01x01 - Superpower

[bunniefuu]

[Rocco] Every child has a superhero.

Mine was called Supersex,

and his superpower was sex.

["Be My Lover" by La Bouche plays]

[driver] Come on, we're here.

Rocco! Rocco, don't piss me off. Smile.

Come on, smile!

Rocco! Smile.

[excited cheers]

PARIS, 2004

[driver] Siffredi!

Excuse us, guys. [chuckles]

Rocco Siffredi!

[all clamoring]

[chanting] Rocco! Rocco! Rocco!

[chuckles]

Ciao, man!

[man] Yo, Rocco!

["Be My Lover" continues]

Don't think of this as just
any old exhibition, Rocco.

This is the Biennale of sex!

[both chuckling]

[man] Huh? Yeah? [chuckles]

Do you like it? Hm?

Hey there, Ciao.

Rocco. Rocco!
Could I get a photo with you?

Of course.

[all chuckling]

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

Thank you.

- [babbling]
- [chuckling]

- [woman 1] Rocco.
- [woman 2] Over here!

How's it goin'? Hey.

Alright, take it easy.

Settle down, guys. Settle down. Come on.

["Be My Lover" fades]

You're just so beautiful!

- Hands off me, Gabri.
- Just fixing your hair.

- Let's get this over with.
- Alright! [claps]

- You're the number...
- Yeah, yeah, I know.

One! Come on.

- You're all set.
- Don't do anything crazy, Rocco.

[female host] The king of p*rn worldwide.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rocco Siffredi!

[cheers and applause]

[woman 3] Rocco!

[chanting] Rocco! Rocco! Rocco! Rocco!

[chanting continues]

[woman 4] Yeah, Rocco!

Let's go, Rocco!

[audience members whooping]

- [whooping]
- [man] Come on, Rocco!

[man] Look at the camera, Rocco.

- Right here, Rocco.
- Over here, Rocco.

[feedback whines]

[applause fades out]

Rocco Siffredi is the man
who brought a new reality to p*rn,

and made p*rn his life.

He's a man who can enter
the homes and desires of us all.

Both disturbing and
reassuring at the same time.

And he's here today to share with us
the real story of his amazing career.

So, my first question is...

can the barriers between life
and p*rn really be broken down?

And at what price?

[soft atmospheric music playing]

My p*rn days are over now.

[audience members gasping]

[low murmuring]

I'm retiring.

- [whistling]
- [people jeering mildly]

[female host] Can you tell us
how, when, and why you came to this...

this decision that has caught us all
a bit by surprise?

[distant dance music playing faintly]

The bathroom's on the right.

Rocco?

You can't retire now.

I only came here to make a p*rn with you.

I want to make p*rn with you.

I'm begging.

[singsong] I'm begging you.

You're begging me?

Yeah.

What's your name?

Noemi.

Come here.

Open your mouth.

[upbeat instrumental music builds]

[sighing]

[breathing quickens]

- [Noemi sighs]
- [Rocco moans]

[sighing softly]

[unzipping]

[Noemi moans]

[both grunting]

[both panting]

Look at how they see you.

You're just flesh.

Flesh.

[both panting]

[whooping]

Look at them.

Look.

[breathing heavily]

You'll have to accept that any barrier
that remains between your life and p*rn...

won't ever be bigger than this.

[Rocco panting]

[Noemi moaning]

[music fades out]

- [urinating]
- [fluorescent lights buzzing]

[knocking at door]

[Gabriele] Rocco!
What the f*ck did you do?

[knocking continues]

First the press conference,
then the hostess.

I don't know what the f*ck to say anymore!

Come on, get out of the f*cking bathroom!

Rocco!

[buzzing intensifies]

[truck horn rises]

[engine running]

- [crying]
- [gentle music plays]

SUPERSEX AND THE DOUBLE BLUFF

[Rocco] My superhero, Supersex...

"Super... s... sex".

When his superpower was
the strongest, when he came,

he'd say, "Ifix tcen tcen."

