The Belly of an Architect

- Grateful. 383 00:36:22,730 --> 00:36:24,855 Where is Caspasian? He should be here. 384 00:36:24,930 --> 00:36:27,452 - Caspasian's out buying. - Buying what? 385 00:36:27,863 --> 00:36:30,227 He's having the staircase repainted. 386 00:36:30,496 --> 00:36:33,587 He's ordered 2,000 liters of blue matte emulsion... 387 00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:35,395 and the same of green. 388 00:36:35,463 --> 00:36:37,622 Blue and green? No. 389 00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:40,723 There's gonna be no blue and no green in my exhibition. 390 00:36:40,796 --> 00:36:43,728 - Boullée hated those colors. - How did you discover that? 391 00:36:43,796 --> 00:36:45,261 Caspasian's found... 392 00:36:45,362 --> 00:36:49,317 $25,000 worth of laser equipment. 393 00:36:49,763 --> 00:36:51,161 What the hell for? 394 00:36:51,329 --> 00:36:53,352 He's got a plan to use laser beams... 395 00:36:53,429 --> 00:36:56,452 to join all the buildings in Rome that influenced Boullée. 396 00:36:56,529 --> 00:36:57,756 Jesus Christ! 397 00:36:57,863 --> 00:37:00,556 He's turning this exhibition into a goddamn carnival. 398 00:37:00,629 --> 00:37:02,118 He's got no business doing that. 399 00:37:02,197 --> 00:37:04,822 - Don't you think it's a good idea? - Good idea? 400 00:37:05,130 --> 00:37:06,959 All right. What's the scale? 401 00:37:07,063 --> 00:37:08,460 It's what you asked for. 402 00:37:08,529 --> 00:37:10,995 - Is it centimeters or inches? - Centimeters. 403 00:37:11,730 --> 00:37:14,287 No self-respecting architect uses inches. 404 00:37:14,362 --> 00:37:15,851 Did Boullée use inches? 405 00:37:15,930 --> 00:37:17,828 He used Boullées. 406 00:37:17,963 --> 00:37:19,292 How long are they? 407 00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:21,885 The distance from the nose to the navel. 408 00:37:22,130 --> 00:37:24,425 His buildings were based on human anatomy. 409 00:37:24,496 --> 00:37:26,325 He certainly wasn't a prude. 410 00:37:27,696 --> 00:37:29,855 Are you a prude, "Signor" Kracklite? 411 00:37:30,463 --> 00:37:31,622 Ask my wife. 412 00:37:33,097 --> 00:37:35,154 Ask your son to ask his wife. 413 00:37:42,596 --> 00:37:43,789 Why did you do that? 414 00:37:43,863 --> 00:37:47,227 To prove, if proof were needed, that you bleed very easily. 415 00:37:47,563 --> 00:37:49,052 No more, no less. 416 00:37:50,030 --> 00:37:53,587 He deserved it, but it was an unwise show of anger. 417 00:38:09,463 --> 00:38:12,952 It is said that Hadrian, the man who built all this... 418 00:38:13,396 --> 00:38:15,885 was a man who suffered from skin disease... 419 00:38:15,996 --> 00:38:18,427 and who needed to keep his skin wet... 420 00:38:18,730 --> 00:38:21,457 to stop him from scratching himself to pieces. 421 00:38:21,529 --> 00:38:23,086 Hence the baths. 422 00:38:24,996 --> 00:38:28,019 You are talking about Caracalla. Hadrian was a genius... 423 00:38:28,796 --> 00:38:30,785 Caracalla merely a thug. 424 00:38:30,996 --> 00:38:32,859 Here at the Villa Adriana... 425 00:38:32,930 --> 00:38:35,794 Hadrian created modern architecture. 426 00:38:36,329 --> 00:38:39,727 It is not unlikely we are sitting in the seventh tepidarium... 427 00:38:40,030 --> 00:38:42,155 in four foot and six inches... 428 00:38:42,230 --> 00:38:45,320 of tepid and most probably dirty water. 429 00:38:45,563 --> 00:38:49,359 It almost certainly would not meet our contemporary hygiene standards. 430 00:38:49,596 --> 00:38:51,721 I think it looks better as a ruin. 431 00:38:52,030 --> 00:38:55,190 Rome in ruins has had more influence on architecture... 432 00:38:55,262 --> 00:38:57,592 than it ever would brand-new. 433 00:38:57,663 --> 00:39:00,254 What you can't see, you can imagine. 434 00:39:01,030 --> 00:39:03,825 Sounds like a woman with clothes on. 435 00:39:09,130 --> 00:39:12,391 - Watch out, it might be rabid. - Don't get hysterical. 436 00:39:12,463 --> 00:39:13,793 It certainly looks ill. 437 00:39:13,863 --> 00:39:17,125 <i>Tuesday, August 6. Dear Étienne-Louis Boullée...</i> 438 00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:20,821 <i>the pains are returning, and I can't eat without vomiting.</i> 439 00:39:20,896 --> 00:39:22,589 It ought to be shot. 440 00:39:23,197 --> 00:39:25,594 Would you shoot anything that looks sick? 441 00:39:25,830 --> 00:39:27,921 What now, Kracklite? 442 00:39:27,996 --> 00:39:31,257 - Are you looking for sympathy? - Shut up. 443 00:39:36,429 --> 00:39:40,055 <i>If you breathe in and press your finger just to the right of your navel...</i> 444 00:39:40,130 --> 00:39:41,857 <i>can you feel a hard lump?</i> 445 00:39:43,296 --> 00:39:46,558 <i>Some days it's spherical, some days it feels like a cube.</i> 446 00:39:48,230 --> 00:39:51,627 <i>Most days it feels like a sharp-cornered pyramid.</i> 447 00:39:53,830 --> 00:39:56,352 <i>Did the Pharaohs suffer from stomach cramps?</i> 448 00:39:58,930 --> 00:40:01,862 <i>The Emperor Hadrian died of a perforated ulcer.</i> 449 00:40:39,863 --> 00:40:44,057 <i>When you're 54, and grateful for being able to sleep at nigh...