Albero Sordi: an Italian Icon

Listen to this episode about Alberto Sordi, a popular actor loved by everyone. I wrote this article about him because we are celebrating the anniversary of the birth of this amazing actor, director, and human being. If you want to know more, keep listening! :)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Albertos Ardi, an Italian icon. Hi, this Isidaria from Ilaza
dot com and welcome to the episode number eighty one
of my podcast Italian Language in English. In today's episode,
we are going to talk about a popular Italian actor

(00:22):
loved by everyone, Alberto Sardi. Alberto s Ardi, an anbum
of Italian style comedy, was an actor and director and

(00:44):
entertained entire generations of Italians with these films. The beginnings,
Born and raised in Rome, he made this Roman spirit
his strong but for this very reason, his beginnings were

(01:05):
anything but easy. Considered too Roman with a too strong
and mark darkcent, many would not have battalira on him,
to the point that he was even expelled from the
Academy of Dramatic Arts in Milan. However, as is well known,

(01:28):
this episode did not spell the end of the actor.
From then on, he played a series of minor characters
in cinema, worked in radio, and lent his voice to
Allio of the celebrated comedy duo Stanleo and Alio or
Lauren and Hardy in English. His popularity, popularity and success

(01:58):
come with the film On America can a Roma, in
which Sordi plays the main character as certain Ferdinando Mediconi
called Nando, who is obsessed with America and everything American.
Imprinted in the mind of every Italian is the famous
spaghetti scene in which Sordia resides mccarne, my provocato, e

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yot distrucco. Mccarne, you temagno, which means mccarne, you provoke me,
and I'll destroy you. Now I eat you. Alberto Sordi's
greatness lies in having portrayed in his films the average

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Italian of his time, highlighting their vices and lowest behavior,
but also their dreams and great humanity, the human side.
So ord is remembered not only for cinema but also
for his generosity. In fact, throughout his life away from

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the cameras, he devoted himself to charity, without ever speaking
openly about it or bragging about it. What can I say,
A legacy and a great teaching left to us by
an extraordinary man. If you need other explanations about Italian

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language and culture, take a look at my website ilasaid
dot com.