Breaking Away (2/3) Movie CLIP - Sabotage Italian Style (1979) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
During a bicycle race, Dave (Dennis Christopher) is able to keep up with the vaunted Italian squad until they employ cheating tactics.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Dennis Christopher stars as a recent high school graduate in Bloomington, Indiana, who is caught with his friends -- Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley -- coasting between high school and deciding what to do with the rest of their lives. The four friends are snobbishly looked down upon by the college students of the town as "cutters," since they were born in Bloomington and their parents worked in the local limestone quarries that built the university. Dennis Christopher's character Dave wants to be a champion bicycle racer and he idolizes the Italian racing team -- so much so that he speaks, thinks, and acts Italian, all to his father's (Paul Dooley) forlorn exasperation. Dave falls for a college girl (Robyn Douglass), but is ashamed to admit he is a cutter and poses as an Italian exchange student to impress her. Dave is particularly excited when his heroes -- the Italian racers -- come to town for a race. But they are even more snobbish than the college students and rely on dirty tricks to keep Dave from winning a race against them. After that ordeal, Dave throws away his false identity and convinces his friends to enter the university's "Little 500" bicycle race against the college students. This light-hearted and heartwarming tale was a surprising word-of-mouth success at the box-office and won several awards, including an Academy Award for "Best Screenplay."
CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1979)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Dennis Christopher, Carlos Sintes, Eddy Van Guyse
Director: Peter Yates
Producers: Art Levinson, Peter Yates
Screenwriter: Steve Tesich
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[@mhadman427]

And just like that, he found out that his hero's were monsters. Saw this film in the theaters with my dad. Great film.

[@ianmangham4570]

The Barstewards

[@thevoid99]

never meet your heroes in public. they will let you down.

[@carrier_pigeon214]

Don't ever meet your heroes.

[@edgar69x11]

Bunch of traitors. They dont want any company nor beaten.

[@thestanleys4157]

The devestation on daves face when he picks himself up. All his dreams vanished in a second. This movie got it all right. Still a classic that I watch on a regular basis

[@Mystrohan]

This movie made such wonderful decisions. The choice not to use subtitles, because derision is a language universally understood... the decision to overlay the scene with the Barber of Seville. Absolutely artful.

[@frankszanto]

I wanted to know where the music was from - thank you

[@-ZIO]

As you maybe imagine, this movie did not do so well in my home country :) But now I am an American citizen but not quite a cutter. This is my favorite American film ever.

[@betterd9160]

Welcome to America. I’m Italian Irish.

[@jmysterio100]

What are the Italians saying to Dave?

[@timmccarthy872]

@@betterd9160 but are you American? (Speaking as an Irish American.)

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@jmysterio100 I’m an American but I’ve been learning Italian for awhile. At first the kid is saying hello, how are you? Then the guy says prendiamo which means “we take it”. Meaning they’re going to win, i assume. Then, after they’ve waved him on, the guy that messes up his chain says “tutto fare” i think , which means handyman. He’s probably saying “I’m such a handyman”. :). I couldnt understand what he said after that when he flipped him off, but bravo (after that) is a pretty well known word so i don’t need to translate that. lol

[@aqua6613]

I love Finland as much as he loves Italian. I grew up in Germany and there was a Finnish Rockband playing and I was so excited to run into their back up singers to use some Finnish phrases which I totally butchered but they were a first class act and very welcoming. I get the scene here when you've prepared a long time to meet and be able to use what you've learned and practiced, it's exciting, but in this instant it backfired and was disappointing.

[@JamieSmith-fz2mz]

American cyclist Eddy Van Guyse played the Italian with the tire pump. He was a race announcer for years. Haven’t seen him in ages. Hope he’s well. And the first race bike I ever owned is in that peloton somewhere. I bought it from a guy from Bloomington who was an extra in that scene. Great stuff.