And his superpower
would spread everywhere.

I dreamt of becoming like him,
of having a superpower like that.

I never could've imagined
I'd have that superpower.

[women moaning]

Or that it would come
at such a high price.

Oh God, Rocco! Yes!

[cheers and applause]

[Rocco] My superpower didn't
manifest itself immediately,

because every superpower only
manifests itself at the right moment.

And you don't know when the right
moment is until it comes along.

Up until that moment,

you wait.

[mooing]

You live in terror.

[priest] Have you fornicated?

[Rocco] Fornicated?

[priest] Anyone who puts
their hands down there,

will face terrible consequences.

[Rocco] You live in a dream.

And every boy in Ortona dreamed of Lucia.

[gentle music continues]

All the girls talked about Lucia.

And all the boys dreamed about her.

But no one could have her.

[gentle music fades out]

No one, except him.

That's Tommaso!

[Rocco] Tommaso.

Sit down! Sit down!

[engine revs]

Tommy!

[horn honking]

["It's a Hard Way" by Cathedral playing]

[Rocco] He was my mentor.

Rocco!

Tommy!

He had everything.

But above all, he had Lucia.

["It's a Hard Way" continues]

Tommy!

Hey, little man! Come here, Rocco.

God bless you, my boy.

I brought these just for the little ones.

- Who are these sweets for?
- [Rocco] I want one! Give me one!

[Tommy] Who are these sweets for?

[Rocco] We lived
in public housing in Ortona.

My brother, Antonio, was the youngest.

And my older brothers,
Armando and Giorgio,

they worked away because
there was never any money at home.

They'd come for holidays and birthdays.

That was my brother, Claudio.

The Gypsies clubbed his head
when he was five,

and he'd never been right since then.

That was my father.

He'd say how pointless things were since...

[father] My father, Tano, lived here.

So did my grandfather, Tano.

My grandfather's father,
Tano, lived a little over there.

That's how it is for us Tanos.

Destiny reserved this place
and a life of struggles for us.

In your mouth...

You can take all this back, okay.
I can feed this family on my own.

How, Dad? With just your paycheck?
God knows how much you spend.

- [Giorgio] Hey, don't talk back to Dad.
- How dare you speak like that to me?

How can you be
so disrespectful in my house? Huh?

With that fancy car,
while you still owe money.

I gave you a bed to sleep in,
you spoiled brat.

If it wasn't for me,
you'd be in a grave by now.

And now you come here
and act like you own the place?

And where did all that money come from?
Where did it come from?

You smell like a criminal!

Unlike you, I won't let
my brothers grow up poor.

- Move!
- [Tommy] You hear me?

There's nothing of yours here.
You understand?

- Keep walking.
- [mother] That's enough.

You'll scare Claudio.

Claudio, everything's all right, okay?

You'll sleep in your bed, Tommy?

I just did the laundry.

Your brothers are staying here too.

Tell me something, Tommy.

You're not still with that girl?

Everyone in the town gossips about her.

Don't listen to them, Ma.

The people always talk about the queen.

Yeah. [scoffs]

She's no queen.

- Look, you have a good heart, Tommaso.
- Here, Ma, eat.

She'll rip it out. Forget about her.

[Tommy] Go on.

You should stay here.

- Here with me.
- [Tommy chuckles]

I'll stay here. With you, Ma.

Now, eat. [kisses]

[gentle music plays]

[Rocco] My mother, Carmela...

who was always washing
and hanging out the laundry,

she always smiled.

[young Rocco] Now, I'll count to ten,

and Mama will look at me.

One,

two,

three,

four,

- five...
- [Carmela sings] ♪ Go to sleep ♪

...six,

seven...

[Carmela sings] ♪ Go to sleep ♪

...eight,

nine...

♪ The wolf has eaten sheep... ♪

[adult Rocco] Ten.

[Carmela sings] ♪ The little field ♪

[Rocco] My mother never looked at me.

- What are you doing? You little rascal!
- [laughing]

Cut it out! Cut it out!

