Cinderella the Cat (Gatta Cenerentola)

A luminous future awaits the city of Naples.

The Science and Memory Hub is soon to become a reality.

The 300-square-kilometer area of the current maritime station,

is ready to host 1,200 businesses for approximately 100,000 newjobs.

Deus ex Macchina of this project is the shipping magnate Vittorio Basile,

father of the photosweep, the light-impulse technology

that enables the recording and reproduction of reality itself.

Don Vittorio, in one of the thousand rooms of the 'Megaride' cruise ship,

jewel in the crown of Italian naval engineering, shows the media

the model of the holographic globe, that promises to bring to our home

all the wonders of the world and safeguard them here for all eternity.

The Science and Memory Hub,

a Neapolitan fable that will soon be discussed worldwide.

CINDERELLA THE CAT

- Mr. Basile. - Hi, Daddy!

Ah, it's you! You've found my little princess' slipper.

No, Mia doesn't remember where she lost it.

I don't know.

Don't despair, little Mia.

I'm sure Mr. Gemito will find it

seeing as we can't take a step without finding him in our way.

It wasn't my decision to escort you.

Nor mine!

It's the technological hub...

The Science and Memory Hub.

Right, it's this project that puts you in a difficult position.

And yet I feel at ease here, I've worked here forever,

I've obtained the port concession for 80 years

and there are already many people at work.

That's precisely the point, sir.

I don't like the people you surround yourself with.

Fine, then get lost!

Seriously, you shouldn't take certain things so lightly.

You're always serious, Gemito, always troubled.

Can you spare me your grave tones

at least on my wedding day?

You don't look so well, you know?

It's true, you're right.

But this ship... I don't understand...

It doesn't seem like a suitable place for a little girl,

things happen that I can't explain.

These?

No, all that is magnificent... amazing, sir.

I have no idea how it works, but I've come to terms with it.

And so?

I know it doesn't make sense, but sometimes I see things...

that never happened.

The ship is watching us, recording us, processing us,

it puts us back in the spotlight.

So?

I mean, you think you're here now

but you might be a faded hologram,

an old memory floating into the future.

You're making fun of me, sir.

Have been from the moment you set foot on this ship,

but at least I got a smile out of you.

All right, but now you've got to take me seriously.

It's 6:00, the ceremony is about to start and you're still here.

You didn't think to tell me sooner?

Bye, darling. Stay with Gemito, be a good girl till Daddy gets back?

Yes.

Gemito, will you deactivate the communications with the outside?

- Do you remember how to do it? - Yes, but...

Why did you reactivate them?

- Your father's incorrigible, Mia! - Yep.

L love you so much...

Salvatore, isn't there any alternative?

To what?

I mean...

he seems like a very good person to me.

Who? The old guy?

He's 50, he's not old.

He's a man of integrity with many wonderful projects for this city.

Yeah, right, the "Science and ldiocy Hub"!

- What's so funny? - What's so funny, Angelica?

To put a Science hub in the port of Naples

is like giving a silver fork to a starving man.

It means you want to mock them, to piss them off.

These are the people who ruined us.

They were born into wealth and think they know people's needs

'cause they've read two books.

Two books? He's gota library as big as this ship!

Anyway, I think he's a respectable man.

Baby..-

Look at me.

You're not in love with that moron, are you?

In love, absolutely not!

But he's sweet and I think he really loves me.

Why rub him out? A guy like him, I can wind him around my little finger.

How often have we done it? I'll turn him into a puppet.

Listen, Salvatore Lo Giusto warns first, then shoots second.

I don't know what you've got in mind,

anyway, by noon, Don Vittorio Basile is a dead man

and you, Angelica Carannante, his bride, though mine body and soul

and that's a fact, will be his widow and that's a fact too.

Got it, baby?

Don't look at me like that,

we decided this together.

I'm doing it for us, for me and you.

Come here...

Think of when we'll be rich, important, happy.

I'll be the king

and you'll be my queen.

Salvatore...

how much longer are you going to make me wait?

Mrs. Angelica Basile, remember that as of tonight

you are a married lady.

Won't you mourn this loss at least for a while?

What will we do with the little girl?

We'll wait until she's old enough to sign.

- Meanwhile who looks after her, me? - You've got six kids, Angelica.

One more, one less... What's the difference?

BYG, bye.

And make that thing shut up!

L love you so much...

Why is it that when you see me

you get as mad as a cat?

Baby, whatever did I do to you

that you don't want me around?

I have given you so much love

You know that's true

I love you so much

and you don't care for me

I love you so much

but you don't care for me

Calm down, calm down...

Tonight isn't about me.

The woman who can swindle me is yet to be born.

I've known Don Vittorio since we were kids,

at 18 they already called him "the scientist".

Noble blood, an important family of developers, inventors

and he is no less.

He's got slightly outlandish projects like this ship,

the ship of ghosts.

But as Angelica says, he's a genius.

A great shipowner, rich, intelligent, optimist...

He only picked the wrong city.

And then Angelica...

What-a-woman!

Of course, she doesn't have blue blood,

an important family only from a numerical point of view:

third of seven daughters and with six kids depending on her.

But innate elegance,

an exceptional beauty!

Yessir!

That's how fairy tales begin.

Or is this already a happy ending?

All I know is that this is love, folks!

Do you remember love?

Here it is!

Let's hear it for the bride.

Mama looks so beautiful.

She looks like a princess.

- I'm going to cry. - Luigi, are you wearing mascara?

Of course, it's Mama's wedding!

Is that lipstick mine?

Yes, I love this color.

Don't touch my makeup.

- I've told you, it's gross! - Shut up!

What did Mama say? We can't make her look bad.

There are important people here.

What a handsome man the shipowner is. What elegance, what style.

Yes, absolutely, Anna.

He's 100 handsome.

And you're 100 queer.

Here's the best part.

I now declare you man and wife.

- That's Daddy. - Yes, see?

Now they're husband and wife.

Yes, I'm with the kid.

Leo's on the west wing, I believe.

Yes, sir.

And now let the real party begin!

Someone's shot Don Vittorio!

It's a tragedy, it's a tragedy!

The Iittle girl is under my care now,

these incompetents must leave at once.

ACE OF CLUBS

Cinderella!

Negative.

Neither in the crate, nor in the shoe, I'm going through it all.

Forget about it, bring the shoe here and we'll analyze it better.

- But now close the crate. - Wait, it must be somewhere.

Maybe it's not in all the crates.

But you can't open them all.

Gemito, your mission ends here.

Inspector, what we're looking for must be here somewhere.

I'm not giving up, if I don't find it I'll go aboard and get it back.

Gemito, this is not advice, it's an order, got that?

The ship's communications are shielded, there's no contact.

Besides, you have some precedents in the ship,

the cover wouldn't hold up.

You're behaving unreasonably!

With all due respect, I volunteered for this job and I'll see it through.

This guy's lost his mind!

This is insubordination,

don't you realize? I'm calling you back to order for the last time!

Hey, Prince Charming! What the fuck are you up to?

Fuck off, James, you gave me a fright.

Get your hands off that! Damned all be the Chinamen!