Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) Scene 11 Summary

  • Guido bumps into Rodolfo at the hotel but hides behind the ostrich egg he is carrying. It actually works. Rodolfo must be egg-blind or something.
  • Elsewhere, Dora's mother is telling her to get out of bed and go to the party. Dora does so reluctantly.
  • Guido and Ferruccio have a laugh that the guy getting married is the jerk the eggs fell on. They wonder who's actually marrying that guy. (You see where this is going, right?)
  • A waiter comes to get Guido, saying something is wrong with Eliseo.
  • Guido runs outside to see that Robin Hood, Eliseo's horse, has been painted green with anti-Semitic statements.
  • Eliseo says it is the usual barbarians. He warns Guido that they'll start with him soon. Guido laughs it off, saying he didn't even know the horse was Jewish.