[@psychodelicrock12]

He reminds me of AC/DC singer, Brian Johnson

[@mikeandrews1899]

​@@psychodelicrock12 that seems like a touch too much 🤔👌

[@Colddeed]

There is just something about the atmosphere of a scene like this, rural Indiana during the 1970's, that I really dig.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

Yep I lived in Bloomington in the 1990s, but I grew up well outside of town in east central Indiana.

[@queenofkingsbury]

Yes, agreed,it was like a different America then. Loved watching this movie again.

[@garythomas4936]

... yeah the humidity and mosquitoes...

[@SukkaPunch321]

Paoli, Indiana represent!

[@rockydesign3303]

I lived and biked in Michiana for six years between South Bend and St. Joe, MI., and loved going to Indiana. It’s the exact charming picture of beautiful Midwest America, and it really comes off in these scenes.

[@ryanmartinez1684]

Met the guy who plays Dave (Dennis Christopher) at L'Eroica 2016 in Paso Robles. Really cool guy! My dad, who was really into bicycles showed me this movie when I was a kid and I'm glad he did as it is such a great film. Unfortunately, he passed away a couple years ago and while it would've been awesome if he too met Dennis, I'm sure he'd be happy that I at least got to meet him :)

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

How fortunate for you having gotten to meet him. FWIW, I lived in the area for about five years in which this movie was set and where it was filmed, Bloomington, Indiana, and it's a real gas sitting there and recognizing about half of the places shown in the movie.

[@ErikEllisuber]

wow-- Paso Robles... I was a Boston, Mass bike messenger forever and made the mistake of taking the 101 down into SLO on a fixed gear, super scary-- but if one timed it right you could hit the lights at the bottom of the rise and just scream into town. so many great bike parts being machined there.

[@sammys70]

@@simbalantana4572 Paul Dooley was hilarious in the movie..In my opinion his performance was just brilliant..I still laugh every time i watch that movie watching him getting all flustered at poor Dave.

[@spiff2268]

Never meet your heroes.

[@eisenkreuzmusik]

happened to me with Bernard Sumner

[@eisenkreuzmusik]

@Randy White he's a little twit that doesn't like to be approached by fans for pics or autographs. I can see why he has such a big rivalry with Peter Hook.

[@eisenkreuzmusik]

@Randy White true, but he doesn't need to be a twit about it. I've encountered other artists who didn't want to either, but they weren't rude about it

[@HoldenNY22]

@@eisenkreuzmusik - Who is Bernard Sumner?

[@cyclist7s]

@@HoldenNY22 lead singer for the 80’s group new order

[@chriswojtowich2126]

The Italian guy with the pump is one of my friends and was my race announcer in the 50th anniversary of this race.

[@IllegalAlienRacing]

I took a class called "Music Appreciation" in college and the teacher shows us clips from this movie. He sure picked a great movie to explain how music can impact a movie scene.

[@ZengCalvin]

The music is so perfect that I watched this movie for more than 10 times. This is a great movie, I love America for that.

[@jonkoenigs99]

Possibly best film ever made.

[@bradlafferty6076]

Indiana is such a beautiful state

[@bkrav1847]

Absolutely wonderful movie.

[@donnovicki9771]

Some nice hardware there. Dave Stoller is riding the finest bicycle ever made the :Masi Gran Criterium and the Italians are riding Colnago. It didn't get any better than that. A great movie.

[@mjbachman3027]

I was an amateur racer in Central California in the early 1970's. I couldn't afford a Masi, or any higher end Italian or English frames like a Bob Jackson, so I ended up with a Peugeot PX-10 with double butted Reynolds 531 chrome molybdenum tubing. I still have it, but all the French components have been replaced by Campagnolo components.

[@thewaywardpoet]

Such splendid use of the overture to "The Barber of Seville." I always thought it was a piece that conveyed motion. Thus, the imagery of bicycles goes perfectly with this.