Wait, stop. Stop!

- Wait! Wait! [chuckling]
- [Tommaso grunts]

[Rocco] People said
Tommaso wasn't called Tano...

- "Wait?"
- ...but Del Signore.

That he wasn't my blood brother.

But the son of a whore
who had abandoned him.

I didn't believe what people said, though,
because Tommaso was God to me.

And God is no one's son.

[soft gasping]

You know what they're doing?

No.

[Tommy chuckles lightly]

Hey, don't be scared.

It's called sex.

Does it hurt?

[chuckles softly]

No, there's no pain.

But it's so strong,

it feels like dying.

["Me Che Bella Città"
by Edoardo Bennato plays]

- [Tommy] Alright! Hold on tight!
- [Rocco] Woo-hoo, yeah! Let's go!

- There you go!
- We're the Tanos! Everyone, make way!

- Make way!
- Make way! Make way for us! Make way!

Yeah!

[Rocco] We were the Tanos then.

And as Tommaso said, the name Tano
meant we were masters of the world.

Not a family of losers and idiots who
would never amount to anything in life.

[laughing]

Yeah. Look at us! Yeah! Yeah!

- [laughing]
- Say cheese!

Look, they've returned.

[young man] Hey! Tommy! Rocco!

[Rocco] That was my cousin, Gabriele.

And they were the Gypsies.

The ones who clubbed Claudio's head in.

This was their turf.

Look who's out today. The Tanos.

Even the bastard
and the ret*rd are with them.

I didn't catch that.
What did you call him?

- A ret*rd.
- [grunts]

- Get out of here, Tommaso. The lot of ya.
- Stop, Rocco.

- This is not your turf.
- Armando, move!

- Armando! What is it?
- Claudio! Claudio!

- Claudio!
- [Rocco] Stop!

- What now?
- You wanna die?

- Go ahead.
- Claudio!

- Let's go.
- [Rocco] Claudio!

Go on, go back home. Rat!

- Claudio!
- Claudio! Claudio!

Everything's alright.
Tommaso's here. You hear me?

- Everything's all right, Claudio!
- Let's go home!

- No one's gonna hurt you, okay? Claudio!
- Let's go.

- Rocco, let's go.
- Leave him alone!

- [Tommy] Can't you see you're hurting him?
- Dad was right, Tommy.

- [Tommy] Claudio...
- Just go away.

Can you see he always gets upset
when you're around, Tommaso?

'Cause he feels alive when he's with me.

You're not family.

Just leave, okay?

I'll watch over Claudio. Go.

Be careful with him.

Stop! You're hurting Claudio!

[Rocco] That was the last time
the three of us were together.

Me, Tommaso, and Claudio.

[gentle music playing]

[engine starts]

Tommy!

Tommaso!

[sighs]

Gabri, stand over there.

We'll see if this works.

- Now count to ten, Rocco!
- [Rocco] Yeah.

[breathes deeply]

One...

and two...

[breathing shakily]

[grunts softly]

...three...

[whispers] Claudio...

Claudio?

[Carmela wailing]

[Rocco] The whole world changed that day.

[crying]

Mom's smile disappeared.

Like all superheroes, it was
the superpower that came to me

when I was feeling the most pain,

when you either find a superpower,
or pain eats you up from the inside.

It happened to Batman
when his parents were m*rder*d,

to Mr. Freeze when his wife d*ed,

and to Magneto when his mom was sh*t.

That day in March, when Claudio d*ed,

it happened to me too.

[city street sounds]

[door opens and shuts]

- [Gabriele] They're clearing the entrance.
- Alright.

Here's a hot water bottle, 98 degrees.

- Oh, how'd you do that?
- Eh... The thermometer in the infirmary.

[sighs deeply]

[Rocco] Gabri...

Don't you think we were
better off in Ortona? Huh?

We had terrible lives in Ortona.

[sighs]

You need to stop all this. Just stop it.

[Rocco] f*cking Paris. Ugh.

I told you I didn't wanna come back here.
I shouldn't have come back here.

