The Organizer

“There is another one that I completely forgot. To just give you indigestion talking about my father all the time. So The Organizer is a Monicelli movie that went very bad when it came out. Absolutely no success. It’s the story of a factory in the beginning of the 1900s... And this character that my dad plays is kind of an idealist guy who arrives in this factory. And little by little, he’s going to be able to help them be conscious.”

“This is a Mario Monicelli movie called The Organizer with Marcello Mastroianni. It's one of his greatest performances. It's set in the industrial north of Italy when unions were a pretty new idea up there. A wonderful cast... He was very good at what I eventually figured out was Italian regional humor, so there's usually some Roman who's full of himself dealing with some Neapolitan or some Sicilian and making wisecracks based on how awful each other's region is.”