[@Baltimoreborn]

The red Masi he is riding is my absolute favorite bike of all time

[@donnovicki9771]

The finest bicycle ever made: The Gran Criterium with a full Nuovo Record group set. A true work of art, I wish I had one.

[@garyquail4996]

​@donnovicki9771 I could remember my first Masi is a track bike that had campanola Pista track Grupo in 1971 I still have that bike today but don't ride it much.

[@charlie-w7s]

I Love how after this , when he gets home and hugs his Dad. The break on his Mothers face. You could feel it ❤

[@chrispykelly]

I remember, crying as an eight-year-old. Masterpiece.

[@robertmasina4610]

After this incident, Dave quit being obsessed with Italian culture.

[@cyclist7s]

Yea unfortunately when he starts tearing down posters off his wall his Eddy Merckx poster goes right along with them!!! Eddy isnt even italian, he’s Belgian!!!!! Poor Eddy!!!!!

[@jwfmsu1990]

Those Cinzano guys seem like real jerks.

[@EphemeralProductions]

They were. lol.

[@paulcoletti2656]

Such an incredible film!

[@LordGreystoke]

Saw it in 1979 with the family. Loved it then, love it now. Probably because the director gave it such an "authentic" look and feel that many other films that have covered similar terrain just miss. This seems to be a forgotten one but it deserves "classic" all over it and is a great example of excellent movie production with characters you care about.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I remember this scene from the one time I’ve seen this movie years ago. I remember feeling REALLY bad for him.

[@daughterofolaf]

This and the following scene are fantastic. Dave lived in a sort of dream world and viewed things in a very idealistic way. Everything he did was motivated by something good and pure. And for him to be so disillusioned and in such a vicious manner was hard to watch. I’ve rarely felt so sad for a character in a movie. Such a good film!

[@stevenmeyer9674]

In an interview Eddy Van Guyse (the Italian rider) and technical adviser who really saved the movie said they had a mattress on the side of the road and he timed his pump into the spokes with a tree branch on the road.

[@PInk77W1]

“He was normal as apple pie His poor parents.” Neighbor lady

[@patrickallan481]

More than either of the Godfather films, this scene shaped my perception of Italians; Southern Italians really. Eugenio Monti, the bobsledder, was a perfect gentleman.

[@bulldawg4498]

IMHO This fine film and encore case don't get the recognition they deserve ... I've watched BA again and again ...

[@robertmorris8997]

The music is perfect.

[@cleekmaker00]

01:48 In Cycling parlance, that move's called a "'Stohler'.

[@americanflyer4126]

Most people don't know that cycling is a team sport. The team protects their leader. If Dave had the other Cutters with him, this wouldn't have happened. And if it did, the team would be sworn to take revenge.

[@michaelstratton5223]

Except the rest of the cutters weren't even into cycling so probably wouldn't have been able to catch up to the Italians in the first place.

[@aaarauz1]

maybe on ebikes?? @@michaelstratton5223

[@jbratt]

One of the Italian riders was John Vande Velde (uncredited) father of Tour de France American rider Christian Vande Velde.

[@harponercam]

He's the one in the front at the beginning of this clip. Classy intelligent guy.

[@jbratt]

@@harponercam I should have known. He looks just like him 😀👍

[@CJ-im2uu]

One of my favorie movies.

[@peoriavideosltd6822]

Maybe they were brand snobs. Dave's bike was a Masi; the Italians rode Colnago bikes.

[@foresight87]

Oh papa, I didn't know everybody cheated!! Well now ya know.

[@billm6768]

I think a great point in this movie is when Dave says something like: "everyone cheats" yet his whole Italian persona and relationship with Catherine was a type of "cheat".

[@farthead1231]

there's an old saying.."never meet your heroes" !!!

[@virtuosowins]

Wonderful movie. We watched it as a family here in India on dvd.

[@Dreamskater100]

Mean boys reagazzi. Poor cutter Dave, he loved all things Italian (!)