It's been a whole year.

You need to move on. It wasn't you.

Tommaso did it all by himself.

A guy like Tommy k*lled himself

because he wanted the attention
he didn't get in life.

I see him, Gabri.

I keep seeing him... everywhere.

Where, Rocco?

Even here, among all the journalists.

And where did he go?

Hmm... He was looking at me,
then I couldn't see him.

Why couldn't you see him anymore?

[sighs] Because he's dead.

That's right.

And dead people
don't show up at press conferences.

And they don't spout bullshit
at press conferences like you did.

I'm not in a good way.

And who's right here with you?

Gabriele's here.

So put the bottle under your balls better.

You just have to relax the boys now.

Relax, sit back, and you'll be fine.

[Rocco] The superpower
was like electricity.

And that electricity was everywhere.

["Bravo" by Jacqueline Taïeb plays]

[lip-synching to song lyrics]

[faded] Rocco, wake up.
Look, your ice cream is melting.

["Bravo" continues]

Let's do it.

We'll get away from here.

Mm. Out in the world.

[kissing]

[panting] They talk out of envy.

[breathing heavily]

Because together, we're something big.

[whispering] Come here.
Come here, she saw us. Come on.

THE HARDCORE PICTURE NOVEL
SUPERSEX AND THE DOUBLE BLUFF

[creaking]

[footsteps approaching]

[lighter clicks]

- Show me what you have.
- I don't have anything.

Well, let's see
if you don't have anything.

No, come on, please!

- No!
- Eh...

Ah... Way to go, Rocco.
You're growing up real fast!

- Hm...
- I found it on the road, I swear.

- You swear you found it in the road? Yeah?
- Ow! Don't hurt me!

In the road.

Read that.

- This?
- Mm.

Um...

"Supersex."

Hmm.

Supersex.

- Supersex has got some hot girls.
- Yep!

- Hot like Lucia.
- Yep!

- Hey!
- No, I was jok... I was joking!

- What did you say?
- Stop, please! [laughing]

- [Tommy chuckles softly]
- Oh my God!

[Tommy sighs]

You know what's even stronger
than a Kn*fe, Rocco?

- Hmm?
- A really big g*n?

[chuckles lightly]

And stronger than a big g*n?

Um... dynamite?

Rocco, listen to me.

So, between our legs,
all men and women have dynamite.

Whoever controls that controls everything.

Everyone wants the same thing, Rocco.

And people like us want two things.

To f*ck the most beautiful women,

and to stop being poor, Rocco.

And those two things
always go hand in hand.

Always.

Can you feel that energy? Huh?

The energy that drives the world, Rocco?
That, right there.

The world wants to f*ck us, Rocco.

- Know what we're gonna do?
- Hm?

Some day we'll f*ck the world.

- Understand?
- Like Supersex?

Even more! A lot more!

We won't live here forever,
and we won't die like vermin.

We'll come back here.

We'll come back like kings.

And with Mom as our queen!

What are we gonna do, Rocco?

Uh... We're gonna f*ck the world.

What? I can't hear you!
What are we gonna do, Rocco?

- We're gonna f*ck the world.
- We're going to f*ck the world, Rocco!

[both] We're going to f*ck the world!

We're going to f*ck the world, Rocco!

- What are we gonna do?
- We're gonna f*ck the world!

Yeah!

[upbeat synth music playing]

[Rocco] An electric energy so great
it permeates the whole world.

A beautiful, life-giving power.

- Come on!
- No!

[Rocco] It was everywhere.

[young Rocco chattering distantly]

[synth music continues]

[laughing]

[Rocco] The only one able to give
strength to those who have nothing.

- Come on!
- Rocco, over here!

- Come on!
- Can I see it?

- Come on.
- Hey, it's my turn!

- Let me see!
- Come on!

Let's see it, Rocco!

[Rocco] Capable of overcoming all pain.

All except for my mother's.

[crying]

Rocco...

[Rocco grunts]

You have to be a saint like Claudio.

You'll be a priest.

