Cinderella the Cat

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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 new jobs.

Deus ex Machina 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 CA - 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.

I 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 Idiocy 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 got a 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?

Bye, bye.

And make that thing shut up!

I 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.

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