[@meganluminais3586]

Yeah he did

[@townfool6859]

Pulled off a "Tonya Harding" in cycling

[@ElectronicsTech09]

This is an awesome movie.

[@tomasobianchini4932]

great movie. also the strange dubbing in italy. The voice are in veneto dialect...very funny.......W Nibali and W Italia

[@jmysterio100]

What are they saying?

[@meganluminais3586]

Dave ❤️

[@yarbles67]

El dbaggios supremo

[@royveteto4134]

i can total relate to this. i am a christian who used to really enjoy church but due to put downs , rejections , betrayal, and ridicule i am still a christian but my respect and passion for the church has gone . when i tried talking about this all i'"m told is who cares or go seek another church

[@arklat]

I never noticed it before. Stoller's MASI Gran Criterium has Randonneur handlebars on it. Very weird. But, I do like the bike. Looks like a 54 cm. Just my size. I even like the color.

[@Guitar7776]

arklat interesting fact: the bike used in the race scene in this video is actually a sears bike that the prop team painted and made to look like the gran criterium, that way when Christopher crashed they didn’t ruin one of the actual Masi. That would be why it has randonneur handlebars. Masi actually declined supplying stickers for the sears bike to make it look like a masi, so the props team hand painted the head badge and decals.

[@arklat]

@@Guitar7776 Wow, that is crazy!

[@Guitar7776]

But yeah, the masi gran criterium is the most beautiful bike

[@arklat]

@@Guitar7776 I like COLNAGO.

[@howardchambers9679]

Geek

[@ElectronicsTech09]

I did a lot of cycling in my days.

[@BanthaPooDoo64]

Great movie I still have it in my video collection

[@dodge96neon]

i'm surprised that he didn't give up bicycling after this as well

[@woodyhueston6500]

My favorite movie // the car wash owner //

[@barryo9167]

Here's your sponge & there's your place & don't forget to punch the clock shorty!!!

[@wcoastbo]

Great movie, one of my all time favorites. I read somewhere that none of the riders on Team Cinzano were actually Italian, unfortunately. Maybe it was hard to cast Italian cyclists in the area? Is there any truth to this?

[@martinbrandt6079]

They used American bicycle racers. One of them is the father of Christian Vandevelde, who raced in the Tour de France and now does TV commentary.

[@murrayirvin3177]

The guy that put the pump in his wheel Is Eddy Van Guyse. He's Belgian but grew up and raced in Chicago. I had him as a P.E. Cycling class coach at Cal State Dominguez Hills over 30 years ago.

[@doncallangher6177]

Knowing Italians (I worked in Milan) I think they'd be a little perturbed being portrayed this way. They are fierce competitors, but this kind of sabotage? Never met anybody there would stoop to that. Probably why they couldn't get real Italians to portray the cyclists. Maybe Italian speaking American actors, yes. Plus, you can tell how they rounded the corner that they weren't using efficient pedaling strategy.

[@amightysailingman]

The movie had a small budget. They weren't going to fly in Italian racers just to be in a few shots.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

It would've been pointless, given this was back when Greg LeMond was still an unknown junior, Americans knew less of European cycling than they do today.

[@erintocknell2156]

"Everybody cheats. I just didn't know."

[@emilyjames9563]

I love Hart Bochner

[@daughterofolaf]

Emily James He is so 😍

[@claudeeshaya8289]

Italians were Annoyed by him. They traveled a great distance and prepared a lot for this event and they take cycling serious. They didn’t have to cheat to win, they just wanted to shut him up.

[@crustydog1666]

I thought there would be a comment like this. He may have been annoying, but the guy who made him crash should be charged with attempted murder.

[@crustydog1666]

@John Vento Instead of achieving victory in the bicycle race, David and his friends should have gotten revenge against the guy who caused him to crash which ,then, caused him to say "Oh daddy!".

[@michaelstratton5223]

If they took cycling seriously, they never would have shown up in America lolololol. Ah ok sorry, California has some decent teams, I guessss.