That way, you can pray
for his soul every day.

You need to stay away from girls.

They'll tear your heart out.

They'll bring you pain.

[sad music playing]

[sniffling]

[Rocco] I would've done anything
to avoid causing her more pain.

[sniffling, sobbing quietly]

[sobbing continues]

- Anything.
- [grunts]

[sobbing continues]

[sad music fades out]

Cuz, cuz, let me see page 11.

- No, Gabriele.
- Come on, page 11.

- Come on, cuz!
- It's in the garbage. Okay?

What do you mean? You tossed it?

Finally, we were on top of the world.

Me and you.

Do you know who has it now, Rocco?

Zoran's got it.

But he's telling everyone
that he's Supersex.

- What did Zoran say?
- That he's Supersex.

Alright, let's get it back.

- [kid 1] Show it to us!
- [kid 2] Gimme, gimme! Come on!

- Me first.
- Show us. Let me see. Come on!

Hey, look who's coming.

Give that back!
You got that outside my house!

It's mine!

Yeah? Do you know what each piece cost me?

And you threw it away.

Now it's mine.

Besides, this is our turf,
and we don't want Tanos here.

- Give it to me!
- Hey, what are you doing?

- Give it back!
- Hurt him!

Let me go. [grunts]

- [kid 3] Pin him down!
- [kid 4] Hit him!

- Grab him!
- Get him!

Are you crazy?

Hey, shorty, What are you doing here
without that piece of sh*t Tommaso?

- Keep my brother's name out of your mouth!
- [kid 5] Shut up, dwarf!

[screams]

He's the son of a whore.
He's not your brother.

- Pull his pants down.
- [Rocco] Please, no!

- [kid 3] Grab his legs!
- Go on.

No, don't do it! No!

No! Don't do it! No!

[kids chanting] Stretch it!
Stretch it! Stretch it! Stretch it!

No, don't do it!

- [chanting continues]
- [somber music playing]

[shouting in distress]

Come on, you pull it. Go on.

- [chanting continues]
- [shouts]

What about you? Are you with him?

Stretch it! Stretch it! Stretch it!

- Stretch it! Stretch it!
- [shouts]

- [shouting]
- Stretch it!

[Tommaso] Drop your pants.

Eh...

[somber music fades out]

Drop your pants.

- Come here.
- [grunts]

Did they hurt you?

- Hey, did they...
- Those guys said you were not my brother.

- [Kn*fe flicks]
- [gasps softly]

- No! No!
- Hey!

- No!
- Hold on.

Incredible.

I've never seen anything like it.

Bro, this is huge!

Those sons of b*tches...

stretched it for real.

- And now you, Rocco, my brother...
- Hm?

You've got the biggest d*ck in the world.

Ya hear me?

Are you sure?

Of course I'm sure.

Hm.

Of course I'm sure!

But now it'll get enormous!

Now it'll get enormous, you hear me?

Biggest d*ck in all of Tanos!

Hold your head up proudly.

I love you, Tommy.

Come here.

[Rocco] It wasn't true
that they'd stretched it.

But that's what Tommaso had told me.

And I just believed it.

Come on, cuz. Cuz, talk to me.
I've been looking for you everywhere.

Please leave. That's not your bed.

That's for Tommaso and Claudio.

You're a traitor. Leave.

Tommaso doesn't sleep here anymore.
Right? He sleeps with that whore.

- Don't talk about Lucia like that!
- But she is a whore.

Don't you dare mention Lucia's name, okay?

My mother says Tommaso's
a disgrace to the entire family!

And if Carmela's hurting,
he's responsible.

Shut up! Get out!

You're a traitor!

Judas!

You can ask anybody! Everyone knows it!

[crying]

[squeals in frustration]

[music playing in distance]

[Lucia] Take a look.

[Lucia chuckling]

I know you want to see it.

[laughing] Yes.

[gentle music playing]

[gentle music intensifies]

- [music fades out]
- [woman] Ah... never mind.

Oh! Hey, there.

