But I get Servillo, who is equally world-weary, and perhaps a bit wittier than Marcello in this homage to Fellini and Antonioni.
The movement starts with a bit of Shostakovich-esque grotesquerie, a witty lightness that doesn't seem entirely genuine, and dissolves into portentous chords that are pure old-style MacMillan.
(Incidentally, the film primly withholds the details, but Mel starts jabbering to his buddy about how penis envy is nonsense: "Half of them don't even like them!" It's a bit of a way from the witty exclamation in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot: "It's a whole different sex!") So what do women want?
He's witty and has a bit of edge," Yates continued.
Get to know people, display yourself as witty and charming, with a bit of hidden intellect.
The witty backup dancing makes up a bit for the third-rate lyrics.
He is kind of abstract, witty, a bit bizarre, wildly intelligent and, most likely, the perfect mistake or the perfect distraction.
Some speeches have been witty, some moving, some embarrassing, some a bit of all three.
Elsewhere, Terry Gilliam's noisy The Brothers Grimm was a bit of a mess but still had plenty of witty invention to give delight.
Through a bit of ingenious meddling, he reboots this detritus to produce witty, and touchingly homemade, video and art installations.