[@jjprulz]

@@michaelstratton5223 "lolololol" Really, shut up.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Yep. But he didn’t think about or understand that in his eagerness. Boy have I been there. lol

[@christinesimony413]

I know how you feel. I had equestrians do the same thing to me.

[@mikehaney6512]

The Italians were riding colnago supers

[@patrealynn9749]

so not fair, he put his whole life into that.

[@tsicby]

A cultural misunderstanding, guys. The Italians perceived Dave's distracting talk as a purposeful attempt to break their concentration and screw with them. They are used to the cutthroat competition of European racing, so obviously they thought they would cut him down to size.

[@amightysailingman]

You're overthinking it. They just wanted to win and did whatever they could to make sure any possible challengers were no threat. That was Dave, the only one strong enough to keep up with them.

[@Gentile108]

Why am I singing ‘loser’ by Beck at the end of this scene?!!

[@Rucky888]

Great film

[@michaelwebb8158]

The Italians weren't giving their country a very good image by treating Dave that way.

[@m4d3y3m00dy]

Definitely! Sorry... Italians are like that... But not everybody of course! :)

[@psychodelicrock12]

They must have Corleone blood.

[@alonzomosley7]

Don't look at Lance Armstrong

[@michaelstratton5223]

Maybe the Camorra paid Team Cinzano to win at all costs.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Sadly there’s people like that in every country…

[@geekers8644]

I feel like im looking at my dad in the past

[@JesusRodriguez-wx1js]

I’m just like this dude I have a road bike sprint I’m the best when it comes to these races lol

[@jwfmsu1990]

Look at their cadence. It is Indiana. There are no hills in Indiana. Cinzano should be at 90 rpm easily.

[@generalzod7959]

No hills in Indiana? Maybe not in the northern half but, i assure you, there are plenty of them around Bloomington.

[@dfa3366]

The movie was filmed entirely in Indiana.

[@thecomedyspot11]

The movie was filmed entirely in and around Bloomington.

[@kathylankston3814]

@@thecomedyspot11 Yes, when I was there in college, I found every one of the places scenes where shot in this movie. I've been to all of them except the quarry. It's on private property and no longer accessible by the time I went to school there.

[@TheGotoGeek]

In the 70s 80rpm was considered a fast cadence and Real Men™️ rode a 14-21 with a 52-42 up front.

[@sullenday]

everybody cheats

[@daughterofolaf]

sullenday “I just didn’t know.”

[@BrookeLester]

Well...now you know.

[@jmysterio100]

Ok, I have to know...what are the Italians saying to Dave during these scenes? The only thing I understand is the Italian Salute.

[@onelovemon1784]

Changing the gear is cruel. I hate when i miss a gear uphill. Rather tumble in to the grass roadside

[@psychodelicrock12]

1:30. Plus the head Italian bicyclist 🚴 looks like AC/DC Brian Johnson.

[@maxwellhouse750]

Was that mean bike racing guy called Lance? Sorry. Mixing my movies with reality again. What a dope.

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Heh-heh, "dope," I see what you did there.

[@michaelwebb8158]

Bunch of cheaters!

[@andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748]

1:49 that wasn't nice.

[@61Slughi]

If he was going to go down, how about leaning into them and taking them out when he fell? If a fan at the TDF can wipe out half the field holding just a sign, I think he can do the same.

[@drewhendley]

Just because your accepted, doesn’t mean you belong

[@derekjolly3680]

God this just makes you hate Italians doesn't it? That was like super dangerous for what happened too. Our hero could of done that same front wheel fling off into the pavement instead of the grass. Finally got a copy of this on DVD a couple of days ago and watched it again. Funny how the college cycling group goes out on training rides and not a cap between them and all that hair and sweat! Caps are a life saver for that. What I especially dig is that my fairly new road bike is one of the very few models out there with a steel frame and classic lines like the bikes in 1979. It's much closer to these than most anything made in the last ten years! Aesthetically bikes from these years were the coolest.

