioned to do it again) and might only have been because they were arguing.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_a2174d23	comment	It is part of the OTT stereotype that Captain Bertorelli does this a lot in 'Allo 'Allo!.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_ae01980a	comment	The main character of Eat, Pray, Love is told that Italian is spoken with the hands.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_b0fc9724	comment	In a Saturday Night Live sketch, January Jones as a housewife from The '50s advises viewers that if Italians come to your party, give them enough space to talk with their hands.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_bb40c0e7	comment	In Inglorious Basterds, the three American soldiers who have to impersonate Italians (without speaking a word of it) at a Nazi party punctuate every sentence with arm gestures. The guy they're trying to fool isn't (primarily because of his own mastery of the language), but goes along with the act since it's so funny.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_c4076b9e	comment	Averted in Gunslinger Girl where despite being set in Italy, the mannerisms of the cyborg girls and their handlers resemble Japanese reserve rather than Italian expresssiveness.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_ca5d97f1	comment	This happens in the "Italian Class" sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus. When the Italians taking the class speak on their own, they gesture while talking.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_cc5d21d5	comment	One of the aliens in the bowling alley in Men in Black 3 does a chin flick despite not having one at the moment while being questioned.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_cf9754f1	comment	In Napoléon (1927), somebody at the war council held by the forces defending Toulon (which is described by the intertitles as "a veritable Tower of Babel" — five languages are spoken: English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French) laments:
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_d01106a8	comment	Vinny of Vinesauce has a "Vinetalian" Twitch emote poking fun at his Italian heritage, which depicts a hand gesture.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_e493a7cd	comment	A Bell for Adano: Taken to an extreme with Gargano, chief of the carabinieri in the little town of Adano, who is called "The Man With Two Hands" because he does this nonstop.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_ea4f62db	comment	This trope occurs every time an Italian character appears in Family Guy. It was itself directly parodied when Peter grew a mustache and thought he could speak Italian — by speaking gibberish and gesticulating.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_ec295f93	comment	As Luca is set in the Italian region of Liguria, this trope appears frequently, both from the local townspeople and the sea creatures who mimic them.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_f361b493	comment	During their trip to Italy on I Love Lucy, Lucy assures Ethel that she knows enough Italian to get by, by demonstrating the different hand gestures she's learned—including the ones for "wonderful", "who knows?", and "get me a large pizza". The latter gesture is then used by two different Italians later in the episode.
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Italians Talk with Hands / int_fec76b49	comment	Light in the Piazza: Fabrizio, an excitable young man, gestures so much when he's talking to pretty Clara that he looks like he's conducting an orchestra. But his father, Sig. Nacarelli, takes this to the next level by combining it with Driver Faces Passenger. He takes his hands off the wheel to turn and talk with his hands while talking to Clara's mother Meg, nearly killing them both when their car swerves out of the lane and almost hits an oncoming truck.
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