[indistinct chatter continues]

Hey, Rocco!

- You want a hot chocolate?
- [Carmela] No, he'll be eating soon.

Rocco needs to tell you something.

Rocco?

Is this about the thing with Zoran?
Didn't he get enough?

Or did you find my gift?

So you found it, that right?

Tell your brother what you told me.

- No, no, please. No, Ma. No.
- Go on.

- No. Please.
- Go on.

I saw Lucia.

Everyone sees Lucia when she goes by.
Isn't that right, Rocco?

I'm gonna have to go now.
On my tab, Alfredo.

She was with Michele, the delivery guy.

So what?

But she was naked.

And what do you know about naked girls?

Careful what you say about Lucia.

- Otherwise, I'll knock all your teeth out.
- Tommaso...

Tommy.

- You hear me?
- Tommy!

You're handsome.

You're strong.

But whores will eat your heart out,
and spit the rest out into the world.

You forgotten your mother?

You're my mother.

No, Tommy.

If you were my son,
you'd stay away from that slut.

Lucia's not a slut! You hear me?

Lucia is not a slut!

This is the typical Tano stench
of complete and utter misery!

Ungrateful and jealous!
That is what you are!

I've given you absolutely everything.
Haven't I? Everything!

I treat you better than all your children!
I treat you better than all your children!

You, you will never be like me.

You are stupid!

You're a coward
like the rest of the Tanos, Rocco!

You're a coward
like the rest of the Tanos!

Quiet! Tommy, It's that woman.
She is driving you crazy.

You're wrong! She loves me, Ma!

Listen to me, alright.
I am not a reject. You understand?

Get that through your head!
You can all go and rot like rats!

You all can piss off! Piss off!

[somber music playing]

[sobbing softly]

[Rocco] Tommaso had
gotten Supersex back for me.

[grunting]

And what had I done?

[sobbing softly]

You're my knight. I love only you.

Take me away from here,
their eyes are k*lling me.

[Rocco] Tommaso disappeared for days.

Then we heard
he was getting married to Lucia.

No one leaves this house.

Get back here... [grunts]

- Tommaso is waiting for us!
- It's about time he moved out.

- Let me go.
- He's no Tano!

- He's no Tano!
- Let me go!

[Rocco] People say he waited
outside the church until the last minute.

Even after the bride had entered.

But none of us showed up.

I haven't seen him since that day.

I had dynamite in me.

But I didn't know how to use it.

I didn't know where
that dynamite would take me.

Away from everything around me,
from that anger, that poverty.

Away from all that pain.

I was alone. I could sense
I had my destiny in my hands,

and I didn't know what to do.

And from where
I never would have imagined...

came the response and
courage Tommaso had talked about.

- Ten.
- [young Rocco] Ten.

[gentle music intensifies]

[panting]

[young Tommy] Ifix Tcen Tcen.

Out! No, no, no! Move.

[man] Please, I just want
to ask him a question.

[Gabriele] No! He's not...
Some respect, please!

Some respect! Please.

Hey, get... Get out of the way.

[overlapping chatter]

[Gabriele] Let's go, let's go. Hey, Rocco!

That's enough, come on.
Come on. Here. Let's go.

[man] Come on, one question, Rocco!

Come on, Rocco!

[overlapping chatter fades]

[somber music playing]

Sorry.

[guard] Sir! Hey, sir!

There's nothing more to see. Please leave.

Go!

[operatic atmospheric music playing]

A SERIES LOOSELY BASED
ON ROCCO SIFFREDI'S LIFE

♪ We don't look back ♪

♪ We won't be saddened ♪

♪ Looking for truth ♪

♪ We should be caring ♪

[female operatic vocalizations]

[male operatic vocalizations]

♪ We don't look back ♪

♪ We won't be saddened ♪

♪ Looking for truth ♪

♪ We should be caring ♪

[operatic vocalizations continue]

♪ We don't look back ♪

♪ We won't be saddened ♪

♪ Looking for truth ♪

♪ We should be caring ♪

[song ends]