[@jorgeocampo1794]

When I was a kid and I saw this movie I have to tell you after the scene I hated Italian cyclist for a very long time 😆

[@m4rs12]

not just in soccer I suppose... lol

[@brucedavis3816]

Does anyone know why they did this to him???

[@ketanshimpi282]

Just for laughs gags 🎶

[@ChocolateMilkyYummy]

translation? no subtitles?

[@stevenschang7720]

What's the title & composer of the sound track?

[@nalvarado65]

Rossini's "Barber is Seville"

[@HoldenNY22]

I reember see this MOvie probably in the very early 1980's, maybe even 1979. I saw it at the Universitiy in the Medium Size Upstate City I was going to College in. I really liked this movie and was shocked by this Scene. How evil the Italian Bike Racers were. Looking back at it, I would have liked to have seen what would have happenned if someon had actually filmed this Scene and then all the Italian Bike Racers would have been arrested and maybe even lynched for assaulting an Innocent INdiana Kid. Then it would have been a different Movie. But don't they in all Races, Bike, Track or even Car, etc have someone tracking the Partifcipants so they don't cheat?

[@queensofthedthrone8267]

Can anyone explain what a cutter is? Is it the ones who cut themselves or what?

[@B0LSHY]

eddy effervescence This town had a stone quarry. Cutters cut the stone to sell it

[@williamshaw9047]

Students at Indiana University, where the film is set, call locals "cutters" because the working-class men of the town cut limestone from the quarries to help build the university. The students saw them as low-class idiots. Actually, in Indiana, they were called "stoners," but that was changed for the film for obvious reasons.

[@Rick-yo6gv]

watch the film

[@michaelwebb8158]

What'd they do that for?

[@williamshaw9047]

They're professional racers...they don't want some amateur hick kid from Indiana showing them up.

[@cyclist7s]

They didnt want anyone to beat they’re pefect record of wins in a row. Read the book…very good book!!!!’

[@StevenSeagull6969]

When you discover how the world really is.

[@timogross8191]

1:47

[@Anth230]

Do they normally carry non essentials like a freaking steel pipe during a race??😂

[@BlakeT933]

That’s a frame pump. Totally normal.

[@daughterofolaf]

A steel pipe?? 🤣 That is a pump for the bicycle. 😆😆😆

[@어엿먹-i6s]

Damn italians! idk bikes but why didn't he just unclip his gear back to normal?

[@daughterofolaf]

어엿먹 He did. You can see him do it after it happens.

[@PInk77W1]

Still lost all momentum.

[@daveyboy_]

Cause he was going uphill , hard to switch gears on a hill

[@gabrielsandoval4994]

Sgraziati 😁

[@stanleybuthane7155]

Artist and name of song please

[@Edward-wd1td]

Rossinni The Barber Of Seville Overture. It's a longer piece that's been edited and looped for this film.

[@kurtvonfricken6829]

Subtitles would have helped

[@daughterofolaf]

Kurt Vonfricken What do you need subtitles for? My favorite thing is that they did NOT put subtitles here. They aren’t necessary.

[@killmodful]

hahahahahahaha e pure LOL!

[@TigerDude333]

A real American would've burned down their hotel.

[@JesusisLvfds6400]

Dennis Christopher is horse hung watch the movie Nine Lives 2004

[@oldworldorder9424]

American voters never saw this movie.

[@BW-kv9wj]

LMAO

[@abinashmishra329]

This scene is so anti-Italian. Most of my friends have Italian ancestry.

[@daveyboy_]

Wops

[@cyclist7s]

Not italian… but i think thats a little un called for

[@daveyboy_]

@@cyclist7s im just f-n around . But they did do him dirty though

[@harponercam]

heh heh hehhhhhh.......

[@jt.8144]

1:50 THIS.

[@stephanbruno7249]

Never meet your heroes.