Ginger & Fred (1986)

Barbara Scoppa: Barbara, TeleFlash Reporter

Quotes 

• Pippo Botticella : At first, tap was not a dance at all.

  Amelia Bonetti : What was it?

  Pippo Botticella : The Morse code of black slaves. A wireless telegraph.

  Amelia Bonetti : How so?

  Pippo Botticella : On the cotton plantations, when slaves talked instead of worked, the slave driver whipped their skin off. So what does your black slave do? He communes with his brother like this.

  [taps with this hands on his legs] 

  Pippo Botticella : "Watch it, the guard's around!"

  [taps a different rhythm] 

  Pippo Botticella : "I have a knife"

  [taps a different rhythm] 

  Pippo Botticella : "Shall I do him in?"

  [taps a different rhythm] 

  Pippo Botticella : "I love you"

  [taps a similar rhythm, Amelia smiles] 

  Pippo Botticella : "I love you too".

  Journalist : Very interesting! The language of love and death!

• Journalist : Our show picks up where we left off. The ship is about to sail, the whistle blows, Ginger rushes off. In each other's arms they swear never to part again. The music, as seductive as the book for Francesca enfolds the lovers, and they dance together again.